Month: April 2008

US offshore major Global Industries has decided to build yet another new pipelay / heavy lift vessel designed by Dutch design company Ulstein Sea of Solutions (USOS). The vessel named ?Global 1201?…

Indian construction and engineering firm Larsen & Toubro has signed a joint venture agreement to invest 30 billion rupees ($750 million) in a shipyard and port facility. The venture with southern Tamil…

Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea has won a 452 billion won ($455 million) deal to build an LNG production vessel. The contract with a European shipping company calls on Samsung to deliver…

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in Kolkata, India, is at an advanced stage of negotiations with French shipbuilding giant, DCNS (Direction des Constructions Navales Services), for jointly setting up a cutting…

A&P Tyne in the UK has been awarded the contract to carry out the conversion of a former ice breaking cargo vessel into a DP3 Floatel accommodation vessel carrying up to 399…

The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the IMO convened its 57th meeting focusing on the reduction of harmful emissions and ballast water management, as well as the planned convention for environmentally…

Legislation requiring treatment of ballast water on ships in the Great Lakes may reach a vote in Congress next week, but some of the bill's details remain a mystery. Rep. James L.…

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard delivered its fourth Veteran Class MT46 tanker vessel to Aker American Shipping. It is the first vessel sold for profit to Aker American Shipping following the corporate reorganization that…

The state-run Shipping Corp. of India Ltd (SCI) is set to buy four 82,000 dwt Kamsarmax-type dry bulk cargo carriers from South Korea?s STX Shipbuilding Co. Ltd for $239.80 million. STX emerged…

International Salvage Union (ISU) president Arnold Witte had called on all sectors of the shipping and insurance industries to approach the issue of salvage and spill prevention with "fresh thinking and open…