Month: April 2008

JFE Holdings Inc. and IHI Corp. will start talks to combine shipbuilding operations to create Japan's biggest shipyard, challenging South Korean and Chinese rivals. The Tokyo-based companies will discuss details including the…

Recognising campaigners' fears that the Antarctic waters were at risk from the rising number of ships in the area, the IMO has invited member nations to submit proposals to limit shipping's impact…

Shipyard workers at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering have voted to strike against a planned stake sale this year. The union said that about 93% of the 6,503 workers voted in favor…

South Korea's STX Shipbuilding has won an order for two VLCCs from STX Pan Ocean worth about $300 million. The order is part of the $810m fleet enlargement programme.

Vic Emery, managing director of BAE Surface Fleet Solutions, in his evidence to the Scottish affairs committee, expects that after contracts for the two promised aircraft carriers are completed, the Royal Navy…

Shanghai-based Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard delivered the 147,000 m3 LNG carrier Dapeng Sun to China LNG Shipping (International) Ltd for service between Australia?s North West Shelf and China?s first LNG receiving terminal in Guangdong…

The revision of MARPOL Annex VI and the NOx Technical Code (Annex VI) is on track for formal adoption in October 2008 and is likely to enter into force in March 2010.…

The Tasmanian shipbuilder Incat has delivered the second high speed Wave Piercing Catamaran to Japanese owner Higashi Nihon Ferry. The Natchan World will join her sister Natchan Rera, completed by Incat last…

South Korea's STX Group said a $1 billion shipbuilding complex in China has started operating and will deliver its first complete vessel by the end of this year. The Dalian shipbuilding facility…