Month: July 2008

Aker Yards of Norway is reported to be among the bidders for Poland's cash-stretched shipyards. The yards have been given a deadline, extended to 12 September, to come up with a privatisation…

Naval architect Guido Perla and Associates has announced that construction is now under way in China of the first of a series of 54 offshore support ships. The ships are to the…

ABB Turbocharging of Switzerland is launching a new family of turbochargers, the A100 series, which is designed to offer pressure ratios up to 5.8:1 from a single-stage unit. The first in the…

Aker Yards has announced that the Ukraine authorities have approved the bid by Russian-controlled, Luxembourg based, investment group FLC West to acquire a 70% stake in three Aker Yards' shipyards - two…

The Carlyle Group, which describes itself as a global private equity firm, has acquired a 50% stake in Turkish shipbuilder TVK. TVK was founded in 2005 in the Kocaeli free trade zone…

MAN Diesel reports that AP Moeller - Maersk has ordered 18 × MAN B&W 6S80ME-C9 engines for a series of container ships. All of the engines will be built by HHI-EMD, Hyundai?s…

Aker Yards has signed a contract with Island Offshore for the building of a well intervention vessel. This will be a near sister ship to the 'Island Wellserver', delivered from Aker Yards…

Japanese shipyards are reporting difficulties caused by delays in delivery of raw materials. Reports suggest that steel plate is being delayed by four weeks to some yards, though the average delay in…

A consortium of Korean shipping companies has been formed to set up its own shiprepair facility. As Korean shipyards are fully booked with newbuilding orders, most ships have to go to China…

ABS and Polish Register of Shipping (PRS) have announced a multi-year, joint research and development program that will focus on ship dynamic stability in extreme wave conditions and the time variant reliability…