Month: September 2008

Four more 24,000dwt multi-purpose, heavy-lift vessels have been ordered for the global services of Rickmers-Linie by Rickmers Group company Polaris Shipmanagement from Chinese shipbuilder Guangzhou Wenchong. Delivery of the first vessel is…

Lockport-based Bollinger Shipyards in the US has won a contract for U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) patrol boats that could be worth as much as $1.5 billion. If fully exercised, it would be…

Wartsila Ship Design has received major orders from customers in China and India, including a Deepwater Engineering Survey Vessel design for China Oilfield Services Ltd. This is a 105-metre, 4,300dwt vessel capable…

Shipping companies are experiencing a tightening of lending conditions because of growing market uncertainty and a weakening of banks' ability to lend, senior officials have revealed. The ambitious building programmes announced around…

European engineers and researchers have developed a robot that is able to remove marine growth from a ship's hull. HISMAR, the Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics, was developed under European…

Reports are emerging that there are signs of a significant dispute between Norwegian Cruise Line and Aker Yards France, the shipyard that's building NCL's innovative new F3 series of ships. The dispute,…

Dalian Shipbuilding Industry, one of China's biggest shipyards, plans to boost production from this year's 3 million dwt to 10 million dwt by 2020. DSIC expects sales of 17 billion yuan this…

Samsung Heavy Industries has received a 633.4 billion won ($567.8 million) order from Europe and said it would raise its order target for 2008 by more than 30%. The South Korean shipbuilder…

Japan?s IHI Marine United is to provide a Turkish shipyard with the design of its 56,000 dwt bulker "Future 56 (F56)" along with related materials and components in a deal arranged by…

Conflicting directions given by the financial authorities are creating confusion for bidders of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). After Korea Development Bank (KDB), the main creditor of DSME, changed its stance…