Month: November 2008

PC Maritime, a UK developer and supplier of software, has launched a new engine room simulator that can run on a standard PC. The Unitest MED3D engine room simulator is claimed to…

Samsung Heavy Industries has received a contract worth $1.44 billion to build two deep-water oil exploration drill ships. The deal with a European client calls for delivery by March 2012 and the…

Jotun, the Norwegian paint manufacturer, has introduced a new self-smoothing and self-polishing hydrolysis antifouling coating based on the unique silyl acrylate technology. Called SeaMate, it is a TBT free antifouling, fully complying…

Strategic Marine has launched the base of the floating dry dock it has on order from the Australian Marine Complex (AMC) on schedule from its Vietnamese shipyard.The dock?s 4,400 tonne base was…

Alan Haig-Brown has recently put up a new web page for mariners who visit or work the Pacific Coast of America. It is really a blog spot based on some of the…

The Louisiana-based Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) is establishing an operation at the Port of Tampa, buying the Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair Co.'s lease and retaining its 500 employees with plans to…

Taiwan will release 51% stake in the state-run CSBC Corporation (China Shipbuilding) by the end of this year, marking it the largest initial public offering for 2008 so far. Fubon Securities Co.…

Wärtsilä is to establish a new centralised environmental products know-how unit. Termed Delivery Centre Ecotech (DC Ecotech), the unit will focus on developing and delivering environmental technologies, as well as products for…

Today sees the Cammell Laird name return to its historic Birkenhead shipyard home in a move the yard?s owners say could help them win new business from around the world. Cammell Laird,…

Last Friday Korea Development Bank (KDB) signed a preliminary deal with Hanwha Group on the sale of a controlling stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME). Starting next week, Hanwha…