Month: May 2009

BG Group, a major British energy company, will construct two LNG carriers jointly with China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) for assignment to the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) project it is now…

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin announced that the landmark Amur shipyard in the far east of the country is to be taken back into state hands. Putin announced the transfer of a…

Oshima Shipbuilding in Japan will launch a project to develop a sophisticated three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided "upstream" shipbuilding design system specifically geared for the primary process from basic planning to basic design following…

Wallenius Marine AB has attained a Lloyd's Register (LR) approved Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM), also known as a Green Passport, for its car and pure truck carrier ?Tristan? demonstrating an ongoing…

Poland has sold one of three historic shipyards which were the focus of a subsidy battle with the EU. Treasury minister Aleksander Grad said the yard at Gdynia on Poland's northern Baltic…

The governments of Japan, Korea and China are set to come to the rescue of many big, well established yards once again during the downturn, and this time not through subsidies, but…

The Australian Government has dedicated A$120 million ($91.11 million) towards building a new marine science research vessel. The new 85-metre vessel will replace the almost 40 year old ?Southern Surveyor? and will…

Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) says its liferaft service station in Germany has been fully operational since 1 April. It is conveniently situated between the ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven at the WSS…

The credit crisis together with US efforts to tighten sanctions is hampering efforts by National Iranian Tanker Co (NITC) to order 12 VLCCs which the company want for delivery in 2012. A…

China's shipbuilders have a price advantage at present compared with rivals in Korea and Japan, since heavy steel plates in China are 18% cheaper than those in Japan and 19% cheaper than…