Month: December 2009

LNG carrier Dapeng Star' has just been delivered by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) CO., Ltd to its owner China LNG Shipping. This is the fifth LNG carrier built within the framework of an…

Early in 2007, Lloyd?s Register began research into the implications of nuclear propulsion for merchant ships. This initiative was built on Lloyd?s Register?s extensive experience in the traditional nuclear industries and from…

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through its subsidiaries, Keppel Shipyard Limited (Keppel Shipyard) and Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has secured contracts worth S$160 million ($115 million) for a FPSO…

Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has entered an agreement with German company DS-Schiffahrt / Quadrant Bereederung to supply liferafts to their entire fleet of 39 vessels. In an agreement worth $200,000 per annum,…

Cars and trucks, coal-fired power stations, and belching cows. The usual suspects when it comes to discussions of carbon footprints and climate change. But, Greek researchers discuss, in the International Journal of…

Green development at Odense Steel Shipyard has now been secured with the establishment of a fund consisting of a few powerful Danish businessmen. OSS, better known as Lind? Shipyard, is being shut…

'Virtual Arrival' is the name of a concept that the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) and INTERTANKO together are working to develop.The primary aim of the project is to reduce actual…

Rolls-Royce has announced an order to supply 24 lightweight waterjets for the UAE Navy?s fleet of fast patrol boats. The UAE Navy has ordered 12 new fast patrol boats, based on the…

Cammell Laird (Gibraltar) is changing its name to Gibdock to avoid confusion with UK-based Cammell Laird Shiprepairers. The two companies say that the "massive progress and growth of the separate companies" have…