Month: February 2010

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has won an order to build five 160,000 dwt oil tankers for Angola’s state-owned oil company, Sonangol. The deal is worth 400 billion won ($344.7 million),…

The Mega Passion, a semi-submersible heavy lift ship, has been launched for TPI Mega Line by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. Final delivery to the client is expected to be in May,…

Havyard Design AS in Norway has acquired Apply Steelcad AS from Apply Sørco AS.

The NYK Group company, Japan Marine Science, will act as the administrator of a survey for developing an advanced ship-recycling system. The survey, commissioned and led by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,…

A report issued by London-based Clarkson Research Services said that ship demolition rose to the highest in 13 years in 2009, as owners scrapped ageing vessels to make way for a record…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Zhejiang Yungpu Heavy Machinery (YUNGPU), in Chinas Zhejiang Province, agreed last December on licensing of the technology incorporated in the Mitsubishi-UE, MHIs low-speed marine diesel engines. The…

The Indonesian shipbuilder PT PAL has been urged by the government to rethink its decision to lay-off 900 workers.