Month: September 2010

ThyssenKrupp, Abu Dhabi MAR and the Greek government have reached agreement ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), Abu Dhabi MAR and the Greek government have reached agreement on the wording for the contracts regarding…

Frontline, the Bermuda-based tanker company, has reached an agreement with Zhoushan Jinhaiwan Shipyard in China to re-structure its VLCC newbuilding program at the yard

MAN Diesel & Turbo has developed a system known as Diesel Switch to handle changeover between high and low sulphur fuel in a controlled way to avoid rapid temperature deviations and fuel-pump…

The director of the South African Company, SFG, Duncan MacNab, announced that his company would set up a ship-repair yard in Pointe-Noire, the economic and industrial capital of Congo Brazzaville.

Effect Ships International AS in Sandefjord, Norway, has just launched its first air supported vessel (ASV) monohull with pod propulsion. The ASV technology is the result of more than 8 years of…

OSX Brasil SA, which is building a shipyard in Brazil with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industry, said that it plans to bid for oil drilling rig and tanker contracts worth $2 billion…

Together with Voith Turbo Schneider Propulsion, the Canadian naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd recently unveiled a completely new tug design.