Month: October 2010

Solar Solve Marine recently commissioned a laboratory to carry out tests to quantify the actual value of cost savings, in US dollars, that can be made when Solasolv products are installed and…

NYK Line is planning to build a 175,000 dwt slurry tanker at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the shipment of New Zealand ironsand.

The three major indicators, order backlogs, new orders and completion & delivery, for shipbuilding competitiveness suggest that the gap between South Korea and China is getting wider in the course of time.

South Korean shipbuilder STX Group is rumoured to be close to winning a $1.3 billion shipbuilding deal with a European company said to be Zodiac Maritime.

Lloyds Register has issued new guidance notes to help ship-owners and operators who are preparing to install ballast-water treatment systems on their ships.

Shipbuilding company Ananda Group in Bangladesh signed an agreement with Greendock BV, a Dutch company specialising in ship recycling, for establishing multipurpose yards for repairing and recycling ships.

New Orleans-based Tidewater entered into a contract with Drydocks World for the construction of four 80.77m deepwater platform supply vessels at its shipyard in Batam, Indonesia.