Month: December 2010

There is concern that shipping and aviation will be used as a cash cow to help raise the $100 billion in funds a year needed by 2020 to help developing countries deal…

MAN Diesel & Turbo and Wärtsilä Corporation have agreed to pursue a large joint research project, the Hercules-C project, as a continuation of the previous successful Hercules programmes for research and development…

India’s largest shipping company by fleet, the state-run Shipping Corp. of India (SCI), will later this week place orders for two 300,000 dwt VLCCs with options for two more. It will also…

The US-based Global Marketing Systems (GMS), one of the world’s biggest cash buyers of redundant vessels from ship owners before delivering them to ship recycling facilities, cooperates with Germanischer Lloyd (GL) on…

A consortium of British, American and Greek interests have agreed to investigate the practical maritime applications for small modular reactors (SMR) as commercial tanker-owners search for new designs that could deliver safer,…

Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration has signed a contract with Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry for the building of Chinas largest and most advanced patrol vessel which is scheduled for completion in July 2012.

The 125 million gt ‘A’ rated North P&I club has written a new handbook on collecting and preserving factual evidence to help raise levels of responsibility and professionalism within the international shipping…