Month: December 2011

Aveva has released a new product, as part of its marine portfolio, which aims to simplify complex ship designs through the managed subdivision of ship spaces and automatic layout drawings.

Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm Guido Perla & Associates (GPA) has announced the award of a contract to deliver the regulatory design and detail/production design for a new US research…

French shipbuilder Chantiers Piriou, of Concarneau, in Brittany, has delivered a new ship for passenger and goods services between the mainland and islands off Brest to local departmental authority Conseil Général du…

MAN Diesel & Turbo reports that it has received a firm order for two turbo compound systems including power turbine and generator (TCS-PTG) from Samjin Shipbuilding in Weihai, China.

It’s more doom and gloom from the forecasters when it comes to the state of the shipping industry as we near the end of 2011 - but there may just be a…