Author: Importer

The Spanish engineering and consultancy company Sener has tied up with Astilleros de Sevilla the basic and detail engineering of a new Viking Line Ro-Pax ferry. The 133 m long, 1,500 passenger…

Now that a massive defense spending bill has been passed in the US, the Navy is supposed to have enough money to buy one new littoral combat ship (LCS) this fiscal year…

An EU clean fuels pilot project is underway to promote the use of LNG as marine fuel for ships. Hopes are high for the Marine Fuel Gas Logistics project (Magalog) to take…

Ha Long Shipyard in Vietnam successfully launched a 1,750 TEU container ship which is the biggest of its type built in Vietnam. Shipyard director Nguyen Duc Than said the container ship, named…

Norwegian naval architects Multi-Maritime has announced that Riise Underwater Engineering (RUE) and Simon M?kster Shipping have ordered a second Multi Maritime-designed multi-purpose offshore vessel. The vessel will be built at Westcon in…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co in South Korea has secured an order worth $604 million to build four very large crude oil carriers for a Middle Eastern client. It did not…

Rousse Shipyard in Bulgaria has enough orders to operate at full capacity through the end of 2010, according to managing director Ignat Traikov. The order book contains orders from German and Dutch…

South Korea???s Posco is preparing to expand overseas and overtake Nippon Steel of Japan as the world???s third-biggest steelmaker by using its groundbreaking Finex technology. This revolutionary steel- making process is based…

The Russian OJSC Vyborg Shipyard and LLC Gazflot have signed a contract for engineering and construction of two floating drilling units to be operated in Shtokman gas condensate field. The shipyards of…