Author: Importer

The 65 million GT North of England P&I club has noted an increase in incidents involving crew members suffering from psychological problems at sea. In the latest issue of its loss-prevention newsletter…

FuelCell Energy, Inc. has been awarded an additional $2.5 million by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) to complete a land-based demonstration of its ship service fuel cell (SSFC) power plant…

Intergraph Corporation will be supplying its software to the Singapore shipbuilder and ship repairer Keppel FELS, to broaden its implementation of Intergraph's software technologies. Keppel will deploy Intergraph's integrated solution suite for…

UK-based Intelligent Engineering (IE) has signed an agreement with leading shipping services provider V.Ships Marine Services to promote opportunities for the application of the company's Sandwich Plate System (SPS) technology.Specifically, IE will…

Canada?s Christensen Yachts Ltd., which builds yachts, has chosen Tennessee as the site of a new shipyard. CYL will build yachts costing as much as $50 million each at a new $20…

Renaissance Services, in the Sultanate of Oman, plans to acquire a platform supply vessel and a rescue ship to support its oil service contract business in the Caspian Sea. The PSV called…

The Tuticorin Port Trust (TPT) in Southern India plans to construct a shipyard at an estimated cost of $215 million said its chairman N K Ragupathy.Detailing the proposed plan of setting up…

A major shipbuilding contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars could be heading to Whangarei in New Zealand. The Whangarei District Council will be discussing an offer from Culham Engineering to buy…

TTS Marine ASA has entered into a letter of intent (`Heads of Agreement`) with Umoe Industri regarding the takeover of Umoe Schat-Harding, which supplies lifeboats and other life-saving equipment to the shipping…

For years, the Gulf of Mexico, which is the birthplace of offshore drilling and a very active region for underwater exploration, dictated global contract terms for drilling equipment. In 2001, about 148…