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Bohai Shipbuilding in China won an order for two 300,000DWT VLCCs and eight 50,000DWT product carriers from Nanjing Tanker Corporation at a total cost of around $500 million. No delivery date has…

The world's largest container ship, a 9,500 TEU post-Panamax vessel classed by Germanischer Lloyd, has been christened ?COSCO NINGBO?. The 350 m long, 42.8 m wide 109,149 DWT ship was built by…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea won an order for six 46,000DWT product carriers from the Norwegian shipping company Westfal-Larsen at a total contract price of $300 million. They will be delivered…

After successful trials on HMS Marlborough in 2005, QinetiQ's Onboard Risk Performance Hazard Evaluation system (ORPHEUS) is now undergoing year-long trials on three Royal Navy Type 23 frigates - HMS Northumberland, HMS…

MIROS, the Norwegian supplier of sensor-based met-ocean systems for the offshore industry in Norway, has won an agreement to supply five of its marine x-band radar-based oil spill detection systems to the…

The fifth South Korean built 4,200 ton class destroyer was recently launched at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). This is part of a six-ship series all being built at DSME since…

Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taiwan, which operates Asia?s largest container shipping line, plans to order at least 20 container ships in the next 10 years to replace existing vessels.The boom in transporting…

Cunard?s Queen Mary 2 will be dry-docking at Blohm + Voss Repair yard in Hamburg on 6 May for routine maintenance work and to remove one of its four podded propulsors which…

Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine), the marine arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering), has secured a $17m contract from Chinese company BGP Inc. to convert a fishing trawler into…