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The UK?s Fleet Support Ltd (FSL) has won its first offshore conversion project. The 30,000dwt crude carrier Blue Star is being converted into a floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO) for deployment…

Keppel Hitachi Zosen Group (KHZ) has completed the purchase of Keppel Marine Industries marine related businesses for approximately S$167 million ($99.97 million), and is rationalising operations to remain competitive. Headcount has been…

Croatia?s Viktor Lenac has entered into an agreement to purchase another floating dock, increasing capacity at its yard in Rijeka. The aframax floating dock will be much larger than the yard?s two…

Cammell Laird has added to its drydock capacity on Merseyside with the purchase of Warbreck Engineering Ltd. The deal includes Warbreck?s lease on Clarence Dry Docks; three drydocks measuring up to 135.3m…

Privatisation of the Astilleros Espanoles group repair yard Astander was finalised on November 16. The Santander yard has been sold to the Greek group Lavinia Italmar, which also owns the Astican yard…

Bahrain?s ASRY passed a significant milestone with last year?s drydocking and repairs to Red Band 138,557 dwt tanker Knock Dun, the 2000th vessel handled by the yard since it started operations in…

Statistics suggest that one in two ships will suffer problems with sterntube seals on average every 11 years, and some in the industry feel the incidents are rising. While this may not…

European HOs are working through the folio of charts covering their own national waters to produce vectorised electronic navigation charts (ENC)s. The process of digitising the information is relatively fast, but then…

The rapid growth both in numbers and size of ships shows the optimism of cruise operators, but there are still wars to be fought as each seeks to fill their ships.In an…

Austal`s new company, Seastate, started trading on November 1 and is poised to build a multi-million dollar global business from selling ride control and possibly, at a future date, other high-tech specialist…