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Owners and charterers will need to revise the text of their fuel purchasing specifications after IMO's Marpol Annex VI enters into force on 19 May warns leading fuel testing agency, Lintec Testing…

Seastate, the Australian supplier of complete motion control solutions to luxury yachts, high speed ferries, military and para-military markets, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Austal. Seastate will join with the…

Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) said its group net balance has swung back into the black for the first time in three years in fiscal 2004 as it cut costs and boosted sales…

Two shipyards are discussing a £120m hospital ship contract for the UK?s Ministry of Defence in a bid to cope with a work gap caused by delays to the £3.5 billion aircraft…

EnSolve Biosystems, the US biotechnology company, has received an order from Color Line to install a PetroLiminator 300 biomechanical bilge water treatment system on the passenger ferry Color Viking. The installation on…

BAE, the UK?s major naval shipbuilder, is to spend more than £20 million modernising the Barrow shipyard and also preserving facilities that could be used for a return to surface shipbuilding. The…

Lloyd?s Register (LR) has issued an ?approval in principle? of GE Energy?s LM2500-based gas turbine propulsion system for LNG tankers. Gas turbine propulsion systems have been widely used on naval and cruise…

A contract to assess the UK?s ship recycling capability has been awarded to a team of BMT companies, led by BMT Defence Services Ltd, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology Ltd (BMT),…

Dae Sun Shipbuilding in South Korea has returned to profit for the first quarter this year. Although turnover dropped slightly from W20.4 billion compared with W 20.5 billion last year, the shipyard…

Bijlsma Shipyard in Holland, which went bankrupt about a year ago and was taken over by the Dutch company VeKa Group, has booked a large order for 10 newbuildings from Delfzijl-based Wagenborg.…