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Korean Register of Shipping (KR) is enhancing cooperation with other classification societies in Asia, particularly CCS (China Classification Society). This involves cooperation in technology, sharing of inspectors, future research projects and joint…

Following its acquisition by British Maritime Technology Ltd (BMT) in April 2003, Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd, the specialists in high-speed mono and multi-hull vessel design, will now trade as BMT Nigel…

With the completion of a 300,000DWT dock two months earlier than scheduled, the shipbuilding capacity of the Dalian shipyard has been increased to between one and two million DWT per year The…

Wärtsilä will sell all of its holdings in Polar Kiinteistöt Oyj to the German real estate company IVG Immobilien AG. Wärtsilä has a direct holding in Polar of 14,473,438 shares representing 8.0…

ABS President Robert Somerville said that in the rare event of a tanker casualty it is likely to be the class society, rather than the operator, that finds itself in court, and…