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Keppel Hitachi Zosen (KHZ) has agreed to purchase the shiprepair, shipbuilding and marine related activities of Keppel Marine Industries for S$166.9 million ($98.9 million). The deal covers KMI?s interests in shipbuilder and…

Currently around $7 billion of vessels are under construction or on order world-wide for Norwegian interests, including nearly a hundred ships and a number of mobile offshore platforms. The global Norwegian merchant…

Syncrolift has been awarded a $1.2 million contract from The Panama Canal Commission to study the feasibility of using its Syncrolift technology to assist in moving ships through the Panama Canal. The…

Cruise ship Norwegian Dream and container vessel Ever Decent have both docked in Germany following their widely publicised collision in the English Channel. After emergency repairs were carried out at Dover by…

The first of a pair of 20,000 gross roro freight ferries was delivered in July to Bore by Aker Finnyard. Both Norsky and sistership Norstream, to be delivered in October, are being…

The latest Omnipure marine sewage treatment process module from Exceltec International Corporation, designed to treat black water effluent from 500 people has a footprint of only 762mm (30 ins) wide and 1,626…

Nine months after the genset engine made its debut, the propulsion version of the L27/38 has been launched by MAN B&W Alpha. At the same time the company has introduced a dedicated…

DSP2 combines a blend of metal silicates and zirconium compounds which improve the water resistance and decrease weld porosity compared with other pre-construction primers. It does not contain any Volatile Organic Compounds…

Japanese shipbuilders say the problems they face because of continuing competition from Korea and China, and premature ordering from many shipowners in the past 12-18 months, are being compounded by the value…

The latest range of quartz sensors from Kistler Instrument monitor consistent high quality in spot welding applications. The sensors are used in monitoring the electrod force, and the force profile during welding.…