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A 96m dedicated ro-pax fast ferry, built by Australia`s Incat has entered service for Spain`s Lineas Fred Olsen SA.Discussions between Australian yard Incat and the Spanish ferry operator Lineas Fred Olsen have…

Athens hosted The Motor Ship`s 21st Marine Propulsion Conference which looked at Propulsion in the New Millennium.A record number of participants heard 24 papers covering a variety of topics from engine trends…

Daewoo`s Okpo yard made a profit of over Won250 billion ($127 million) in the last financial year and has orders for 59 ships filling its capacity to 2001. Its 11,000 workers build…

www.iacs.org.uk. The move is intended to make the information held by the class societies more accessible to the industry.With monthly updating, it is expected that around 2,000 ships a year will be…

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Japan`s performance was a marked increase on the three orders secured in January and five in February, butstill leaves the annual total at 129 vessels (6.5 million gross against 263 (115 million…