General News

STX Offshore and Shipbuilding is to supply eight 74,000 tonne product/crude oil tankers, with four options for more, as part of a US$578.9m contract with Singapore’s Navig8 Product Tankers.

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has ordered a new 165,000m3 LNG carrier which will be built by Japan Marine United of Tokyo.

DNV GL has officially opened its new Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore to meet growing demand for its services in the region.

Engine room fires continue to be a problem for the Industry, which hasn’t learned from old lessons, says Braemar Salvage Association (SA).

Cargotec’s MacGregor has won three subsea crane orders from two far east giants in February – Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd (HHI) and China’s Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry.

One of the largest dry docks in the Baltic Sea region, Finland’s Turku Repair Yard, has completed all modernisation and repair works on Silja Serenade within six weeks.

Ulstein Verft has announced new contracts for two PSVs for Blue Ship Invest, to the PX121 design, and with delivery scheduled for the first quarter of 2015.