General News

IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu has launched this year’s World Maritime Day theme, “IMO conventions: effective implementation”, with the hope that 2014 could see genuine progress .

Island Offshore has received the ‘MV Island Dawn’, the third platform supply vessel in a series of four Rolls-Royce UT 717 CD designs built by Vard Brevik shipyard.

Norways Marin Teknikk has chalked up more orders by entering into two new contracts to design a diving construction vessel and a well intervention vessel.

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has announced that it has signed a contract with cruise operator Seabourn for what it describes as a new “ultra-luxury cruise ship”.

Ship design and operation software developer NAPA has announced a cooperation agreement with ABB, to provide is products as part of the ABB Vessel Information and Control (VICO) portfolio.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is to build five 19,000 teu containerships for China Shipping Container Lines (Hong Kong) that, when built, are expected to be the world’s largest.

Germany’s TGE Marine is to design and supply the LNG fuel gas package for MAN Diesel and Turbo’s (MDT) conversion of what is thought will be the first Qatari Q-max carrier to…

Kleven Verft in Norway has signed a contract with Olympic Shipping for construction of an inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) vessel, to a new Marin Teknikk design.

Ulstein Sea of Solutions, the Netherlands-based design subsidiary of the Norwegian Ulstein Group, has announced a contract for a customised version of its SOC 5000 s OSV design, to be built in…