General News

Inmarsat, the supplier of global satellite communications services, has won a contract to provide up to 46 MISC Berhad vessels – including chemical and LNG tankers – with its XpressLink service.

GE’s France-based power conversion division has received a series of new orders from South Korean companies DSME and Hyundai Heavy Industries, for GE equipment to be installed on 23 new LNG carriers.

Yanmar Europe has announced the launch of a new 12-cylinder V-format high speed diesel, the 12AY, which is targeted at offshore support vessels, ferries, tugs, and commercial fishing craft.

Aker Arctic has been contracted to carry out a conceptual and basic design exercise for a new icebreaking research vessel to be used by various Chinese bodies for the purpose of polar…

Astilleros Zamakona has delivered the ‘Esvagt Aurora’ to Esvagt, a company in the Danish multinational A.P. Møller-Mærsk group. This is the third vessel the Bilbao based shipyard has built for this client.

GL Maritime Software has received its first order from a client in China for the GL HullManager hull integrity management software. Shanghai COSCO will install the system on seven vessels of its…

SENER, the Spanish engineering and technology group, has revealed an innovative new virtual reality (VR) tool for the shipbuilding industry, which works with the FORAN FVIEWER VR.