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Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through its subsidiaries, Keppel Shipyard Limited (Keppel Shipyard) and Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has secured contracts worth S$160 million ($115 million) for a FPSO…

Cars and trucks, coal-fired power stations, and belching cows. The usual suspects when it comes to discussions of carbon footprints and climate change. But, Greek researchers discuss, in the International Journal of…

Green development at Odense Steel Shipyard has now been secured with the establishment of a fund consisting of a few powerful Danish businessmen. OSS, better known as Lind? Shipyard, is being shut…

Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has entered an agreement with German company DS-Schiffahrt / Quadrant Bereederung to supply liferafts to their entire fleet of 39 vessels. In an agreement worth $200,000 per annum,…

'Virtual Arrival' is the name of a concept that the Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) and INTERTANKO together are working to develop.The primary aim of the project is to reduce actual…

Malaysian shipbuilder NGV Tech has acquired a 66% equity interest in South Korean shipyard, TKS Co Limited. The $76 million deal means that TKS will become a subsidiary of NGV and will…

The Japanese engine manufacturer, Niigata Powers Systems, has received an order for 22 sets of high-speed diesel engine to power new patrol vessels for the Japanese Coast Guard. The compact and lightweight…

The design work for the optimisation of oil tankers in terms of efficiency and safety carried out jointly by Germanischer Lloyd (GL) and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) won the…