General News

Strategic Marine Mexico?s Joint venture Partner, Mexican ship building company Servicios Navales E Industriales (SENI), has been awarded a contract to build two 35 metre buoy tender vessels for the Mexico Ministry…

Conrad Industries shipyard in Orange, Texas, has been awarded a contract for the construction of a passenger/vehicle ferry with a value of $13.0 m. The North Carolina Department of Transportation awarded the…

The Chief Deputy of the Shipbuilding and Repair Yard of Rosmorport, Vladimir Shtrambrant, has said that the Russian Government plans to open a tender to build a series of 25MW icebreaker which…

ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems recently gave the go-ahead for the partial sale of the civil shipbuilding operations of Nordseewerke to steel construction company SIAG Schaaf Industrie AG. The deal foresees the creation of…

The IACS Unified Regulation L5 (IACS UR L5) clearly stipulates that stability software installed onboard shall cover all stability requirements applicable to the ship, thus including also damage stability. The requirements of…

Athens-based shipowner Danaos Corporation recently took delivery of one more containership, the CMA CGM Moliere, expanding its operational fleet to a total of 42 containerships aggregating 172,433 TEU. The new vessel has…

South Korea's Orient Shipyard recently delivered its first-ever newbuilding to compatriot Sunwoo ST. The ship, named ?Ocean World', is the first in a 33,300 dwt bulk carrier series ordered by the shipowner…

South Korea's STX Enpaco has developed a new cargo oil pump for product and chemical tankers and has been type approved by Korean Register of Shipping.This will enable the company to manufacture…

Korea Gas Corporation and the country's big three shipbuilders, namely Hyundai Heavy Industries, Samsung Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, have jointly developed a LNG storage tank system.South Korean shipbuilders,…

Vice President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation in Russia, Sergey Forafonov, said that Gazprom?s plans for offshore developments would require over 300 vessels to be built. This would bring plenty of opportunity…