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Shin Kurushima Dockyard (SKDY), recognized as one of the most productive shipyards worldwide, has standardized on Intergraph SmartMarine 3D design and engineering software after an intensive two-year benchmark study. Based on the…

ABS made presentations at ISSDC ABS made three presentations focused on environmental issues to the International Symposium on Ship Design and Construction 2009 (ISSDC 2009) held in Tokyo, Japan, on 1-2 September…

A proposed rule unveiled by the US Coast Guard would ensure that ballast water thresholds required by US law adhere to standards set out in the IMO's yet to be ratified treaty,…

The San Diego shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO recently delivered USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) to the U.S. Navy. Construction of the newbuilding began in October 2007. Including the Wally Schirra, NASSCO has…

The sale of two struggling Polish shipyards to Qatari investors has failed after the potential buyers declined to pay up within the time period agreed with the European Commission, Poland's treasury minister…

Shipbuilders may be drawn into a global price war next year triggered by South Korean discounting, an executive at Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES), Japan?s second-largest builder of vessels, said. According to…

South Korea's STX Group embarked on its first offshore plant construction when it recently held a keel laying ceremony for an offshore pipe layer at its Chinese subsidiary STX Dalian Shipbuilding complex.The…