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ABS has issued a new guide intended to provide supplementary requirements for the application of higher-strength, thick steel plates, greater than 51 mm, within the structure of large container carriers. The requirements…

The credit crisis together with US efforts to tighten sanctions is hampering efforts by National Iranian Tanker Co (NITC) to order 12 VLCCs which the company want for delivery in 2012. A…

Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) says its liferaft service station in Germany has been fully operational since 1 April. It is conveniently situated between the ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven at the WSS…

South Korea's big three shipbuilders, namely Hyundai, Samsung and Daewoo, are competing for the massive LNG-FPSO order to be placed by Royal Dutch Shell. The front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for…

BG Group, a major British energy company, will construct two LNG carriers jointly with China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) for assignment to the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) project it is now…

Oshima Shipbuilding in Japan will launch a project to develop a sophisticated three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided "upstream" shipbuilding design system specifically geared for the primary process from basic planning to basic design following…

The Australian Government has dedicated A$120 million ($91.11 million) towards building a new marine science research vessel. The new 85-metre vessel will replace the almost 40 year old ?Southern Surveyor? and will…

Wallenius Marine AB has attained a Lloyd's Register (LR) approved Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM), also known as a Green Passport, for its car and pure truck carrier ?Tristan? demonstrating an ongoing…

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin announced that the landmark Amur shipyard in the far east of the country is to be taken back into state hands. Putin announced the transfer of a…

The governments of Japan, Korea and China are set to come to the rescue of many big, well established yards once again during the downturn, and this time not through subsidies, but…