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Special Areas in which the discharge of wastes from ships is prohibited will take effect in the ?Gulfs area? and off southern South Africa on 1 August 2008, providing extra protection from…

A report on the progress of negotiations with investors interested in buying the Polish shipyards was sent to the Polish Treasury Minister yesterday. Aleksander Grad has designated special teams to conduct the…

Seattle-based naval architect firm Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA), is further expanding its international focus after opening an office in Shanghai, China in 2004, and has announced the establishment of a…

Austal?s US operation located in Mobile, Alabama, celebrated the start of work on its Modular Manufacturing Facility (MMF) with a groundbreaking ceremony. The MMF project when complete will include 65,000m2 of manufacturing…

Drydocks World (DW) - SE Asia expects to start operations at a fifth yard in the Southeast Asia region in 18 months' time. Dredging work will begin on the 174-hectare (430-acre) site…

South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) secured a drillship order from an undisclosed client based in the Americas. The drillship, valued at a reported KRW766 billion ($754.7 million), is…

WWF-UK welcomes the findings of the joint committee report on the Draft Marine Bill which have been published today. The report raises important points about the need to strengthen the provisions of…

The recently established Qingdao Yangfan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., funded by Yangfan Group and Qingdao Machinery Industry General Co., Ltd., with a total registered capital of RMB650m, plans to construct a shipbuilding facility…

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has resolved to step up protection of new cargo and passenger vessels in the case of accident. Accordingly, all new vessels built from 1 January 2009 will…

The commissioning of a second slipway at Titan Quanzhou Shipyard in China?s Fujian province has doubled its annual shipbuilding capacity to 20 vessels of 7,000-9,000 dwt. The second slipway is 275 metres…