General News

The US Coast Guard (USCG) has authorized DNV to carry out plan reviews and inspections on its behalf of all types of offshore units which are operating on the Outer Continental Shelf…

CSSC-MES Diesel Co., Ltd., a joint venture company to manufacture marine diesel engines of CSSC in China and MES in Japan has won an order for three 8K98MC main diesel engines. These…

The joint venture agreement named "CCS & DNV Technology Institute" was signed this week by China Classification Society (CCS) and DNV. The institute which is to be established in Shanghai aims to…

Hanjin Shipping has put into service the 6,500 TEU ?Hanjin Tianjin? and ?Hanjin Xiamen?, its latest containership newbuildings, on its Asia-Europe trade. These 27 knot high-speed newbuildings are the fourth and fifth…

Residential Cruise Line (RCL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (M.O.U.) with Aker Yards to build the world's largest and most luxurious residential cruise ship, the ?Magellan?.Designed by the Norwegian firm of…

The newly formed company Marine Subsea Inc. has signed a contract with Ulstein Verft AS to build a well intervention ship of the type ULSTEIN SX121 from Ulstein Design AS. This is…

Taiwan took another step to distance itself from China by removing or toning down 'China' from the names of two state enterprises. The Economics Ministry ordered the Chinese Petroleum Corp (CPC) to…

Construction work on the $20 million Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Co. (Asry) slipway project was recently started. The contract for the project, to be completed by February 2008, was awarded to…

Vinashin, Vietnam?s state-run shipbuilder, is to pump VND650 billion ($40 million) into building ten facilities to support the Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industrial Plant in central VietnamConstruction of the factories is scheduled to…