General News

The Marine Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Association (MHFCA) has been officially registered this week in Germany as a non-profit organisation and has already attracted over 120 organisations to pre-register for membership from…

South Korea?s Posco, the world's fifth-largest steel maker, is looking to buy an Asian steel maker and studying a possible buyout target and timing of an acquisition. "In line with the merger…

A federal court in California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate ballast water discharges from freighters, a ruling that has huge implications for the Great Lakes shipping industry. Three…

The Abu Dhabi-based Adnoc subsidiary Esnaad, a marine and supply base services company, has ordered five new vessels from Singapore at a cost of $60 million as part of its fleet replacement.…

Spain's leading oil company Repsol YPF SA and its affiliate Gas Natural SDG SA plan shortly to put out for tender a contract to build a fleet of five LNG carriers. According…

Cebu-based shipbuilding company Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Cebu Inc. (THICI) has committed to invest $ 100 million in the expansion of its shipyard in Balamban town in Cebu's western seaboard. THICI, a joint…

Cosco has won its first contract to build the hull of a FPSO vessel at a cost of $120 million. The vessel combines drilling, production and storage facilities and is designed for…

International classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has joined forces with leading yacht designers and builders to completely re-engineer its Rules for Classification and Certification of Yachts. The new Rules, launched yesterday, build…

US classification society ABS has given full design approval for the class of the compressed natural gas (CNG) carrier designed and developed by Canadian-based Sea NG Corporation. Full approval follows the earlier…