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Rolls-Royce has delivered the first three gas turbine generator sets which will provide the main electrical power system for the Republic of Korea Navy?s first 7,000-tonne destroyer, designated KDX-III. The first AG9140RF…

MAN B&W Diesel are making a further step in strengthening and consolidating their medium speed engine portfolio. The RK 280, previously developed and sold through the UK branch of MAN B&W Diesel,…

Stocznia Gdynia, the Polish shipyard owned by the Ministry of the Treasure and its subsidies, was expected to get out of the red. Its GSM has agreed to increase the equity by…

Daewoo Shipbuilding has developed scaffoldings to be used in all large LNG carriers? cargo containment tanks using an original design, manufacture and installation for the first time in Korean shipbuilding. In the…

Cosco (H.K) Shipping Co., Limited places new order of two 300,000DWT bulk carriers with the Chinese shipbuilder NACKS. The new order also attaches two options. Ship price and delivery dates are not…

It is intended to construct a shipbuilding yard in the Garadagh District, Baku, by upgrading an existing shiprepair yard. Azerbaijan state-owned Caspian Sea Shipping Company?s chairman, Aydin Bashirov, told journalists that there…

A new shiprepair business has been launched in Bromborough, Wirral in the UK, which aims to build new vessels and could bid to break up toxic "ghost ships".The Merseyside Slipway Company is…

Swiss-based ABB has won a contract to provide an electrical power plant and podded propulsion system for a train ferry between the eastern Chinese cities of Yantai and Dalian. Construction of the…

Dutch-based offshore survey company Fugro N.V. has placed an order for a new vessel (Geo Caribbean) with the Bergen Mekaniske Verksted (BMV) shipyard in Norway. The vessel will be owned by Fugro…

Three Letters Of Intent have been received by Atlantia Offshore Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of SBM Offshore N.V., from several Brazilian drilling contractors in the wake of major drilling contracts recently awarded…