Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has completed development of its LNG-FPSO and has obtained two kinds of approval in principle (AIP) from major international ship classification societies.

At a ceremony held on 22 June 2010 at the Tsuneishi shipyard in Japan, AET celebrated the naming and delivery of its 53rd aframax tanker, Eagle Kangar.

IACS (the International Association of Classification Societies) has welcomed the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) as its first new member since the introduction of new membership criteria in October 2009.

A prototype for a series of Russian floating nuclear power stations will be protected against hull corrosion with a Cathelco impressed current cathodic protection system (ICCP).