Wärtsilä Corporation has been awarded contracts with a total value of above 50 million EUR, by Keppel FELS Ltd in Singapore for 32 diesel generating sets to power four jack-up rigs and…

Farstad Supply AS, a wholly owned company of Farstad Shipping ASA, has signed a contract with Aker Langsten AS, Tomrefjord, in Norway, for delivery of an anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS)…

Daewoo Shipbuilding has developed a new scaffolding system for LNG tanks. The ever increasing orderbook for LNG carriers had led the shipbuilder to develop the new scaffolding for which a patent has…

ET Marine in the UK has launched its own air quality monitor to measure sulphur dioxide (SO2) emitted by ships? engines ahead of a new IMO technical code for the emission of…

The American classification society, ABS, has broken through the 120million gross ton mark to establish a new all time fleet record. ABS has benefited from the current active newbuilding market and a…

Nippon Yusen K.K., the largest Japanese shipping line, plans to order 20 new LNG carriers by 2010 and use five or six tankers for spot contracts, a change in strategy that may…

Delivery of the new vessel ?Maria Dolores?, under construction at Austal Ships for Virtu Ferries in Malta, has been delayed until January 2006. Originally due for delivery in the middle of this…

Singapore-based SembCorp Marine has secured a $144 million rig building contract from Norway's Awilco Offshore ASA. Under the deal, PPL Shipyard will construct a deep drilling offshore jack-up rig. Construction of the…

Aker Yards has signed a contract with Island Offshore VI K/S, a company within the Island Offshore Group in Ulsteinvik, Norway, to deliver a UT 776 E platform supply vessel. The value…

The Japanese government is interested in building a 4000-tonne slipway in Fiji next year, a project that is expected to save and generate millions of dollars for the Fijian government. The nation's…