Hanjin Heavy Industries won an order for four 5,100TEU container ships from a German ship owner for delivery by June 2008. Total contract price is $320 million.

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has won a $978 million order to build the world?s largest FPSO. The order was placed by Star Deep Water Petroleum, a Chevron Texaco subsidiary in…

TOTAL Lubmarine has developed a new cylinder lubricant specially designed for use with low-sulphur fuels. The lubricant, TALUSIA LS 40, has successfully completed in-service tests and is now approved by MAN B&W…

Fast attack naval craft T-84 was commissioned into the Indian Navy for operations in the coastal areas. The induction of the ship was in keeping with the Navy's policy to acquire high-speed…

Greenpeace and the Basel Action Network (BAN) condemned the special joint United Nations meeting on ship breaking as an utter failure today. The meeting was hijacked by the shipping industry interests throughout,…

Sembawang Shipyard, a subsidiary of SembCorp Marine, has signed a Letter of Intent with ConocoPhillips China to fabricate and integrate topsides for a new build FPSO vessel for a major oil development…

Errors between the design weight expected by ship owners and the real weight after construction can now be measured exactly through a new weighing system. R&D Management Section of Daewoo Shipbuilding announced…

Bureau Veritas (BV) has launched new rules for FPSOs which embody extensive recent experience with large floating structures and enhanced spectral fatigue analysis. BV's Rules for the Hull Structure of Production, Storage,…

Italian ferry operator Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) has been granted the Fleet ComfortClass award by RINA, to certify the high level of comfort on board its whole fleet of cruise ferries. It…

From 1 July 2006 some 35,000 commercial vessels, which normally carry just three immersion suits, will need to have at least one for each person on board according to the ship?s manning…