China retained its crown as the world's biggest shipbuilding nation in 2015, but with a 26% decline on year in newbuilding orders, chiefly due to "the abysmal state of the dry bulk market," Italian shipbroker Banchero Costa (Bancosta) said ...
Tags: Shipbuilding Sector, shipyards
For the European coatings industry, REACH, the seven-year-old European Union's legislation on the registration, evaluation and authorization of industrial chemicals, has been posing major difficulties. However the Biocidal Products ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Coating
Lockheed Martin-Led team Lays Keel on nation’s eleventh Littoral Combat Ship Friday, Feb 21, 2014 The Lockheed Martin-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s eleventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the ...
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PROMAR has ordered two Platform Supply Vessels from Damen Shipyards Group and this ambitious Swiss company is looking to further expand the offshore fleet under its management in the next five years. The first Damen PSV 3300 will be ...
First customers will benefit from complete sets of MacGregor's new three-tier-high plate construction type lashing bridges Friday, Feb 14, 2014 MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured an order for lashing bridges for three 18,000 TEU ...
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Zamakona Yards delivers the Ro-Ro ramp to the Tenerife Container Terminal (TCT) Thursday, Jan 23, 2014 This past Wednesday, 15 January, Zamakona Yards carried out the load testing and delivery of the movable ramp for the Roll on-Roll off ...
Diana Containerships Inc. announces the sale of a Panamax container vessel, the m/v Spinel Thursday, Dec 19, 2013 Diana Containerships Inc. (NASDAQ: DCIX), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of containerships, today ...
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Grandweld Shipyards has completed the delivery of Bourbon Gannet, the third Hybrid Seismic Support Vessel in a series of six for Bourbon Offshore. The vessel was handed over in a delivery ceremony held on Saturday November 23, 2013 at ...
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With many Chinesecearning capability being squeezed by low technical content, appreciation of the renminbi and blind expansion, Chinese shipbuilders are looking to stay afloat by building more maritime engineering products. A recovery is ...
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China's hunger for natural gas has pushed its shipbuilding and energy industries to build more liquefied natural gas carriers and import terminals, to give the nation an edge over other countries. "China will need more than 35 LNG ...
Tags: Energy Industries, LNG
The vessel will be designed by Havyard Design & Solutions in Fosnavaag, Norway and is going to be constructed at Havyard Ship Technology`s shipyard in Leirvik in Sogn, Norway. The vessel will become newbuild no.122 and is due to be ...
Damen yard awarded Rederij Groen contract at Europort. During a special contract signing ceremony at Europort 2013 yesterday, Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam, part of Damen Shipyards Group signed the contract to build an additional Seismic ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has secured a contract to build a repeat KFELS Super A Class harsh environment jackup rig from a subsidiary of Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) for ...
Precyse Technologies, a leading pioneer of wireless Remote Entity Awareness and Control systems for managing high-value physical assets and personnel, announced today their intrinsically safe certification (Class I, Division 1) for three ...
The MoD plans to commission three new ocean-going Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Royal Navy in a deal that will sustain jobs in the UK's warship building industry. The new ships, which will be built by BAE Systems at their shipyards on ...