SHIPBUILDING unions have demanded Scotland’s First Minister makes a public commitment to keeping Ferguson’s in business.
WASHINGTON – A Navy plan to pay Gulf Coast shipbuilders about $1.7 billion for losses related to damages and construction delays from Hurricane Katrina may overstate the actual costs and could dampen efforts to collect insurance payments
Passengers on the ferry Wenatchee were shaken Tuesday night during a “near miss” between the vessel and a 1,000-foot container ship, the Knud M
Canberra, Australia (AHN) – A stand-off between a Japanese whaling fleet and Greenpeace environmental activists is going on near the coast of Antarctica.
BATON ROUGE – Securing a share of offshore oil and gas revenues is crucial to the state being able to restore its coastline and build levees strong and tall enough to withstand powerful hurricanes, a coalition of state, parish and congressional officials said Wednesday.
Through its Engineered Systems business area, Trelleborg has entered into an agreement to acquire the CRP Group, an engineering company with annual sales of slightly more than SEK 1,000 M and 500 employees, primarily in the UK and the US.
New Delhi: Shipping Corporation of India has sought government approval for acquiring more ships at an approximate cost of Rs 3,200 crore, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.
The thunderous crack came in the middle of the night as the yacht powered its way through torrential rain, driving hail and heavy seas.
Shipbuilders, like their aircraft manufacturing counterparts, are enjoying near record order books, generating strong demand for mild steel plate.
SEOUL (Yonhap) _ Seven South Korean shipbuilding companies are among the world’s top 10 in terms of the backlog of orders received this year, London-based shipbroker Clarkson said Thursday.
This week Elaine Bunting talks to Dee Caffari as she admits that an electrical problem plaguing her vital autopilot system
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
KUALA LUMPUR: Pirates, in cohorts with an international syndicate disposing goods stolen from ships, are believed to have hijacked a cargo vessel carrying 16,585 tones of vegetable oil worth several million ringgit in the South China Sea.
The trend is clear from the order book of Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea, the world’s largest shipbuilder. Hyundai must deliver 145 container ships by 2008, including 45 ships ordered this year alone.
