JAPANESE ship owners visited the Visayan Maritime Academy recently to inspect the VMA facilities and the system of education for the maritime trade and profession. The team toured the VMA facilities and was impressed after observing students in their practical exercises and actual operation of VMA e
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday said Pakistan would not allow domination of the Indian Ocean. He said strong and credible defence is vital for our national security and peace in the region. The Prime Minister was speaking at Pakistan Navy’s facility (PNS Jauhar) here where he was given a detai
SEOUL (AFX) – South Korea, the world’s largest shipbuilder, today downplayed a World Trade Organization decision calling on Seoul to end shipbuilding subsidies within three months.
MSET Shipbuilding Corporation Sdn Bhd (MSET), the sole Bumiputera shipbuilder in the east coast, would be launching a 60-metre long ship, owned by Tanjung Offshore Services Sdn Bhd, this March 20.
Color Line AS and Aker Yards have signed a letter of intent (LOI) for the order of a second ship, a sister vessel to M/S Color Fantasy, the world’s largest cruise ship with car decks delivered from Aker Finnyards the 3rd of December 2004. The contract value is at the same level as for M/S […]
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s No. 2 shipbuilder, said Sunday that it aims to win more than half of 44 gas-tanker orders from Qatar by 2010.
Reflecting the surging global demand for container shipping, China International Marine Containers (CIMC) Co, the world’s largest maker of shipping containers, posted more than a threefold jump in 2004 net profit.
Imtech Marine & Offshore B.V. has received several orders for the UniMACS
On Monday, Weeks Marine Inc. began pumping the first grains of a $6 million beach restoration project expected to bring 265,000 cubic yards onto 4.1 miles of Patrick Air Force Base’s beach, enough to fill about 15,590 dump trucks. The company’s two dredges will pump sand around the clock for the nex
LONDON (AFX) – VT Group PLC said its managing director, shipbuilding, Peter McIntosh bought 25,000 shares in the company at 160.2 pence per share.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd., and Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd received an order worth more than $10 billion of 44 liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships from Qatargas (Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Ltd.) in the Middle East.
THE GLORY days of Philippine shipbuilding were in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the country led the rest of the Orient in the seafaring trade. Three-masted Spanish galleons loaded with treasure, which swashbuckling English pirates plundered, were constructed in Cavite, Iloilo, Pangasinan, Sorsog
ESSEX, Mass. (AP) – For decades, the bell in the steeple of the First Congregational Church set the rhythm of daily life in this tiny shipbuilding town. It woke shipyard workers at dawn, interrupted the pounding of their wooden mallets at lunch, then tolled again when it was time for the workers to
PARIS (AFX) – Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said talks on the merger of France’s Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN) shipyards with the shipbuilding business of Thales SA are back on track.
