A duplicate of “Pingyuan”, China’s first steel battleship in the late 1880s, is to be built this year in Fuzhou, capital of east China’s Fujian Province.
The Shipbuilding Joint Stock Company (SHINEC) has won a 200,000 USD contract to build the interiors for five ships owned by the RAON group of the Czech Republic.
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A P & O cruise ship that was forced to dock in Malaysia for urgent repairs has now departed again for the final leg of its seven day journey.
Somalian pirates have demanded a ransom of 400,000 US dollars to release an Indian cargo ship with a 21-member crew they had hijacked off the coast of Somalia last month.
A Norfolk-based guided missile cruiser helped a Panamanian diesel tanker last week when it was fired upon and illegally boarded in the Arabian Gulf.
Lockheed Martin launched Lider, the first of two SLICE(R) Crew Transport Vessels (SCTV) the company is building for Hoteleria y Servicios Petroleros, S. A. de C.V. (HSP) of Mexico on Saturday.
Aker Arctic, which started operations as a new company in the beginning of 2005, has erected a modern new office and ice model test facility in the Vuosaari district of Helsinki.
Most managers in the US maritime industry are relaxed about the takeover of P&O
Proposals for a massive deep water terminal on Teesside could result in up to 7,000 new jobs, port bosses claim.
Bloemsma & van Breemen has announced the signing of a contract to build a 41-metre (134
An Australian cruise ship carrying 1,500 passengers is on its way to a Malaysian port for repairs after spending 30 hours stranded in the Malacca Strait.
Over the course of the seven-night trip on Explorer of the Seas, 243 of the 3,252 guests and 19 of the 1,184 crew members experienced what is believed to be a norovirus, according to a statement released by the cruise company.
A cargo ship sank after colliding with another vessel in Estonian waters early today, but the crew of 14 was evacuated safely to a Russian icebreaker.
