Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (HHI) delivered 11 ships in January including a 10,000 TEU containership and a 216,000㎥ LNG carrier. Nine vessels were delivered before their contracted delivery dates.
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. said on Thursday it has won a $492.5 million order to build two liquefied natural gas carriers for an Asian shipper.
Hong Kong shipping company has cancelled construction of two giant ore carriers because of problems with financing due to tight global credit conditions. Norway-listed Jinhui said on Thursday that it terminated two contracts worth $122 million each.
Dutch Dredging has ordered a PDS2000 Hopper Guidance and Monitoring Systems (GMS) for the Trailing Suction Hopper dredger ‘Amazone’ Dutch Dredging based in Sliedrecht, Holland, has awarded RESON Rotterdam a contract to upgrade their existing Guidance and Monitoring Systems (aboard the ship TSHD Amaz
On Saturday 22 December 2007 at 14.30 hrs, the 9,000m³ trailing suction hopper dredger BREYDEL was launched at the IHC Merwede shipyard in Kinderdijk. The ship is being built for the Belgian contractor DEME N.V. (Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering N.V.).
Reference is made to an announcement by Jinhui Shipping and Transportation Limited dated 23 November 2007, where Jinchao Marine Inc. and Jinning Marine Inc., both are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company, entered into two shipbuilding contracts with China Shipbuilding & Offshore International (H
The European Commission decided on Thursday to bring Belgium and Estonia to court for failure to respect EU legislation on better availability and use of port reception facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (the Company; President: Akimitsu Ashida) today announced that the company revised the year-end dividend per share for fiscal year 2007 ending March 31, 2008
Winds of up to 60mph have forced the closure of the Port of Dover. Forecasters have predicted a storm force 10 in the English Channel and a severe weather warning has been issued by the Met Office.
Shipping companies in the UAE are losing hundreds of thousands of dirhams as their containers wait for days in the queues at repair workshops. The problem has been caused by the increasing volume of imported and exported containerised cargo, which has led to a shortage of repair facilities.
On 30 January Maersk Contractors named the latest addition to the fleet. The new high efficiency jack-up rig is the first in a series of four identical rigs currently under construction for Maersk Contractors. The following three highly advanced, next generation 350ft jack-up rigs will be delivered
Teekay has purchased two unique liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers that, in future, may help its customers develop smaller gas fields and open up markets that were previously inaccessible.
An operation to free a £2m lifeboat, stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, is on its second day. The Portrush lifeboat got into difficulty while attempting to rescue three people whose boat was in danger.
StatoilHydro ASA, operator of production licence 312, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 6407/6-6 in the Norwegian Sea. The purpose of the well was to investigate the potential for gas in sandstone of the Middle Jurassic Age in a prospect called Gamma. The prospect is located about eight kil
