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LR & Bestway pursue green designs
British ship classification society Lloyd’s Register and Shenzhen-listed Shanghai Bestway Marine Engineering Design (Bestway) are to jointly develop a new fuel-efficient bulk carrier in response to increasing pressure from owners and regulators for...
2009-12-02 14:01:46
‘Marintec China’ opens with largest scale ever
‘Marintec China 2009’, Asia’s largest biennial international maritime conference and exhibition, opened in Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China, on December 1st. The 15th Marintec China event, which is to open until Decemb...
2009-12-02 11:17:42
Finnish yard workers stage strike
Members of Finland's Union of Salaried Employees have gone on strike for a week, affecting operations at STX Europe’s shipyards in the country. A total of 250 members walked out at the Turku yard, while 150 downed tools at Rauma. The strike...
2009-12-02 07:34:37
Hyundai, all-around heavy industry firm
South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries is expected to post much increased business results in non-shipbuilding divisions including offshore and industrial plant sectors. Seoul-based Woori Investment & Securities analysts said, “Hyundai's ratio...
2009-12-01 14:04:07
ClassNK opens Indian survey office
Japanese ship classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) announced the establishment of a new survey office in Dahej, Gujarat, India on December 1st 2009. Establishment of the new survey office at Dahej supplements the four ClassNK exclusiv...
2009-12-01 12:20:42
Wind power drives shipbuilders
The invention of the steam engine in the 19th century freed ships from dependence on wind as their driving power. Two centuries later, however, wind is now a savior for Korean shipbuilding firms, which are desperately searching for a new growth e...
2009-12-01 11:57:52
STX ranks first in new orders
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding is forecast to rank first, for the first time, among South Korean shipbuilders in terms of new orders for ships this year. STX had placed second after Hyundai Heavy Industries last year in terms of order intakes for ves...
2009-12-01 06:32:20
Italy yard job cuts loom
Shipbuilding workers’ representatives said a hotly anticipated meeting with government officials had signally failed to come up with significant measures to ease the mounting pressure on the industry, foreign media reports. Even though governmen...
2009-11-30 07:15:57
ASRY expansion on track
Shipping’s difficulties are having an impact on repair bookings at the Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Co (ASRY) but ambitious expansion plans are proceeding on schedule. This was exactly the right time to be undertaking expansion at the Bahra...
2009-11-30 07:07:30
"Marintec China 2009" all ready!
Shipbuilders may be in the doldrums with a lot of orders cancelled or delayed while the tanker and container shipping sectors are still faced with difficulties. But the global maritime industry will turn out in force next week for the biennial Mar...
2009-11-30 07:00:09
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