DECEMBER 19, 2017 — GAC Egypt is now offering the HullWiper hull cleaning service to vessels berthing at ports in the Suez Canal. The eco-friendly remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has already attended
DECEMBER 14, 2017 — The outlets of the exhaust gas scrubbers in three newbuild container vessels were recently coated with Subsea Industries’ Ecospeed coating at the shipyard in Zhoushan, China A lasting,
DECEMBER 7, 2017 — Lloyd’s Register has given approval in principle (AiP) to a ballast-free 30,000 cu.m LNG carrier design. Called the B-FREE, the design has been developed by LNG containment system
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017 — Detyens Shipyards Inc., Charleston, South Carolina, is being awarded an $8,115,494 contract for a 69-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and drydocking of USNS Spearhead (T-EPF
AUGUST 1, 2017 — In addition to all the cruise ship work for which it is well known, Grand Bahama Shipyard (GBS), the largest shipyard in the Caribbean, also carries out a
JULY 12, 2017 — Grand Bahama Shipyard (GBS) Freeport, Grand Bahama reports that it has a total of 23 cruise vessels scheduled for dry dock in 2017. It has completed work on
JUNE 20, 2017 — Work on four cruise ships has kept Germany’s Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven GmbH, now owned by Malaysian-based Genting Group, busy in the past few months as it gears up
APRIL 27, 2016 — Hamburg, Germany, headquartered Becker Marine Systems says that, despite the on-going crisis in the shipbuilding industry, it is continuing its successful entry into Asian markets. It is opening
APRIL 19, 2017 — Remember TBT? Perhaps the most effective antifouling toxin ever, organotin tributyltin (TBT) was banned by an IMO convention that came into effect in 2008. Or was it? There
MARCH 29, 2017 — From May 2018, all vessels arriving in New Zealand will need to have a clean hull. As we reported in January (see story),hull biofouling can be as big
