South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said Tuesday it has successfully completed the trial of its autonomous navigating system for ships. DSME conducted a two-day test of its testing ship, called DAN-V, equipped with its own autonomous navigating system last week near...
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Scrap ship imports saw a seven-fold rise in October after a steady decline in the previous three months of the current fiscal year. According to data from the National Board of Revenue (NBR), 18 ships worth Tk1,095 crore were imported in October compared to six ships worth Tk147 crore in September....
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Harbour tugs Dóris and Tétis are successfully operating in the Portuguese Port of Leixões, near the city of Porto, following very short term delivery by Damen Shipyards. The vessels can perform a wide variety of towing, pushing and indirect towing operations that ideally suit the confined space...
A Chinese shipyard has begun building two of the world’s first 7,500 cubic meter liquid carbon dioxide vessels for a Norwegian company, which will be used in a European carbon dioxide capture and storage program to help advance Europe’s overall carbon neutrality goals, the Global Times learned from...
Thanks to a rapid expansion of global newbuilding orders for containerships and LNG carriers over 2021~2022, the order backlog drought at domestic shipbuilders seen since 2018 has come to an end. We note that the two-year-long newbuilding boom has been driven by greater demand for vessels to cope...
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Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, a major shipbuilder, has completed the on-site performance run of its test smart ship for autonomous operation, securing sufficient operational data that would be applied to an actual ship in 2023. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has...
Concerns are growing that Hanwha Group’s deal to buy Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) may be delayed or canceled after the buyer has found the shipbuilder’s $209.6 million worth contingent liabilities in the last stages of due diligence to buy the world’s fourth-largest...
As of the end of October, orders for ships have reached 104.44 million deadweight tons in China since the beginning of this year, up 6.5 percent from a year earlier, according to the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry, Economic Daily reported on Thursday. Zheng Yiming who is in...
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In line with its own sustainability efforts, Strategic Marine revealed its offshore support vessels of the future at Offshore Southeast Asia (OSEA) 2022 in Marina Bay Sands. Chan Eng Yew, Chief Executive Officer, Strategic Marine, presented the company’s latest launches over the last 12 months....
GTT announces that it has received an order from its partner the Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co. Ltd. for the tank design of eight new Liquefied Natural Gas Carriers (LNGC), on behalf of several Asian ship owners. GTT will design the tanks of these eight vessels, which...