Malaysia-based Nam Cheong has sold four platform supply vessels (PSVs) worth a total of $120m to a new customer, bringing its cumulative orderbook to MYR1.7bn ($521.4m).

Robert Ward, president of the International Hydrographic Organisation, yesterday used his platform at the International Maritime Organisation’s World Maritime Day symposium to call for every vessel to carry an echosounding logger and make their...

During his address at IMO’s World Maritime Day Symposium, Bimco president John Denholm argued that, in spite of recent optimism for the new fuel, LNG is “not an option” for most ships.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is calling for all future proposals for environmental regulation that impact on ships to be subjected to a full and proper cost benefit analysis before adoption by the IMO.

Maersk Drilling, a unit of AP Moller-Maersk Group, has ordered a KRW572.8bn ($534m) jack-up oil rig from South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).

The Marshall Islands Registry is set hit the milestone of 100m gt on its register by end of this year or early 2014.

Bureau Veritas (BV) has launched an initiative to develop tools allowing for safer transit of LNG cargoes in the Arctic.

Malaysia-based Silk Holdings recorded improved earnings for its oil and gas division in the financial year ended 31 July 2013 over the previous year.

Baku Shipyard was officially opened today in a ceremony attended by Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and Singapore's senior minister of state for trade and industry, Lee Yi Shyan.

Northern Offshore Services, a North Sea crewboat operator with offices in Sweden and Denmark, has taken delivery of a Damen Twin Axe FCS 2160.