Asia

China’s shipbuilding industry is seen to have made major strides in moving up the newbuilding value chain and advancements on technology despite the sector’s prolonged state of recession, according to classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR).

Scrubber manufacturer Pacific Green Technologies is expanding with a new Asia office in Hong Kong.

India’s largest private deepwater port on the eastern coast, Krishnapatnam, is being sold by the CVR Group to Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), for an estimated INR55bn ($770m).

China’s Shanghai Marine Diesel Engine Research Institute (SMDERI) has unveiled its inhouse developed ‘special’ fans for use with exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS), which is expected to rise in demand come 2020.

A significant drop in newbuilding orders across the three conventional merchant ship types is an obvious signal of recovery for the shipping industry, according to China Shipbuilding Industry Research Center (CSIRC).

China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) has signed newbuilding contract for the construction of four 307,000 dwt very large crude carriers (VLCCs) with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (DSIC) for $331.8m.

Scrubber retrofits have taken out some 839,100 teu of containership capacity, or 3.6% of the fleet, according to analyst Alphaliner.

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (H&Z) has made progress with its project on a 18,000-cu m large LNG bunkering vessel following a classification contract signing with Bureau Veritas (BV), and lined up another future project to build a 25,000-teu LNG...

As the possibility of ammonia providing zero emission fuel for shipping grows Lloyd’s Register (LR), MAN Energy Solutions and Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corp (DSIC) have collaborated on an ammonia-fuelled ultra-large containership (ULCS) design.