A new luxury ro-ro passenger vessel built by Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Ltd for Sansha city in South Chinas Hainan province was officially delivered for use after a signing ceremony was held in Hainans Wenchang city on Wednesd

Mega shipyard mergers in South Korea and China are forging a new reality in the industrial sector that underpins the global shipping industry. South Koreas merger of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co

A methanol-fueled ship, believed to be the first in the country, was launched in Zhongshan, South Chinas Guangdong province, on Tuesday. The vessel measures 40 meters in length and 8 meters in width, and weighs about 172 metric tons, report

Chinas accomplished shipbuilding output in the first half of this year stood at 19.66 million deadweight tonnes, up 4.2 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Over the same period, China rece

Chinas second - and the first domestically built - research icebreaker, Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, entered service in Shanghai on Thursday. The ship was delivered to its user - the Polar Research Institute of China under the Ministry of N

Hongkong Salvage Towage, a division of HUD Group, has added two new high-performance tugs to their fleet. The Robert Allan Ltd. designed RAstar 3200 Class vessels, MAI PO and SUNG KONG are the most powerful harbour tugs operating in Hong Ko

China delivered its first intelligent very large crude carrier (VLCC) in Dalian, northeast Liaoning Province, on Saturday. The VLCC, named New Journey, is also the worlds first smart VLCC with a loading capacity of 308,000 tons. Its more th

The global first intelligent No.82 VLCC (308,000 DWT), constructed for China Merchants Steamship (CMES) by DSIC delivered successfully on June 22, 2019 in Dalian. Captain Xie, the Chairman of DMES named the ship New Journey. During sea tria

Chinas first large-scale, domestically designed and independently built woodchip carrier has been successfully delivered to its client. The 64,000-ton vessel, called MATER, is manufactured by Chengxi Shipyard Co Ltd in Jiangyin city, East C

China launched a new deep-ocean scientific research ship, the Dongfanghong No. 3, from Shanghais Jiangnan Shipyard on Thursday. The 103-meter-long, 18-meter-wide research ship with a displacement of 5,800 tons has a maximum speed of 15 knot

Chinese shipyards seem to be dominating the current global ship repair industry, with eight ranking among the worlds top 10 ship repairers in business volume this year, according to the latest data from authoritative global research firm Cl

The China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC), the nations largest shipbuilder, will build Chinas first luxury cruise ship, which is expected to begin operations as early as 2021, said a report in SCMP. Chinas first domestically built luxury cru

Chinas shipbuilding capacity utilization retreated in the first quarter of 2019 due to a sluggish global market, data from China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI) showed. In the first three months, CCI, a monitoring

From refitting and import, to manufacturing and export, Chinas shipbuilding capacity has surged over the past few decades. The industry is rapidly closing the gap with other powers, providing the solid foundation for the navys leapfrog deve

China will acquire more smart shipbuilding technologies, particularly in areas such as the development of new generation liquefied natural gas carriers, internet-connected and high-efficiency manufacturing in its shipyards between 2019 and