The annual NAPA User Meeting is a one-of-a-kind event, bringing together over 150 ship design experts around a single goal: exchange knowledge to solve practical problems today, and build a smarter and more efficient future for the industry as a whole….
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Clarksons Research have released a review of the global shipbuilding market in 2003. Summarising the review, Steve Gordon, Managing Director of Clarksons Research, commented: “2023 was a year of recovering output, increasing prices and a good flow of o…
Pre-docking inspections provide an increasingly powerful means of ensuring a successful dry-docking, according to MacGregor Sometimes costly, periodically mandatory and ultimately inevitable, the drydock is part of the normal life of a ship. However, w…
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“In 2022, Chinese shipyards reached a market share of 47% and for the first time exceeded the combined market share of Japanese and South Korean shipyards,” says Niels Rasmussen, Chief Shipping Analyst at BIMCO. Ships delivered to new owners by Chinese…
Chinese shipyards hit record 47% market share in 2022 Read More »
The heatwave experienced in parts of the world has seen temperatures of between 40 – 42C recently – and according to an article in TradeWinds, ‘Shipyard work has become nearly impossible in the sweltering temperatures and workers have had to take unsch…
Global extreme weather patterns impact shipbuilding Read More »