Quincy seeks lien on MHI chief's home The Patriot Ledger reports that the Quincy, Mass., city council has directed the city's lawyers to put a lien on the Brookline, Mass., home of Sotirios Emmanouil, the man behind the ill-fated attempt to reopen the Fore River shipyard as Massachusetts Heavy Industries.
First in a new "green" cruise ship series for Royal Caribbean International While Royal Caribbean's Celebrity Cruises is building its Millennium to Lloyds Register class, it has also opted to include DNV's new voluntary class notation CLEAN DESIGN.
Equilinx launches on-line marine marketplace Equilinx, a business-to-business e-commerce hub for the marine industry, yesterday announced its planned second quarter launch of what its says is world's first international online marketplace for ship repair and replacement parts, equipment and services.
MacGregor wins major orders for cruise ships Under contracts totaling over $6.25 million, MacGregor's Passenger Ship Division is supplying a shipset of 21 elevators for NCL's latest cruise ship newbuilding, and a repeat turn-key package which includes 43 provisions stores and refrigeration machinery. Announcement of the NCL order came just one day after news that MacGregor had won a contract to supply elevators, escalators and cold rooms for the two 72,000gt 'Project America' cruise ships contracted by American Classic Voyages Co at Litton Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding
Cammell Laird mulls Marseilles purchase BRITISH shiprepairer Cammell Laird is considering setting up a shiprepair operation in the French port of Marseilles.
H&W issues redundancywarnings HARLAND and Wolff has placed more than 1,700 employees on notice of redundancy as the Belfast yard's efforts to win Cunard's Queen Mary Project threaten to collapse because of financing difficulties, writes Tony Gray.
Occidental Petroleum pays $3.6bn for Altura Energy OCCIDENTAL Petroleum Corporation of the US has agreed to buy Altura Energy, a southwestern US oil and ga partnership owned by BP Amoco and Shell, in a deal valued at $3.6bn.
Precious little to celebrate PRECIOUS Shipping, the cash- strapped Thai handysize bulk operator, plunged deeper into the red in 1999 hit by the continuing fragility of the small bulker sector.
New ferry targeted in 'toxic' paint protest ENVIRONMENTAL group Greenpeace yesterday staged a protest against the use of the use of toxic tributyltin coatings targeting a newbuilding passenger ferry at Rotterdam shipyard Van der Giessen de Noord.
HDW lands four more Attica orders GREECE'S Attica Enterprises has placed an order for up to four more large passenger-vehicle ferries from Germany's shipbuilding industry, adding to a series of six already under construction at Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft.
Lloyd's faces '£2bn loss' LLOYD'S is facing losses of more than £2bn ($3.18bn) for the four policy years to 2000, with particular pain on the marine account, credit ratings agency Moody's has warned.
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