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The San Diego shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO recently delivered USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) to the U.S. Navy. Construction of the newbuilding began in October 2007. Including the Wally Schirra, NASSCO has…

The sale of two struggling Polish shipyards to Qatari investors has failed after the potential buyers declined to pay up within the time period agreed with the European Commission, Poland's treasury minister…

Shipbuilders may be drawn into a global price war next year triggered by South Korean discounting, an executive at Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES), Japan?s second-largest builder of vessels, said. According to…

Technology from Sheffield in England could be powering the next generation of warships following city firm Magnomatics success in winning a six-figure contract with the Ministry of Defence. The Sheffield University spin-out…

Keen to increase the Indian Navy?s blue-water capability and improve self-sufficiency in defence production, the Ministry of Defence is to take over the Hindustan Shipyard at Visakhapatnam from the Union shipping ministry.…

South Korean shipbuilders may end an eight-month dry spell with an influx of new orders after Australia approved the $42 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project. Hyundai Heavy, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine…

According to local media reports, Ali Akbar Mehrabian, Minister of Industry and Mines of Iran, said during the launching ceremony of a 35,000 dwt vessel that the country will build around 500…

Singapore-based Keppel Singmarine is on track to deliver an ice class Floating Storage and Offloading vessel (FSO) to repeat Russian customer, LUKOIL- Nizhnevolzhskneft (Lukoil). The vessel was recently christened YURI KORCHAGIN at…