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Brazilian iron ore miner Vale has ordered 12 very large ore carriers (VLOC) from Chinese shipbuilder RongSheng Shipbuilding and Heavy Industry for $1.6 billion. Each of the ore carriers will have a…

Italian-based Siba Ships, the world?s leading maritime livestock transporting company, has placed a $250 million order for two livestock carriers to be built at Croatia?s Uljanik yard. The new vessels will carry…

Special Areas in which the discharge of wastes from ships is prohibited will take effect in the ?Gulfs area? and off southern South Africa on 1 August 2008, providing extra protection from…

A report on the progress of negotiations with investors interested in buying the Polish shipyards was sent to the Polish Treasury Minister yesterday. Aleksander Grad has designated special teams to conduct the…

Seattle-based naval architect firm Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA), is further expanding its international focus after opening an office in Shanghai, China in 2004, and has announced the establishment of a…

Austal?s US operation located in Mobile, Alabama, celebrated the start of work on its Modular Manufacturing Facility (MMF) with a groundbreaking ceremony. The MMF project when complete will include 65,000m2 of manufacturing…

Drydocks World (DW) - SE Asia expects to start operations at a fifth yard in the Southeast Asia region in 18 months' time. Dredging work will begin on the 174-hectare (430-acre) site…

South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) secured a drillship order from an undisclosed client based in the Americas. The drillship, valued at a reported KRW766 billion ($754.7 million), is…

WWF-UK welcomes the findings of the joint committee report on the Draft Marine Bill which have been published today. The report raises important points about the need to strengthen the provisions of…

The recently established Qingdao Yangfan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., funded by Yangfan Group and Qingdao Machinery Industry General Co., Ltd., with a total registered capital of RMB650m, plans to construct a shipbuilding facility…