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Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) in Singapore has won a contract to build a $537 million ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig from a subsidiary of Dallas-based Ensco International Incorporated (Ensco). This contract follows…

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in India will enter into shipbuilding business with an initial investment of Rs 20 billion ($468 million) next year according to local reports. The shipbuilding project would start…

Italy-based classification society RINA has introduced a new voluntary notation which will help shipowners meet the new international standards for crew accommodation. The notation, ILODESIGN will ensure compliance with the ship construction…

The French classification society Bureau Veritas has developed guidelines intended to reduce the number of accidents to seafarers and surveyors during the inspection and maintenance of ships structures. The guidelines will help…

The 300,000 DWT type ore carrier ?Grande Progresso? of Kawasaki Kisen?s 100% owned foreign subsidiary was delivered at Ariake Shipyard of Universal Shipbuilding Corporation. The 327m long and 55m wide newbuilding with…

Amsterdam-based Seaarland Shipping Management has ordered three 165,000 dwt Suezmax tankers to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea, for deliveryin the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter 2011.

Wärtsilä has acquired the German company Claus D. Christophel Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH (CDC), which specializes in the design, delivery and service of automation systems for ship owners and yards. The company…

A key link in the plan to provide effective search and rescue (SAR) coverage off the coast of Africa has been completed with the commissioning, by IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, of…

Rising crude oil prices and tighter environmental regulations are moving the shipping industry into an era of ever higher bunker prices, the Sustainable Shipping Forum in Singapore has been told. Robin Meech,…

A new diesel-electric icebreaker, ?Sankt-Peterburg? has been launched at the Baltic Shipyard in Russia. The construction is carried out under the survey of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS). This multipurpose icebreaker…