Author: Importer

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has clinched two contracts to build a total of twelve bulk carriers. The first deal, valued at 758 billion won ($792 million), is for eight bulk carriers ordered…

All the shipyards in Istanbul's Tuzla district will be closed down if they do not implement regulations to prevent further worker deaths according to a local source. The success of shipyards should…

The Greek bunkering company Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. has exercised its options with Qingdao Hyundai Shipyard, China, to purchase four new 5,500 DWT double- hull bunkering tankers. The newbuildings are expected…

The French giant shipping company CMA CGM has ordered four new CON RO vessels from South Korea's Hyundai Mipo for delivery in the second half of 2011. The new vessels will be…

The Arab Ship Building and Repair Yard (ASRY)in Bahrain has formed a new operating company to be called ASRY Offshore Services, (AOS). ASRY has over recent years seen a rapid growth in…

The new year has brought good news to JCMC (Jotun COSCO Marine Coatings). Earlier this year in January, JCMC signed a paint contract for 80 vessels to be built at Dayang Shipyard.…

Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering (DSSE) has cancelled a contract with an unidentified Asian shipowner for the construction of six 32,000-dwt bulkers plus two on option. It blamed the owner's failure to…

South Korea?s Hanjin Heavy Industries needs 40,000 workers over the next few years to construct and operate their $2 billion shipyard in Tagoloan, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. "Hanjin…