Author: Importer

A number of private companies in India have expressed their interest in building two large shipyards planned by the government are now asking for several incentives, including a special economic zone (SEZ)…

Aker American Shipping ASA and Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG) have signed an agreement pursuant to which Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, a subsidiary of Aker American Shipping, will construct two additional Veteran Class…

Studies have started for a shipyard construction project in ??anakkale's Gelibolu district on one million square-metres of land in Cevizli Village. The proposed shipyard will be the biggest in Turkey and the…

STX Shipbuilding has won a $30 million order from a Chinese shipping company to build a handy-size bulk carrier. The order placed by Taizhou Maple Leaf Shipbuilding Co. calls for the South…

Deep Sea Supply's Sea Ocelot, a 10,800 bhp AHTS vessel, was delivered from Jaya Shipbuilding & Engineering Pte Ltd. in Singapore. The Cyprus-based Deep Sea Supply has a one-year firm bareboat charter…

Going after the government???s planned Rs50,000 crore investment in warships, India???s largest engineering and construction firm Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T) plans to build defence warships and para-military vessels at its proposed…

Sembcorp Marine said today that its unit Jurong Shipyard and Brazil's WTorre Empreendimentos Imobilirios SA have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form a joint-venture company to own and operate a…

The newly formed Dubai-based shipping company Eastern Echo (EE) is to build two more Ulstein designed SX 124 X-Bow seismic vessels in Dubai for delivery in the first quarter and second quarter…

The Angolan company Petromar in Luanda plans to invest $40 million in the upgrading of a shipyard at Ambriz, in Zaire province, in order to provide services to the oil industry, the…

The Japanese government is preparing to set aside funds to develop fuel-efficiency standards for large ships. The Japanese Finance Ministry has been requested to allocate about 95 million yen ($827,000) in the…