Author: Importer

Hyundai Heavy Industries plans to build its 10th dry dock in Korea to meet rising orders. The construction of the dry dock, 640 metres long and 92 metres wide, will be completed…

Samsung Heavy Industries, the world's second-largest shipbuilder, has won a 1.25 trillion won ($1.35 billion) deal from an Asian shipping company to build eight container ships for delivery by May 201. Last…

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has adopted and will standardize on MSC.Software?s new SimEnterprise technology across all company sites and their extended supply chain.With typical development cycles not exceeding 36 months and including a…

A local industry report claims that India's Shipping Ministry is considering plans to ban ships over 25 years old from docking at the country's ports. Also being considered are ships flying flags…

Australia?s Federal Government will sign a contract with Spanish designer Navantia, Adelaide-based shipbuilder ASC and systems engineer Raytheon by mid-September, for the construction of three 6,000-tonne air warfare destroyers for the Royal…

Vladivostok-based Far-Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) has ordered a series of new bulk carriers to be built in China at the Quingshan Shipyard in Ukhan.The 57,000 DWT newbuildings will be 190 metres long…

ABG Shipyard in India has bid for two shipyards on the western coast, state-run Alcock Ashdown (Gujarat) Ltd. and Western India Shipyard Ltd.. In May, it bought unlisted Vipul Shipyard. Its competitor,…

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has received an order from a US firm to construct two drill ships, just in time to put the company's combined orders for the first half of the…

Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB), the region?s only specialist naval and para-military shipbuilder, has signed a contract with Bahrain?s Ministry of the Interior to refit ten coast guard patrol boats. The deal…

Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte. Ltd. (GGOS), Singapore, wholly owned by Greatship (India) Ltd (GIL), has signed a contract for two more new building multi purpose platform supply vessels (PSV) with Keppel…