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Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea has secured an order for a drillship from a Europe ship owner. Contract price is $617 million and delivery is scheduled for June 2010.

Having built a reputation for building fishing vessels, the Thai shipbuilder Mahachai Dockyard is preparing to build two dredgers. A smaller bucket dredge for a private Thai customer will be similar to…

Ferguson's yard in Port Glasgow, which earlier this week announced it was making 99 workers redundant, was thrown a lifeline when it was learned that bidding was to be opened within three…

KY Heavy Industries in South Korea announces that it clinched orders for five chemical tankers plus five options from OSK (H.K) Ltd for delivery from May 2008 to 2009. In addition, the…

The floating offshore production platform ?Sevan Hummingbird? recently left Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China onboard the semi submersible heavy lift vessel heading for the Keppel Verolme Shipyard in Rotterdam where the installation…

The MacGregor Group, part of the Cargotec Corporation, has announced a new joint venture production partnership with Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin). The joint venture has been established as part of Vinashin's…

Danaos Corporation has signed shipbuilding contracts for four 6,800 TEU container ships with China Shipbuilding Trading Company, Limited. The vessels will be built by the Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry Company Limited…

Seacor Marine, the subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings, has taken delivery of its latest vessel, the crewboat John G McCall. Built by Gulf Craft Shipyard in Patterson, Louisiana, the 190ft John G McCall…

Fincantieri?s shipyard in Muggiano-La Spezia recently held a keel laying ceremony for the company?s first mega yacht which was ordered by Nicholas Baker in May last year. When delivered in 2010, this…