Author: Importer

Novoship in Russia placed new order for four 112,000 dwt Aframax product tankers with Hyundai Heavy Industries. Delivery is slated for 2009.

Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co. of Korea will expand its shipbuilding facility at Subic Bay Freeport by at least 100 hectares to house a training center and water treatment substation and…

Incat?s in Tasmania has delivered a new 98 metre Wave Piercing Catamaran to one of Spain?s largest shipping companies, Acciona Trasmediterr?nea (AT). Milenium Tres is the sixth Incat high speed catamaran to…

The Norwegian businessman who wants to save the bankrupt Davie shipyard says the deal is back on. If the $30 million deal is concluded, the Canadian shipyard will re-open for business before…

The Domecq Garc?a shipyard in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is slowly coming to life again after having been closed down in the 1990s. This specialized shipyard, set up in the 1970s to maintain…

The Indian shipping industry will need to send 56% of its merchant fleet to the scrapyard in the next five years according to the Indian National Shipowners? Association (INSA) and, as a…

Daewoo Shipbuilding clinched a 171,800 cbm LNG carrier from TMT Co in Taiwan with delivery of August 2010 and two 83,000 cbm LPG carriers from Brave Maritime Corporation with delivery of January…

The Greek shipping company DryShips has signed contracts to build two Panamax bulk carriers at a Chinese shipyard at a cost of $33.25 million each.

Saipem of Italy has been awarded a contract for the provision and management of an FPSO vessel by the Angolan oil company Sonangol P&P. The vessel will be used for the development…

IHC Holland Merwede has decided to commission a fourth slipway in the Netherlands, namely the former van der Giessen-de Noord slipway in Krimpen aan den IJssel, claimed to be Europe?s largest covered…