Author: Importer

Following the earlier announcement that Aker Yards and ALSTOM intend to join forces in shipbuilding, a new company has now been established to which Chantiers de l'Atlantique will transfer its employees, assets…

The order book position of the Indian shipyards stands at $2.2 billion at present and is expected to improve further according to T.R. Baalu, minister for shipping, road transport and highways. In…

The Finnish chartering and operations company Meriaura Oy will add into its fleet a new type of multipurpose deck cargo vessels ordered from the Polish shipyard, Remontowa. The vessels are designed for…

Dayang Shipbuilding in Yangzhou, China, has won an order for six 53,000 dwt handymax bulk carriers from IRISL in Iran at a cost of $29.5 each. First of six will be delivered…

After three years of planning, the Danish-Vietnamese joint venture Aalborg Industries Vietnam opened a new production plant in the northern port city of Haiphong's An Hong Marine Industrial Zone, one of the…

Volgograd Shipyard, a subsidiary of MNP Group, concluded a contract with the Swedish shipping company Catfish Forvaltning for the construction of two class II chemical tankers under project 4450. The contract includes…

Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway, has entered into contract with Norwegian ship owner REM Maritime for the construction of an advanced Rolls-Royce offshore vessel. The value of the contract is approximately $49…

Sovcomflot, Russia's largest state-owned shipping company, and Admiralteyskiye Verfi (Admiralty Shipyards), the St. Petersburg-based shipyard, have concluded and signed a $350 million deal for the construction of two arctic shuttle oil tankers,…

The owner of the country's two largest military shipyards has said the government wants to acquire both firms and that state arms trader, Rosoboronexport, was in talks to buy them. The Severnaya…

Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard in China clinched a 1,700TEU container ship from Schoeller Holdings Ltd. The new order is the fourth ship ordered from the German ship owner. Price and delivery were not…