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Babcock International will defend itself with a robust trading statement this week as directors face up to the probability that they could be involved in a fierce take-over battle. Already BAE Systems…

Hyundai Heavy Industries has started to use its new shipbuilding block factory in Ulsan, which will supply 86,000 tonnes of blocks for ships this year. The 347,500 m2 plant is equipped to…

The British Columbia government in Canada has approved funding for three replacement ferries on its north coast routes. This announcement was made on the same day Premier Gordon Campbell flew up to…

The Mumbai based Great Eastern Shipping Company (GE) recently took delivery of a newly built OSV named Malaviya Twenty Five from the Indian shipbuilder Bharati Shipyard Ltd.Bharati Shipyard has also won an…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has delivered the first three vessels built at its Romanian shipyard Daewoo Mangalia. These 69,180 dwt crude oil tankers are the largest-ever built in the Black…

BAE Systems and VT, the UK defence and civil contracting groups, are considering a joint bid for the Rosyth dockyard owned by Babcock, the support services and shipbuilding group, in a move…

Daesun Shipbuilding in South Korea wins an order for four chemical tankers from an Asian ship owner. Total contract price is $139 million for delivery by June 2009.

Garware Offshore Services based in Mumbai, India, plans to acquire two anchor handling towing-cum-supply vessels (AHTSs) and one platform supply vessel (PSV) for an estimated cost of $55 million. This will increase…

Frontier Drilling USA in Houston has engaged Aker Arctic of Helsinki, Finland, to proceed with the initial design and conceptual development of the modification work for their turret moored drillship ?Frontier Discoverer?.…

Maersk Supply Service signed a contract for eight new 11,242kW VS 472 anchor handling and supply (AHTS) vessels from AKER Yards AS in Norway. The vessels are of Vik & Sandvik design…