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Keppel FELS has secured a contract with GlobalSantaFe Corporation (GSF) to build an ultra-deepwater drilling rig for $270 million.Under the contract agreement, GSF will supply the drilling and sub-sea equipment while Keppel…

Wärtsilä Corporation and the BLRT Grupp of Estonia will set up a second joint venture to service ships in the Baltic area. The joint venture will be owned 51% by Wärtsilä and…

A $45 million order from UK shipowner Carisbrooke Shipping for three new vessels will keep the Port Weller Dry Docks shipyard in Ontario, Canada, in full employment for the next two years.…

Chevron Corporation has awarded the Houston-based offshore drilling company, Transocean Inc., a drilling contract for the construction of an enhanced Enterprise-class drillship. The enhanced Enterprise-class drillship, to be named the ?Discoverer Clear…

Seaspan Corporation has signed a contract to build four 2,500 TEU vessels from Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding in China. These new orders are incremental to Seaspan's original contracted fleet and will increase the…

Bergesen Worldwide Tankers signed contracts to build two 320,000 DWT VLCCs at Bohai Shipyard. These will be the largest ships of their type ever built in China and delivery is slated in…

Samsung Heavy Industries clinched a 155,000 cbm LNG carrier from Petronet and an oil platform from ONGC in India at a total price of $500 million. The 285m long, 44m wide LNG…

Hanjin Heavy Industries has signed a land lease agreement with the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority to construct and operate a $1 billion shipyard at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Zambales. The…

?Clipper Target?, a bulk carrier for the Clipper Group of Bahamas, was recently launched at the Cochin Shipyard (CSL) in India together with a fire-fighting tug for the Jeddah Port Authority, Saudi…