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Hyundai Heavy Industries plans to build its 10th dry dock in Korea to meet rising orders. The construction of the dry dock, 640 metres long and 92 metres wide, will be completed…

Samsung Heavy Industries, the world's second-largest shipbuilder, has won a 1.25 trillion won ($1.35 billion) deal from an Asian shipping company to build eight container ships for delivery by May 201. Last…

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has adopted and will standardize on MSC.Software?s new SimEnterprise technology across all company sites and their extended supply chain.With typical development cycles not exceeding 36 months and including a…

A local industry report claims that India's Shipping Ministry is considering plans to ban ships over 25 years old from docking at the country's ports. Also being considered are ships flying flags…

Australia?s Federal Government will sign a contract with Spanish designer Navantia, Adelaide-based shipbuilder ASC and systems engineer Raytheon by mid-September, for the construction of three 6,000-tonne air warfare destroyers for the Royal…

Vladivostok-based Far-Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) has ordered a series of new bulk carriers to be built in China at the Quingshan Shipyard in Ukhan.The 57,000 DWT newbuildings will be 190 metres long…

ABG Shipyard in India has bid for two shipyards on the western coast, state-run Alcock Ashdown (Gujarat) Ltd. and Western India Shipyard Ltd.. In May, it bought unlisted Vipul Shipyard. Its competitor,…

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has received an order from a US firm to construct two drill ships, just in time to put the company's combined orders for the first half of the…

Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB), the region?s only specialist naval and para-military shipbuilder, has signed a contract with Bahrain?s Ministry of the Interior to refit ten coast guard patrol boats. The deal…

Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte. Ltd. (GGOS), Singapore, wholly owned by Greatship (India) Ltd (GIL), has signed a contract for two more new building multi purpose platform supply vessels (PSV) with Keppel…

The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) has moved quickly to dispel certain misconceptions circulating within the market concerning the circumstances under which regulations affecting shipping within the designated Sulphur Emission Control Area…

A project to build a shipyard at Porto Amboim in the Angolan province of Kwanza Sul has been presented by two oil companies, Servi?os de Produ??o de Petroleos (OPS) and Sonangol.Jo?o Filipe…

For the first time China has overtaken Japan to rank the second in terms of vessel order book tonnage with a record $5.49 billion new orders during the first half of the…

Skipsteknisk AS of Norway was awarded the design contract for a second vessel ordered by Volstad Maritime AS for DeepOcean through its subsidiary CTC Marine Projects Ltd. The vessel of ST-256 L…

Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M) has officially opened its new wholly-owned subsidiary, Keppel Nantong Shipyard Co Ltd (Keppel Nantong), in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China. The official ceremony was marked by…

Mumbai-based shipbuilder Bharati Shipyard has bagged an additional order worth about $44 million from UP Offshore (Bahamas) Ltd., for two platform supply vessels. In April, the company had secured the first order…

The first Incat 112 metre high speed ferry has been delivered to the Japanese ferry operator Higashi Nihon Ferry. The new Incat 112 metre wave piercing catamaran was specifically designed and built…

The New Delhi-based infrastructure major Punj Lloyd has acquired a 25.1% stake in Pipavav Shipyard (PSL) for Rs 403 crore. The deal, done through preferential allotment, is seen as a strategic investment…

The Russian tanker operator Primorsk Shipping Corporation (PRISCO) recently launched ?PRISCO Alcor?, its second Suezmax type tanker. The 166,000 DWT newbuilding is under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard in South Korea…

New regulation 12A of Annex I of MARPOL on oil fuel tank protection, adopted by MEPC 54 on 24 March 2006 will come into force. It sets out the requirements concerning the…