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James Fisher, the UK?s leading provider of marine services, has acquired the UK-based short sea operator FT Everard for a total cash consideration of approximately £23.7 million and the assumption of £28.0…

Malaysia?s premier dredging and reclamation contractor Inai Kiara Sdn Bhd will purchase a fleet of seven vessels, including two dredgers, from MSET Shipbuilding Corporation Sdn Bhd, a Terengganu based company. The $28.20…

Singapore's Jurong Shipyard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SembCorp Marine, has received a Letter of Award from Saudi Aramco Overseas Company B.V. for the design, construction and delivery of a self-elevating heavy-lift jack-up…

Hyundai Samho has clinched two VLCCs from a ship owner in Latin America. Total contract price is $259 million and delivery is scheduled for April 2010.

Desperate attempts are being made to save the former transatlantic liner ?France?, ex-Norway, and now renamed ?Blue Lady?, from being dismantled in India where she has been languishing for the last couple…

UAE-based Nico International has signed a joint venture agreement to build a ship repair yard in Kazakhstan and also has plans to set up a shipbuilding facility in the Central Asian nation.Nico…

Heung-A Shipping in South Korea placed an order for a 11,500DWT chemical tanker with a Japanese shipbuilder. Contract price is $29 million and delivery is January 2011. The shipping company also has…

The Shipyard Association of Cebu (SAC) has entered into a technical agreement with the Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards, Gorinchem, to construct four double-hulled oil tankers for delivery by 2008.The partnership will allow…

The EU has chosen a research consortium coordinated by Wärtsilä to receive a EUR 1.0 million grant to develop the use of methanol-consuming fuel cells to provide electrical power to marine vessels.…

Daehan Shipbuilding Co, a South Korean shipbuilder, has won a $590 million order to build eight ships for a European company. Daehan, which is building a shipyard in the south-western part of…

U.N Ro-Ro, Istanbul, awarded contracts to Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft for two 3,735 lane metre RoRo vessels. The Turkish company has already ordered twelve vessels from Flensburger, of which ten have been delivered to…

The European Marine Equipment Council (EMEC), which represents more than 1,250 companies across Europe in the marine equipment sector, welcomes the draft EEuropean Parliament (EP TRAN) committee report from Luis de Grandes…

The revolutionary EPS thruster by Van der Velden Marine Systems has won the 2006 Dutch Maritime Innovation (DMI) award. This completed a successful year for the EPS thruster which was already well…

Uncertainty again hangs over Appledore Shipbuilders in England with the loss of a hoped-for £30 million order which has been awarded to a Norwegian shipbuilder and sparking a Transatlantic row.Following the loss…

The Philippine government intends to borrow $1 billion from the Japanese government to develop the shipping industry, Economic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri said recently. The loan would come next year from the…

A consortium trying to land a large shipbuilding contract in Halifax, Canada, is out of the running, a spokeswoman for one of the companies in the syndicate said. Irving official Mary Keith…

More than 100 new offshore drilling rigs and drill ships scheduled for delivery during the next few years will likely be late because of a backlog of shipyard work, said Mark Burns,…

BAE Systems, which recently received a Letter of Intent to provide two frigates for the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) via an industrial partnership with Labuan Shipyard & Engineering Sdn Bhd (LSE), believes…