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Shina Shipbuilding in South Korea has won four 44,000DWT chemical tankers from Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group, a unit of Stolt-Nielsen ASA. Total contract price is $240 million.

Topaz Energy and Marine Limited subsidiary Nico International, one of Dubai's most prominent ship repair companies, will open a new ship repair facility in Bautino, Kazakhstan later this year, after completing a…

Keppel FELS Ltd has secured a contract from Diamond Offshore Drilling, for the major upgrading of semi-submersible rig for $102 million. ?Ocean Monarch? will arrive at Keppel FELS in mid 2006 for…

DNV has signed an agreement with Cosco, the world?s largest shipowner. Under their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), DNV will provide services to support Cosco?s sustainable business developments under the United Nations Global…

RH Group receives DNV worldwide recognition Radio Holland Group (RHG) received the DNV (Det Norske Veritas) recognition for radio- and VDR surveys for all its RH subsidiaries engaged in these activities. RHG…

Australian defense officials may have thrown a wrench into government plans to build new warships in the country. In a submission to a Senate panel, the Defence Department (DP) said there was…

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded type approval from the German certification authority Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt & Hydrographie (BSH) for the Sperry Marine VoyageMaster II Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR). The BSH…

Exmar has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering for two more LNGRV vessels, the 6th and 7th in the series, for delivery during 2009. The vessels will be built…

In addition to clinching the three 266,000 cbm LNG carriers from Qatar Shipping, Samsung has also won orders for eight boxships. Four 4,300TEU container ships from Danaos in Greece for delivery during…

Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) is ordering six QMax LNG carriers of 266,000 cu. m capacity each. These will be the largest LNG carriers built to date with about 25% greater capacity…

ETA Shipping and Trading, part of the Dubai-based, ETA-Ascon Group, has placed an order for two 81,200 dwt super Panamax bulk carrier vessels with Japanese shipbuilder Universal Shipbuilding Corporation. Delivery is scheduled…

Singapore-based Ezra Holdings has earmarked $240 million to increase its fleet over the next two years in hopes of cashing in on strong demand for offshore support services in the oil and…

SMIT, the Dutch towage company, has reached an agreement with Damen Shipyards for the construction of 11 newly built tugs. Two of these will be type ASD 3211 tugs (65 tons bp)…

Bharati Shipyard in India has secured $112 million order from Bourbon, the French offshore, towage and salvage company, for five sophisticated offshore vessels. The French company had already placed an order with…

China Shipping Development Co. (CSD), a subsidiary of China Shipping Group, will be placing an order estimated at $748 million for eight VLCCs with Dalian New Ship Heavy Industry shipyard. Another order…

Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) based in New York will build four 114,000 dwt Aframax tankers at the New Times Shipbuilding yard in Jinjiang, China. The vessels, scheduled for delivery in 2008 and…

Aker Yards has entered into a contract with GEO ASA for the building of a ROV support vessel at a cost of $60 million. The vessel will be built by Aker Yards…

The former shipbuilding yard at Krimpen a/d Ijssel near Rotterdam, Holland, which was closed three years ago when Van der Giessen-De Noord went into receivership, could be reactivated to provide much needed…

Having arrived at the Grand Bahama shipyard in Freeport for temporary repairs to its 150 fire damaged cabins, the ?Star Princess? will set sail later this week for the Lloyd Werft shipyard…

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) announced a restructuring of the company?s ship management system to enhance the company?s safety program in the light of its plan to expand its fleet from about 700…