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Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the Venezuelan state oil company last week closed on a deal for new tankers with Argentina?s Rio Santiago shipyard in Ensenada, 60 kilometers southeast of Buenos Aires. Venezuelan…

Daesun Shipbuilding cancelled an order for two 1,043TEU container ships which it had received from two German KG ship owners at a total cost of $34 million. The order was placed with…

China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL), one of the largest shipping companies in China, owns a fleet of 103 container vessels with a total capacity of over 120,000 TEUs, and is operating dozens…

Since introducing its first azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug, the ASD 3110 Citta Della Spezia back in 1993, the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards has built almost 100 compact ASD tugs in…

MOL (America) Inc confirma that all of the company's containerships calling at North American ports and all of MOL's own terminals are in compliance with IMO?s International Ship and Port Facility Security…

Korea Line has ordered a 176,000DWT bulk carrier from a Japanese shipbuilder. The newbuilding, costing $51 million, will be delivered during the first quarter in 2006.

A&P Falmouth has a new 60 tonne crane which will service Nos. 3 & 4 drydocks in the yard. The new Bailey crane effectively doubles the lifting capacity, replacing the 30 tonne…

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered the world's largest container ship to a Canadian shipping company. Christened CSCL Asia, the 8,500 TEU ship is 334 metres long, 42.8 metres wide and…