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A report on the progress of negotiations with investors interested in buying the Polish shipyards was sent to the Polish Treasury Minister yesterday. Aleksander Grad has designated special teams to conduct the…

Seattle-based naval architect firm Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA), is further expanding its international focus after opening an office in Shanghai, China in 2004, and has announced the establishment of a…

Austal?s US operation located in Mobile, Alabama, celebrated the start of work on its Modular Manufacturing Facility (MMF) with a groundbreaking ceremony. The MMF project when complete will include 65,000m2 of manufacturing…

Drydocks World (DW) - SE Asia expects to start operations at a fifth yard in the Southeast Asia region in 18 months' time. Dredging work will begin on the 174-hectare (430-acre) site…

South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) secured a drillship order from an undisclosed client based in the Americas. The drillship, valued at a reported KRW766 billion ($754.7 million), is…

WWF-UK welcomes the findings of the joint committee report on the Draft Marine Bill which have been published today. The report raises important points about the need to strengthen the provisions of…

The recently established Qingdao Yangfan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., funded by Yangfan Group and Qingdao Machinery Industry General Co., Ltd., with a total registered capital of RMB650m, plans to construct a shipbuilding facility…

Fincantieri has signed a contract with Rosatom, the Russian Body for Atomic Energy, for the construction of a vessel to transport irradiated fuel and radioactive waste from the dismantling of Russian nuclear…

India's Bharati Shipyard has won a repeat $67.86 million order from Norwegian Offshore Shipping Ltd for two AHTS vessels.

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has resolved to step up protection of new cargo and passenger vessels in the case of accident. Accordingly, all new vessels built from 1 January 2009 will…

The commissioning of a second slipway at Titan Quanzhou Shipyard in China?s Fujian province has doubled its annual shipbuilding capacity to 20 vessels of 7,000-9,000 dwt. The second slipway is 275 metres…

State-run Shipping Corp of India (SCI) will order four bulk carriers by August as part of its ongoing fleet expansion programme. The company already has ordered 28 ships costing $1.6 billion and…

Pascagoula-based VT Halter Marine is entering an expansion mode that should create about 200 jobs over the next five years. Two new $2 million cranes, each with a lifting capacity of 310…

Rolls-Royce has won a $33.4m follow-up order to design and equip a specialist well intervention vessel. The latest order, from Island Offshore, follows the successful delivery of the first well intervention vessel,…

Greatship (India) Ltd. (GIL) has ordered two deepwater 150 tonne bollard pull anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTSs) from Drydocks World Singapore. The AHTSs are scheduled for delivery in January 2011 and…

The new Pentland Firth ferry Pentalina set sail from the Philippines recently after considerable delays in her construction which has cost Pentland Ferries boss Andrew Banks some of his lucrative summer season…

Bergen Group has recently finalized the purchase of Fosen Holding, including Fosen Yards. The purchase price has been reduced from NKr 200 million to NKr 180 million. The total consideration is a…

Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited?s (Keppel O&M) has secured a S$181 million ($131million) contract to build a multi-purpose heavylift / pipelay vessel for Romanian drilling contractor, Grup Servicii Petroliere SA (GSP). To…

GE Marine has announced that it is supplying LM2500-based propulsion systems for two new Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) amphibious ships. The vessels are being built in Spain, at…

Ships sailing off the California coastline or calling at Californian ports will be compelled to use low sulphur fuel as from July next year. From July 2009, the maximum sulphur level in…

Paris-based classification society Bureau Veritas has entered an agreement with the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation delegating BV the authority to conduct statutory certification services and to issue certificates for…

Naval architect Guido Perla and Associates has announced that construction is now under way in China of the first of a series of 54 offshore support ships. The ships are to the…

Aker Yards of Norway is reported to be among the bidders for Poland's cash-stretched shipyards. The yards have been given a deadline, extended to 12 September, to come up with a privatisation…