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Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has secured a $385 million repeat order to build a semisubmersible drilling rig for Brazilian oil and gas exploitation…

Wärtsilä continues to expand its boiler services with the acquisition of the boiler services business of International Combustion Engineering's (I.C.E.) former subsidiary in Dubai. The acquired boiler service business, which currently employs…

The Sultanate of Oman?s record-breaking 65 metre vehicle-passenger catamaran ?Shinas? has arrived in Muscat, Oman, following its 15-day journey from Austal?s shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. The vessel made the journey under…

Wärtsilä Corporation has re-named its Hamburg-based ship design company SCHIFFKO GmbH to Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany GmbH. The change is effective from 1 June 2008. The name SCHIFFKO is retained as a…

Using the expertise of its quality assurance business, LRQA, Lloyd?s Register has developed a shipping industry specific guide for the ISO 14001 environmental management standard to enable ship operators to establish and…

Swedish company BERG Propulsion, a leading manufacturer of controllable pitch propellers (CPP) for the marine industry, recently launched its new production facility in Tuas, Singapore. The new plant is the first of…

MAN Diesel celebrated the official opening of service facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA, and is hereby expanding the MAN Diesel PrimeServ Network in North America. Over 200 customers, suppliers and business…

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has ordered six LR-1 product tankers of 60,000 DWT from STX Shipbuilding in a deal worth $371m for delivery from 2010 onwards. SCI has also received…

MAN Diesel is relaunching its portfolio, making all its engines compatible with the limits established by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in its Tier II regulations. The relaunch is an historic milestone…

Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) in Singapore has won a contract to build a $537 million ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig from a subsidiary of Dallas-based Ensco International Incorporated (Ensco). This contract follows…

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in India will enter into shipbuilding business with an initial investment of Rs 20 billion ($468 million) next year according to local reports. The shipbuilding project would start…

Italy-based classification society RINA has introduced a new voluntary notation which will help shipowners meet the new international standards for crew accommodation. The notation, ILODESIGN will ensure compliance with the ship construction…

The French classification society Bureau Veritas has developed guidelines intended to reduce the number of accidents to seafarers and surveyors during the inspection and maintenance of ships structures. The guidelines will help…

The 300,000 DWT type ore carrier ?Grande Progresso? of Kawasaki Kisen?s 100% owned foreign subsidiary was delivered at Ariake Shipyard of Universal Shipbuilding Corporation. The 327m long and 55m wide newbuilding with…

Amsterdam-based Seaarland Shipping Management has ordered three 165,000 dwt Suezmax tankers to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea, for deliveryin the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter 2011.

Wärtsilä has acquired the German company Claus D. Christophel Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH (CDC), which specializes in the design, delivery and service of automation systems for ship owners and yards. The company…

Noreq AS, the Norwegian manufacturer and supplier of maritime deck equipment, has acquired the Bergen-based davit manufacturer Crevi Davit AS. The acquisition strengthens Noreq?s focus on the development of maritime equipment, particularly…

A key link in the plan to provide effective search and rescue (SAR) coverage off the coast of Africa has been completed with the commissioning, by IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, of…

Rising crude oil prices and tighter environmental regulations are moving the shipping industry into an era of ever higher bunker prices, the Sustainable Shipping Forum in Singapore has been told. Robin Meech,…

A new diesel-electric icebreaker, ?Sankt-Peterburg? has been launched at the Baltic Shipyard in Russia. The construction is carried out under the survey of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS). This multipurpose icebreaker…

The world's largest container liner Maersk Line is backing slower steaming as a response to rising bunker costs. Slow steaming is an efficient way to reduce bunker consumption, lowering operational costs as…

Rem?y Shipping has signed a contract with Ulstein Verft for the building of two eco-friendly platform supply vessels (PSV) of Ulstein PX105 type designed by Ulstein Design with future oriented products and…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has won a 121 billion won ($117 million) deal to build two chemicals carriers for a European shipping company for delivery by December 2011.