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A strategic alliance between Rolls-Royce and UCT Coatings Inc. is bringing new technology to the marine market and is about to start work on a $7m U.S. Navy research contract. The contract,…

Siem Offshore Inc. in Norway has signed contracts for two large and environmentally friendly anchor handling vessels (AHTS) with Norwegian shipbuilding group Kleven Maritime. Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway, in cooperation with…

Lloyd?s Register North America, Inc., U.S. Bancorp, and Resurgence Software have collaborated to create the patent pending Voyager Maritime Payment Solution, a seamless, secure, and quality-assured method of acquiring and financing fuels.…

Japanese heavy machinery maker IHI Corp. and steelmaker JFE Holdings Inc. are engaged in talks to merge their shipbuilding operations to create the world's sixth largest shipbuilder. JFE, the world's third-biggest steelmaker,…

The first application of the SkySails towing kite propulsion system on a cargo vessel has been undertaken by Beluga Shipping GmbH. The multi-purpose heavy lift vessel was recently christened ?Beluga SkySails? and…

A Yarmouth shipbuilding yard recently launched a 19 metre trawler. The vessel, the ?Amethyst?, slid down the slipway at Richards Dry Dock & Engineering (RDDE) in Great Yarmouth, England, and will soon…

Damen Shipyards Group has purchased 49% of the shares of Albwardy Marine Engineering (AME), Dubai, UAE. AME is active in ship repair, shipbuilding, repair of offshore units and diving activities and has…

With the Tamil Nadu cabinet clearing the project, Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) will move ahead to set up a Rs3,000 crore new shipyard-cum-port project at Kattupalli in Thiruvallur district of Tamil…

Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co. has signed a deal to build a $2 billion shipbuilding complex with the Phividec Industrial Authority, the state-run agency tasked to develop industrial sites.…

Hyproc Shipping Co., Algeria's state- owned shipping company, plans to buy enough tankers to carry half the nation's crude-oil production, Oil Minister Chakib Khelil said. Algeria, Africa's fourth-largest oil producer, owns one…

Another shipping line is looking at reducing sailing speeds as a way of cutting bunker consumption. Koji Miyahara, President of the Japanese NYK Group, has called for a ?rationalization? of Group policy.…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has received an order valued at 433 billion won ($464 million) from an Asian shipping company to build 10 chemical product tankers. The vessels will be delivered by April…

Mumbai-based Bharati Shipyard is all set to construct a greenfield modern shipyard at Usgaon near the Dabhol port in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district. The new yard would have the capacity to build vessels…

Ulstein Design has signed contracts with the Spanish shipyard Astilleros de Sevilla to deliver design and equipment packages for two Ulstein PX105 platform supply vessels. The ships will be built for the…

The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), India?s largest liner shipping company, plans to start building ships and is currently in talks with private shipbuilders at home and abroad for a shipyard project…

Italy's deputy transport minister Cesare De Piccoli said the idea of a merger of Aker Yards ASA with Italy's state-owned shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA is gaining industry and political support. Aker Yards management…

South Korean shipbuilder C&Heavy Industries has won a 99.5 billion won ($106.2 million) order for two bulk ships from an unidentified European company. Both newbuildings are scheduled for delivery by September 2011.

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) has won the contract to build China?s first deepwater drilling rig for China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) with ABS awarded classification. The rig will be the first…

A year after the Miami-based Yachts of Seabourn announced that it would build two new ultra luxury ships, it has exercised the option for another 32,000 gt cruise ship. Advance booking activity…

Rio Tinto, the world's second largest iron ore mining group behind Brazil's Vale, plans to order three very large ore carriers (VLOC) to transport iron ore from Pilbara in Western Australia to…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, a unit of Hyundai Heavy Industries, has won tow orders valued at 284 billion won ($302 million) to build six petrochemical carriers. The contracts with a European shipping company…

China's Cosco Shipyard Group and Jiangsu Lianyungang Port Co. Ltd. have formed a 60/40 joint venture company called Cosco Lianyungang Shipyard Co., Ltd which will be a subsidiary of Cosco Shipyard Group.…

Dubai Drydocks is planning to invest $200 million this year for acquisitions and joint ventures to maintain its leading position in the ship-building industry in the Middle East. Last year in July,…