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Taiwan's state-run shipbuilding company CSBC has received orders for 11 container ships, which boosts its total orders to 67 ships, enough to keep the yard busy until 2012. On Monday, CSBC signed…

Singapore-based shipbuilder Labroy Marine has signed two shipbuilding contracts with a German customer for two platform supply vessels. The contracts are worth $47.2 million and the vessels are scheduled to be delivered…

MAN Diesel has received the first order for its 7K80ME-C, Mark-9 engine.Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) will build four such engines for the A.P. M?ller Group, intended for container ships to be constructed…

Hong Kong-based Sam Woo Holdings, a marine transportation company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Viet Nam?s Nha Trang Vinalines Marine to build a shipyard in Viet Nam. Work on the…

Jan de Nul, the Belgian dredging company, has placed orders with Tianjin Xinhe Shipbuilding Heavy Industries Co Ltd in Tianjin, China, for eight new vessels.The contracts include one 3,700m3 splithopper dredger similar…

Dubai Drydocks World, the global maritime arm of Dubai World, has, as of 10 July 2007, received acceptances of approximately 84.82% of Pan-United Marine Limited (PUM) shares, in connection with its voluntary…

The European Commission said there will be no decision before the summer vacation on whether Poland will face penalties over shipyard restructuring. "We are in regular contact with the Polish authorities and…

Singapore-based Keppel Corp said its Keppel Shipyard has won a $100 million contract to supply and install equipment on a drilling ship which is being built in a shipyard in China and…

Seadrill has entered into a turnkey contract to build a third ultra-deepwater drill ship at the Samsung Shipyard in South Korea. The contract has a total project value of $598 million with…

International and local construction firms have shown interest in a contract to develop a ship repair yard and dry dock complex in south-eastern Oman, the state tender board said. As many as…

Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark has confirmed it has entered a final contract with the UK-based EPIC Shipping Group for building and delivery of six Ro-Ro vessels.The vessels are 193 meters long,…

COSCO Corp (Singapore) Ltd has secured $563 million worth of ship conversion and shipbuilding contracts from undisclosed international customers. The projects, which include 10 conversions and the building of eight new bulk…

The Australian government has awarded the $3 billion contract for two of the Royal Australian Navy's new landing ships to a consortium of Spanish firm Navantia and Tenix in Victoria. The hulls…

A final decision to place the £3.8bn order for the Royal Navy?s future aircraft carrier programme (CVF), already delayed from last year, is now unlikely before October or November while French suggestions…

Camillo Eitzen & Co ASA in Norway has reached an agreement with Sasaki Shipbuilding in Japan for six 2,500 cbm semi/pressurized LPG carriers at a cost of $14.2 million each. The vessels…

Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has strengthened its US service network by purchasing Maritime Solutions Inc, a Norfolk, Virginia-based lifeboat and davit service company.Gary Joseph, president of Schat-Harding USA, says, "We have…

The Piraeus-based Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc., an international marine fuel logistics company that markets and physically supplies refined marine fuel and lubricants to ships in port and at sea, has recently…

After investing over $1.6 billion in Subic Bay Freeport for a shipbuilding facility, Korea?s shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) is investing another $1 billion in the state-owned Phivedec Industrial Estate…

Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine & Engineering Co. (DSME) has won a deal valued at $1.5 billion to build nine container vessels. The order from a European shipping company calls on DSME to deliver…

The government of Trinidad is currently looking into the establishment of a local shipbuilding industry. Minister in the Ministry of Finance Christine Sahadeo made the announcement and said that as part of…