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Bureau Veritas (BV) has enjoyed another record-breaking year, with a sustained growth of fifteen per cent in net sales to the end of June, 2006.Speaking at the tenth annual Bureau Veritas Beaujolais…

The Chennai-based Goodearth Maritime Ltd. (GML) is planning to build a 405-hectare shipyard on the east coast of India with Korea Maritime Consultants Limited (Komac). The first phase of the project is…

Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) has appointed Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited to manage its fleet of 27 new LNG carriers in a 25-year deal. Under the arrangement it is…

B.C. Ferries has awarded a $40-million mid-life upgrade contract for the 5,863 gt ferry ?Queen of Alberni? to Vancouver Shipyards at its North Vancouver drydock.B.C. Ferries says the 139-metre ship is the…

Celebrity Cruises has cancelled the 10 December seven-day cruise of the ?Millennium? to replace the port thrust bearing in the ship's propulsion system. The ship must enter drydock to replace the bearing…

Western Australia-based shipbuilder Austal Ltd has secured a $140 million contract with an overseas group to build multiple aluminium passenger ferries, with the option of further purchases.The shipbuilder is under a strict…

Samsung has secured an order for two 115,000DWT tankers from Geden Line with delivery of 2010.Namura Shipbuilding clinched two 250,000DWT bulk carriers from NYK Line with delivery of 2010 and 2011.Dongnan Shipbuilding…

The first MAN B&W 7S65ME-C has entered service when the oil tanker ?Ice Explorer? was delivered by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in Japan to the Greek shipowner in September. Although the S65ME-C engine…

Malaysian shipbuilders must buck up their ideas and clear backlog orders fast or risk losing their competitiveness and business to foreign players, Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) director general Datuk Cheah Kong…

A federal move that Canada?s shipbuilding industry has feared for some time appears to become a reality when the government resumed free trade talks with the European Free Trade Association. One of…

Edison Chouest Offshore has expanded into the shipyard sector in Brazil with the inauguration, early in October, of Estaleiro Navship in Navegantes in the south of Brazil. The yard will be capable…

The Norwegian naval design company Marin Teknikk has signed a contract with PT Batamec Shipyard, Indonesia, for delivery of a design and detailed engineering package for two MT 6009 MkII design for…

Geo ASA?s subsidiary Geo Subsea Pte Ltd in Singapore has signed a contract with Wavefield Inseis AS for the ?Geomaster?. The contract commences November 2006 and will have a duration of seven…

Aker Yards has signed a contract with Island Offshore in Ulsteinvik, Norway, to deliver a 4,000 dwt UT 776 CD Platform supply vessel. The total value of the contract is approximately $48.7…

The North Carolina-based EnSolve Biosystems has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) to supply a PetroLiminator Oil Water Separator for treating bilge water from its fleet service craft…

Shipyards of South Korea are set to make all-out efforts to develop offshore facilities in a bid to stay ahead of the field despite hot pursuit from rivals in Japan and China,…

VT Halter Marine landed $500 million in sales of new ships in September and, just as the Island Home ferry is nearly ready to head for its homeport in New England, another…

Astilleros y Servicios Navales S.A. (ASENAV) shipyard at Valdivia in the South of Chile has launched a small cruise ship destined for Chile?s Patagonia area. Named ?Atmosphere?, the new 45m long by…

Chinese yards are going through an unprecedented growth in activity in offshore construction. ABS China Country Manager Wing Kee Ho reports that with the demand for deepwater ships and rigs, the Chinese…

Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has placed orders for 2 cellular container vessels of 4,400 TEU capacity at Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, Korea. The public sector shipping major is also planning to…

INP Heavy Industries in South Korea will construct an outfitting plant in Samjeock city, Gangwondo, South Korea, to meet the huge increase in its newbuilding order book. The shipbuilder said that it…