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A new 2,500-tonne floating dry dock will be built by the Chinese shipbuilder Penglai Bohai Ship Co for the Ketchikan Shipyard, in Alaska, at a cost of $9.2 million for delivery in…

Grindrod?s ship owning arm, Unicorn Shipping, has placed shipbuilding orders for two high-specification bunkering barges and secured options for more from a southern China shipyard.This had been done in response to the…

Wärtsilä has acquired the German service company INTEC Injectortechnic GmbH from the four persons owning and managing the company. The Hamburg-based company is specialized in fuel injection equipment, providing installation and services…

Wärtsilä Corporation has introduced a new compact, high-performance waterjet that is optimized for fast vessels. The new Wärtsilä LJX waterjet offers, in comparison with other waterjets available today, a 25% reduction in…

China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC), one of the nation's two state-run shipbuilding groups, plans to triple its turnover by 2015 when it expands its building capacity to meet rising global demand. The…

Esnaad, a wholly owned subsidiary of Adnoc in Abu Dhabi, has become the first Middle East based ship owner to order a vessel of UT-Design from Rolls-Royce. The contract covers the supply…

Two German shipping companies, Aquarius Marine Consulting GmbH & Co. KG (AMC) and TB Marine-Hamburg GmbH have ordered a class of four chemical tankers from the Chinese shipbuilder Liaoning Hongguan Shipbuilding. With…

Concordia Maritime took delivery of 62,500 dwt Stena Performance, the fourth vessel in the P-MAX series of total eight vessels. The vessel is on charter for five years to the American oil…

Amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) enter into force on 1 July 2006, including amendments…

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) has launched the "JP GUNJO," an 88,000 DWT-type special coal carrier at Marugame Shipyard of Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Japan. Vessel?s specifications are length 229.93 m,…

ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems ? a company of ThyssenKrupp Technologies ? has got an order to build two 3,400 TEU container ships. These compact vessels will be built at the company?s yard Nordseewerke…

The Meyer Werft shipyard of Papenburg, Germany, has received from the Republic of Indonesia an order for one more passenger vessel thus continuing a series of 23 ships the last of which…

Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries (DMHI) shipyard, the biggest shipyard in Romania, last year recorded losses worth 18.5 million euros despite a 46% increase in its turnover. DMHI slipped into the red mainly…

South Korea's top three shipyards are likely to win higher-than-expected orders worth at least $30 billion this year on strong sales in the first half of the year, industry sources said. The…

As the USA proceeds with its littoral combat ship program, other nations are building less versatile and less expensive craft for littoral warfare and patrol roles. In addition to Sweden's Visby class…

Daewoo Shipbuilding clinched four large post-Panamax container ships from a ship owner in Panama. Total contract price is $530 million and delivery will be completed by April 2010.

The Faroese fishing company Hvalnes hf, which operates the pelagic vessels ?Christian ? Grótinum? and ?Nordborg?, has signed a contract for the largest and most expensive addition to the Faroese pelagic fleet…

Herning Shipping in Denmark has ordered two 11.000 dwt IMO product / chemical carriers at Nantong Mingde shipyard in China for delivery in 2008. The vessels will be ice class 1A and…

The new factory for Wärtsilä Auxpac marine generating sets in China was inaugurated today by Wärtsilä Qiyao Diesel Company Ltd (Shanghai), the joint venture between Wärtsilä Corporation and the Shanghai Marine Diesel…

If the Halifax lead team is selected to design and build joint supply vessels for the Canadian navy, it would mean sustained work for team members, an Irving spokeswoman said Monday. This…

Nepline Bhd in Selangor, Malaysia, is actively sourcing for suitable double-hulled tankers for acquisition in order to improve its revenue. The company?s overseas subsidiary, Nepline (Singapore) Pte, has sealed a $12 million…

Lockheed Martin has won a $198 million contract to build the third Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) for the U.S. Navy, the second LCS to be built by the Bethesda, Maryland-based firm. Virginia-based…

China Cosco Holdings Co, owner of China's second-largest container shipping line, has placed a $516.8 million order for eight new 5,100 teu container carriers. The shipbuilder is Jiangnan Shipyard, a unit of…