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Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Australia's second-largest oil and gas producer, plans to order as many as 18 LNG tankers to supply gas to markets including the USA. Woodside, 34% owned by Royal Dutch…

Aker Yards ASA reported an EBITDA of NOK 357 million for the first quarter of 2006, an increase of 125% compared with the first quarter of 2005. The order intake in the…

Seaarland Shipping Management in Austria has ordered two 114,000DWT tankers from the New Century shipyard in China for delivery during 2008. Ship price per unit is $58.5 million.

Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway, has signed a new contract with Rem Maritime of Fosnavåg, Norway, for the building of two new, sophisticated offshore vessels.The vessels are both Multi Purpose Subsea Operation…

Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries in Belfast has secured major contracts for manufacturing and upgrading work on two oil rigs, Blackford Dolphin and Bredford Dolphin. Both rigs are owned by the Norwegian…

Malaysia?s biggest shipping group, MISC Bhd, has ordered four chemical tankers from South Korea's STX Shipbuilding for delivery in 2009. Although MISC gave no value for the orders, STX said on April…

IHC Holland Merwede BV announced that its subsidiary Merwede Shipyard received the contract for the design and construction of a new Diving Support / Offshore Construction vessel for Bermuda based Toisa Limited.…

Meyer Werft in Germany has delivered the 93,558 gt cruise ship ?Pride of Hawaii? to the operator NCL America (USA). The delivery was postponed, because the yard changed the bearings of the…

The Croatian Privatisation Fund has opened submitted offers for the selection of a consultancy firm to advise the Croatian Government on the development of a national program for restructuring the country?s shipbuilding…

Malaysian Bulk Carriers Bhd (MBC) expects the first of its four new medium-range product tankers to be delivered next month, with the remaining three to be delivered in 2007. With the delivery…

Finland delivers Tallink ferryThe 48,300 gt cruise ferry 'Galaxy' was delivered yesterday by the Aker Yards? Rauma shipyard to the Estonian ferry operator Tallink. The contract worth $204 million was signed in…

Fincantieri?s Muggiano shipyard witnessed the christening of the fast ferry Gotlandia II, ordered in June 2004 by the Swedish owner Rederi A.B. Gotland for its ?Destination Gotland? subsidiary. The ship, which was…

Daewoo Shipbuilding has completed the construction of a 3,600 tonne lifting capacity floating crane for its own use. This facility will enable the Korean shipbuilder to erect very large sized blocks of…

ABG Shipyard in Mumbai, India, plans to raise up to $100 million to expand its ship-building capacity to match rising demand. The company is already building its second shipyard at Dahej with…

MAN B&W Diesel has received a contract to supply slow speed diesel engines for the six 265,000 m3 Q-max LNG carriers ordered by Qatargas II from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in…

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, ("K" Line), has placed orders for three new double-hulled VLCCs with Japanese shipyards. Kawasaki Shipbuilding will build one unit for delivery 2nd quarter 2009 while IHI Marine United will…

The Teheran-based National Iranian Tanker Co (NITC) aims to become a global player in energy transportation and could order at least 30 LNG carriers by the end of the year. NITC will…

Singapore's Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering has secured a newbuilding order from the French cement company LaFarge worth 34.5 for the construction of a 30,000 DWT self discharging cement carrier scheduled to be…

The arctic container vessel Norilskiy Nickel was recently delivered to MMC Norilsk Nickel in Russia by Aker Yards in Helsinki. The newbuilding is intended for service on the northern sea route and…

The Varna-based MTG Dolphin Shiprepair Yard in Bulgaria will construct a ship-building facility on 4.7 ha of land adjacent to its current shiprepair site. The ship-building yard, due for completion in August,…

Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group (SNTG), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Stolt Nielsen, has entered a strategic partnership with Gulf Navigation of Dubai, UAE. Under the terms of the partnership, Gulf Navigation will acquire two…

Rodriquez Cantieri Navali (RCN) in Italy signed a contract for the supply of five catamarans for the Sultanate of Oman. RCN will build five fast ferries at its yard in Messina and…

Though the deals are yet to be signed, Daewoo, Samsung and Hyundai are about to win orders for three, four and four LNG carriers respectively from the Qatar Gas II project next…