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Maersk Supply Service signed a contract for eight new 11,242kW VS 472 anchor handling and supply (AHTS) vessels from AKER Yards AS in Norway. The vessels are of Vik & Sandvik design…

India`s Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals has placed an order with South Korea`s Hyundai Heavy Industries for two Afamax tankers. One vessel is expected to be delivered in the last quarter of 2008…

Germanischer Lloyd has just published the new "IMO Pilot 2006" with an overview on the current legislation of the IMO is now available. New additions include the requirement to fit water level…

Hyundai Samho Shipbuilding in South Korea clinched two more VLCCs from NSCSA in Saudi Arabia. The 318,000DWT tankers will be delivered by 2009 at a total price of around $240 million.

Bohai Shipbuilding in China won an order for two 300,000DWT VLCCs and eight 50,000DWT product carriers from Nanjing Tanker Corporation at a total cost of around $500 million. No delivery date has…

The world's largest container ship, a 9,500 TEU post-Panamax vessel classed by Germanischer Lloyd, has been christened ?COSCO NINGBO?. The 350 m long, 42.8 m wide 109,149 DWT ship was built by…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea won an order for six 46,000DWT product carriers from the Norwegian shipping company Westfal-Larsen at a total contract price of $300 million. They will be delivered…

After successful trials on HMS Marlborough in 2005, QinetiQ's Onboard Risk Performance Hazard Evaluation system (ORPHEUS) is now undergoing year-long trials on three Royal Navy Type 23 frigates - HMS Northumberland, HMS…

MIROS, the Norwegian supplier of sensor-based met-ocean systems for the offshore industry in Norway, has won an agreement to supply five of its marine x-band radar-based oil spill detection systems to the…

Deep Sea Supply ASA (DESS) in Norway has today entered into an agreement to acquire 22 shipbuilding contracts for a total consideration of $394 million from Hemen Holding Ltd. (`Hemen), a company…

Radio Holland Group B.V. (RHG) has announced that Imtech N.V. intends to acquire its shares. The acquisition will almost double the revenues of Imtech in the maritime market and place it in…

Korea Line has ordered a 105,500DWT tanker from an unspecified shipbuilder outside South Korea. Contract price is $60 million with delivery during first half of 2008. This is the first time this…

Aker Yards has entered into a contract with DOF ASA, through its subsidiary DOFCON ASA, for the building of two large construction vessels, with an option for two sister vessels. The value…

Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS) in Norway has signed an agreement to build a new third generation Ramform vessel at Aker Yards, Langsten. The agreement is subject to satisfactory completion of a final…

Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding in China has completed the construction of its first ship since its establishment. The shipbuilder finalized sea trial of a 6,000DWT multi-purpose ship ?Finnland? ordered from Navalis. Ship particulars…

Hyundai Heavy Industries has completed another ship block factory in Ulsan at a cost of $186 million and will have an output of 110,000 tonnes per year.

A delegation from Kuwait Oil Tankers Company (KOTC) will visit China and Japan to evaluate companies that could qualify to build six new tankers for the company. The company plans to build…

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has signed a letter of intent with Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd. (QGT) to jointly develop and manage a major new facility in the Port…

The Broström fleet will expand by a further six 17,000 DWT product and chemical tankers to be built in Turkey under an extended co-operation with the partner Dünya Shipping in Istanbul. The…

The fifth South Korean built 4,200 ton class destroyer was recently launched at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). This is part of a six-ship series all being built at DSME since…

Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taiwan, which operates Asia?s largest container shipping line, plans to order at least 20 container ships in the next 10 years to replace existing vessels.The boom in transporting…

Cunard?s Queen Mary 2 will be dry-docking at Blohm + Voss Repair yard in Hamburg on 6 May for routine maintenance work and to remove one of its four podded propulsors which…

Norwegian ferry company NorFerries plans to order three new high-speed cargo vessels to operate on freight routes between Norway, France, Spain and Britain. According to NorFerries chairman, Sigurd Steen, the company plans…