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Norway-based DOF ASA has confirmed the conditional contract to build an MT 6009 Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) at Aker Brattvaag, a company in the Aker Yards Group. The contract is worth approximately…

Holland America Line (HAL) has installed Spurs Marine?s line and net cutter system on both cp propellers of its cruise ship Volendam. This follows a similar installation on the sister vessel Veendam…

NYK has concluded a long-term charter agreement for two 149,600 cubic metre membrane type LNG carriers with Nigeria LNG Limited and a shipbuilding contract for the new gas carriers with Samsung Heavy…

Bharati Shipyard, Mumbai, one of leading private owned shipyards in India, received a repeat order for two 80 tonne bollard pull anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTS) from the Great Eastern Shipping…

Pont-Aven, Brittany Ferries? $180 million flagship, returned to service today, nearly a fortnight after a fault left it stranded in a UK port. The problem arose from a cracked cooling valve resulting…

China Shipping Group is considering buying six to eight VLCCs within the next two years. The state-run company expects to take delivery of the first of its 300,000dwt tankers in November, the…

Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) has awarded a $30 million contract for vessel repairs to be done at the Port Weller Dry Docks in Canada?s Niagara region. The project involves the forebody replacement…

Just over a year after Hudong Heavy Machinery Company (HHM) in Shanghaipresented the first Chinese-built 80 cm bore MC engine, they can now claim the distinction of having the first ME orders…

James Fisher & Sons plc, one of the UK?s leading marine services providers, has launched a new tanker, the Cumbrian Fisher, at the Samho Shipbuilding Company in Korea. The vessel, a clean…

China's largest shipbuilding company, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), opened an office in Hong Kong and is registered as China Shipbuilding and Offshore International (HK) Co. The Hong Kong operation is wholly-owned…

The Kuwaiti Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) finalized a contract with the Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries at a cost of $182 million to build three tankers for delivery in 2006, 2007 and…

NCL Corporation will be the first cruise line to bring passengers on North American cruises the ability to use their cell phones even when communications towers are oceans away. The company is…

Tankers sold for scrap at ship breaking yards fell 40% during the first seven months of the year as surging freight rates prompted owners to keep vessels in service, London-based shipbroker Simpson,…

Radix Marine, a US-based marine vessel development company specializing in port and homeland security and defense initiatives, signed a contract to build two prototype manned vessels with a marine technology company, Advanced…

Construction on a new 300,000dwt dry dock has started at the Yongyue Shipyard at their at Mashidao facility in China. The ship repairer and shipbuilder will complete this dock by the end…

An international labour standard designed to create a new biometric identity verification system for the world's 1.2 million seafarers has received sufficient ratifications to go into force on 9 February 2005, the…

Iran hopes the first ship to be built for the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) at a local shipyard can be launched next year. Despite slow progress in the field…

Aker Kvaerner has signed a letter of intent to perform fabrication, outfitting and testing of seven barges for oil production in the giant Kashagan oilfield in the north Caspian Sea, offshore Kazakhstan.…

Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering (DSME), the world's No.2 shipbuilder, announced that its second-quarter profit rose 12% as gains in sales of newbuildings were bolstered by currency hedges. Net income rose to $78…

Connecticut-based Competitive Technologies (CTT) has signed an agreement with Illinois-based Cutting Edge Technologies (CET) to commercialize and grant licenses for CET's patented ?accelerated steel cutting? (ASC) technology. The ASC technology, with a…

NCL Corporation (NCL) unveiled the itinerary for Pride of America, the second of three US flagged cruise ships that will sail to Hawaii under the NCL America brand. The ship, which earlier…

Malaysia International Shipping Corp (MISC) will increase its fleet of LNG carriers to 28 by 2008 from the present 17 to meet the growing demand for gas deliveries, its chairman Tan Sri…