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Singapore-based Keppel Shipyard Limited has secured contracts worth over S$215 million ($152 million) for the conversion of tankers to floating, production, storage and offloading units.These include the conversions of a tanker for…

The Qatar shipping company Nakilat has awarded a major contract to Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Company Limited and Hyundai Corporation (acting collectively as the contractor) for ten jib cranes. The contract, which…

Singapore-based ASL Marine Holdings Ltd. posted 23.7% increase in revenue to S$193.4 million ($136.7 million) on the back of higher value shipbuilding projects and increase in ship repairing and conversion jobs during…

As of the end of December 2007, Chinese shipbuilders? orders-in-hand had totaled 158.89 million dwt, rising by 131% year-on-year, according to statistics released by the Shipping Industry Administrative Office of the Commission…

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has won a deal valued at 794 billion won ($843 million) to build six container ships. The deal with a European shipping company calls on HHI to deliver…

Italian shipping company Rizzo-Bottiglieri-De Carlini Armatori SpA (RBD) signed a $180 million contract with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard for two 177,000 dwt Capesize bulk carriers. "These will be the largest ships in our…

The Netherlands-based maritime services company Smit has awarded Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine a contract to build three aluminium hulled crew/pilot boats for use in its Middle East operations.Strategic Marine chairman, Mark Newbold,…

General Dynamics NASSCO, a unit of defense contractor General Dynamics Corp, said it was awarded a $460 million contract to build a tenth T-AKE dry cargo ammunition ship and buy materials for…

The world's first commercial ship powered in part by a giant kite is recording fuel savings of between 10 and 15 % midway into its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, according to…

MGC Chartering Limited has placed an order with Australian high-speed catamaran builder Incat in Tasmania for Incat?s third state-of-the-art 112 metre wave piercing catamaran due for delivery in February 2009.Incat hull 066,…