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Davie Yards in Canada has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an unspecified Norwegian customer for construction of two 130 metre well intervention vessels. The total contract price for the…

The Italian cruise line Costa Crociere has signed an order with Fincantieri for two new 114,200gt cruise ships to be delivered in 2011 and 2012 at an all-in cost of approximately ??¬1bn…

Rickmers-Linie, the Hamburg-based specialist in the global transportation of break-bulk, heavy-lift and project cargo, has ordered ten new purpose-built multipurpose vessels, which are to be added to its fleet between 2009 and…

Ezra Holdings Ltd.'s wholly-owned Saigon Shipyard Ltd., which is held via Ezra's wholly-owned HCM Logistics Ltd., marked its successful break into the offshore fabrication market with the recent award of a fabrication…

Poland's Gdansk shipyard will be sold to Ukrainian firm Donbass in a $400 million deal to avoid bankruptcy, the head of the yard said. The yard has been under threat since the…

Havila Shipping ASA has through Havila Shipping Pte Ltd in Singapore entered into a contract with Fjellstrand Verft for building of a platform supply vessel (PSV) called Havyard 832 CD. The vessel…

Mumbai-based Dolphin Offshore Enterprises (India) Ltd (Dolphin), which provides offshore and onshore integrated services to the oil and gas industry, is foraying into shipbuilding. It has earmarked an investment of just over…

Mohammad Suri, National Iranian Tanker Company???s (NITC) managing director, said the country would produce over 80 million tons of LNG per annum in the near future and 40 LNG carriers would be…

Bharati Shipyard received an $89 million order from Shippping Corporation of India for the construction of four AHTS vessels for delivery in 2011. Including the latest order, the shipbuilder has now announced…