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Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M) has secured contracts worth a total of $132 million to carry out the conversion of two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facilities and the…

Daewoo Shipbuilding has announced its ?2011 Medium Term Strategy? which aims to earn $15.6 billion in turnover by 2011. To achieve the goal, DSME will build 75 commercial ships from shipyards in…

The Gdansk shipyard in Poland wants to acquire part of the assets of its former owner to compensate its debts. This, however, may deter potential investors for Stocznia Gdynia shipyard. The first…

With oil exploration and production on the increase, Indian shipbuilder ABG Shipyard is planning to foray into offshore jack-up rig manufacturing. The company is setting up a facility for the production of…

The state-owned Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) will seal a deal later this month to r acquire six ships at an estimated total cost of over $1 billion. Sources close to development…

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) and the government of the Fengxian District of the Municipality of Shanghai have signed an outline agreement to establish the country?s largest yacht building facility, in the…

Two shipyards of international standards are being planned in India and, when completed, they will have the capability to build vessels in excess of 300,000 dwt. At a cost of $656 million…

Japanese multimodal shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has planned major investment in Vietnam?s port and shipping industry with the focus on major services such as port logistics, shipping, marine human resource training…

Intertanko, the association of independent tanker owners and operators ofoil and chemical tankers, is planning to propose that the world's shippingindustry switch from residual fuel to distillate fuel to further reduceseaborne air…

Amendments to MARPOL Annex II and the International Bulk Chemicals (IBC) Code1 come into force on 1 January 2007. The requirements are applicable, to varying extents, to all new and existing ships…