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ABS has released an enhanced new version of the CSR SafeShip for Tankers software. The new version 6.8 is an upgrade of the previous version 6.63, which shipyards have been using to…

The Singapore government has placed an order with Damen Shipyards Singapore for 10 specially-designed coastal patrol craft worth $85 million which includes the provision of training, spares and other services. The newbuildings…

With the launch earlier this year of BMT SeaTech Ltd?s new touchscreen version of its world-leading hull stress monitoring system, SMART Stress, ship owners are snapping it up. Already, a number of…

Celebrity orders third vessel The cruise operator Celebrity Cruises, an affiliated company of Royal Caribbean Cruises, has ordered a third large cruise vessel from German shipbuilder Meyer Werft in Papenburg. The contract…

GTR Campbell, the designers of standard design ships like Freedom, Fortune, Friendship and Fantasy, in cooperation with their associated concept design firm Algoship Designers in the Bahamas, are behind the latest new…

Aker Yards has signed a contract with the large Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel for delivery of four container/cargo ships for arctic operations, with an option for a fifth newbuilding. This order…

Bohai Shipbuilding in China clinched four 49,000DWT product carriers from Nanjing Changjiang Shipping for delivery during 2010 at a cost of $35 million each. The yard is currently building four similar vessels…

The consortium of Keppel FELS and Technip has completed the offshore mating of the 25,000-tonne topside and the 4,500-tonne spider deck with hull structure, weighing 17,500 tonnes, for one of the world?s…

SembCorp Marine Ltd in Singapore has signed two conditional sale and purchase agreements comprising the acquisitions of SemBeth and SMOE for S$183.73 million to expand and grow its rig building and offshore…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering will start building a factory in China next week to produce blocks for ships. The plant, located in the Chinese northeastern port city of Yantai in Shandong…