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Ferguson Marine, the Port Glasgow-based shipbuilder, which last week lost out to a Polish yard in a multi-million pound Scottish Executive shipbuilding deal, reported that the latest accounts for the parent company…

Two workers were killed and another 12 injured as a result of an incident at Damen's Okean Shipyard in Nikolaev, Ukraine. The incident occurred on one of the vessels under construction when…

Russia?s Federal Agency for Industry plans to unite all shipyards that build surface navy ships and submarines into two holdings thereby putting state interests above that of the shipyards? private shareholders, Izvestia…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea reported that it earned $900 million in turnover for the first half this year compared with 658 million for the same period last year. Its operating…

UltraStrip Systems Inc., the developer of high production, environmentally friendly robotic ship-hull cleaning equipment, has agreed to a five-year agreement with Tecor-Tecnologia Anticorrosao SA to be the exclusive ultra high pressure water…

Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd (GE Shipping) in Mumbai, India, has taken delivery of a new platform supply vessel (PSV), named ?'Malaviya Twenty Four?' from the Indian shipbuilder, Bharati Shipyard. The vessel…

NACKS, the Chinese shipbuilder, recently won approval from the government on the construction of a 500,000DWT dry dock and work is scheduled to start in the autumn on this $247 million project.…

Saigon Shipbuilding Industry Company, a subsidiary of the country?s state-owned shipbuilder Vinashin, has launched a 6,500 DWT dry cargo vessel for as local shipping comapny. Named ?Saigon Queen?, this newbuilding is claimed…

A six-month breathing space has been agreed to secure the future of ship repair work at the former Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead. Site owner Reddington Finance has awarded a licence for…

Fincantieri and Tallink have reached an agreement to build two new generation, high performance, ice-class cruise ferries, one of which is an option. They will be very similar to the two ferries…