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Hyundai Heavy Industries has started to use its new shipbuilding block factory in Ulsan, which will supply 86,000 tonnes of blocks for ships this year. The 347,500 m2 plant is equipped to…

The British Columbia government in Canada has approved funding for three replacement ferries on its north coast routes. This announcement was made on the same day Premier Gordon Campbell flew up to…

The Mumbai based Great Eastern Shipping Company (GE) recently took delivery of a newly built OSV named Malaviya Twenty Five from the Indian shipbuilder Bharati Shipyard Ltd.Bharati Shipyard has also won an…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has delivered the first three vessels built at its Romanian shipyard Daewoo Mangalia. These 69,180 dwt crude oil tankers are the largest-ever built in the Black…

BAE Systems and VT, the UK defence and civil contracting groups, are considering a joint bid for the Rosyth dockyard owned by Babcock, the support services and shipbuilding group, in a move…

Daesun Shipbuilding in South Korea wins an order for four chemical tankers from an Asian ship owner. Total contract price is $139 million for delivery by June 2009.

Garware Offshore Services based in Mumbai, India, plans to acquire two anchor handling towing-cum-supply vessels (AHTSs) and one platform supply vessel (PSV) for an estimated cost of $55 million. This will increase…

Frontier Drilling USA in Houston has engaged Aker Arctic of Helsinki, Finland, to proceed with the initial design and conceptual development of the modification work for their turret moored drillship ?Frontier Discoverer?.…

Maersk Supply Service signed a contract for eight new 11,242kW VS 472 anchor handling and supply (AHTS) vessels from AKER Yards AS in Norway. The vessels are of Vik & Sandvik design…

India`s Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals has placed an order with South Korea`s Hyundai Heavy Industries for two Afamax tankers. One vessel is expected to be delivered in the last quarter of 2008…

Germanischer Lloyd has just published the new "IMO Pilot 2006" with an overview on the current legislation of the IMO is now available. New additions include the requirement to fit water level…

Hyundai Samho Shipbuilding in South Korea clinched two more VLCCs from NSCSA in Saudi Arabia. The 318,000DWT tankers will be delivered by 2009 at a total price of around $240 million.

Bohai Shipbuilding in China won an order for two 300,000DWT VLCCs and eight 50,000DWT product carriers from Nanjing Tanker Corporation at a total cost of around $500 million. No delivery date has…

The world's largest container ship, a 9,500 TEU post-Panamax vessel classed by Germanischer Lloyd, has been christened ?COSCO NINGBO?. The 350 m long, 42.8 m wide 109,149 DWT ship was built by…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea won an order for six 46,000DWT product carriers from the Norwegian shipping company Westfal-Larsen at a total contract price of $300 million. They will be delivered…

After successful trials on HMS Marlborough in 2005, QinetiQ's Onboard Risk Performance Hazard Evaluation system (ORPHEUS) is now undergoing year-long trials on three Royal Navy Type 23 frigates - HMS Northumberland, HMS…

MIROS, the Norwegian supplier of sensor-based met-ocean systems for the offshore industry in Norway, has won an agreement to supply five of its marine x-band radar-based oil spill detection systems to the…

The fifth South Korean built 4,200 ton class destroyer was recently launched at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). This is part of a six-ship series all being built at DSME since…

Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taiwan, which operates Asia?s largest container shipping line, plans to order at least 20 container ships in the next 10 years to replace existing vessels.The boom in transporting…

Cunard?s Queen Mary 2 will be dry-docking at Blohm + Voss Repair yard in Hamburg on 6 May for routine maintenance work and to remove one of its four podded propulsors which…

Norwegian ferry company NorFerries plans to order three new high-speed cargo vessels to operate on freight routes between Norway, France, Spain and Britain. According to NorFerries chairman, Sigurd Steen, the company plans…

Deep Sea Supply ASA (DESS) in Norway has today entered into an agreement to acquire 22 shipbuilding contracts for a total consideration of $394 million from Hemen Holding Ltd. (`Hemen), a company…

Radio Holland Group B.V. (RHG) has announced that Imtech N.V. intends to acquire its shares. The acquisition will almost double the revenues of Imtech in the maritime market and place it in…