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More details have now been received regarding the sale of IZAR. Spain's government has now agreed to sell three shipyards to local shipbuilders as part of the privatization of troubled shipbuilding company…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Work is underway on the Lautoka waterfront in Fiji for a new development project for Fiji Ports Corporation (FPCL) that is expected to put Fiji on the world port map.The first phase…

DNV Software is to supply the China Classification Society (CCS) with Nauticus software. Amongst a range of mutual exchanges between the two classification societies, the recent purchase of the Nauticus software is…

Transpetro, the transport arm of Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras, has awarded the Atl?ntico Sul consortium a contract to build 10 Suezmax tankers for $120.9 million each. Atl?ntico Sul is made up…

Leading fuel testing agency Lintec Testing Services has urged shipowners to act, but not panic, should their fuel tests marginally exceed the 1.5% sulphur limit imposed within the MARPOL Annex VI Sulphur…

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) taken delivery of the 140,000 cbm Moss type LNG carrier "Arctic Voyager", constructed at Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation?s Sakaide Shipyard in Japan. This second vessel for Sn?hvit…

The Italian LPG tanker company, FVH SpA in Brindisi, would like to acquire the Stocznia Gdanska shipyard in Poland and plans to carry out due diligence and submit its offer."Italian FVH has…

Matson Navigation took delivery of the ?Maunalei?, the fourth and last of its Independence Class CV2500 containerships from Aker Philadelphia shipyard. Oakland-based Matson is owned by Honolulu-based Alexander & Baldwin Inc. and…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea has clinched six LPG carriers from two European ship owners. Total contract price is about $340 million for the 20,600 cbm LPG carriers which will be…

Rami Ungar, the owner of Ray Car Carriers in Israel, has submitted an offer to buy Stocznia Gdanska shipyard which is looking for a private investor. The yard is trying to become…