Month: October 2005

Hanjin Shipping will construct ship repair joint venture in China. The shipping company said that it will invest $ 2 million to secure 50% share of the joint venture. An unknown shipping…

MAN B&W Diesel is to supply complete twin-screw medium speed propulsion packages for six 120 tonne bollard pull Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessels (AHTS). The vessels will be built at the Batam,…

Norway's Eidesvik Offshore ASA group has ordered a second Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) of Vik Sandvik's innovative, superstructure aft AVANT design at a cost of $48.6 million. The new VS493 GASS AVANT…

Talks have started that could bring an end to a dispute that is halting ship repair work at the former Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead. The owner of the site, Reddington Finance,…

STX Group will actively enter into the shipping and shipbuilding market in India. Kang Deuk Soo, chairman of STX Group, had a meeting with Thalikottai Rajuthevar Baalu, minister of Maritime Transport Ministry…

Farstad Supply AS, a wholly owned company of Farstad Shipping ASA, has signed a contract with Aker Langsten AS, Tomrefjord, in Norway, for delivery of an anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS)…

Daewoo Shipbuilding has developed a new scaffolding system for LNG tanks. The ever increasing orderbook for LNG carriers had led the shipbuilder to develop the new scaffolding for which a patent has…

Aker Yards has signed a contract with Island Offshore VI K/S, a company within the Island Offshore Group in Ulsteinvik, Norway, to deliver a UT 776 E platform supply vessel. The value…

Singapore-based SembCorp Marine has secured a $144 million rig building contract from Norway's Awilco Offshore ASA. Under the deal, PPL Shipyard will construct a deep drilling offshore jack-up rig. Construction of the…

Delivery of the new vessel ?Maria Dolores?, under construction at Austal Ships for Virtu Ferries in Malta, has been delayed until January 2006. Originally due for delivery in the middle of this…