Month: October 2005

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…

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…

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…

Guangzhou Shipyard snaps up two 38,500DWT product carriers from Pancoast in Greece for delivery in March and July, 2008. They will be built as Boston beam size.Wuchang Shipyard has won three platform…

MOL will be undertaking an aggressive expansion of its tanker fleet, including introduction of the newest double-hull MR-type 1 product tankers. The move is part of MOL?s mid-term management strategy calling for…

Korean shipbuilders and POSCO, South Korea?s largest steel maker, are on a collision course over the price of steel sheets used for building ships with the low-priced Chinese products set to make…

Aker Yards and the German TT-Line have signed a contract for retrofitting of four passenger-car ferries. The retrofit means renewing the vessels fuel systems to be more flexible and conforming to today?s…

With an innovative design study for a 13,000 TEU container ship, Germanischer Lloyd and the Korean yard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) are showing just how big container carriers will be in the…

Scotland will get the lion?s share of the Royal Navy?s new £4 billion aircraft carrier contracts in a decision that will determine the future shape of the British shipbuilding industry and will…

NQEA in Queensland, Australia, has finalised the $7 million sale of its Queensland Marine and Industrial (QMI) to Brisbane-based Viking Industries. NQEA has now sold QMI, trading as Cairns Slipways, as well…