Month: March 2006

Hyundai Samho Shipyard clinched an order for six 318,000 DWT VLCCs from the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) worth $720 million. Two of six are options. Ship particulars are 333m…

DNV has been contracted to class two new VLCCs for Bergesen World-Wide Shipping. The newbuildings will be built at Bohai Shipyard and will the largest tankers ever built in China as well…

Specialist shipbuilder FBMA Marine Inc (FBMA) and naval architects BMT Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Ltd, have announced the signing of a licence agreement allowing FBMA to market…

DML in Devonport, UK, has given advance warning of 90 potential job losses at Appledore shipyard, which it took over from receivership in 2003. Jobs are likely to go progressively from early…

Kjell Inge R?kke of Aker Yards is reportedly interested in buying the former Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, where the Solidarity movement started back in 1980. Although the yard is for sale,…

Pan United Shipyard in Singapore has secured an order from Swire Pacific Offshore to build two UT755L PSVs at a cost of around $15.5 million each. Delivery is slated in the first…

Hyundai Mipo has clinched an order for four product carriers from a Cypriot ship owner at a cost of about $170 million for delivery in November, 2009

The Monaco-based ship management company V.Ships has acquired UMC International PLC. Formed in 1972 as the Under Water Maintenance Company Ltd, UMC International has grown into an international specialist in innovative underwater…

Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) and MacGREGOR are further strengthening their co-operation by signing a memorandum of agreement to establish a joint venture in Vietnam to produce ships? cranes and hatch covers.…