Month: May 2006

Following the earlier announcement that Aker Yards and ALSTOM intend to join forces in shipbuilding, a new company has now been established to which Chantiers de l'Atlantique will transfer its employees, assets…

The Government Office in Vietnam has approved a proposal to establish the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Economic Group (Vinashin Group) by restructuring the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin). The Vinashin Group would become…

The Finnish chartering and operations company Meriaura Oy will add into its fleet a new type of multipurpose deck cargo vessels ordered from the Polish shipyard, Remontowa. The vessels are designed for…

Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway, has entered into contract with Norwegian ship owner REM Maritime for the construction of an advanced Rolls-Royce offshore vessel. The value of the contract is approximately $49…

Dayang Shipbuilding in Yangzhou, China, has won an order for six 53,000 dwt handymax bulk carriers from IRISL in Iran at a cost of $29.5 each. First of six will be delivered…

After three years of planning, the Danish-Vietnamese joint venture Aalborg Industries Vietnam opened a new production plant in the northern port city of Haiphong's An Hong Marine Industrial Zone, one of the…

Sovcomflot, Russia's largest state-owned shipping company, and Admiralteyskiye Verfi (Admiralty Shipyards), the St. Petersburg-based shipyard, have concluded and signed a $350 million deal for the construction of two arctic shuttle oil tankers,…

Volgograd Shipyard, a subsidiary of MNP Group, concluded a contract with the Swedish shipping company Catfish Forvaltning for the construction of two class II chemical tankers under project 4450. The contract includes…

The port of Kakinada, located in south-east India on the Godavari river delta, is planning to establish a privately owned shipyard and an announcement regarding this project is to be made by…

Russia is to sell two 636 Project submarines to Algeria for $400 million. Vladimir Alexandrov, director general of Admiralty Shipyard, said the contract is to be signed in June. The deal was…