Month: May 2006

Singapore-based Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) has secured a contract to build a repeat ultra deepwater semi-submersible drilling platform for A.P. M?ller - M?rsk at a cost of $263 million. This order…

Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard in China clinched a 1,700TEU container ship from Schoeller Holdings Ltd. The new order is the fourth ship ordered from the German ship owner. Price and delivery were not…

The owner of the country's two largest military shipyards has said the government wants to acquire both firms and that state arms trader, Rosoboronexport, was in talks to buy them. The Severnaya…

The Tasmanian shipbuilder Incat has secured a contract to supply a new fast ferry for one of Spain?s largest shipping companies, Acciona Trasmediterr?nea. When delivered in August, the new 98 metre vessel…

Exmar, the Belgian shipping group, is going ahead with the OPTI-EX Floating Production System and is also considering a separate listing of its offshore division. The company has signed a letter of…

South Korean shipbuilder STX is surveying locations in Ninh Hoa District in the Khanh Hoa Province in Vietnam to build a 350-hectare shipyard. The planned shipyard, which is projected to cost $500…

MacGREGOR will supply the Japanese shipbuilder, Shin Kurushima group, with RoRo equipment for 45 newbuildings. MacGREGOR?s new long-term agreement with Shin Kurushima covers design and manufacture of cargo access equipment for car…

With the successful private placement in Nexus Floating Production Ltd., Nexus will issue 13.0 million shares of which 40% will be owned by the Norwegian based APL ASA which has invested $52…

Stocznia Gdanska in Poland would like to see the government agency and its own employees as the new investors of the shipyard by the end of May. Whoever the investors are, the…

A new stealth corvette with special technology for low detectability by radar has been launched in Russia. The Steregushchy corvette is the first in the Project 20380 series designed by the Almaz…