Month: March 2007

Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries won a new order of four 171,000DWT bulk carriers from Anangel Shipping for delivery in 2009 and 2010. The new order includes an option for two more units.Hudong…

Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries has clinched an order two 10,000TEU container ships from ZIM. The new vessels will be delivered in January and February 2010. The order also attaches one more option.…

Wärtsilä Corporation today inaugurated the first phase of a new reconditioning workshop in Shanghai, China. It will provide high-quality reconditioning services to owners and operators of marine engines, gearboxes,controllable-pitch propellers, thrusters and…

AP Moller Maersk is in the process of selling German shipyard Volkswerft Stralsund, which is owned by its subsidiary Lindo. According to Borsen, Lindo's chief executive Finn Buus Nielsen said it is…

BAE has launched a takeover bid for Devonport Management Ltd (DML) in the UK-based Devonport dockyard where the Royal Navy?s nuclear-powered submarines are refitted in programmes worth hundreds of millions of pounds.BAE…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea has won a new order for four product carriers at a price of W 181.2 billion. They will be delivered by February 2011.

The European Commission said it approved the proposed acquisition of joint control by French defence equipment supplier and naval prime contractor Thales, together with the French state, of French state-owned military shipyard…

Guangzhou Shipyard International in China secured a contract for two 50,500DWT product carriers from Motia in Italy. Ship particulars are 183.2m in length, 32.2m in breadth and 18.2m in depth with a…