Month: May 2007

The newly formed Dubai-based shipping company, Eastern Echo is building four ships of the ULSTEIN SX124 design. These will be the first seismic vessels of Ulstein design and will be built with…

Rolls-Royce has won a contract worth approximately £50 million to supply an integrated system of design and equipment for two advanced offshore vessels to be built for Lewek Shipping, a subsidiary of…

Norwegian-based Belships ASA has entered into an agreement whereby the company will purchase building contracts for 5 supramax bulk carriers at about 58.000 dwt at a total cost of about $200 million.…

After the announcement that Acergy?s joint venture Seaway heavy Lifting is to build a new 5,000 tonne crane ship, the Singapore shipbuilder Sembawang Shipyard has also received an order to build a…

Dubai Dry Docks and Shipping Company (DDDSC) is keen on setting up a shipyard in the vicinity of the deep-water port in Kakinada. Two technical teams of the company have already visited…

Samsung Heavy Industries has completed the world?s largest offshore rig to be installed in seas off Russia?s Sakhalin Island. The rig, called ?Piltun B?, is 100 m wide, 105 m long and…

Orient Overseas Container Line (OCCL) has taken its total order for Panamax ships at South Korea?s Samsung up to ten after announcing another addition to the series at a cost of $66.2m.Though…

The UK-based Acergy S.A. announced the placing of an order by Seaway Heavy Lifting Engineering BV in Holland, its long term joint venture, with the Merwede shipyard in the Netherlands to build…