Month: December 2007

The U.S. Navy plans to contribute up to $33 million to an Austal USA modular shipbuilding facility whose price tag could reach $200 million, Austal Ltd. said in a news release issued…

STX Shipbuilding in Korea has secured a $200 million order from the Middle East to build four bulk carriers. The ships would be delivered by 15 June, 2011.

WWL's owners Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA of Norway and Wallenius Lines of Sweden have ordered four of the world's largest ro-ro vessels from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' (MHI) Nagasaki yard in Japan for delivery…

Samsung Heavy Industries has won an 851.3 billion won ($905.4 million) order for four LNG carriers. The order came from an unidentified company in the Americas and the ships will be delivered…

Kolkata-based Apeejay Shipping, (APJ Shipping), part of the Apeejay Surrendra group, has placed orders for three dry bulk carriers of 57,000 DWT from Cosco shipyard group of China at a total cost…

Dubai-based logistics and shipping firm Transworld has awarded a Dh293.6 million ($80 million) shipbuilding contract to China's Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard for two feeder container vessels. The order is in line with Transworld's…

Rolls-Royce has won £72 million of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract from Germany's Nordcapital Group, taking the total order value to £155 million. The company said it will…

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding based in Jiangyin, China, has signed a preliminary contract with Cosco Container Lines to build 20 vessels worth $1.36 billion. The ships are expected to be delivered between August 2011…

Aker Yards Germany in Wismar and Rostock-Warnemünde delivered the fourth container vessel in a series of five of the newly developed type Aker CS 2100 container ships for Conti Reederei in Munich.…

The Baku-based shipbuilder Krasnoye Sormovo, part of the MNP Group, has won another contract from Palnali Shipping Company for five IMO2 tankers of "New Armada" type of RST22 project with high "ECO…