Month: January 2008

With the Tamil Nadu cabinet clearing the project, Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) will move ahead to set up a Rs3,000 crore new shipyard-cum-port project at Kattupalli in Thiruvallur district of Tamil…

Japanese heavy machinery maker IHI Corp. and steelmaker JFE Holdings Inc. are engaged in talks to merge their shipbuilding operations to create the world's sixth largest shipbuilder. JFE, the world's third-biggest steelmaker,…

Damen Shipyards Group has purchased 49% of the shares of Albwardy Marine Engineering (AME), Dubai, UAE. AME is active in ship repair, shipbuilding, repair of offshore units and diving activities and has…

The first application of the SkySails towing kite propulsion system on a cargo vessel has been undertaken by Beluga Shipping GmbH. The multi-purpose heavy lift vessel was recently christened ?Beluga SkySails? and…

A Yarmouth shipbuilding yard recently launched a 19 metre trawler. The vessel, the ?Amethyst?, slid down the slipway at Richards Dry Dock & Engineering (RDDE) in Great Yarmouth, England, and will soon…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has received an order valued at 433 billion won ($464 million) from an Asian shipping company to build 10 chemical product tankers. The vessels will be delivered by April…

The sixth 2,646 TEU containership built by SembCorp Marine?s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard for Taiwan?s Wan Hai Lines was named ?Wan Hai 317?. The newbuilding is one of the largest and most sophisticated…

Hyproc Shipping Co., Algeria's state- owned shipping company, plans to buy enough tankers to carry half the nation's crude-oil production, Oil Minister Chakib Khelil said. Algeria, Africa's fourth-largest oil producer, owns one…

Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co. has signed a deal to build a $2 billion shipbuilding complex with the Phividec Industrial Authority, the state-run agency tasked to develop industrial sites.…

Mumbai-based Bharati Shipyard is all set to construct a greenfield modern shipyard at Usgaon near the Dabhol port in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district. The new yard would have the capacity to build vessels…