Month: May 2008

Wärtsilä Corporation of Finland and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd of Japan have signed a joint development agreement to design and develop new small, low-speed marine diesel engines of less than 450 mm…

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), the state controlled oil producer in Brasil, plans to order 40 drilling ships and platforms worth about $30 billion for delivery by 2017. The deep-water drilling ships and…

The South Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries has started running sea trials for the first-ever ship built at its $1.6 billion Subic shipyard in Indonesia. Hanjin, whose projects in Subic and Misamis…

Norwegian offshore operator DOF ASA has awarded Tebma Shipyards Limited in India a contract for the construction of a new multi-purpose service vessel (MPSV). The NOK250m vessel will be of the design…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., a unit of Hyundai Heavy Industries, has won orders worth a combined 330.7 billion won ($316.6 million) to build eight bulk carriers. Under the contract signed with Asian…

Ulstein Design AS in Norway has agreed with Guangdong Machinery Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd (GMG) to provide design services for 12 vessels of ULSTEIN A801 type. Ulstein Design has sold 60…

The contract on sale of the Adriatic Shipyard in Montenegro could be signed by the end of the month upon completion of the second round of negotiations with the Swiss company Avangard…

Davie Yards Inc. in Canada said that the former Davie Shipbuilding complex it took over in Lévis early last year now boasts a complement of 900 and the workforce will rise further…

A tripartite agreement has been signed between a Bangladeshi firm and two Danish firms to provide necessary training to Bangladeshi workforce in shipbuilding sector. Officials of the Bangladesh shipbuilder Western Marine Shipyard…