Month: November 2008

Hamworthy has augmented its wider design capabilities with the acquisition of a majority interest in Baltic Design Centre Limited (BDC), an experienced ship design and consultancy business based in Gdynia, Poland. BDC…

Spanish shipyards Freire and Vulcano and state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) finalized a contract to build five vessels for Venezuela. The agreement, amounting to Euro 400 million ($513 million), is…

Pipavav Shipyard Ltd (PSL) in India is currently in the process of executing shipbuilding orders worth $1.2 billion for various ship owners abroad, Debashis Bir, President, Shipbuilding, Pipavav Shipyard, has said. The…

The European Commission has concluded, following four years of investigation, that state aid granted to Gdynia shipyard and Szczecin shipyard gives rise to disproportionate distortions of competition within the Single Market, in…

The Southeast Asian operations of Dubai Drydocks World (DD World), the ship repair, conversion and building subsidiary of Dubai World, has agreed to acquire a 60% stake in a shipyard in China…

BW Bulk UK Co, a sister company of Singapore based BW Group, has ordered four 388,000 DWT very large ore carriers (VLOC) from Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co Ltd in China for…

Transpetro, the transport unit of Petroleo Brasileiro SA, will be able to maintain a 49-tanker fleet expansion program because it has sufficient financing from a government fund and can ignore the world…

The Board of Investments (BOI) has approved a P589,927 million ($12.04 million) project of Keppel Singmarine Philippines Inc. (KSPI) for the production of tugboats and offshore support vessels for export. KSPI said…

Mumbai-based Pipavav Shipyard, India?s newest private sector shipbuilder, may find itself grounded with six 75,000 dwt Panamax bulk carriers after a buyer announced earlier this week that it might go into liquidation.…

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