Month: January 2009

Sri Lanka is trying to enhance its ship building capacity with the government inviting foreign investors to set up a ship yard at a new port being built in the south of…

The Mumbai-based Great Eastern Shipping Corporation (GE Shipping) announced that it has cancelled orders for the construction of two Supramax bulk carriers. The 57,000 dwt vessels had been on order with an…

The main creditor of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) threatened to scrap a deal to sell the shipyard to Hanwha Group unless the conglomerate sticks to the 30 January deadline to…

Alnmaritec, the specialist aluminium boat builder based in Alnwick, Northumberland, UK, recently announced the successful launch of one of the largest boats it has built in recent years.The ?Aaryan? has been built…

Chipolbrok, the Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company, has decided to invest another RMB2.3 billion ($340 million) in six heavy lift ships. The company will also re-instate a total of seven other ships…

STX Shipbuilding plans to challenge the top tier of global ship builders by using Dassault Syst?mes? ENOVIA PLM solution to deploy its process innovation (PI) project, across all three of its production…

Keppel FELS Limited and Scorpion Offshore have agreed to terminate the $405 million rig contract on mutually acceptable terms. Scorpion Offshore is working closely with Keppel FELS in the latter?s exploratory discussions…

The US-based Tricon Marine, a high-quality builder of FRP/Composite luxury yachts up to 55 metres long, has completed construction of China's first and only North American-owned and operated shipyard. Yachts currently under…

STX Europe has signed contracts for modernising a cruise vessel for Carnival Cruise Lines and two tankers for Neste Shipping.MS Sensation of CCL will get 98 additional passenger cabin balconies as well…

Singapore Technologies Engineering's (STE) marine unit, ST Marine, sealed a $30 million design, construction and outfitting contract to build a 68-metre seismic survey vessel for Swire Pacific subsidiary Swire Pacific Offshore Operations…