Month: April 2009

Turkey's Besiktas Group has secured a deal worth ?60m ($80.5m) to take over an order to construct four LNG tankers. Liquid gas and chemical carrier specialist Gas and Heat, based in Livorno,…

Hyundai Heavy Industries has completed work on the world?s first dedicated dry dock for FPSO vessels. The new "H dock" is the single largest dry dock in the world at 490m long,…

Pt Bank Negara Indonesia has agreed to provide additional loan of $25.6 million for state shipbuilding company Pt PAL Indonesia to fund the building of four tankers on orders from Turkey and…

Marine Design and Research Institute of China is planning to build a Q-Flex LNG tanker with a capacity of about 215,000m3 said Zhu Jianzhang, a marketing official with the state research unit.…

Hyundai-Vinashin Shipyard in Vietnam, a joint venture between Hyundai Mipo Dockyard of South Korea and Vietnam's state-owned shipbuilding group Vinashin, has launched its first bulk carrier. The joint stock company floated a…

Austal will build its largest catamaran to date following an order from Denmark?s Nordic Ferry Services for the design and construction of a 113m high speed vehicle-passenger ferry. This order, which was…

Officials of Taiwan's leading shipbuilder, the state-run CSBC Corp., said recently that, despite a last-minute decision by the Israeli shipping company ZIM to cancel an order for six container ships worth $220.4…

Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) said it will place orders for 10 ships in this financial year. Last year, the company had postponed the purchase of eight new vessels owing to global…

China State Shipbuilding Co Ltd (CSSC), one of the largest shipbuilders in the country, said that its net profit in 2008 increased by 48.6% year-on-year to 4.16 billion yuan. The company's revenue…

The IMO has bowed to pressure to adopt climate-friendly ways in its recycling sub-sector. From next month, it is set to come up with new regulations for ship recyclers. Activists have piled…