Month: June 2009

General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Dynamics, has laid the keel of the fourth ship of its State-class product carriers. The ship will be named Empire State.NASSCO began constructing the…

The Midi consortium is expected to be named the preferred bidder for the Manoel Island Yacht Yard according to The Malta Business Weekly. This particular business unit of the Malta Shipyards is…

Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark has delivered the first of six ro-ros for the British investment company Epic Shipping of London. The ship, hull no 217, sails under the name of the…

Two platform supply vessels for Hellespont Group, under construction at the Cochin Shipyard in India, were christened recently. The ships, BY-66 and BY-67 were christened as "Hellespont Defiance" and "Hellespont Drive" respectively.…

State-run Shipping Corp. of India Ltd (SCI), India?s biggest shipping firm, has placed orders for two anchor handling tug cum supply vessels worth about $35 million with Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL), the…

Austal has officially unveiled its new 102m trimaran vehicle-passenger ferry platform, which is currently under construction at its Western Australian shipyard and available for purchase.The new 102m long, 26.8m wide trimaran is…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) has won a $45 million order to build a small-sized barge ship, its first shipbuilding order of the year. The deal with a Dutch company…

Bergen Group BMV, a subsidiary of Norway's Bergen Group has signed a NOK 2.7 billion ($435.3 million) contract to deliver two advanced pelagic trawlers and research vessels to Aqueda Shipping Limited and…

Brazil is pressing cash-strapped Korean shipbuilders to hand over their core technologies in return for orders. With work hard to come by, they are willing to oblige and Samsung Heavy Industries has…

The ?Monte Aconcagua?, the last of a series of ten of Hamburg Sud's 5,552TEU Monte-class containerships was recently christened in Hong Kong. Following the naming ceremony, the newbuilding was phased into the…