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Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has clinched orders worth 302.3 billion won ($291.6 million) to build seven bulk carriers for a Middle Eastern shipping company. Delivery of the vessels is scheduled by May 2012.

Sealion Shipping Ltd in the UK has, on behalf of Toisa Ltd, placed an order with the ABG Shipyard in India for the construction of three new, large multi-purpose offshore support vessels.…

Thousands of ships plying the world?s oceans are effectively without nationality, enabling their owners to easily evade international laws and regulations says a new report from WWF, the conservation organisation and the…

Aker Yards and the Russian company FLC expects to complete the transaction in which FLC buys 70 % ownership in three yards in Ukraine and Germany in July 2008. The agreement was…

In a major diversification drive, Jindal Saw (JSL), part of the $10-billion OP Jindal Group in India plans to set up the country?s first shipbuilding and repair hub in Gujarat with an…

Hyundai Heavy Industries and two other South Korean shipyards said that they have received orders valued at a combined 2.4 trillion won ($2.32 billion) to build 17 ships. Hyundai won an order…

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has unveiled an energy-saving device that it says will help lower vessels? operational costs with improved speed and reduced fuel consumption. The ?Pre-swirl Stator? was first…

Shares in Aker Yards ASA jumped 15 % in opening trade, leading up a stronger overall market, after South Korea's STX Corporation announced that it is to launch a bid for the…

As Saudi Arabia announced a 200,000 barrel increase in oil production and consumers grapple with record pump prices and fuel shortages, the shipping industry consumes daily 4.37 million barrels of oil unnecessarily,…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) said it will invest 46 billion won ($44 million) in a South Korean shipping venture to buy more oil tankers. The stake in DK Maritime…