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Two Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) and one multi-functional Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) will each be equipped with two Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP). The three vessels are owned by the Norwegian shipowner ?stensj?…

RasGas Company (RasGas), the leading player in Qatar?s energy sector, has named another long-term charter LNG tanker into its growing LNG carrier fleet. In doing so, RasGas took another major step towards…

Rosoboronexport signed a contract with Vietnam for the delivery of two Project 11661 "Gepard" corvettes, developed by the Zelenodolsk Design Bureau, and the "Bastion" antiship coastal missile system. According to journalistic sources,…

RMK Marine shipyard in Tuzla, Turkey, signed a $325 million contract to build four military search and rescue vessels for the Turkish Coast Guard. The shipyard will become Ko? Holding's third arm…

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, has delivered ?Iyanough?, a new 393 passenger, high-speed ferry, to the Woods Hole, Martha?s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority in Massachusetts. The all-aluminium catamaran, designed by Incat-Crowther in…

Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras will restart a tender to build the P-55 semi-submersible platform. According to a company spokesperson, prices offered in bidding were too high. Brazilian-Singapore shipyard Keppel-Fels offered the…

Damen signed a shipbuilding contract with ferry operator Istanbul Deniz Otobusleri (IDO) of Turkey, for construction and delivery of 2 double-ended car ferries of the Damen Fast RoPax (DFR) 8521 design. The…

Another gap in the effective search and rescue coverage along the coast of Africa and out into the Indian and Atlantic Oceans has been filled with the inauguration of a new Maritime…

Although Korea's shipbuilding industry is still outpacing its foreign rivals in technology, skill and orders, it is looking for cheaper land and labour overseas. The shipbuilding industry is enormously important to the…

Wärtsilä is supplying air/oil lubricated stern tube seals and bearings to Chinese shipyard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) for a series of new tankers under construction by SWS for Singapore-based Ocean Tankers. A…