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Bergesen Worldwide Tankers signed contracts to build two 320,000 DWT VLCCs at Bohai Shipyard. These will be the largest ships of their type ever built in China and delivery is slated in…

Samsung Heavy Industries clinched a 155,000 cbm LNG carrier from Petronet and an oil platform from ONGC in India at a total price of $500 million. The 285m long, 44m wide LNG…

Hanjin Heavy Industries has signed a land lease agreement with the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority to construct and operate a $1 billion shipyard at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Zambales. The…

?Clipper Target?, a bulk carrier for the Clipper Group of Bahamas, was recently launched at the Cochin Shipyard (CSL) in India together with a fire-fighting tug for the Jeddah Port Authority, Saudi…

Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Company (NASICO), part of the Vinashin shipbuilders group, began work on a vessel that will be Viet Nam?s biggest container ship. The 700 TEU ship is 133.60 metres long,…

Singapore company Labroy Marine Ltd is preparing a site on Indonesia's Batam Island for a new rigs and FPSO conversion yard, which would be partially managed by Labroy Offshore Ltd. The 40-ha…

Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, has cut the first steel plate for the lead-ship in a four-ship series of LEG/LPG tankers ordered by Norwegian shipowner Solvang AS. The 17,000 cubic metre gas…

STX Pan Ocean Co. aims to reach sales of $1 billion in tanker operations by 2010 as its first two petrochemical product carriers built by affiliated STX Shipbuilding recently entered service. The…

Exports of ships, boats (including hovercrafts) and floating structures in 2005 (January-November) recorded an increase of 66% to $565 million compared with the corresponding period in 2004. During the same period, the…