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Hanjin Heavy Industries has developed an automatic vertical welding machine (HW-EG2) which has dramatically reduced welding time. The shipbuilder recently used the new equipment in the construction of an 8,100TEU container ship…

Wärtsilä Corporation won a contract in August to deliver complete propulsion systems for two 80.6 metre offshore patrol for the Chilean Coast Guard. Designed by the German company Fassmer, each of the…

BC Ferries in Canada has acquired the 20-year old ferry, John Atlantic Burr, from the State of Utah, USA, for $200,000. The vessel was extensively surveyed by BC Ferries' engineers prior to…

Leading French carrier CMA CGM has completed the $600 million acquisition of Delmas, previously 100% held by the Bollore Group. Through this transaction, CMA CGM has acquired the Delmas, Otal, Setramar brands,…

DRS Technologies, Inc, , headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, was awarded several new contracts with a combined value of approximately $43 million to design and produce power conversion, distribution and control equipment…

Northrop Grumman Corporation announced its Ship Systems sector has put out the call to all its shipyard employees who can return to work at its Pascagoula and New Orleans shipyards to do…

Wärtsilä has won contracts in the beginning of the year for propulsion systems for the seven-vessel Project Protector of the Royal New Zealand Navy. The main contractor for the project is the…

China will manufacture a barge for the Russian Federal Nuclear Agency which will outfit it with the reactor equipment at the Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk located in the Archangels region in northern…

Some 400 workers shut down the Helsinki operations of shipbuilder Aker Finnyards on Friday in protest against planned layoffs and cutbacks. The strike, scheduled to last until Monday morning, came after last…