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Top offshore oil-rig builder Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) said it would settle for fewer new orders next year and would not build or buy new yards as it is already…

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard has begun production on the second of ten vessels in the 46,000 dwt product tanker build program announced last spring. Steel cutting for the ship, the sixth built by…

Flensburger shipyard in Germany has signed contracts for four ships plus six options of its new design ConRo 200 with a European Shipowner. The price of the newbuildings is not being disclosed.…

Hyundai has delivered three 100,000 DWT oil tankers for Sakhalin-1 Oil and Gas Project costing $150m. The tankers were ordered by Sovcomflot, Russia?s largest shipping company, and were designed and built specifically…

Ship repair work has restarted at the former Cammell Laird dry docks in Birkenhead.Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders has been let back into the yard by landlord Reddington Finance as the two companies…

Gdynia shipyard recently submitted to the Polish Treasury, a proposal to sell Stocznia Gdynia.Meanwhile, the Polish government will prepare a list of measures necessary to implement the splitting up of the two…

Construction began a few days ago on the Thinh Long shipyard in the northern province of Nam Dinh in Vietnam. The new facility will form part of the Hoang Anh Shipbuilding Joint…

Hanjin Shipping will double its container fleet by 2010. To achieve the goal, Hanjin will place a new order for five 10,000TEU container ships next year for delivered in 2009. The timing…

Transocean Inc has entered into an agreement with Chevron Corp for the upgrade of one of Transocean's Sedco 700-series semi submersible rigs. Under the terms of the drilling contract, Chevron will contract…

The Belgian shipping company EXMAR has confirmed a long-term charter party with Excelerate Energy LP, Woodlands, Texas, of a further LNG regasification vessel (LNGRV). The vessel will be built by Daewoo (DSME)…