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Keppel Singmarine in Singapore received orders for four offshore support vessels(OSVs) and two tugboats for about $46 million. The vessels will be progressively delivered to their owners up to first half of…

Cunard?s ?Queen Mary 2? (QM2) will arrive in Hamburg at Blohm + Voss Repair GmbH on November 8 for maintenance and repair work. The QM2, which was built in 2003, will go…

Italian classification society and certification group RINA and the China Classification Society (CCS) have joined forces to deliver quality management system expertise to small and medium-size Chinese shipyards which intend to build…

MOL will be undertaking an aggressive expansion of its tanker fleet, including introduction of the newest double-hull MR-type 1 product tankers. The move is part of MOL?s mid-term management strategy calling for…

Korean shipbuilders and POSCO, South Korea?s largest steel maker, are on a collision course over the price of steel sheets used for building ships with the low-priced Chinese products set to make…

Wärtsilä Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) have signed an agreement for a strategic alliance in the field of two-stroke diesel engines.The two companies will share their resources and experience for…

Offshore supply vessels (OSV) service company Garware Shipping Corporation is planning to acquire three Platform Supply Vessels (PSV) at a cost of $62.3 million. These newbuildings will be deployed to support offshore…

The world largest oil tanker owner, Frontline Ltd of Norway, is planning to branch into ownership of floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels according to Frontline Management's managing director Oscar Spieler."We…

Guangzhou Shipyard snaps up two 38,500DWT product carriers from Pancoast in Greece for delivery in March and July, 2008. They will be built as Boston beam size.Wuchang Shipyard has won three platform…

A firm claiming to be the first joint enterprise between a domestic shipyard and foreign enterprise to make ship equipment has been established. A new Chinese company called TTS Bohai Mechanical Equipment…