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Melbourne-based shipbuilder Tenix is favoured to win the lion's share of work to build three new navy destroyers for the Royal Australian Navy worth $6 billion. The deal, likely to be announced…

Samsung Heavy Industries is examining a proposal to set up an LNG ship repair yard in conjunction with Malaysia International Shipping Corporation Berhad (MISC), a subsidiary of Petronas. The South Korean shipbuilder…

ABG Shipyard in India (ABG) has concluded a $32 million equity funding. The private sector shipyard would use the funding to expand its shipbuilding facilities to meet the anticipated demand for new…

Keppel FELS Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Corporation Limited through Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has secured a contract to build two semi-submersible drilling platforms at S$780 million…

MOL in Japan, together with Tokyo Gas Co, has ordered a 145,000 m3 Moss type LNG carrier from Kawasaki Shipbuilding for delivery in March 2008. Including those under construction, MOL operates a…

Shipbuilding enterprises in east China's Shandong province are presently holding orders for 120 new ships with a contract value totalling $566 million. About $430 million of the shipbuilding orders are for export…

Bharati Shipyard in Mumbai, India, has bagged contracts from Sea Cargo Skips AS and Nor Lines AS, both from Norway, to supply two multi-purpose container vessels each, with an option for eight…

Tasmanian fast ferry specialist Incat has laid the keel of the first 112 metre Wave Piercing Catamaran at its new undercover construction facilities. Prefabrication work on the 112 metre catamaran has been…

Wärtsilä delivered the first two Wärtsilä Auxpac generating sets in April 2005. Introduced in September 2004, Wärtsilä Auxpac is a standard, pre-commissioned generating set designed to provide auxiliary electricity onboard marine vessels.…

Basic principles and goals for goal-based standards (GBS) for new ship construction were agreed in principle by IMO's Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) when it met at the Organization's London Headquarters for its…