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Aker ASA and Kvaerner ASA have started to collaborate on setting up Aker American Shipping ASA, a company that will own Kvaerner's shipyard in Philadelphia and 10 - yet to be built…

Dongkuk Steel Mill Company will sign a memorandum of understanding with Brazilian partners including iron ore mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), to participate in a $750 million steel plant…

Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (Asry) is to embark on a $15 million expansion, adding three more dry berths to its facilities in Hidd., Bahrain. The new berths, each 140 metres long,…

Daewoo Shipbuilding has clinched four 4,000TEU class container ships from Hamburg Sud at a total contract price of $384 million. In April this year, the German shipowner placed an order for six…

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…

The third frigate of Shivalik Class incorporating stealth features, built by Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) will be launched here on May 27. The two previous frigates of Shivalik Class, also built by…

Daewoo Shipbuilding will build a hull block factory in Yantai, China, which will be operational from 2007. It will have a capacity to produce 50,000 tonnes in 2007 and 300,000 tonnes from…

Aker Yards has been awarded contracts to build four container vessels for König & Cie. GmbH und Co. KG in Hamburg. The vessels are of the newly developed type Aker CS 1700…

Lloyd?s Register (LR) has published a set of comprehensive guidelines to help owners, operators and builders of membrane-type LNG tankers to assess the ability of a containment system to withstand sloshing loads.…

A Chinese Joint Venture company consisting of Shanghaiguan Shipyard in Hebei, Hebei Cosco, Hebei Construction and an unknown steel holding company, has set up Shanhaiguan Shipbuilding Heavy Industries with a capital investment…