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The new IMO convention for "Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships" aims to prevent hazardous working conditions and to ensure environmental protection during ship recycling operations. Expected to come into force…

Keppel Corp has been forced to cancel a newbuilding order worth SGD181m ($122m) after the owners failed to finance the project. The Singapore yard said it had received a notice from Romanian…

Subsea 7 has started construction on its next pipelay and offshore construction vessel as part of a $1bn investment campaign. The Aberdeen-based ship owner said steel was cut on the Seven Pacific…

The ship services network, Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS), has packaged its ships agency services together with its Unitor range of marine products, technical services and maritime logistics into an integrated offer for…

The US Navy has announced a contract for the construction of a second Austal-designed and built Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Awarded to prime contractor Bath Iron Works, a General Dynamics company, the…

The survival of embattled Chilean shipping group CSAV could rest with South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries after German owners attending crisis talks in Hamburg last month attached conditions to a rescue…

It?s not the owners? fault, it?s the yards who are to blame for the likely prolonged downturn in shipping said Arthur Bowring, md of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association. Speaking at the…

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Engineering Design and Construction (BEDC) has released invitation to submit sealed bids for the construction of three identical 140,000 cu. ft. self-propelled…

The South Korean government has decided to inject 9.5 trillion won to large shipbuilding companies and mid-sized subsidiaries of shipyards to help them complete construction of vessels. The latest move stemmed from…

Dutch shipyard IHC Merwede in Kinderdijk recently launched Van Oord?s latest trailing suction hopper dredger ?Vox Maxima?. With a hopper capacity of 31,000 cubic metres, ?Vox Maxima? is the largest dredging vessel…