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Samsung Heavy Industries has received a contract worth $1.44 billion to build two deep-water oil exploration drill ships. The deal with a European client calls for delivery by March 2012 and the…

Shipbuilding cancellations hit plate market According to a recent report from World Steel Dynamics, perhaps 300 contracts to build capsize and Panamax vessels may be cancelled and some new shipyards may close.…

Hyundai Heavy Industries said that its orders sank 57% in October from a year earlier on falling demand for new ships, reflecting a declining shipbuilding cycle. The orders received last month fell…

Jotun, the Norwegian paint manufacturer, has introduced a new self-smoothing and self-polishing hydrolysis antifouling coating based on the unique silyl acrylate technology. Called SeaMate, it is a TBT free antifouling, fully complying…

Wärtsilä is to establish a new centralised environmental products know-how unit. Termed Delivery Centre Ecotech (DC Ecotech), the unit will focus on developing and delivering environmental technologies, as well as products for…

Alan Haig-Brown has recently put up a new web page for mariners who visit or work the Pacific Coast of America. It is really a blog spot based on some of the…

Strategic Marine has launched the base of the floating dry dock it has on order from the Australian Marine Complex (AMC) on schedule from its Vietnamese shipyard.The dock?s 4,400 tonne base was…

Taiwan will release 51% stake in the state-run CSBC Corporation (China Shipbuilding) by the end of this year, marking it the largest initial public offering for 2008 so far. Fubon Securities Co.…

The Louisiana-based Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) is establishing an operation at the Port of Tampa, buying the Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair Co.'s lease and retaining its 500 employees with plans to…

Today sees the Cammell Laird name return to its historic Birkenhead shipyard home in a move the yard?s owners say could help them win new business from around the world. Cammell Laird,…