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Dongkuk Steel Mill Co, which sells 30 % of steel used by South Korea's shipbuilders, raised the price of heavy plates by 13 % as yards face record orders for vessels. The…

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has updated its Code of Practice on Shipping and the Environment. The expanded 4th edition is intended to provide a concise but comprehensive summary of the…

The German heavy lift shipping company Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land GmbH & Co. KG (SAL) has named the first of eight new heavy lift vessels to be built by the German yard of…

Singapore-based Keppel Shipyard Limited has secured contracts worth over S$215 million ($152 million) for the conversion of tankers to floating, production, storage and offloading units.These include the conversions of a tanker for…

Singapore-based ASL Marine Holdings Ltd. posted 23.7% increase in revenue to S$193.4 million ($136.7 million) on the back of higher value shipbuilding projects and increase in ship repairing and conversion jobs during…

As of the end of December 2007, Chinese shipbuilders? orders-in-hand had totaled 158.89 million dwt, rising by 131% year-on-year, according to statistics released by the Shipping Industry Administrative Office of the Commission…

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has won a deal valued at 794 billion won ($843 million) to build six container ships. The deal with a European shipping company calls on HHI to deliver…

Italian shipping company Rizzo-Bottiglieri-De Carlini Armatori SpA (RBD) signed a $180 million contract with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard for two 177,000 dwt Capesize bulk carriers. "These will be the largest ships in our…

The Ha Long Shipbuilding Company in the northern province of Quang Ninh, Vietnam, recently handed over the second 53,000 dwt bulk carrier to Graig group of the UK. The Blue Diamond freighter…

The Netherlands-based maritime services company Smit has awarded Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine a contract to build three aluminium hulled crew/pilot boats for use in its Middle East operations.Strategic Marine chairman, Mark Newbold,…