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The sixth 2,646 TEU containership built by SembCorp Marine?s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard for Taiwan?s Wan Hai Lines was named ?Wan Hai 317?. The newbuilding is one of the largest and most sophisticated…

Another shipping line is looking at reducing sailing speeds as a way of cutting bunker consumption. Koji Miyahara, President of the Japanese NYK Group, has called for a ?rationalization? of Group policy.…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has received an order valued at 433 billion won ($464 million) from an Asian shipping company to build 10 chemical product tankers. The vessels will be delivered by April…

Ulstein Design has signed contracts with the Spanish shipyard Astilleros de Sevilla to deliver design and equipment packages for two Ulstein PX105 platform supply vessels. The ships will be built for the…

The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), India?s largest liner shipping company, plans to start building ships and is currently in talks with private shipbuilders at home and abroad for a shipyard project…

Italy's deputy transport minister Cesare De Piccoli said the idea of a merger of Aker Yards ASA with Italy's state-owned shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA is gaining industry and political support. Aker Yards management…

South Korean shipbuilder C&Heavy Industries has won a 99.5 billion won ($106.2 million) order for two bulk ships from an unidentified European company. Both newbuildings are scheduled for delivery by September 2011.

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) has won the contract to build China?s first deepwater drilling rig for China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) with ABS awarded classification. The rig will be the first…

A year after the Miami-based Yachts of Seabourn announced that it would build two new ultra luxury ships, it has exercised the option for another 32,000 gt cruise ship. Advance booking activity…

Rio Tinto, the world's second largest iron ore mining group behind Brazil's Vale, plans to order three very large ore carriers (VLOC) to transport iron ore from Pilbara in Western Australia to…