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Rousse Shipyard in Bulgaria has enough orders to operate at full capacity through the end of 2010, according to managing director Ignat Traikov. The order book contains orders from German and Dutch…

South Korea???s Posco is preparing to expand overseas and overtake Nippon Steel of Japan as the world???s third-biggest steelmaker by using its groundbreaking Finex technology. This revolutionary steel- making process is based…

ECI Partners LLP (ECI), the UK mid-market buyout specialist, has acquired Kelvin Hughes in a ?£52m transaction out of Smiths Group plc, the UK listed technology company. Kelvin Hughes is a leading…

The Russian prime minister Viktor Zubkov has expressed concern over a slow reform of the civilian ship building industry at a meeting of the cabinet on Thursday. ???The civilian ship building industry…

The Dutch tug operator Smit has signed a contract with Damen Shipyards for 11 new vessels. Two tugs, type ASD 2810, are replacements for the harbour towage fleet in Rotterdam and will…

Tokyo LNG Tanker Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's top gas distributor Tokyo Gas Co Ltd, has ordered an LNG tanker from Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corp, a unit of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, for…

Facing bankruptcy, the historic Gdansk shipyard has a buyer in one of Ukraine???s largest business groups, the Industrial Union of Donbas. However, new complications are tying up the sale. The Ukrainian group,…

India-based Bharati Shipyard has bagged an order for two Rolls-Royce designed UT 755LN platform supply vessels from Opielok Bereederungs of Germany. The total price of each vessel is $26.50 million totaling $53…

Cosco Shipping Co Ltd of Guangzhou, China, has signed a contract for two large semi-submersible heavy-lift newbuildings with Guangzhou Shipyard International for delivery in September 2010 and March 2011. This is the…