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Ezra Holdings Ltd.'s wholly-owned Saigon Shipyard Ltd., which is held via Ezra's wholly-owned HCM Logistics Ltd., marked its successful break into the offshore fabrication market with the recent award of a fabrication…

Mohammad Suri, National Iranian Tanker Company???s (NITC) managing director, said the country would produce over 80 million tons of LNG per annum in the near future and 40 LNG carriers would be…

Bharati Shipyard received an $89 million order from Shippping Corporation of India for the construction of four AHTS vessels for delivery in 2011. Including the latest order, the shipbuilder has now announced…

Orissa, in the North East of India, is all set to have a shipbuilding factory at Charidiha near Dhamra mouth in Bhadrak district of the State. It will be the first such…

The National Development and Reform Commission permitted the leading Chinese tanker operator, China Merchants Energy Shipping Co., Ltd. (CMES) to buy six oil tankers via overseas investment. In April, CMES signed an…

Coastal Contracts Bhd, the Sandakan-based company in Malaysia, said that its wholly owned subsidiary Thaumas Marine Ltd had clinched its largest newbuildings order worth $108 million boosting its order book to $223…

Aker Yards and Estonian Shiprepair and Conversion group SRC Group O?? have concluded an agreement combining Aker Yards Lifecycle Services's (A-LCS) & SRC Group's strengths to start offering the premium voyage repair…

Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard Ltd (CDL), the island's sole listed shipbuilder, is bidding for three new local ship building contracts, including one from the navy where it has tied up with a…

Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corp, China's biggest shipyard, upped its rank to number four in the world in terms of orders in hand which it attributes to a combination of technical innovation and…

The Cyprus-based Deep Sea Supply (DESSC) has taken delivery of the 4th of 8 PSV newbuildings from Cochin Shipyard in India. The vessel `Sea Pike`, a UT 755L Platform Supply Vessel, will…