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South Korean shipbuilders are expanding their manufacturing facilities abroad on the back of the vibrant market, despite nationalistic criticism that such overseas investments may cause inadvertent technology transfer to strong competitors such…

V.T. Halter has laid the keels for two National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ships at its shipyard in Moss Point, Mississippi. These two high-tech newbuildings will replace ships that are over…

ONGC in India has contracted with Seattle-based Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) to provide consultancy for the design, construction and delivery of a 110m x 19m x 9.25m well stimulation vessel. The…

The Belgian shipping group CMB said its unit Bocimar International has ordered, in a joint venture with Wah Kwong, two newbuilding Handymax vessels from Chengxi Shipyard, China. Delivery of the vessels is…

The fleet management program ?GL ShipManager? has its first international clients. Finnish shipping company Oy Langh Ship and Danish company Transmarine Management have entrusted Ms Logistik Systeme, a Germanischer Lloyd Group company,…

The booming global economy and high oil price have led to strong demand for seismographic ship and DNV is experiencing a tenfold increase in classification requests compared to previous years for this…

Stavanger-based SeaMetric International AS has signed a contract for the construction, assembly and testing of the first 20,000 tonnes capacity Twin Marine Lifter (TML) system. Developed for installation and removal of such…

Fugro has christened its new 3-D seismic vessel Geo Barents. This newbuilding is a 3-D seismic acquisition vessel capable of deploying six 6 streamers of up to 9 km in length. The…

Normand Seven built by Ulstein Verft in Norway, has been voted ?Ship of the Year 2007? by the readers of Skipsrevyen in Norway.The award was presented to the Ulstein Group at the…

Maersk Supply Service has ordered two more 23,500bhp multi-purpose anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels from Volkswerft Stralsund in Germany. The two vessels will be sister ships to the four multi-purpose anchor…