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A 10,500dwt bulk carrier built for Japan's NOMA Marine Transport Company was recently launched in northern Hai Phong city. The ship, built by the Bach Dang shipyard company, is the second of…

Dubai Drydocks is looking for new buyers for the four 6,100 dwt bunker tankers it is building for the Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) after that company decided to cancel the contract.

In the wake of the present boom in offshore oil exploration and production activities in the India, Garware Offshore Services (GOS) has drawn up an acquisition plan involving the procurement of about…

Venezuela Oil (PDVSA) signed an agreement with Brazilian company Andrade Gutierrez to build a shipyard in Venezuela which will provide the state owned oil company with new oil tankers.The creation of this…

Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark presented its latest newbuilding, an 11,000 TEU container vessel, for A.P. Moller ? Maersk Group. The newbuilding, named ?Eleonora Maersk?, will, like her predecessors ?Emma Maersk? and…

Simon M?kster has signed a contract with the Leirvik-based shipbuilder Havyard to build an Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) of Havyard 842 design. The $46 million vessel is due to be delivered…

IHC Holland Merwede?s subsidiary company IHC Holland Dredgers BV has won an order from the Dutch dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster for two medium sized trailing suction hopper dredgers of 5.600 m³.…

Rising fuel prices have had a clear impact on all forms of passenger transport and the ferry industry is no exception. It is already well established that, when considering high speed marine…

A statement made by Rear Admiral Iftikhar Rao, managing director of the Karachi Shipyard in Pakistan, said that the yard would not be privatised and it would continue its operational activities under…