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Korea Line has exercised two options with STX for 49,000DWT product tankers. The two vessels will be delivered in January and June 2009 and the total contract price is $96 million.In a…

Samsung has secured an order for two 115,000DWT tankers from Geden Line with delivery of 2010.Namura Shipbuilding clinched two 250,000DWT bulk carriers from NYK Line with delivery of 2010 and 2011.Dongnan Shipbuilding…

The first MAN B&W 7S65ME-C has entered service when the oil tanker ?Ice Explorer? was delivered by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in Japan to the Greek shipowner in September. Although the S65ME-C engine…

Malaysian shipbuilders must buck up their ideas and clear backlog orders fast or risk losing their competitiveness and business to foreign players, Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) director general Datuk Cheah Kong…

A federal move that Canada?s shipbuilding industry has feared for some time appears to become a reality when the government resumed free trade talks with the European Free Trade Association. One of…

Swissco Offshore Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Swissco International, has recently placed orders for another two offshore support vessels. This is in line with theGroup?s expansion programme for its offshore vessel…

Edison Chouest Offshore has expanded into the shipyard sector in Brazil with the inauguration, early in October, of Estaleiro Navship in Navegantes in the south of Brazil. The yard will be capable…

The North Carolina-based EnSolve Biosystems has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) to supply a PetroLiminator Oil Water Separator for treating bilge water from its fleet service craft…

Shipyards of South Korea are set to make all-out efforts to develop offshore facilities in a bid to stay ahead of the field despite hot pursuit from rivals in Japan and China,…

VT Halter Marine landed $500 million in sales of new ships in September and, just as the Island Home ferry is nearly ready to head for its homeport in New England, another…