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After three years of planning, the Danish-Vietnamese joint venture Aalborg Industries Vietnam opened a new production plant in the northern port city of Haiphong's An Hong Marine Industrial Zone, one of the…

Volgograd Shipyard, a subsidiary of MNP Group, concluded a contract with the Swedish shipping company Catfish Forvaltning for the construction of two class II chemical tankers under project 4450. The contract includes…

Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway, has entered into contract with Norwegian ship owner REM Maritime for the construction of an advanced Rolls-Royce offshore vessel. The value of the contract is approximately $49…

Sovcomflot, Russia's largest state-owned shipping company, and Admiralteyskiye Verfi (Admiralty Shipyards), the St. Petersburg-based shipyard, have concluded and signed a $350 million deal for the construction of two arctic shuttle oil tankers,…

The owner of the country's two largest military shipyards has said the government wants to acquire both firms and that state arms trader, Rosoboronexport, was in talks to buy them. The Severnaya…

Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard in China clinched a 1,700TEU container ship from Schoeller Holdings Ltd. The new order is the fourth ship ordered from the German ship owner. Price and delivery were not…

Singapore-based Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) has secured a contract to build a repeat ultra deepwater semi-submersible drilling platform for A.P. M?ller - M?rsk at a cost of $263 million. This order…

Russia is to sell two 636 Project submarines to Algeria for $400 million. Vladimir Alexandrov, director general of Admiralty Shipyard, said the contract is to be signed in June. The deal was…

The port of Kakinada, located in south-east India on the Godavari river delta, is planning to establish a privately owned shipyard and an announcement regarding this project is to be made by…

A new stealth corvette with special technology for low detectability by radar has been launched in Russia. The Steregushchy corvette is the first in the Project 20380 series designed by the Almaz…