An urgent tender to build two new OSVs for the Government of Iraq has been released by the US Navy as part of Iraq?s future procurement programme.The US Navy is calling for…

The Israeli container shipowner, ZIM Integrated Shipping, has reached a financial understanding to postpone four pending 10,000TEU newbuild deliveries. Originally due to be delivered in 2010, the quartet will now be delivered…

Wärtsilä has been assigned overall responsibility for systems integration in the pioneering FellowSHIP project. Wärtsilä's specially designed equipment is being used to integrate and create synergies between leading marine technology and state-of-the-art…

Siem Offshore in Norway is ordering two oil spill recovery vessels (OSRV) on the back of a lucrative eight year contract with Petrobras. The two ORSVs, to be operated by SIEM Consub,…

Brazilian mining giant Vale SA has given domestic shipbuilders the opportunity to build four 400,000 dwt bulk carriers. The company had been under pressure from the government to make investment in domestic…

Nautical Control Solutions (NCS) announced today that Buffalo Marine Service of Houston in Texas successfully tested its FuelTrax bunkering system on a delivery of 1500 tonnes of IFO 500 to the container…

Hyundai Heavy Industries recently held a launching ceremony for a 3,000 ton class patrol vessel named 'Taepyungyang 9' which is scheduled for completion in February 2010 .The vessel is 112.7m long and…

South Korea?s Samho Shipbuilding has reportedly received a contract to build six 32,000 dwt bulk carriers from Piraeus-based Capital Ship Management. Deliveries are scheduled between 2010 and 2011. The Greek shipowner has…