A £300 million contract awarded to Tees Alliance Group promises to bring a new lease of life to the Haverton Hill shipyard near Billingham, Teesside in England and will create up to…

Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering (DSSE) has cancelled a contract with an unidentified Asian shipowner for the construction of six 32,000-dwt bulkers plus two on option. It blamed the owner's failure to…

South Korea?s Hanjin Heavy Industries needs 40,000 workers over the next few years to construct and operate their $2 billion shipyard in Tagoloan, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. "Hanjin…

Wartsila has acquired the Norwegian company Maritime Service AS, which specializes in ship service, mechanical and reconditioning services. Maritime Service has its operations in Alesund, on the west coast of Norway. Maritime…

State-run Shipping Corp. of India Ltd (SCI), the county?s biggest shipping firm by fleet size and revenues, is in talks with South Korean shipbuilder STX Shipbuilding Co. Ltd for a joint venture…

Aker Yards and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd (RCCL) have reached an understanding regarding the basis on which RCCL will order a fourth ship in the Freedom class, currently the world's largest cruise…

In a new phase of its major fleet expansion, freight-only specialist Seatruck Ferries in the UK has placed an order for four new generation ro-ro vessels with the German shipbuilder FSG (Flensburger…

Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) further strengthens its leading position on the RoRo market by securing two contracts for the building of seven ships in total. As a result of these new orders, production…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, a unit of Hyundai Heavy Industries, has received two orders valued at KRW 570 billion ($602 million) to build eight vessels, including four petrochemicals carriers.