Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd. (Odense Staalskibsv?rft A/S) has announced that EPIC Shipping, UK, has contracted to purchase six RO-RO vessels from the Danish shipyard. Main particulars are length 193 m, breadth 26…

COSCO Group, China's shipping conglomerate, has signed a deal with Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. to build a shipyard in northeast China, their second such venture in the country.COSCO will control 70%…

Hyundai Heavy Industries has won an 857 billion won ($923 million) order to build eight container vessels. The deal from a European company calls for HHI to deliver the ships by December…

Colombo Dockyards Limited?s (CDL) launch of the Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessel, built for Great Ship (India), is scheduled to take place next week. "This occasion will mark the first launching of…

Dubai Drydocks (DD), a market leader in ship repair and conversions, has concluded an agreement with Singapore-based Navig8 Shipmanagement Pte Ltd to build four medium range (MR) product tankers, with an option…

Samsung Heavy Industries has secured a sizable order from an Asian customer to build an FPSO in a contract worth $470 million. The vessel will be delivered by September 2010.

BMT Group Ltd, the UK-based maritime consultancy, launched its India operations last week in an attempt to tap into the ship-building boom in the country. Several Indian companies have been looking to…

China's Cosco (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., Ltd. has received newbuilding orders worth nearly $1.2 billion. Of this, $669 million is accounted for by contracts from Cosco International Ship Trading for twelve 57,000 dwt…

In addition to the six newbuildings announced in the press release dated 2 May 2007, the Norwegian ship owner Camillo Eitzen & Co ASA signed agreements for long term time charter with…