The US Navy has announced plans for a new generation of electrically propelled destroyers and hinted that all of its surface vessels, and possibly its submarines as well, will eventually use electric…

The Costa Serena, the new flagship of Costa was delivered yesterday by Fincantieri at its Sestri Ponente shipyard in Genoa, Italy. Like her sister ship, the Costa Concordia, which entered service in…

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea wants to produce ship blocks in North Korea according to a Korean report. "If all conditions are met and everyone involved can benefit,…

Samsung Heavy Industries has received a $771 million contract to build six container ships from a European company. The vessels will be delivered by July 2010. The value of the order accounts…

Aker Yards Cabins, France has been launched under the legal name of Aker Yards Cabins SAS. It is part of the cabins business within Aker Yards, Cruise & Ferries including two factories…

In a statement provided with the company's Preliminary Results for year ending 31st March 2007, VT Group's chairman Michael Jeffries gave an indication of how the new shipbuilding venture between his company…

Houston-based engineering and construction services firm KBR along with fellow shareholders the Weir Group and Balfour Beatty, announced that they have agreed to sell their interests in Devonport Management Limited (DML) to…

Severnaya Shipyard in Russia has signed a contract for the construction of the hull of a sister ship to the 3,600 DWT ?Siddis Skipper?, an offshore supply vessel based on the Vik-Sandvik…

Korea's STX Pan Ocean, whose majority shareholder is STX Shipbuilding, has entered into shipbuilding contracts with Taizhou Maple Leaf Shipbuilding Co.,Ltd., China, for construction of three handy size bulk carriers at a…

SeaMetric International AS, based in Stavanger, has issued a Letter of Intent (LoI) to ESSCA (Hong Kong) Ltd in consortium with China Petroleum First Construction Corporation (CPFCC) and the JingJiang shipyard near…