Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering will start building a factory in China next week to produce blocks for ships. The plant, located in the Chinese northeastern port city of Yantai in Shandong…

Work is underway on the Lautoka waterfront in Fiji for a new development project for Fiji Ports Corporation (FPCL) that is expected to put Fiji on the world port map.The first phase…

Swan Hunter, the last remaining shipyard on the Tyne, is likely to be mothballed with the loss of more than 300 jobs, all but marking the end of naval shipbuilding in the…

DNV Software is to supply the China Classification Society (CCS) with Nauticus software. Amongst a range of mutual exchanges between the two classification societies, the recent purchase of the Nauticus software is…

Transpetro, the transport arm of Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras, has awarded the Atl?ntico Sul consortium a contract to build 10 Suezmax tankers for $120.9 million each. Atl?ntico Sul is made up…

Leading fuel testing agency Lintec Testing Services has urged shipowners to act, but not panic, should their fuel tests marginally exceed the 1.5% sulphur limit imposed within the MARPOL Annex VI Sulphur…

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) taken delivery of the 140,000 cbm Moss type LNG carrier "Arctic Voyager", constructed at Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation?s Sakaide Shipyard in Japan. This second vessel for Sn?hvit…

The Italian LPG tanker company, FVH SpA in Brindisi, would like to acquire the Stocznia Gdanska shipyard in Poland and plans to carry out due diligence and submit its offer."Italian FVH has…

Matson Navigation took delivery of the ?Maunalei?, the fourth and last of its Independence Class CV2500 containerships from Aker Philadelphia shipyard. Oakland-based Matson is owned by Honolulu-based Alexander & Baldwin Inc. and…

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea has clinched six LPG carriers from two European ship owners. Total contract price is about $340 million for the 20,600 cbm LPG carriers which will be…