Rami Ungar, the owner of Ray Car Carriers in Israel, has submitted an offer to buy Stocznia Gdanska shipyard which is looking for a private investor. The yard is trying to become…

NYK Line placed an order for four 145,000 cbm moss type LNG carriers with two Japanese shipbuilders. Kawasaki Shipbuilding and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries each will build two ships with delivery from 2009…

Samsung Heavy Industries recently delivered the world?s largest container ship, breaking its own world record of 9,200 teu which it set less than 12 months ago. The ?Xin Los Angeles? is now…

Samsung Heavy Industries clinched two more 4,300TEU container ships from Itochu in Japan. The new order is option declaration and will be delivered during 2009. Hyundai Heavy Industries secured two contract for…

The tender for the privatization of the Santierul Naval Mangalia Shipyard in Romania could resume this autumn as new evaluation procedures are under way, said the shipyard's General Director Eugen Tudor. This…

Vietnam aims to be number fourThe Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin Group) will exert an all-out effort to make the country the world's fourth largest shipbuilder by 2015. President and CEO of…

Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) in Norway has received a Letter of Intent from Subsea 7 for the hire of a large construction service vessel for a fixed period of six years with…

The Hong Kong-based Titan Petrochemicals Group has entered a contract for the purchase of up to ten 6,500 dwt double hulled bunker barges, at $8.67 million each, as part of its plan…

Daewoo Shipbuilding in South Korea has clinched orders valued at $1.84 billion comprising of a semi-submersible drilling rig, a drillship, a LNG carrier and four 4,800TEU container ships.Pertoserv S.A. in Brasil ordered…

The US conglomerate Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded type approval by the U.S. Coast Guard for the Sperry Marine VoyageMaster II Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR). The Coast Guard type approval…