Bluesky LNG Corporation, the Asia-based LNG owner, has ordered a second giant tanker from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). Bluesky?s first tanker, the 145,700 cbm ?Bluesky?, is nearing completion at DSME?s…

Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea has secured a deal with Stena Drilling to build a drill ship worth in the region of $550 million. The vessel is slated for delivery in June…

Bourbon has signed a contract with Zhejiang Shipbuilding in China concerning the construction of four ULSTEIN P105 platform supply vessels. Ulstein Design AS will deliver the design and major equipment for the…

DML in Devonport, UK, has given advance warning of 90 potential job losses at Appledore shipyard, which it took over from receivership in 2003. Jobs are likely to go progressively from early…

Kjell Inge R?kke of Aker Yards is reportedly interested in buying the former Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, where the Solidarity movement started back in 1980. Although the yard is for sale,…

Pan United Shipyard in Singapore has secured an order from Swire Pacific Offshore to build two UT755L PSVs at a cost of around $15.5 million each. Delivery is slated in the first…

Hyundai Mipo has clinched an order for four product carriers from a Cypriot ship owner at a cost of about $170 million for delivery in November, 2009

Venezuela has reached a deal to build 36 large oil tankers in Brazil at a cost exceeding $3 billion. According to the local press, the governments of both countries reached a deal…

Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) and MacGREGOR are further strengthening their co-operation by signing a memorandum of agreement to establish a joint venture in Vietnam to produce ships? cranes and hatch covers.…

The Monaco-based ship management company V.Ships has acquired UMC International PLC. Formed in 1972 as the Under Water Maintenance Company Ltd, UMC International has grown into an international specialist in innovative underwater…