The christening and launching ceremony of the large cruise ferry ordered by Tallink took place at Aker Yards shipyard in Rauma. The 165 million Euro vessel was named ?Galaxy? and will start…

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard has begun production on the second of ten vessels in the 46,000 dwt product tanker build program announced last spring. Steel cutting for the ship, the sixth built by…

The St. Petersburg-based Admiralty Shipyard has begun sea trials of a fourth-generation Project 677 Lada class diesel-electric submarine, according to the company's press office. During the next few months, the submarine, called…

Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding secured a contract for three LNG carriers from two domestic gas tanker operators. The 47,000 cbm newbuildings will be delivered on November 2008, July and October 2009. This latest…

In the largest ever commercial shipping contract in the world, RasGas (3) signed time charter agreements with JC Nakilat and Teekay Nakilat for $9bn 25-year charter of 12 large Q-Flex sized membrane…

The Product Development Company(TM), and Guangzhou-based CSSC Guangzhou Huangpu Shipbuilding (HS), announced that HS has expanded its use of PTC Shipbuilding Solution, which includes CADDS(R) 5i to improve its overall design capabilities.…

The newbuilding, currently being built by Jaya Shipbuilding and Engineering at their Batam, Indonesia, yard near Singapore, is a 70 m, 5,500 BHP, approximately 70 tonne bollard pull, DP2 anchor handling towing…

The Vyborg Shipbuilding Yard of Russia has won an international tender to design and build six refrigerated fishing vessels for the State Committee of Fishing Industry of Turkmenistan. The document, which was…

BP Oil Shipping Co. USA has received delivery of the third of four 193,050 dwt Alaska-class double-hull crude oil tankers being built by National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. (Nassco), San Diego. The…

Stolt Offshore has entered into an agreement with Eidesvik Shipping AS to charter a new build ship for the inspection, maintenance, repair (IMR) and survey market for a period of 8 years,…