Ulstein Verft AS in Norway is to build a construction vessel for Solstad/SBM, ajoint-venture company owned by Solstad and the Monaco based Single Buoy Moorings(SBM) group. The project is one of the…

A $200 million credit agreement to expand and upgrade Vinashin's shipbuilding yards has been signed between the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) and Fortis Bank. Under the agreement, the Belgian bank will…

Alaska Ship and Drydock, the operator of the Ketchikan Shipyard in Alaska, hopes to expand its facilities by obtaining substantial new federal funding, about $54 million, and other government participation for new…

The Spanish government has allegedly decided to divide the Izar state shipbuilding group into two. What the government is aiming to do with this move, which has come in for severe criticism…

Hamworthy?s first major contract for its new Svaneh?j CKL 300 electric-drive deepwell cargo pump is for a series of six 49,900 dwt Stena P-MAX tankers, which are the largest products carriers yet…

The Taiwanese Evergreen Group has decided to have the loading capacity of its next-generation B-type containerships upgraded to more than 9,000 TEUs instead of 8,000 TEUs as earlier planned. An Evergreen official…

The Danish shipping group of A P Moller is rumoured to be considering the construction of the world?s largest container ships with a carrying capacity approaching 11,000 TEU. This news is linked…

Hamworthy KSE Group Limited, shortly to be renamed Hamworthy plc ("Hamworthy" or "the Group"), a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative marine and offshore fluid handling systems focused on…

IMO's $2.5 million Global Programme on Maritime and Port Security, which began in January 2002, will not stop on 1 July 2004, the international deadline for implementation of the maritime security measures…

China Shipping Group placed an order for two more 4,250TEU container ships with Dalian New Shipyard. CSG now has nine boxships on order with this Chinese shipbuilder.