Shipyards
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Holland Shipyards wins contracts for two coasters
De Bock Maritiem has contracted Holland Shipyards Group to build two shortsea vessels. The 3,600 dwt vessels, designed by Conoship,…
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Shipyards faced with vexing capacity issues
Shipbuilding executives have difficult decisions to make about business expansion this decade despite widespread belief that the global merchant fleet…
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Fincantieri lands SOV order from Crowley and Esvagt joint venture
Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri has secured an order from CREST Wind, a joint venture between US-based Crowley and Denmark’s Esvagt,…
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Tsakos concludes suezmax order switch in South Korea
Brokers report that Greek owner Tsakos has successfully negotiated the conversion of two 2,782 teu container vessels in South Korea…
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Erik Thun returns to Ferus Smit for eight more newbuilds
Sweden’s Erik Thun has placed an order at the Dutch yard Scheepswerf Ferus Smit for eight new vessels. The deal…
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Tsakos negotiates contract switch from boxships to tankers with Korean yard
Illustrative of where pundits think the markets will go in 2023, Alphaliner is reporting Greece’s Tsakos Shipping and Trading is…
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Siemens Energy and Dragados consortium lands $4.3bn German converter station deal
Siemens Energy and Spanish consortium partner Dragados Offshore have won a contract worth more than €4bn ($4.3bn) from German transmission…
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New Dayang wins ultramax orders
In the bulk carrier sector, Chinese builder New Dayang has secured two orders for ultramax newbuidings, both from London-based repeat…
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Aker Solutions and Drydocks World score Rosebank FPSO contract
Aker Solutions and Drydocks World-Dubai joint venture has won a contract worth up to NOK4bn ($401bn) from Altera Infrastructure for…
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Keppel scores $97m wind farm substation contract
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured a contract worth around $97m from an undisclosed renewable energy company to build…
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Samsung Heavy presses ahead with floating nuclear power plants
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a conceptual design for a floating nuclear power plant based on compact…
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Celsius gives China Merchants its entrance into LNG carrier construction
After having a newbuilding letter of intent agreed since the autumn, China Merchants Heavy Industry Jiangsu and Celsius Tankers have…
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GTT halts business in Russia
France’s Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) has stopped doing business in Russia after analysing the latest European sanction packages which include…
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Korean yards bring in foreign talent
Seoul has eased visa requirements for foreign shipyard workers as the nation embarks on a very busy couple of years…
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Oshima will start construction of first bulk carrier at newly acquired yard in April
Japan’s Oshima Shipbuilding has completed the takeover of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’s Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works (Koyagi), with plans to…
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Shipping hit by soaring cases of covid in China
Ships are backing up along the Chinese coastline as soaring cases of covid take out port staff. With China easing…
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Eni taps Wison for second Congo FLNG unit
Italy’s Eni has signed a contract with China’s Wison Heavy Industry for the construction of a floating liquefied natural gas…
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Hanwha seals DSME takeover
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) has announced that Hanwha Group officially acquired Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in a…
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Keppel Offshore and Marine concludes Brazilian corruption case with $65m fine
Keppel Offshore and Marine (KOM) has finally fully resolved the case related to corrupt payments made by its agent to…
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Conoship “future-proof” vessel design pushes ahead
Construction of the first of a series of “future-proof,” environmentally friendly general cargo vessels developed by Dutch design and engineering…
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