Shipbuilding

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – A lack of orders for new ships is providing further support to the dry bulk freight market as demand for

French container shipping group CMA CGM has announced a new order for 22 ships ranging in size and fuel type. The order was placed with China State

Bollinger Shipyards announced today it has acquired the shipyard facilities of Gulf Island Fabrication (NASDAQ:GIFI). Lockport, Lousianna-based Bollinger

Crowley Engineering Services has released the design details for the first fully-electric tugboat with autonomous capability for the U.S. market. Crowley is

Norwegian shipbuilder VARD has secured a contract for the design and construction of three Service Operation Vessels (SOVs) to operate at the Dogger Bank Wind

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) says it has landed its single-largest containership order valued at over $1.5 billion. CSSC did not disclose the

German cruise ship builder Meyer Werft has signed a contract for the construction of a new cruise ship marking the first newbuilding order in the sector since

Seaspan Corporation, a leading owner and operator of containerships, is adding to its newbuild order book with an order for six 15,500 TEU containerships. The

Taiwanese container shipping company Evergreen Marine Corporation has confirmed an order for 20 more ultra-large containerships at Samsung Heavy Industries as

How big is too big? By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) A huge container ship blocking one of the world’s busiest waterways has done little to deter shipping

Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen Marine Corporation (EMC) has announced plans to build twenty containerships of 15,000 TEU capacity each. The order was

By Terje Solsvik OSLO, March 23 (Reuters) – Norway will block Rolls-Royce from selling a Norwegian maritime engine maker to a Russian company on national

Qatar Petroleum has invited ship owners to participate in a tender for the long-term time charter of up to 100 LNG carriers that the company will require for

Kongsberg Maritime has received $40 million contract to supply equipment for the first Wind Turbine Installation Vessel being built in the United States. The

Shell will charter ten new Very Large Crude Carriers powered by liquefied natural gas as the energy giant seeks to reduce carbon emissions from its crude oil

Crowley’s new 55,000-barrel double-hulled petroleum barge has been launched at Greenbrier Marine in Portland, Oregon. The Jones Act-compliant barge,

By Captain Laura Kovary – Almost every global supply chain has been affected during the Covid-19 pandemic with high demand for some products, delays

Tanker shipping company Stena Bulk has become the latest to unveil a radical new ship design that the company says challenges conventional thinking around

The Board of Directors of Huntington Ingalls Industries, the nation’s leading military shipbuilder, has elected Kari Wilkinson to serve as executive vice

By Yuka Obayashi (Reuters) – Kawasaki Heavy Industries expects shipment of its first cargo of liquefied hydrogen from Australia to Japan could be