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Monday, July 7, 2014
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Offshore

Sovcomflot Extends Order for More Icebreaking Standby Vessels

Building on a similar order in April, SCF Group (Sovcomflot) and Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. announced today the newbuild order for three

July 7, 2014
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News

Atlantic Towing Orders Ice-Class PSVs

Atlantic Towing (USA) has selected newly-designed, ice-strengthened PSV 5000 vessels from Damen Shipyards Group to meet its demanding 10-year offshore support

July 7, 2014
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
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Multimedia

Island Offshore’s New X-Bow Gets Finished Up at Ulstein Verft [IMAGES]

Update 8 July 2014: The Island Performer has been delivered today to her new owner, Island Offshore. Earlier: Island Offshore’s latest well intervention

July 3, 2014
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
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News

Keppel Wins Kraken FPSO Conversion Deal

Keppel Shipyard announced today it will be converting a newly-built, 600,000 bbl ice-class FPSO for Bumi Armada as part of the FSPO Armada Kraken project which

July 1, 2014
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Hyundai Mipo Wins Major Tanker Order from Alterna Capital

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) announced today the winning of a six-ship petrochemical tanker newbuild order worth KRW 187,500,000,000 (USD $185 million). The

July 1, 2014
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Monday, June 30, 2014
WATCH: HOS Black Watch Christening and Launch Ceremony
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WATCH: HOS Black Watch Christening and Launch Ceremony

On Friday June 6, the HOS Black Watch was launched at Eastern Shipbuilding's Allanton facility in Panama City,

June 30, 2014
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Meyer Werft and Finnish Government Plan to Buy STX Finland’s Turku Shipyard
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Meyer Werft and Finnish Government Plan to Buy STX Finland’s Turku Shipyard

Germany's closely held Meyer Werft and the Finnish government are nearing a deal to buy the Turku shipyard in southwestern Finland from STX Europe , the

June 30, 2014
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
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News

Fincantieri Prices IPO at Bottom of Range, Cuts Offer Size

Italian shipmaker Fincantieri said on Saturday it had priced its initial public offering at the bottom of its price range at 0.78 euros per share and cut the

June 28, 2014
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
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News

Keppel to Convert Moss-Type LNG Carrier into Floating Liquefaction Facility

Keppel Shipyard announced today they have signed a conditional contract with Golar LNG to perform the world’s first-of-its-type conversion of an existing

June 25, 2014
Total Views: 87

Tuesday, June 24, 2014
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News

Norway’s Vibrant Maritime Cluster

Norway is a particularly interesting country in that it has a very personal connection to the sea, as many of its communities are interspersed between deep

June 24, 2014
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Sunday, June 22, 2014
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News

Nam Cheong to Build 123-Meter Accommodation Work Barges for Perdana

Nam Cheong Ltd, Malaysia’s largest builder of offshore support vessels announced today the winning of a newbuild order for two accommodation work barges

June 22, 2014
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Friday, June 20, 2014
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News

Alexei Rakhmanov Takes Top Position at Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corp

Denis Manturov, the head of Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade announced the appointment of Alexei Rakhmanov as President of United Shipbuilding

June 20, 2014
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Rowan Viking to Get Longer Legs at Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen

The 170 meter tall Rowan Viking jackup will soon be a bit taller as a result of a refit at Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSV).  The yard will be adding

June 20, 2014
Total Views: 165

Thursday, June 19, 2014
News

China Navigation Confirms Newbuild Orders with Imabari

China Navigation Company (CNCo) confirmed today the newbuild order of four new handysize bulk carriers from Imabari Shipbuilding in Japan. This latest order,

June 19, 2014
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
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Shipbuilding

Yangzijiang Books Fortescue VLOC’s

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd has won an order to build four very large ore carriers for Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, company

June 18, 2014
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Monday, June 16, 2014
NASSCO to Build Additional Jones Act Tanker for APT
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NASSCO to Build Additional Jones Act Tanker for APT

General Dynamics NASSCO announced Monday that it has inked a contract with repeat-customer American Petroleum Tankers (APT) for the design and construction of

June 16, 2014
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Asian Cruise-Ship Builders ‘Threat’ to European Yards
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Asian Cruise-Ship Builders ‘Threat’ to European Yards

By Nicholas Brautlecht June 16 (Bloomberg) — Europe’s almost 50-year long dominance in cruise shipbuilding may be undermined in coming years as yards

June 16, 2014
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News

Fortescue Metals Group Orders Over 1 Million Deadweight in New Ore Carriers

Australia's Fortescue Metals Group said on Monday it has signed a $275 million contract with a Chinese shipyard to build four big iron ore carriers in an

June 16, 2014
Total Views: 62

Friday, June 13, 2014
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News

Jumbo Kinetic, the World’s Largest “Heavy Lifter” Cancelled One Month from Delivery

Jumbo Shipping confirmed today the cancellation of the contract for the Jumbo Kinetic, a K-class heavy lift vessel that was under construction at Brodosplit

June 13, 2014
Total Views: 115

Thursday, June 12, 2014
Aker Philadelphia Delivers First Liberty-Class Tanker to SeaRiver
Shipbuilding

Aker Philadelphia Delivers First Liberty-Class Tanker to SeaRiver

Jones Act shipbuilder Aker Philadelphia has delivered the first of two Liberty-class aframax tankers to ExxonMobil’s U.S. marine affiliate, SeaRiver

June 12, 2014
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