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Monday, April 22, 2013
Mitsui Shipbuilding Gains 21 Percent on Report of Merger Talks with KHI
Engineering News

Mitsui Shipbuilding Gains 21 Percent on Report of Merger Talks with KHI

(Bloomberg) — Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. surged to 5 1/2-year high on a Nikkei report it plans to hold merger talks with Kawasaki Heavy

April 22, 2013
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Signal International and Great Lakes Dredge Square Off
News

Signal International and Great Lakes Dredge Square Off

Work towards the design of an AT/B dredge at Signal International has been stopped at request of Great Lakes Dredge and Dock... and let's just say Signal is

April 16, 2013
Total Views: 12

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News

CSAV Places Big Containership Order with Samsung Heavy

It’s been a good couple days for Samsung Heavy Industries. After winning an order for two LNG carriers yesterday, they have just announced another big

April 16, 2013
Total Views: 2

Monday, April 15, 2013
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News

Samsung Heavy Wins Order for Pair of 180,000 CBM LNG Carriers

Samsung Heavy Industries added another 462.3 billion won ($409.38 million) to their backlog today with the order of a pair of LNG carriers for a Joint

April 15, 2013
Total Views: 54

STX May Sell Dalian Shipyard
News

STX May Sell Dalian Shipyard

April 15 (Bloomberg) — STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., a South Korean company that is rescheduling debt with creditors, jumped the most in two years

April 15, 2013
Total Views: 20

Saturday, April 13, 2013
Tidewater Orders New Platform Supply Vessels
Offshore

Tidewater Orders New Platform Supply Vessels

LEEVAC Shipyards has announced a contract with Tidewater Marine to build two LEEVAC Design Services (LDS) Platform Supply Vessels (PSV), with options for two

April 13, 2013
Total Views: 80

Friday, April 12, 2013
STX Leads Losses in South Korea
News

STX Leads Losses in South Korea

Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., a South Korean yard that is undergoing debt rescheduling, led a decline among shipyards

April 12, 2013
Total Views: 5

Friday, April 5, 2013
Move Over Eclipse, There’s A New World’s Largest Superyacht in Town
News

Move Over Eclipse, There’s A New World’s Largest Superyacht in Town

Germany’s Lürssen Yachts on Friday launched what is now the largest superyacht in the the world. Named Azzam, the superyacht measures an astonishing

April 5, 2013
Total Views: 205

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Engineering News

DC Power Grid Installed on Norwegian PSV…Thomas Edison Would be Pleased

American inventor Thomas Edison would be quite pleased at the recent news from Zurich-based ABB. An early champion of direct-current (DC) electricity, Edison

April 5, 2013
Total Views: 20

Thursday, April 4, 2013
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News

Bonny Gas Transport Signs $895 Million Order for 4 New LNG Carriers

SEOUL, April 4 (Reuters) – Samsung Heavy Industries said on Thursday it won a 1 trillion won ($895 million) order to build four liquefied natural gas

April 4, 2013
Total Views: 26

Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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News

Workers End 2-Day Strike at OSX Brazil Shipyard

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3 (Reuters) – Workers ended a two-day strike at the OSX Brasil SA shipyard at Brazil’s Port of Acu on Wednesday, after

April 3, 2013
Total Views: 7

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
STX Offshore Seeks Corporate Restructuring Amid Serious Debt Issues
Finance

STX Offshore Seeks Corporate Restructuring Amid Serious Debt Issues

By Joyce Lee SEOUL, April 2 (Reuters) – South Korea’s STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co Ltd is seeking a corporate restructuring agreement from

April 2, 2013
Total Views: 5

Friday, March 29, 2013
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News

Marisco Handed Monster Fine for EPA Clean Water Act Violations

HONOLULU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) announced today their settlement with Marisco

March 29, 2013
Total Views: 53

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News

Even a Weakening Yen Won’t Save Japan’s Shipyards Says JMU

(Bloomberg) — Japanese shipbuilders may post losses next fiscal year as the yen’s weakening fails to mitigate the impact of a global supply glut

March 29, 2013
Total Views: 64

Thursday, March 28, 2013
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Engineering News

Damen Shipyards to Build Robert Allan-Designed “Rotor Tugs”

Vancouver-based naval architects, Robert Allan Ltd. report today that two of their new ART 80-32 class Rotor tugs are to be built by the Damen Shipyards group

March 28, 2013
Total Views: 228

U.S. Navy’s LCS’ Lack Muscle, Admiral Warns
Interesting

U.S. Navy’s LCS’ Lack Muscle, Admiral Warns

By David Lerman (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy’s troubled Littoral Combat Ship, a vessel intended to be small and speedy for use in shallow waters

March 28, 2013
Total Views: 39

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Multimedia

WATCH: VT Halter Marine Launches USNS Maury (T-AGS 66)

Pascagoula, Mississippi shipbuilder VT Halter Marine held a christening ceremony yesterday for USNS MAURY (T-AGS 66), the seventh ship in the T-AGS 60 Class of

March 28, 2013
Total Views: 125

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Multimedia

Big Steel – CIMC Raffles’ Latest Semi-submersible Crane and Accommodation Vessel

CIMC Raffles’ deepwater semi-submersible lifting & accommodation rig SSCV 206 finished sea trials this month. In December 2012, CIMC delivered the

March 28, 2013
Total Views: 20

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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Finance

OSX Brazil is Stymied by the Capital Markets, Still Seeks $265 Million Loan

Brazilian shipbuilding and ship-leasing company OSX Brasil SA is in the process of raising a $265 million short-term loan due in 2014 from foreign investors to

March 26, 2013
Total Views: 2

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Engineering News

Rongsheng Heavy Posts Biggest Loss Since 2007

As forewarned in December, Chinese shipbuilder Rongsheng Heavy Industries, posted a 2012 loss of USD $92 million, the opposite of the $90 million profit they

March 26, 2013
Total Views: 4
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