Shipbuilding

The 60-foot long, 30-foot wide island was the 452nd lift of the nearly 500 total lifts needed to complete the first of the next-generation class of American

By Kyunghee Park Keppel Corp., the world’s largest oil-rig maker, said there are opportunities to buy companies even as the entry of Chinese shipyards

New York-listed Seaspan Corporation (NYSE: SSW) announced Wednesday that it has signed contracts for the construction of four fuel efficient 10,000 TEU

Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri on Wednesday said that it has successfully completed its previously announced purchase of a controlling stake in STX OSV

By Frances Robinson BRUSSELS–The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to verify whether numerous public support measures granted by

The Clipper Stad Amsterdam, jointly owned by the city of Amsterdam and HR agency Randstad, has been plying the world’s oceans continuously since her

OKPO, KOREA – On 15 January at 1435 local time, a shipyard worker was killed and 3 others slightly injured by a massive piece of steel that fell off

Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) — Kvaerner ASA, a Norwegian builder of oil platforms, dropped the most in almost a month in Oslo after it lost out on a $1.1 billion

By Rodney Jefferson Scotland’s shipyards would lose contracts and be “doomed” if the country votes to leave the U.K. in a referendum next

Orient Overseas Container Lines announced today the christening of two 13,208-TEU container ships, the M/V OOCL Brussels and the M/V NYK Helios, at a ceremony

Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) — The total number of new vessels joining the global fleet this year is expected to be as much as 220, about the same as 2012

The Queen Elizabeth 2, the ocean liner known as the QE2 that plied the Atlantic for almost 40 years, will be moored in Asia as a 400-room luxury hotel

SINGAPORE – The new year has started off well for Sembawang Shipyard.  In the first two weeks of January, the Singapore-based yard carried out

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced today the signing of a newbuild contract with Vancouver-based Seaspan Corp. for five 14,000 TEU containerships,

Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard announced today they have successfully righted the jack-up drilling rig which tipped over on December 3rd of last year.

The ultimate goal of Chinese shipbuilders is to expand into specialized ships of higher value such as drill ships and semisubmersibles where South Korean

Vigor Industrial announced today they have reached an agreement with Daoda Marine Heavy Industry Company (DDHI) to purchase a new floating drydock for a total

ATHENS – DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) announced today the sale, via novation, of two of its 158,000 DWT suezmax dry bulk carriers, the Esperona and

In a $1.3 billion speculative venture, Frigstad Deepwater Ltd placed an order last week with CIMC Raffles for two, 7th generation ultra deepwater Frigstad

BW Maritime and Samsung Heavy Industries signed a ship-building contract on Friday for BW’s first Liquefied Natural Gas Floating Storage Regasification