By Cindy Konrad (gCaptain) On October 19, 2011 ,under the National Shipbuilding Strategy, a $30 billion project, Seaspan won a major contract to rebuild the Canadian government’s non combat  vessels....

DUBAI, Aug 20 (Reuters) – The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Aramco and Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine to conduct a feasibility...

Jahre Marine AS signed a new building contract today with the chinese shipyard Avic Dingheng for building the first seagoing LNG carrier for bunkering and small scale distribution. The LNG...

(Reuters) STX Group, formerly Ssangyong Heavy Industries, shares tumbled on Monday morning after an official at Woori Bank said the company is considering a stake sale in STX Corp, the...

Ferus Smit shipyard in Westerbroek, The Netherlands launched the M/V Volgaborg today, the third of three multipurpose cargo ships built for Wagenborg Shipping. At 12,000 deadweight tons and 142.65 meters...

(Bloomberg) — Bergen Group ASA, a Norwegian shipbuilder and offshore services company, would consider offers for one or both of its two remaining shipyards after last week selling its Rosenberg...

By Frances Robinson BRUSSELS–The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to verify whether numerous public support measures granted by Portugal to the shipyard Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo...

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 commissioning almost thirteen years ago, explains Roland Berendsen,...

Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has confirmed that all shipyard workers have been accounted for after a jack-up rig accident injured 89 at Jurong Shipyard. A statement by Sembcorp Marine,...

An explosion at a South Korean shipyard has killed two workers and injured nine others, Yonhap News Agency has confirmed with Police. The explosion occurred at approximately 8:09 a.m. local...

Shipyard maintenance comes as a mixed blessing. It disrupts the daily routine of a ship while requiring long hours of work and the supervision of projects not normally performed by...

Workers at BAE Systems on Sunday moved the biggest section of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, the first of two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, out of the company’s shipbuilding...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) authenticated the keel of the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter Hamilton (WMSL 753) today at the company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding facility. Mrs. Linda Kapral Papp, wife of Adm....

Here is a nice video of a recent dry docking of the Mercy Ship’s hospital Ship AFRICA MERCY. [vimeo 47311612 w=500 h=281] Why Do We Dry Dock? from Mercy Ships...

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has made an arrest in connection with a shipyard fire that devastated the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine, USS Miami, in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on...

– by Matthew Flynn, DNV [dropcap]W[/dropcap]e have the best Korean technology and also the mentality of the Korean approach. We can do. We will do!” said Mr Lee Young Hoon,...

As Qatar ramps up its exports of LNG, Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) has built one of the largest LNG fleets in the world. Nakilat (‘carrier’ in Arabic) currently owns...

The Norwegian-owned offshore accommodation vessel, Edda Fides, one of the most advanced and sophisticated vessels of its type in the world, has been dry-docked at Gibdock in Gibraltar for a...

To some gCaptain readers, the superyacht market may be an alien world, however, over the last ten years, this niche industry has exploded. With dedicated, professional teams in place globally,...

According to China’s state-owned news company, Xinhua, 4 workers have died following a boiler explosion on board a bulk carrier at the Zijinshan Shipyard in Nanjing this past Friday night. The...