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New Tsuneishi bulker bow design cuts wind resistance

JUNE 2, 2014 — Japan’s Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. is marketing a 63,700 dwt bulker equipped with new Aeroline technology to reduce wind resistance. Aeroline combines Tsuneishi’s previously introduced cut-corner design for

China shipyard chief arrested

MAY 27, 2014 — Gu Tiquan, the head of Shanghai’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard has been arrested. He was handed over to judicial authorities by the Shanghai Communist discipline inspection commission which said he

Vigor, Oregon Iron Works ink merger deal

MAY 22, 2014—Already a major regional shipbuilding, repair and fabrication powerhouse in the Pacific Northwest, Vigor Industrial will expand its operations with the recent acquisition of Oregon Iron Works, Portland, OR. Under

BW Group goes on tanker buying binge

MAY 20, 2014 — BW Group, which has a fleet of 113 owned, part-owned or controlled vessels in the tanker, gas and offshore segments, is on a buying binge. Today it signed

Rongsheng books $1 billion bulker order

MAY 19, 2013 — China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Limited (01101.HK) says it has signed a shipbuilding contract for a series of 64,000 DWT bulk carriers with an undisclosed “European shipowner”