OCTOBER 18, 2013 — Chinese shipbuilding giant COSCO issued a flurry of announcements this week reporting additions to its orderbook, but also had some the not-so-great news concerning a $500 million DP3
OCTOBER 16, 2013 — Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) has been awarded a five-year contract for a newbuild dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillship by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Construction of the newbuild drillship is expected
OCTOBER 15, 2015 — Two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier vessels under construction in two Chinese shipyards are to have Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines. Wärtsilä says the two orders are similar in
OCTOBER 11, 2013 — Babcock Canada Inc., part of Babcock International Group, has signed a five-year teaming agreement with Chantier Davie Canada Inc. (Davie). Davie CEO Alan Bowen says “we have spent
OCTOBER 11, 2013 — Malaysia’s national oil company Petronas has ordered four 150,000 cu.m Moss type LNG carriers from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder. The contract, signed yesterday in
OCTOBER 10, 2013 — Bureau Veritas is to class three Ultra-Large Containerships (ULCSs) to be built for China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) and chartered to French operator CMA CGM. The ships are
OCTOBER 9, 2013 — Vigor Industrial has renamed two of its subsidiaries. US Fab, Vigor’s fabrication and shipbuilding subsidiary, is now Vigor Fab. Alaska Ship and Drydock, which operates the Ketchikan shipyard
OCTOBER 7, 2013 — With $300 million of gross proceeds from a September private placement in the kitty, Emanuele A. Lauro’s Scorpio Bulkers Inc. (OSLO-OTC: SALT) is doing what it said it
OCTOBER 7, 2013 — Diane Finley, Canada’s Minister of Public Works and Government, says that Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards will build an additional 10 non-combat vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard at an
Horizon Shipbuilding, Inc., Bayou La Batre, AL, was recently awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District, to build the M/V Shorty Baird Replacement, a 95 ft