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
OCTOBER 7, 2013 — Less than 11 months after the original design contract was placed,four shallow draft, double hull, combination bulk oil and deck cargo barges are now in service delivering bulk
OCTOBER 6, 2013—Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries (HSHI), Yeongam, South Korea, a shipbuilding affiliate of Hyundai Heavy Industries, announced it successfully launched the Golar Glacier, a 162,000 m3 LNG carrier built using the
OCTOBER 4, 2013 —At the end of August, MAN Diesel & Turbo signed an agreement Dalian Marine Propeller Co., Ltd (DMMP) — part of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) Group— that
OCTOBER 4, 2013 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) said yesterday that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) had put on significant weight in the dry dock at its Newport