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Drydocks World signs MOU with MARS

DECEMBER 12, 2013 — Dubai’s Drydocks World and Maritime World have signed a MOU with MARS Fundusz Inwestycyjny Zamkniety (MARS Closed-End Investment Fund), a Warsaw, Poland, based company, that manages multiple companies

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Brazil rig project involves major logistics moves

OCTOBER 25, 2013 — With Brazil’s offshore industry requiring ever bigger and more complex floaters, shipbuilders require increasingly complex logistics solutions to bring components together from different fabrication sites and then transport

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Groen orders two more chasers at Damen

OCTOBER 23, 2013 — Rederij Groen, Scheveningen, The Netherlands, has returned to Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam, part of Damen Shipyards Group, with an order for two more 35 m x 8.7 m seismic

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Japanese consortium takes stake in Brazilian shipbuilder

OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Five Japanese companies are to take a 30 percent stake in Brazilian shipbuilder ECOVIX — Engevix Construções Oceânicas S.A. They are shipbuilders Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), Imabari

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Two Leevac yards team to build Z-Tech tug

OCTOBER 22, 2013 — Leevac Shipyards, LLC recently delivered the first of two 60-t bollard pull Z-Tech 2400 harbor tug boats, the Chloe K, to Bay-Houston Towing Co. Leevac has shipyards in

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Harvey Gulf closes Abdon Callais asset purchase

OCTOBER 14, 2013 — New Orleans based Harvey Gulf International Marine reports that it has closed its $460 million cash asset purchase of Abdon Callais Offshore, while simultaneously selling six of the

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Scorpio Bulkers goes on a buying binge

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

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Vancouver Shipyards awarded another 10 NSPS vessels

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