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Keppel Signs $684m FLNG Conversion Deal with Golar

Jul 22, 2015

Keppel Shipyard has signed its third contract with Golar Gandria for vessel conversion works.  The $684 million contract to convert a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier to a floating liquefaction facility (FLNG) with the subsidiary of…

Bharati Shipyard Turns Sick, Files with BIFR

Jul 22, 2015

Debt-laden Bharati Shipyard Ltd on Tuesday said it has filed a reference with the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), since it has become a sick company after eroding its entire net worth. 'The Company's Net Worth as on March 31…

Poseidon Containers Launches IPO

Jul 21, 2015

Poseidon Containers Holdings Corp. announced today the commencement of its initial public offering (IPO) of 15,380,000 common shares. The company said it will grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 2,307,000 additional common shares…

Sri Lanka to Establish Terminal for Cruise Ships

Jul 21, 2015

A fully-fledged cruise terminal is to be set up at Colombo port given the increasing number of calls by cruise vessels, according to Lakdas Panagoda, chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). The SLPA plans to convert the Bandaranaike…

Newport News Shipbuilding Bags US Navy Submarine Contract

Jul 21, 2015

The U.S. Navy has given Newport News Shipbuilding a $106 million contract to provide engineering and industrial support for submarines.  Huntington Ingalls Industries, parent company of Newport News Shipbuilding, said the contract will be worth a total of $564 million…

Kansas Shipping Hub Announce Finalists

Jul 21, 2015

Seven finalists have been selected for the site of a proposed Kansas transload shipping center. The Kansas Department of Transportation/Kansas Turnpike Authority Transload Facility Site Analysis team selected the finalists from the 111 proposals submitted for consideration…

Brazil Convicts First Engineering Exec in Petrobras Scandal

Jul 20, 2015

Three executives of Brazil's Camargo Correa group were convicted on money laundering, corruption and other charges on Monday, the first construction-industry executives to be sentenced in a giant price fixing and bribery scandal involving state-run oil company Petrobras…

NorSea Group Adds UK Finance Director

Jul 20, 2015

NorSea Group (UK) Ltd has appointed Karen Russell as its first UK Finance Director. Russell becomes the third addition to the group’s executive team as the company continues to grow its activity across Scotland in both the decommissioning and subsea support sectors…

New Maritime College Planned for India

Jul 20, 2015

One of India’s leading maritime businesses has unveiled plans for a new $10 million maritime training college in the Patna district of Bihar State in India. Capt. Nalin Pandey, chairman and managing director of Mumbai-based Pentagon Marine Services…

Concerns Remain Over the Use of Low-sulphur Fuel

Jul 20, 2015

As a global move toward using cleaner fuel takes place, countries are forming new or reforming old regulations which see jurisdictions increasingly demanding the use of low-sulphur fuel in ships that berth in their ports. This results in a possibility…

Market Rife Merger Talk, NOL Says Not Yet

Jul 20, 2015

As Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek, readied is to sell Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), the market has been rife with merger talk with Hong Kong's Orient Overseas International Ltd (OOIL) and Hamburg's Hapag-Lloyd being leading candidates…

BW Group Buys Dorian Stake

Jul 20, 2015

Scorpio Tankers Inc has agreed to sell its 6 million common shares of Dorian LPG Ltd to BW Euroholdings Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of BW Group Limited, for a purchase price of $15.34 per share.  The shares will be sold pursuant…

Daewoo Shipbuilding Bags LNG Carrier Order

Jul 20, 2015

South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said it has received an order for a new LNG carrier from a ship management specialist Chandris of Greece. The new deal calls for Daewoo to deliver the LNG vessel, able to carry 173…

Vietnam to Go-ahead with $2.5 bln Port Project

Jul 19, 2015

Vietnam's government has agreed on a port project in the southern province of Ca Mau, costing some $2.5 billion according to media reports and which would be able to host some of the world's biggest ships.The Hon Khoai port would be built under a public-private partnership…

Iran Offers India Bigger Role in Developing Port of Chabahar

Jul 18, 2015

The port of Chabahar in southeast Iran is central to India's efforts to circumvent arch-rival Pakistan and open up a route to landlocked Afghanistan where it has developed close security ties and economic interests. According to a Reuter's report…

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