Chinas government-backed shipbuilders are busy despite the hammering the global shipping market has taken from the novel coronavirus pandemic. By orders, China State Shipbuilding Corp., the countrys top shipbuilder, was the global leader in

On June 24, New Yangzi Shipbuilding of Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group delivered two new vessels on the same day, the fourth and fifth delivered by the group this month. The fifth 45000DWT bulk carrier built by Yangzijiang Shipbuilding for B

CSSCs Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry and Indonesias PT Alur Biru Maritim recently signed a contract to build three 13,000 dwt deck ships via online video Cloud. Three new 13,000 dwt deck ships will be the main ship type built by Wuchang Ship

South Korea was a distant second player after China in terms of new shipbuilding orders in the first five months of the year, data showed Tuesday. In the January-May period, Chinese shipbuilders won new orders totaling 2.88 million compensa

On June 8, 2020, the No. 2 dual-fuel ro-ro ship built by CIMC Raffles for the Swedish shipping giant WALLENIUS SOL AB started construction on schedule. The ship is the second dual-fuel ro-ro ship in the dual-fuel ro-ro ship 2+2 series proje

On June 2, a 2,370-passenger / 3,850-meter lane luxury passenger ro-ro ship No. 1, built by Guangzhou Shipyard International (CSSC) for Moby, a subsidiary of Italys Onorato Shipping Group, started construction. Designed by Danish company OS

On June 3, Qingdao Conson Group and CSSCs Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry signed a contract to build the worlds first 100,000-ton smart fishery large-scale farming ship. The contracted Guoxin No. 1 aquaculture ship is expected to

Shipbuilder PT. Graha Trisaka Industri, in Batam, Indonesia is building a pair of new TRAktor V-3200 tugs for China Petroleum Corporation (CPC), of Taiwan. The shipyard, with support from Robert Allan Ltd., was awarded the construction cont

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Receives 4 Container Ship Orders. On May 27, Yangzijiang Shipbuilding and Zhejiang Seaport signed a construction contract for four 1000TEU feeder container ships. This batch of ships will be built in New Yangzi Ship

Advaita, a dedicated cement carrier under construction at Penglai Zhongbai Jinglu Ship Industry Co., Ltd, China was successfully floated out on 30th March 2020. The vessel is being built under classification of Indian Register of Shipping (

On May 23, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Offshore successfully delivered the sister ships of GUO HAI MIN XING and GUO HAI MIN SHENG, both PX121H platform supply vessels. GUO HAI MIN XING, GUO HAI MIN SHENG, GUO HAI MIN FU and GUO HAI MIN

On May 13, CSSC Chengxi Shipyard successfully delivered 82,000-ton bulk carrier built for Wah Kwong Group. This is the fourth new ship delivered by CSSC Chengxi in 2020. The leaders including the representative of the shipowner, the project

On May 8, the 308,000-ton very large crude carrier built by Dalian Shipbuilding Industry for China Shipbuilding Trading was successfully named and delivered. The representatives of DSIC, China Shipbuilding Trading and the leasing company af

South Korea ranked second to China in terms of shipbuilding orders for the second straight month, industry data showed Wednesday. Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co. and others won orders totaling 230,000 compensated gross tons (CGTs

After the bankruptcy auction, Zhenghe Shipyard, which was once a star shipbuilding enterprise in Zhejiang Province, will completely withdraw from the shipbuilding industry and transform into the field of environmental protection building ma