Shipbuilding News & Maritime Intelligence

FMT Shipyard & Repair in Harvey, La., has delivered the 1,600-hp towboat Ann Nash to Maritime Partners of Metairie, La., the fourth vessel the yard has completed for the marine leasing company. The…

Navios Partners has confirmed contracts for seven additional newbuilds worth $700m, expanding the US-listed owner's orderbook to 34 vessels. The latest investments cover both tanker and container…

Greek owner Thanassis Laskaridis has doubled his LR2 tanker newbuilding commitment at China's Hengli Heavy Industries, ordering two more 114,000 dwt vessels and taking his total commitment at the…

Shipowner Ravi Mehrotra has returned to the newbuilding market after a 10-year absence, ordering four very large ammonia carriers (VLACs) as the opening move in his Foresight Group's planned $1.2bn…

Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS), the Singapore-based company owned by Idan Ofer, has signed contracts with Japan's Imabari Shipbuilding for two 9,000-TEU and two 6,000-TEU container ships, market…

Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has taken delivery of three new 210,000 DWT LNG dual-fuel Newcastlemax bulk carriers built by Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding in China. The vessels, named…

Navios Maritime Partners has disclosed $215.2m in additional tanker newbuilding acquisitions, adding one VLCC and two MR2 product carriers to its fleet investment programme, according to the…

Piraeus-based Venergy Maritime, led by Vyron Vasileiadis, has exercised shipbuilding options to expand its VLCC orderbook to four vessels at Hengli Shipbuilding in China, doubling its initial…

Copenhagen-based product tanker owner Torm has agreed to acquire eight LR2 newbuildings through a 50/50 joint venture structure, while also securing options for two additional MR newbuildings.…

T.S. Lines Ltd. has signed shipbuilding contracts with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding and China Shipbuilding Trading Co., Ltd. for two 11,000 TEU container ships, in a deal worth US$246 million.…

Samudera Shipping Line has signed shipbuilding contracts for two new 3,000 TEU container vessels as part of its fleet development programme. The Singapore-listed carrier entered into the agreements…

Malaysian tanker owner Orkim has signed contracts for two additional product tankers to be built in China, committing about $37.6m as it continues fleet expansion following its stock market listing…