Top Stories of the Week (Dec 16 – Dec 21, 2013)

December 22, 2013

Keppel Adds $119m in New Contracts

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd’s (Keppel O&M) subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard) and Keppel Nantong Shipyard Co. Ltd (Keppel Nantong) have secured five contracts worth approx. $119.3 million in total.

DSME Lands $539m Boxship Deal

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has won a major boxship deal from a European owner reaching its yearly target of $13 billion in new orders.

ASL Marine Hands Over PSV ‘Mermaid Leeuwin’

ASL Marine, a group operating four shipyards in Singapore, Indonesia (Batam) and China (Guangdong), today delivered an ultra-modern platform supply vessel named ‘Mermaid Leeuwin’ to Mermaid Marine Australia Limited.

Video: Float-Out of World’s Largest Hull

After 14 months of construction at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) yard, the Shell Prelude FLNG project continues to create history.

LHD Sevastopol One Step Closer to Completion

The fore part of the second Mistral-class assault landing ship, under construction at STX France shipyard for Russia, the LHD Sevastopol (N33) has been completed by the addition of a 440 t block.