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The Board of Directors of Ezion Holdings Limited announced that it has secured a charter contract and a letter of intent to provide two Service Rigs to be used by a Southeast Asian based national oil company to support its oil & gas activities.

SeaBird Exploration Plc (“SeaBird) SeaBird announced that the contract for Hawk Explorer has been extended by Spectrum ASA for a minimum of 2 months and will work under the new Framework Agreement.

Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited yesterday announced a three-year time charter extension for the 2007 built, 163,216 dwt, double hull suezmax tanker, Arctic, with the same charterer, a South American state oil company.

Centrica Energy has extended an existing contract for one year firm with a further one year option. Operating vessel is the Freyja Viking, a platform supply vessel of the VS470 MkII Design, operated by Viking Supply Ships.

U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, announced $250 million for Bollinger Shipyards

Drydocks World, one of the largest shipyards in the world, has signed an MoU with Privinvest Holding, which has state-of-the-art

The Supra 8 pool was set up in June this year, marking Navig8’s entry to the dry market with an initial fleet of four ships.

Damen Shipyards, which has already built up a considerable presence in Argentina since the nineties,

DP World, UAE Region, the region’s premier marine terminal operator, took a major step towards the development of a massive new container

On Friday 14 September, Ulstein Belga Marine, a market leader in navigational communications service and equipment,

The Vessel Black Box is a flexible, integrated vessel movement monitoring system. Innovative sensor solutions from the aerospace industry are used,

Seadrill has entered into a turnkey contract to build a new ultra-deepwater drillship at the Samsung yard in South Korea.

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division shipped two Virginia-class submarine modules

The Dutch offshore industry is an international front-runner. The sector adds considerable value to the Dutch economy and has strong potential in generating economic growth.

Bank Mandiri and Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) have agreed to provide loans worth US$105 million to Pelindo II to help the financing of the Kalibaru Port development program.

Scorpio Tankers Inc. yesterday that it has taken delivery of STI Garnet, the fourth vessel under its previously announced Newbuilding program

Yesterday evening at around 10 p.m. the MV “Maersk Laguna” was the first container vessel to tie up at the quayside of the EUROGATE

Just under three months now remain before Coral Energy, Skangass’ new LNG ship is to be launched and put in operation.

Sinopacific’s Zhejiang yard in Ningbo, China, has entered into a contract with ULSTEIN for the delivery of twelve design packages

The Chinese state-owned shipping operator China Ocean Shipping Group Co. (COSCO) is considering a major order of 10 supertankers aimed