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Shipbuilding/Repair

Port activities associated with shipbuilding and ship repair. Includes both military vessels and cruise ship building. Also covered is ship repair and oil platform servicing.

Noatum Maritime to build two ships for KazMorTransFlot

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 20, 2025 – Noatum Maritime, the maritime & shipping division of AD Ports Group, has signed Heads of Terms...

Sanmar to build electric tugboat for Svitzer

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 19, 2025 – Sanmar has signed a contract with Svitzer, a leading provider of towage and marine services, to...

UZMAR Shipyard delivers ‘EFES 10’ tugboat to itself

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 17, 2025 – UZMAR Shipyard has added its latest state-of-the-art RAstar 2800 series tugboat, EFES 10, to its own...

BOTAS receives new tugboat from UZMAR Shipyard

Kocaeli, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 17, 2025 – The second tugboat, ‘Silivri’, built to expand and modernize the tugboat fleet, was delivered to...

AD Ports, KazMorTransFlot to build container ships for shrinking Caspian

Abu Dhabi, UAE (Ports Europe) January 17, 2025 – AD Ports Group, the large logistics and port operators in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and...

Baku Shipyard builds Damen dredger

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 15, 2025 – Baku Shipyard is constructing a Damen Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) 650. Damen Shipyards Group has...

Sanmar delivers new tug to work in northern Baltic

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 3, 2025 – Sanmar has delivered a new Ice Class tug to Finland-headquartered operator Alfons HÃ¥kans to work in...

Turkey’s STM to build two ships for Portuguese Navy

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 20, 2024 – STM, the country’s leading naval defence company, has won a contract to build logistics support...

Med Marine adds new tugboat tug to fleet

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 18, 2024 – Med Marine is adding a firefighting harbour tug to its fleet after its construction as newbuild ER144...

Finland orders new icebreaker ship

Helsinki, Finland (Ports Europe) December 17, 2024 – The Finnish government has said that it has ordered a new icebreaker ship, the “Aino”,...

Svitzer orders four tugs from Cheoy Lee in China

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) December 11, 2024 – Towage company Svitzer has signed a contract with the Hong Kong shipyard, Cheoy Lee, for four new...

Romania to end local joint venture with Dutch shipbuilder Damen

Bucharest, Romania (Ports Europe) December 5, 2024 – The local state-owned shipbuilder Santierul Naval 2 Mai Mangalia has agreed to terminate its...

Port of Antwerp receives first electric tugboat

Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) November 29, 2024 – The Port of Antwerp-Bruges has taken receipt of six energy-efficient tugboats. The delivery includes...

BIMCO launches a Ship Recycling Alliance

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) November 14, 2024 – BIMCO has launched a Ship Recycling Alliance to support safe and environmentally sound recycling...

Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife will have largest capacity floating dock in 2026

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) November 14, 2024 – The Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife will have the largest capacity...

Sanmar delivers new tugboat to P&O Maritime Logistics

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) November 12, 2024 – The local Sanmar Shipyards has delivered a new ASD tugboat to P&O Maritime Logistics, a DP World...

Botas orders four battery-electric tugboats from Sanmar

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) October 29, 2024 – Botas Petroleum Pipeline Corp has ordered four battery-electric tugboats from local tug builder...

Uzmar Shipyard delivers tugboat joins P&O Reyser, Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 25, 2024 – Turkish shipbuilder Uzmar Shipyard has a new tugboat to Spanish shipping company P&O Reyser, part...

Fincantieri signs contract for two Viking cruise ships

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) October 25, 2024 – Fincantieri has signed a contract with Viking to build two new cruise ships, based on previous ships...

Piriou delivers two new tugs to Port of Saint-Malo

St. Malo, France (Ports Europe) October 3, 2024 – The shipbuilder Piriou has delivered two new OST 22 tugs to EDEIS Ports de Saint-Malo & Cancale,...

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