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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.

Fincantieri’s Castellammare di Stabia shipyard to build second Logistic Support for the Italian Navy

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) December 21, 2021 – The Fincantieri SpA-led consortium Raggruppamento Temporaneo di Impresa (RTI) has been awarded a €410...

Ports of Tenerife strengthens the infrastructure for naval repair in the eastern dock

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) December 17, 2021 – The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife...

French shipbuilder Piriou acquires Romanian shipyard

Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) December 15, 2021 – Brittany-based French shipbuilder Chantiers Piriou has acquired ATG Shipyard on the Danube in...

Sanmar Shipyards and Corvus Energy sign historic deal at TugTechnology

Leading tugboat-builder Sanmar Shipyards and energy storage systems provider Corvus Energy signed a historic co-operation agreement at TugTechnology 2021 to...

Sanmar acquires third shipyard in Turkey.

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 8, 2021 – Tugboat builder Sanmar has announced that it has acquired a third shipyard in Turkey, in addition to...

Ferretti’s investment in Taranto to go ahead

Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2021 – A meeting of Contratto istituzionale di sviluppo per Taranto has produced an agreement that will allow...

MSC Crusies and Fincantieri mark float out of the line’s next flagship MSC Seascape

MSC Seascape is one of three MSC Cruises ships currently under construction, two of which will be delivered in 2022 following the two that already came into...

Vigo Ship Repair relaunched in Galicia

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) November 18, 2021 – The Vigo Ship Repair platform has been relaunched by over 20 local companies, businesses and associations...

Sanmar deal will see first Tier III tugs in Italian ports

Sanmar Shipyards has signed a contract to deliver two cleaner and greener versions of its Bogacay series of tugs to Sicily-based operator Rimorchiatori Augusta...

Fincantieri and Navantia agree to boost collaboration in European defence

Madrid/Trieste, November 2, 2021 – Fincantieri and Navantia have reached an agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to boost their...

Fincantieri has expressed interest in the restructuring of Greece’s Elefsis shipyards

Athens, Greece (PortSEurope) October 25, 2021 – The Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA has expressed interest in joining an investment group to lead the...

Fincantieri’s Palermo shipyard to build naval ship for Qatar

Palermo, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) October 11, 2021 – The Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA has reported that a vessel commissioned by the Qatar...

Fincantieri’s Vard wins order for wind farm vessels

Trieste, October 4, 2021 – Fincantieri’s subsidiary Vard, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of specialized vessels, has secured contracts...

Navantia’s digital transformation will improve its operations by 20%

Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) October 5, 2021 – The president of Navantia, Ricardo Domínguez, has said that the company’s digital transformation...

Turkey to sell land for shipbuilding in Zonguldak

Zonguldak, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 29, 2021 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure is preparing to sell a 220,000 m2 piece of land in the...

Greece signs a agreement with Naval Group and MBDA

Greece signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Naval Group and MBDA opening negotiations for the supply of three FDI HNs and one optional – September...

Palumbo Superyachts awarded concession at Port of Savona

Savona, Italy (Ports Europe) September 15, 2021 – For the second time, Palumbo Superyachts has been awarded a 20-year concession of the Savona production...

3 Maj shipyard sale attracts no bids

Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) September 2, 2021 – An attempt to sell an 88.27% stake in the 3 Maj shipyard owned by the bankrupt Uljanik group has...

“Norwegian Prima” floated out of port of Marghera

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) August 30, 2021 – The “Norwegian Prima” ship is the first of six vessels of Norwegian Cruise Line’s (NCL)...

Turkey’s Sefine Shipyard wins Russian icebreaker contract

Yalova, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 30, 2021 -Earlier this month, Turkey’s Sefine Shipyard was awarded the contract to construct an 18 MW icebreaker to be...

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