A Plaquemines Parish shipyard has landed a piece of a $300 million contract to build tugboats that will guide tankers in and out of Woodside Energy's massive liquefied natural gas export terminal under construction near Lake Charles... .
Seaspan is pushing further beyond its boxship roots, placing its first order in the dry bulk space with a series of open-hatch multipurpose vessels ... The yard said the design will combine improved manoeuvrability with higher loading efficiency ... .
Turkey’s Aygaz is stepping up its move into deepsea gas shipping, adding two more vessels to its fledgling very large gas carrier (VLGC) programme in South Korea... .
AkrotiriTankers is pushing further into the newbuilding market, branching out into larger crude tonnage ... Akrotiri has been steadily building scale since launching in 2025 ... .
Asian shipyards have feasted on a supercycle of ship orders in the 2020s ... This has contributed to an increase in newbuilding prices and longer lead times at shipyards, with 57% of contracting so far ...