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CULines signed a contract with Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding on 16 September 2026 for two 14,000 TEU containerships. It is the Chinese carrier's first newbuilding order for vessels above 10,000 TEU. The ships add owned tonnage at the top end of its fleet after earlier charter and newbuild moves this year.
Chowgule and Company's Shipbuilding Division delivered its 50th export vessel on 8 September 2026, completing a 12-vessel series for AtoB@C Shipping, a subsidiary of ESL Shipping. The yard said 48 of the 50 export vessels were built in Goa and two in Mangaluru, with most customers in Europe.
India launched ORV Sagar Manthan, its first indigenously built ocean research vessel, at Rishi Bankim Shipyard in Kolkata on 09 Sep 2026. Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers built the vessel for the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research under the Ministry of Earth Sciences. The ship was launched about five months after keel laying and is built under the Deep Ocean Mission’s Vertical-4 at a cost of about Rs 840 crore.
MacGregor has secured a contract to supply cargo-handling systems for six 1,700 TEU dual-fuel, LNG-powered containerships being built at Cochin Shipyard Limited in India for CMA CGM. The ships are scheduled for delivery between 2029 and 2031, and the order was booked in MacGregor's Q2 2026 results.
Grandweld Shipyards said it completed a three-month voyage repair job on a vessel that stayed fully operational throughout the work. A four-man riding squad fabricated, installed and commissioned an LSFO bunker pipeline system while the ship sailed across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India.