Helsinki Shipyard has built up a Turku design office with more than 40 professionals in less than two years, after setting it up in 2024. The office now handles machinery, HVAC, electrical, interior, hull and deck outfitting work for the yard’s projects, while the wider design organisation totals around 160 people.
CMB.TECH reported first-half 2026 earnings of $733 million and said the tanker market could be reshaped by a wave of newbuild deliveries from 2027. Chief executive Alexander Saverys said around 370 VLCCs and 250 Suezmaxes are on order, with the combined orderbook above 30% of the existing fleet.
Everllence has won a contract to supply 16 high-speed 175D gensets for four Rampage 6000-DE offshore terminal tugs under construction at a Turkish shipyard. The vessels, designed by Robert Allan Ltd., will operate for Smit Lamnalco in Guyana supporting FPSO work in the Stabroek Block.
MSC has ordered 20 LNG-dual-fuel ultra-large container vessels from Hengli Heavy Industries and Zhoushan Changhong International in China. The package is valued at about USD 4.4 billion, with Hengli set to build 10 additional 22,000 TEU ships and take its MSC tally to 22 vessels.
Hengli Heavy Industry held the naming ceremony for two 325,000-DWT WinningMax very-large ore carriers for Winning International Group on 30 August 2026. The ships, Winning Genesis and Winning Sincerity, are the first batch of WinningMax-class vessels delivered under a strategic cooperation agreement signed in June 2024.
Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding and China Shipbuilding Trading Co. have signed a contract with COSCO Asset for 12 new 21,700-TEU LNG dual-fuel container vessels. The deal is worth $2.688 billion, or about 18 billion yuan, with deliveries set between 2028 and 2030.
CMA CGM has ordered six 3,100-TEU container ships from China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyard, according to market sources. The vessels will be 199.9 metres long, 35.2 metres in beam and have a designed draft of 8.5 metres.
Ardmore Shipping has exercised its final two options at Wuhu Shipyard, completing a six-vessel newbuilding programme for product and chemical tankers valued at about $269 million. The latest pair are 40,500 dwt handysize tankers, contracted on terms similar to the four ships already ordered. No further options remain on the series.
Fraser Industries signed a memorandum of understanding on July 31 with the American Great Lakes Ports Association and the Great Lakes Alliance of Shipyards. The agreement was described as the first formal partnership between the U.S. Great Lakes port and shipyard communities.
Namura Shipbuilding is considering a new large dry dock at its Imari shipyard in Saga Prefecture by 2035, according to reports citing Nippon. The dock would be Japan’s first new large dry dock since 2017 and is intended to support domestic construction of LNG carriers and ultra-large container ships.
CSSC Beihai Shipbuilding and China Shipbuilding Trading Co. signed a cooperation agreement with Shandong Shipping Corporation on 27 August for a 2+4 project of 325,000 DWT ethanol/methanol tri-fuel ore carriers. The vessels are designed to run on ethanol, methanol and heavy fuel oil, according to the announcement.
Enesel has ordered another 210,000 dwt Newcastlemax bulk carrier from Hengli Heavy Industries, expanding its orderbook there to five ships. Seanergy Maritime also placed an additional newbuilding order at the Chinese yard, as large bulk carrier ordering has picked up.