Shipbuilding

Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) recorded a 21 percent increase in its shipbuilding and repairs activity in the first half of the year, with 207 ships serviced in that period, compared with 171 vessels in the same period of 2017.

Eleven people were killed when a barge and a crowded catamaran collided in Russia's Volga River, pitching people off the sailboat and into the water.

Emergency Situations Ministry officials said rescue operations ended on June 12 when searchers found the body of the 11th victim, a woman.

The "Korean-Hellenic Maritime Cooperation Forum," to be held on Wednesday, June 6, in the context of the Posidonia 2018 shipping fair next to Athens International Airport, is expected to draw quite a crowd and will highlight the long-standing cooperation between the two nations in the maritime sector.

An Athens court has approved an appeal by the Greek state and Piraeus Bank to prepare the Skaramangas shipyards for liquidation.

As long as there are no objections from the key shareholder Privinvest, which is far from certain, the government will be able to start auctioning the shipyard's assets via an international competition.

32 people are missing after a collision of an oil tanker and a cargo ship in the East China Sea, the Bulgarian National Radio reported, referring to the Chinese Ministry of Transport, quoted by world agencies.

A group of more than 100 US lawmakers are pushing to double the number of aircraft carriers procured for the US Navy for fiscal year 2019.

The submarine rescue ship TCG AKIN (A-584), built in the Istanbul Shipyard, was delivered to the Turkish navy on Dec. 29 in an official ceremony in Istanbul.

In the ranking of the Top 50 Italian architecture and design firms drawn up annually by Guamari and published in the Sole24Ore newspaper, Zuccon International Project is in twenty third place overall and the leading yacht designer by far.

Russia has built the world's deadliest submarine. Kremlin recently claimed that the most advanced ballistic missile submarine could easily hit targets 5,778 miles away with nuclear warheads. Defence experts are of the opinion that Borei II-class ('North Wind') submarine - named 'Knyaz Vladimir' or 'Prince Vladimir' - is the world's most powerful and dangerous.

Turkish Coast Guard teams rescued six crew members on a Russian cargo ship on Nov. 21 after the vessel issued an emergency call off the Black Sea coast.