Worldyards

	Worldyards.com is a powerful research tool placing unrivalled accuracy and functionality at the fingertips of the maritime community. Worldyards is a web-based information and analytical system contains commercial and technical information about active merchant shipbuilding universe. As of today, the on-line system covers 253 shipbuilders in 26 countries, 665 beneficial owners with vessels on order, 4898 orders of merchant vessels, 314 conversions, 8676 vessel designs (for existing and newbuilding vessels), 126 design houses and 5656 shipping/shipbuilding news entries. The Worldyards' team rigorously verifies and tracks changes of newbuilding orders and shipbuilder capacity directly through first hand contact with the yards and owners.
In a single login, the members can :
- Obtain accurate information on a shipbuilder's history, facilities, track record, corporate structure, standard designs, orderbook as well as practical information, such as layouts of and travel tips for getting to the shipyards in question.
- See technical and commercial details of vessels that are on order as well as view and track contract details, re-sales, delivery, sales and demolition.
- Access vital statistics, such as orderbook/existing fleet ratios, age profiles of the fleet, delivery schedules, rankings of shipbuilders/shipbuilding nations.
- Of particular interest are the statistics tracking changes to the orderbook / fleet, such as terminations, rescheduling, and slippage.
- Capture the annual capacity of individual shipbuilders in the world's first ever scientifically quantitative forecast of shipbuilding capacity.
Worldyards subscribers include the largest and most prominent ship-owners, oil companies, shipbuilders, class societies, shipbrokers, shipping banks, shipping funds, equipment makers and consulting firms. As an independent enterprise, Worldyards.com Pte Ltd regularly conducts research consultancy for clients in the areas of delivery projections, credit analysis, supply/demand, offshore fabrication and ship repair.

03-Mar-2014, Uni-Asia Orders New Handysize Bulker at Imabari

Hong Kong-based Uni-Asia Holdings Limited announces the company has contracted a 37,000 handysize bulker newbuilding at Imabari Shipbuilding through its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Uni-Asia Shippin...

28-Feb-2014, STX O&S Announces Newbuilding Contracts for Eight 74,000dwt Product Tankers from Navig8

Korean shipbuilder, STX Offshore & Shipbuilding, announces the signing of a contract with Singaporean shipowner, Navig8, for the construction and delivery of eight 74,000dwt LR1 Product Tankers. The c...

28-Feb-2014, BW LPG Declares Options for Two VLGC vessels at Hyundai Heavy

BW LPG announces that that company has recently declared options to build a further two 84,000cbm very large Gas carrier (VLGC) at Hyundai Heavy Industries. The two new additions to BW LPG's newbuildi...

28-Feb-2014, Yangfan Bags Four Additional Bulker Orders from D'Amico

D'Amico Societa di Navigazione (D'Amico) is reported to have declared options for two 64,000dwt supramax bulkers and two 39,000dwt handysize bulkers at Yangfan Group in January and February 2014, resp...

28-Feb-2014, JMU scores LNG Tanker Pair from Tokyo LNG

Japan Marine United Corporation (JMU) announces the company has received an order from domestic owner, Tokyo LNG Tanker Co. Ltd. (Tokyo LNG), for the construction and delivery of two 165,000cbm LNG ta...

26-Feb-2014, Precious Shipping Orders Ten Supramaxes at Sainty Marine and Plans Another Two at Taizhou Sanfu

Bangkok-based Precious Shipping reports to the Stock Exchange of Thailand that the company has entered into shipbuilding contracts for the construction of ten 64,000dwt supramax bulkers with Chinese s...

21-Feb-2014, Wisdom Marine Expands its Fleet with Two 81,7000dwt Bulker Carriers at Namura

Taiwan Stock Exchange listed shipowner, Wisdom Marine files an announcement that the company has placed an order for two 81,700dwt bulker carriers at Japanese shipbuilder, Namura Shipbuilding. Wisdom ...

20-Feb-2014, Sungdong Wins Two More MR Tankers from A.P. Moller

Korean Shipbuilder, Sungdong Shipbuiding is reported to have received orders to build a further two 50,000dwt MR-typed tankers for Danish shipowner, A.P. Moller.

A.P. Moller signed a cont...

14-Feb-2014, MOL to Build Methanol Carriers

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announces the company has signed a contract with Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Limited (MHTL) for construction and chartering of four new methanol carriers. MOL says the...

14-Feb-2014, Qingshan Scores Supramax Newbuild Contracts from Atlantska Plovidba

Chinese shipbuilder, Qingshan Shipyard was reported to have received an order for two 63,800dwt bulk carrier from Atlantska Plovidba with options for two additional vessels attached to the deal. Deliv...

11-Feb-2014, Hyundai Heavy Bags VLCC duo from Oceanbulk

Hyundai Heavy was reported to have received an order of two 300,000dwt Very Large Crude Tanker (VLCC) orders from Greek shipowner, Oceanbulk Maritime, recently for deliveries in 2016. Market reports s...

08-Feb-2014, Russian government approves two Arctic Shipyards by Rosneft

Russian authorities greenlighted plans by oil giant Rosneft to begin production of Arctic seagoing vessels at two separate facilities. The state-run company will build a new shipyard complex in the vi...

07-Feb-2014, SHI terminates three remaining ships in ZIM Shipping Contract

Samsung Heavy Industries has declared termination of the last three ships in the contract with ZIM Shipping, the Korean shipbuilder revealed in a regulatory filing to the Korea Stock Exchange. The th...

06-Feb-2014, DNV GL project to convert old tankers into water treatment plants

Phased-out tank ships are part of a solution that can provide much needed clean water for coastal cities according to a DNV GL research project. Transforming ships into offshore treatment plants for w...

05-Feb-2014, IHC Merwede Shipyard wins set of innovative orders

IHC Merwede says it has been successful in securing orders worth 350 million for a wide range of dredging and offshore vessels and equipment, including a large trailing suction dredger for a Chinese c...

05-Feb-2014, Odense design company concludes engineering contract with MHI

Odense Maritime Technology A/S (OMT) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) have concluded an agreement on collaboration in ship engineering business. MHI and OMT are targeting development of var...

04-Feb-2014, Konecranes supplies industrial cranes to Russian shipyard

In December 2013, Konecranes received an order for the supply of 15 industrial cranes to the Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex in the town of Bolshoi Kamen in Russian Far East. The cranes, which are mainly ...

03-Feb-2014, Nevsky Shipyard tender reveals status

A tender by Nevsky Shipyard for a military support tanker have revealed current status of the shipyard. The contract between the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation and Nevsky Shipyard LLC f...

01-Feb-2014, Imabari absorbs Koyo Dockyard into Hiroshima Shipyard

Marine-net reported that "Imabari Shipbuilding has officially absorbed/merged with its subsidiary Koyo Dockyard (headquartered in Mihara, Hiroshima Pref.) effective Feb. 1, thereby putting it under it...

31-Jan-2014, Nose job brings fuel savings

Copenhagen, Denmark, headquartered Clipper Group says it is seeing fuel savings of 8.5% as a result of bulbous bow and rudder bulb modifications made on a 2011-built G-type 9,100 dwt multipurpose carr...