STX Shipbuilding Wins $215m Order

STX Shipbuilding Co., said on Jan. 29 that it has won a deal valued at $215 million to build two bulk carriers. The deal from a European shipping company calls on STX Shipbuilding to deliver the vessels by June 2010, the company said in a regulatory filing. The shipbuilder won deals valued at more than $10 billion last year to build 170 vessels including bulk carriers. In 2006, STX Shipbuilding clinched shipbuilding orders valued at $4 billion.