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Daewoo captures $1.1 billion new orders
Daewoo Shipbuilding has recently secured orders for 11 newbuildings worth $1.1 billion. The orders include four 148,300 cbm LNG carriers from Bergesen ASA and a 145,700 cbm LNG carrier from Marangas. The Bergesen order includes options for three more gas carriers. The South Korean shipbuilder also clinched three 300,000DWT ...
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ITOCHU and MOL in LNG JV with Algerian partners
Sonatrach (Algerian state-owned hydrocarbon company), Hyproc (shipping company wholly owned by Sonatrach), ITOCHU and MOL have agreed to establish a joint venture company (shareholding ratio 25% each) to construct a 75,500 cub metre newbuilding LNG carrier for long-term charter to Sonatrach.The JV has awarded the order for the new vessel ...
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RR opens new marine propulsion service and training facility in Norway
A new service workshop has been opened at the Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine site in Ulsteinvik on the west of Norway. This will be the centre of excellence in the North Sea area for servicing and repair of thrusters and propulsion equipment.The 3,000m2 hall is fully equipped with cranes and also ...
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Alstom wins Costa order
The Power Conversion Business of Alstom has just been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to supply electric power and propulsion equipment for the next Costa Crociere (Carnival Group) cruise ship to be delivered in summer 2006.This cruise vessel, the largest passenger carrying ship in the ...
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DESSO aims for a ship which is its own lifeboat
A workshop concerning ship safety will be held on 15-16 June in Gothenburg, to discuss the DESSO project (Design for Survival Onboard) which was started in December 2003. This was established as a result of the VINNOVA (the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems) call 'MARITIME SAFETY 2003-2005 - a new ...
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Kongsberg Maritime launches water ingress detection system for bulk carriers
Kongsberg Maritime is launching a sophisticated new water ingress detection system. specifically for bulk carriers. The system utilises the new patented GL-10 water detection sensors, which have been designed by Kongsberg to meet the carriage requirements under SOLAS Chapter XII Reg. 12 and are type approved by all classification societies.The ...
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Daewoo Shipbuilding operates CNC lathe
Daewoo Shipbuilding has just installed an extra-large CNC lathe at its machine fabrication shop to carry out final machining of 100-ton size shafts. The new lathe was designed to be controlled automatically by computer which contains all manufacturing data and will be able to machine a shaft of up to ...
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TEN joins LNG club
Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN) has signed a contract for the construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier. The 150,000 cubic meter capacity vessel will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea, and is scheduled for delivery in March of 2007. Today?s contract represents TEN?s first newbuilding order in ...
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Dakota Creek Shipyard delivers another fast ferry
Dakota Creek Industries (DCI) in the USA recently delivered the latest version of its aluminum-hulled fast ferry to owners in the San Francisco area. The $8 million, 300 passenger Solano left the shipbuilders Anacortes shipyard after successfully completing performance testing and final adjustments. The 41.5 metre long, 12.3 metre wide ...
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Singapore yard wins big conversion contract
Jurong Shipyard in Singapore has won a $1.066 billion contract to convert a crude carrier into one of the world's largest oil rigs for a unit of the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras. This latest project brings the value of conversion jobs taken up by the yard for the Brazilian ...
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USCG claims 45% ISPS compliance
Almost half the ships entering US ports now comply with stringent new international anti-terror codes due to take effect on July 1, according to a top U.S. Coast Guard official. The IMO claims that less than 20% of the world's merchant fleet and 10% of the 6,000 port facilities ...
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First Chinese SWATH starts maiden voyage
Chinese first SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin-Hull) offshore crew vessel New Central 1 recently left Tianjin Tanggu wharf for its maiden trip. The vessel was designed by Shanghai Merchant Ship Research & Design Institute and built by Guangzhou Huangpu Shipyard. Ship particulars are 39.78m overall length, 15m width, a draught ...
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Bender goes Mexican
Bender Shipbuilding & Repair company in Mobile, USA, has created a wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico which Bender?s president, Tom Bender, is promising will become "a world-class ship repair and new construction facility in Tampico that will make internationally competitive services and products available to our customers."Astilleros Bender (AB) is ...
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Lloyd?s Register-classed fleet reaches all time high
Lloyd?s Register?s classed fleet has reached an all time high of 113.8 million GT, surpassing the previous record of 113.7 million GT held in 1979. Taking into account world order book share, currently at 21.2 million GT, the combined tonnage of the existing fleet and ships on order far outstrips ...
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Strong growth confirms BV world leadership
Leading classification, certification and verification company Bureau Veritas (BV) has confirmed its position as the largest and strongest such group in the world, posting annual results which show the eight consecutive year of annual growth averaging over 17%.Turnover of the BV group for 2003 was Euro1.283bn ($1.51bn), up 12% on ...
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Sapphire Princess sails with Wynn wipers
Wynn Marine's type 1762 wiper system and Series 3000 control system are keeping the way ahead clear onboard the Sapphire Princess, the new luxurious 116 000 GT, 2670-passenger vessel recently delivered to Princess Cruises by Japanese shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.Sapphire Princess is the first vessel to utilise the Series 3000 ...
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Bach Dang Shipyard to be enlarged
The upgrading and enlargement project at Bach Dang Shipyard is expected to complete its first phase by the end of this year when 95% of the work will be done. Completed construction work to date includes two workshops for shipbuilding and hydraulic motor assembly, lengthening of the outfitting quay from ...
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South Africa launches rescue centre
South Africa launched a new Maritime Rescue Centre to help coordinate its response to shipping disasters and search-and-rescue operations in the region. The move comes as salvage experts continue the battle to save the Capesize bulk carrier Cape Africa that was holed off the country's west coast in April.South Africa ...
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New ceo shakes up Hyundai Heavy
Hyundai Heavy Industries may be the world?s largest shipbuilder and a major force in manufacturing construction equipment and marine engines, but it remains an ailing conglomerate suffering from reckless expansion and losing money. Since March however, its new chief executive, Yu Kwan Hong, with a reputation as Korea Inc.'s top ...
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Wärtsilä power for Ultra Voyager cruise ship
Wärtsilä Corporation has been awarded a contract by Kvaerner Masa-Yards in Finland to supply six Wärtsilä 12V46 as prime movers for the main generating sets for the Ultra Voyager cruise ship recently ordered by Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL). Due for delivery in May 2006, the Ultra Voyager is a development ...
