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STX achieves its annual new order target
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea received an order for two 47,400DWT product carriers from TMM (Grupo TMM S.A) in Mexico. Total contract price is $62 million and both will be delivered by July 2007. Ship particulars are 183m long and 32.2m wide with a depth of 19.1m. This is the ...
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NewsMOL orders a very large iron ore carrier
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has signed an agreement with Nippon Steel Corporation, one of the world's largest steel companies, to develop and build one of the world's largest iron ore carrier. The 323,000DWT bulk carrier will be built by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) with delivery slated for the second ...
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Princess Cruises specifies common rail engines for newbuilding at Fincantieri
An agreement was reached between Princess Cruises, the engine builder Wärtsilä and the shipyard Fincantieri that the latest newbuilding, hull 6100, will be equipped with Wärtsilä?s common rail engines. The engine configuration is four 12-cylinder engines and two 8-cylinder engines, all of the Wärtsilä 46 type in diesel-electric configuration, giving ...
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Samsung and IHI sign technology cooperation
Samsung Heavy Industries signed a technology cooperation agreement on LNG containment tanks with IHI in Japan. Samsung said that it will apply the new technology on LNG storage system to offshore ships such as LNG-FPSO and LNG-FSRU which the shipbuilder will develop in future. The Korean shipbuilder further said that ...
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MEP waste water system for Silver Seas cruise ship
Italy-based ISIR in a strategic alliance with West Palm Beach-based Marine Environmental Partners (MEP) has sold the recently certified MariSan A-WWTP (Advanced Waste Water Treatment Plant) to the Silver Seas? cruise ship, Silver Shadow. The system has been delivered and will be in operation prior to the ship?s Alaska itinerary, ...
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Sperry to supply navigation systems on 12 newbuildings
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) has received orders to supply navigation and bridge systems for 12 new tankers to be built for Italian ship owners at shipyards in South Korea and China. The value of the contract was not disclosed. The ships include four 46,000 DWT product tankers for D'Amico ...
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World cement trade growth ahead?
After advancing by 18.4mt (21%) over 1998-2001, and then declining by 4mt (9%) to 102mt in 2003, the volume of cement and clinker traded internationally by sea has potential for further expansion, based on a number of contributory factors. This is one of the conclusions of the major new report ...
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ISU pollution survey highlights decline in salvage workload
Results from the latest annual Pollution Prevention Survey published by the International Salvage Union (ISU) show that oils, chemicals, other pollutants and bunker fuel recovered last year totalled 605,677 tonnes, as against 957,122 tonnes in 2002. This amounts to a decrease of nearly 37%. This is a significant decline in ...
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MacGREGOR adds fire-extinguishing systems to its portfolio
The MacGREGOR Group has signed a contract with Finnish fire safety specialist Softonex to become the exclusive distributor and service provider for Softonex?s fire-extinguishing systems in marine sector. The contract covers global sales of fire-extinguishing systems to newbuildings and conversions, with the exception of Japan and Thailand, and a worldwide ...
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NewsDiamond Princess delivered
The latest addition to Princess Cruise?s fleet, Diamond Princess, was named and delivered yesterday by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). The 116,000gt vessel with a 2,670 passenger capacity launches a new ship design for Princess and makes history as the first large cruise ship built in Japan in more than a ...
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New IMO test simulates bilge water treatment under ?real life? conditions
With effect from January 1, 2005, bilge water treatment systems installed in newbuildings and retrofitted on existing ships must fulfil tougher demands to gain IMO approval. While the limit for the oil content in bilge water pumped overboard remains the same at 15 ppm, an additional step is being added ...
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Newbuilding orders round-up
Hyundai Samho Shipyard in South Korea secured an order for two 159,000DWT tankers from a ship owner in Bermuda. The pair will be delivered during 2007 at a total cost of $118 million. Hyundai Mipo Dockyard won an order for a 47,000DWT ice class 1A product carrier from OMI Corporation. ...
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NewsNorfolkline orders third new ferry
Norfolkline has confirmed the order of a third new purpose-built RO-PAX ferry to meet growing demand on its Dover to Dunkerque cross channel freight and passenger services. The company currently has the first two ferries of its new generation RO-PAX ferries under construction at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in ...
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MSC selects Alstom for two cruise-ships
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has just selected ALSTOM as the builder of its new generation of cruise-ships. The contract calls for ALSTOM to construct two 1,275 cabin cruise-ships, with an option for a third sister-ship. It will enter into force once the financing arrangements have been put in place by ...
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Samsung and Tsuneishi to cooperate
Samsung HI revealed that it signed a cooperation agreement with Tsuneishi Corporation. This represents the first of such an agreement between a Japanese shipbuilder and a Korean shipbuilders. The cooperation covers design, purchasing, production and workforce training. The agreement also includes mutual exchange of marketing information such as new order ...
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Korean shipbuilders capture new orders
Daewoo Shipbuilding said that it clinched two orders for VLCC?s, one from TCC in Taiwan and another from World Wide in Hong Kong. Both vessels will be delivered during 2007. Safmarine of Belgium exercised an option for a 4,200TEU container ship at Hyundai Heavy Industries for delivery during 2007. ...
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Korea Shipyard to build a shipbuilding facility
The Korea Shipyard Co. in Mokpo and Jindogun in Jeollanamdo have signed a contract for the construction of a shipyard in Jindogun. The new shipyard will have an annual shipbuilding capacity of 200,000 DWT and will be completed by the end of 2005. Some $24 million will be invested and ...
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Telenor Satellite Services improve SSAS
Telenor Satellite Services today announced that it is expanding its Inmarsat C and Mini-C system at the Eik earth station in Norway making it easier for ship owners to comply with the new global Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) requirements defined by IMO. Telenor's commitment to provide SSAS solutions via ...
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Bow Mariner search postponed
The offshore supply vessel Powhatan returned to Little Creek on Tuesday after encountering heavy weather that prevented the ROV from being launched to begin searching for missing seamen of the Bow Mariner and to take video footage of the vessel to determine whether there are recoverable quantities of ethanol and ...
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STX wins order for tanker quartet
GESCO (Great Eastern Shipping Co) of India has ordered four 47,400 DWT product/chemical tankers from STX Shipbuilding. The vessels ordered have a length of 183m, a breadth of 32.2m, and a depth of 19.1m with a service speed of 14.8 knots. The tankers are scheduled for delivery in 2007. This ...
