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Hyundai orders buoyant
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder, said that new orders across the board jumped to $8.33 billion during the first half of this year. This exceeds the initial target of $4.5 billion by 81% for the six months to June.Ship orders alone totaled $5.41 billion in value, comprising the ...
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Canada goes green with biodiesel
Partners in the BioMer project announced a $563,000 project to demonstrate that biodiesel is a viable alternative fuel for river cruise ships. The project, which runs from June to October, will test the use of pure biodiesel (B100) as a fuel supply for a fleet of various types and sizes ...
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EU delaying Gdynia Shipyard decision
The restructuring plans for the Gdynia Shipyard Group in Poland faces delays as the EU commission in Brussels is purportedly dragging its feetTwo earlier schemes have already been aborted because the company was unable to implement them. Now the EU Commission is delaying its approval of the document and it ...
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Appledore wins super yacht contract
Appledore Shipbuilders, in North Devon, has won a contract to design and build an 80 metre long super yacht which will provide work for more than 40 engineers and up to 100 construction staff over the course of a year. The yard, which went into receivership last September, was bought ...
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Viet Nam getting bigger
The Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) is building a 100,000 dwt oil tanker at its Dung Quat shipyard. The double hulled ship, the biggest of its kind to be built in Viet Nam to date, will measure 245 metres long, 20 metres wide and have 14 cargo tanks. Equipped ...
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BV wins Spanish award
Bureau Veritas has been chosen by Spain's Association of Naval Architects and Marine Engineering as the "Best Marine Company in Spain in 2003." The award was presented at a ceremony in Madrid last week by Jose Ignacio de Ramon, president of the Association, to Luis Guerrero Gómez , Marine Manager ...
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New orders forecast to ease off
Nobutaka Nanbu, Executive Managing Director of the Shipbuilder's Association of Japan (SAJ), reported at the regular SAJ press conference held earlier this month that newbuilding orders placed with Japanese yards for the first half of 2004 amounted to 3.83 million CGT, which is virtually unchanged from the 3.80 million CGT ...
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RCI signs jumboisation agreement with KMY
Royal Caribbean International (RCI) and Kvaerner Masa-Yards, a member of the Aker Yards group, have agreed on a revitalisation project, including a midbody lengthening, for the cruise ship Enchantment of the Seas. The project has been developed by KMY?s Customer Service Division. The midbody will be built at KMY?s shipyard ...
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ESA highlights rogue waves
European satellites confirm the stories of mariners who describe seeing freak waves as tall as 10-storey buildings, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). ?Rogue waves? have been the anecdotal cause behind a number of sinkings over the past two decades. Until now, evidence to support this has been sketchy ...
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Mitsui upgrades facilities at Chiba plant
Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding will be undertaking a major expansion of facilities at its Chiba site in the next few months. The work, which includes enlarging its steel processing plant and installing new cranes, is due to be completed in June 2005 at a total cost of $24.3 million. ...
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BMT to help mitigate offshore wind farm navigation risks
British Maritime Technology Ltd (BMT) is applying its world-class navigationrisk assessment tools and expertise in a bid to help regional marine authorities mitigate the risks associated with offshore wind farm developments.BMT has already extensively used DYMITRI, its advanced coastal zone marine traffic risk simulation tool, in a number of large ...
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Aker Langsten to build PSV for Simon M?kster
Aker Langsten, one of the shipyards in the Aker Yards Group, has signed an agreement with Simon M?kster Shipping AS of Stavanger, Norway, to build a PSV (Platform Supply Vessel) for approximately $28.6 million. Delivery of the vessel is scheduled for the second quarter of 2005.The PSV is a MT ...
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Twenty five ports in Philippines not yet ISPS compliance
According to the Philippines? Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), twenty-five of the country?s 120 major ports have yet to comply with the new International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) code that was implemented on 1 July. The country?s trade secretary said that the remaining non-compliant seaports and shipping ...
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Babcock shipyard announces redundancies
Babcock International has made cuts in its workforce at its Rosyth dockyard in Fife, Scotland, as part of a company shake-up. The news came as a surprise since only four days ago the Ministry of Defence has awarded the troubled yard a multi-million pound order to refit three Royal Navy ...
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US firm interested in BAE's Shipbuilding Unit
US buyout firm, Carlyle Group, has expressed an interest in buying BAE Systems shipbuilding business although Carlyle hasn't decided if an offer would include BAE's submarine operations at Barrow-in-Furness, England since the sale of Britain's only submarine business to a foreign company may be politically sensitive. BAE has already indicated ...
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Aker Yards to build PSV for DOF ASA
Aker Brattvaag, a company in the Aker Yards Group, has been awarded a contract worth approximately NOK 200 million by DOF ASA to build a Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) of the MT 6000 type. The vessel is scheduled for delivery in the summer of 2005. "Aker Yards is pleased to ...
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MLIT and NMRI develop new pod propeller system
The Japanese Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport and National Maritime Research Institute have announced the completion of a new contra-rotating pod propeller system developed as part of the Super Eco Ship research project. The system, which is the result of a research and development programme started in 2001, was ...
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Daewoo confirms KOTC order
Daewoo Shipbuilding confirms that it received the letter of intent from Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) for building three product carriers and the contract will be signed in August. Hyundai Heavy Industries said that it is in negotiations for two VLCCs and two LPG carriers with the same owner. However, ...
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Gaz de France and NYK confirm LNG order
NYK and NYK Armateur, a subsidiary of Gaz de France (GdF), have signed a contract with Chantiers de l?Atlantique for the construction of a 153,500 cubic metre LNG carrier. This vessel will be jointly owned by NYK (60%) and NYK Armateur (40%) and will be chartered to GdF for 20 ...
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SembCorp Marine to buy into Cosco Shipyard
The Singapore ship repair and shipbuilding company, SembCorp Marine, is paying $28.5 million for a 30% stake in Cosco Shipyard Group (CSG), China's largest ship repair company with yards in Dalian, Nandong and Guangzhou. The investment will be funded from SembCorp Marine's own internal resources.SembCorp is also transferring its 20% ...
