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MOL's vessels and US terminals ISPS certified
MOL (America) Inc confirma that all of the company's containerships calling at North American ports and all of MOL's own terminals are in compliance with IMO?s International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) and have been certified accordingly.The US Coast Guard will use ISPS Certification to enforce the US ...
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Korea Line orders a capesize bulker
Korea Line has ordered a 176,000DWT bulk carrier from a Japanese shipbuilder. The newbuilding, costing $51 million, will be delivered during the first quarter in 2006.
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New crane for A&P Falmouth
A&P Falmouth has a new 60 tonne crane which will service Nos. 3 & 4 drydocks in the yard. The new Bailey crane effectively doubles the lifting capacity, replacing the 30 tonne No. 18 crane which was dismantled in April.
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Samsung delivers world's largest container ship
South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered the world's largest container ship to a Canadian shipping company. Christened CSCL Asia, the 8,500 TEU ship is 334 metres long, 42.8 metres wide and has a service speed of 25 knots.
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Damen creates a ?short,fat monster?
Since introducing its first azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug, the ASD 3110 Citta Della Spezia back in 1993, the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards has built almost 100 compact ASD tugs in various design sizes such as the 2509, 2810, 3110, 3111 and 3211. All these are multi-purpose ASD tugs ...
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Daewoo clinches orders worth $800 million
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has clinched orders for six vessels, including four LNG carriers, worth a combined $800 million. The orders include three 150,000 cubic metre LNG carriers for Teekay Shipping of Canada and one 146,000 cubic metre gas carrier for Sovcomflot from Russia.The LNG carriers for Teekay ...
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New heights for common rail
A 70-ton four-stroke marine diesel engine resting majestically amid the Austrian Alps is not something one sees everyday. MAN B&W Deisel recently went to the trouble of transporting the 32/40CR to the Hotel Gut Brandhof in Saalfelden in order to introduce the new medium-speed marine diesel engine and, in particular, ...
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Scania marine engine gets EMS
Designed to provide high performance, low operating costs and low exhaust emissions, the DI12M EMS is Scania?s latest 12-litre marine engine equipped with the Scania EMS engine management system. Intended for use in vessels such as ferries, rescue and combat craft, and vessels for transporting wind turbine blades, the DI12 ...
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Two more capesize bulkers for Waigaoqiao shipyard
Two Hong Kong owners have placed newbuilding orders worth $70 million with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard for a pair of Capesize bulk carriers. The contracts have been placed by Wah Kwong Shipping, owned by shipowner George Chao, and Cape Asia, a pool of seven Hong Kong and Taiwanese shipowners, including Wah ...
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Orient Steamship gets handymax
The Hong Kong based Orient Steamship is expanding its fleet of large dry cargo ships with a $29 million deal for a 55,000DWT bulk carrier. Sources said the firm tied up the ship under a resale agreement with Jiangsu Ocean Shipping (Josco) which had ordered the vessel last year from ...
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Kongsberg Maritime launches new simulation software
Kongsberg Maritime of Norway has raised the standards of ship simulation,with the launch of Polaris 4.4.0, the latest version of its groundbreaking Polaris bridge simulation architecture. The fully scaleable Polaris 4.4.0 software forms the basis of either PC based desktop simulation systems or multi-channel full mission simulators based on real-life ...
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Daewoo wins TeeKay LNG trio
Teekay Shipping Corporation based in Nassau, Bahamas, has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea to construct three LNG carriers, representing a total contract price of approximately $510 million.These 151,700 cub metre newbuildings will be chartered by TeeKay to Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas, a ...
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Videotel warns of gas tanker crew shortages
Videotel, the London-based training company, has produced three new distance-learning courses for specialised training on oil tankers, liquefied gas carriers and chemical tankers to follow on from its existing tanker familiarisation course. Liquefied gas tankers are a fast-expanding sector of the maritime business but the sector requires competent seafarers with ...
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FESCO orders box ship quartet
Vladivostok-based Far-Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) has signed contracts with Chinese shipbuilder Jinling Shipyard to construct four 1,080TEU containerships. Deliveries are scheduled for March, September, November and December 2006. These newbuildings will be the fastest in the Russian company?s fleet with a service speed of 19.6 knots and will serve their ...
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Shanghai and Chengxi merge
Shanghai Shipyard and Chengxi Shipyard in Jiangsu, China, merged recently to form a combined newbuilding and ship repair company called Shanghai Chengxi Shipyard. Shanghai Shipyard has an annual shipbuilding capacity of 200,000DWT and a ship repair turnover of value of $24 million while Chengxi Shipyard focuses mainly on ship repair. ...
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Hyundai Samho gets weather wise
Hyundai Samho Shipyard in South Korea has established an automatic weather observation system (AWS) to improve production efficiency through providing detailed weather information. This will enable the Mokpo-based shipbuilder to cope better with the vagaries of weather conditions and improve outdoor works such as coating and sea-trials.
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Order revival for a contracting industry
While traditional newbuild markets for Dutch yards become weaker, there is optimisim that financial incentives will throw a vital lifeline to new orders.Dutch shipyards have shown considerable resolve in being able to compete with other European yards despite an often lower subsidy level. With less government aid, they were forced ...
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Remontowa diversifies
Remontowa has recently purchased a 200 ton capacity floating crane. REM-220 was built in the Flender Werft yard and comes with its own propulsion system in that form of two Schottel propulsors and a tubular rudder, which ensures excellent manoeuvring characteristics in shipyard?s canals. The maximum speed of the crane ...
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A&P ready for ISPS
The A&P Group has announced that all its facilities are now certificated under the ISPS Code, which was introduced to bring shiprepair and shipbuilding yards up to the same level of certified security as ports and terminals. Facilities include shipyards at Wallsend, Hebburn, Aberdeen, Teesside, Chatham Dover, Ramsgate, Southampton, Falmouth ...
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The Code in Practice
With SMM 2004 set to take place at the end of this month, it is time for the many exhibitors to ready their exhibits and themselves for the week-long frenzy of shipping and marine industry business activity. It is also time for visitors to SMM to acquaint themselves as to ...
