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Aker delivers fast day ferry
Aker Yards has delivered a new fast day ferry for Oslo Line AS, part of Color Line. The vessel built at the Rauma yard is the second in the series of two Superspeed ferries. ?SuperSpeed2? will start on the route Larvik in Norway to Hirtshals in Denmark. With a service ...
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Siemens sells Napier Turbocharger
Siemens Energy has sold its Napier Turbocharger business, a 100% subsidiary of the Oil & Gas Division, to the investment firm Primary Capital, London. Napier operates in Lincoln, Great Britain, and employs 160 workers engaged in design, manufacture and service of turbochargers used with diesel and gas engines in marine, ...
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World's first ships to use operational CO2-Index
Five large containerships of Greek shipping company Costamare will be the first worldwide to operate in full compliance with MEPC / circ. 471 of IMO regarding operational CO2 indexing. Costamare has registered the vessels COSCO Guangzhou, COSCO, Ningbo, COSCO Yantian, COSCO Beijing and COSCO Hellas with Germanischer Lloyd's operational CO2 ...
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China's oldest shipyard relocates
China's oldest shipbuilder, Shanghai?s Jiangnan Shipyard, has moved recently to a new home to make room for World Expo 2010. The shipbuilder, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp. (CSSC), moved from its Huangpu River site in Shanghai to Changxing Island on the mouth of the Yangtze River, which is ...
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Lind? to cut staff
During the past week, the management of Odense Staalskibsv?rft A/S in Lind?, Denmark, has had discussions with representatives of the yard's employees about the serious financial situation. Even though the employees have signalled their support to the yard, also by concrete proposals, the yard management has concluded that it has ...
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Strategic Marine building on speculative basis
Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine is building eight aluminium crew boats on a speculative basis. In a move which is expected to boost its revenues by over $40 million, the company will build six 40-metre vessels at its Singapore shipyard, and two 52-metre crew boats at its new Mexican yard at ...
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Hyundai inks order for nine oil tankers
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest shipyard, has won a 852-billion-won ($837 million) deal to build nine oil tankers. The deal with a European shipping company calls on HHI to deliver the vessels by March 2012.
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LR readies shipping for ?seafarers? bill of rights?
Lloyd?s Register has developed a voluntary assessment programme, designed to support the practical implementation of the forthcoming ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006) on new and existing ships. Not yet mandatory, the MLC, a significant development in international shipping described as a ?bill of rights? for maritime labour, is expected ...
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Wärtsilä acquires I.C.E.'s Dubai business
Wärtsilä continues to expand its boiler services with the acquisition of the boiler services business of International Combustion Engineering's (I.C.E.) former subsidiary in Dubai. The acquired boiler service business, which currently employs seven people, will be integrated into Wärtsilä in Dubai. This transaction follows Wärtsilä's acquisition of the Denmark-based ...
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?Shinas? arrives in Oman
The Sultanate of Oman?s record-breaking 65 metre vehicle-passenger catamaran ?Shinas? has arrived in Muscat, Oman, following its 15-day journey from Austal?s shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. The vessel made the journey under its own power, making scheduled stops at the Cocos Islands and Mal?e in the Maldives.?Shinas? is the world?s ...
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SCHIFFKO becomes Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany
Wärtsilä Corporation has re-named its Hamburg-based ship design company SCHIFFKO GmbH to Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany GmbH. The change is effective from 1 June 2008. The name SCHIFFKO is retained as a product name for the company's ship designs. Wärtsilä acquired SCHIFFKO GmbH at the end of 2006 with the ...
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LR introduces environmental management standard
Using the expertise of its quality assurance business, LRQA, Lloyd?s Register has developed a shipping industry specific guide for the ISO 14001 environmental management standard to enable ship operators to establish and implement effective environmental management systems.The core is an environmental ?practical pack? for ship operators - a step by ...
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BERG Propulsion launches Singapore factory
Swedish company BERG Propulsion, a leading manufacturer of controllable pitch propellers (CPP) for the marine industry, recently launched its new production facility in Tuas, Singapore. The new plant is the first of its kind in South East Asia, and the first ever for BERG outside of Sweden. With the new ...
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First ?Comfort Conscious? VLCC
The National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), the leading Iranian tanker company, has recently taken delivery of its latest newbuilding, the 320,000 dwt Marbat, from Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. The ship is notable as being the first VLCC to have DNV?s highest ?comfort? notation ? COMF-V(1). This means that seafarers ...
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Keppel bags Brazilian semisub contract
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has secured a $385 million repeat order to build a semisubmersible drilling rig for Brazilian oil and gas exploitation and production company Queiroz Galv?o Óleo e G?s (QGOG). This price excludes the drilling and subsea equipment which ...
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MAN Diesel expands service network in North America
MAN Diesel celebrated the official opening of service facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA, and is hereby expanding the MAN Diesel PrimeServ Network in North America. Over 200 customers, suppliers and business partners, including John E. McCormac, Mayor of Woodbridge, NJ, came to celebrate what is now the largest MAN ...
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SCI places LR-1 orders
State-owned Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has ordered six LR-1 product tankers of 60,000 DWT from STX Shipbuilding in a deal worth $371m for delivery from 2010 onwards. SCI has also received government approval to order two 4,400 TEU cellular container vessels from another shipyard to be finalised next month. ...
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MAN Diesel?s environmental milestone
MAN Diesel is relaunching its portfolio, making all its engines compatible with the limits established by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in its Tier II regulations. The relaunch is an historic milestone for the company, and one which preempts the January 2011 implementation of the new IMO NOx emission limits. ...
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Keppel bags Ensco semisub rig
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) in Singapore has won a contract to build a $537 million ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig from a subsidiary of Dallas-based Ensco International Incorporated (Ensco). This contract follows shortly after of the award of the fifth semisub, ?Ensco 8504?, that was announced on earlier last month. ...
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L&T to enter shipbuilding biz
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in India will enter into shipbuilding business with an initial investment of Rs 20 billion ($468 million) next year according to local reports. The shipbuilding project would start in April 2009 and the first L&T-built vessel will be out within two to three years. Moving ahead ...
