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France orders two of the best from Italy
The Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri and the French owner Compagnie des Iles du Ponant, part of the CMA CGM Group, have signed a preliminary agreement to build two super luxury cruise ships. By adding this new brand to its customer portfolio, Fincantieri has further consolidated its presence in the promising business ...
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Hyundai wins Nakilat crane deal
The Qatar shipping company Nakilat has awarded a major contract to Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Company Limited and Hyundai Corporation (acting collectively as the contractor) for ten jib cranes. The contract, which has options, includes the design, supply, construction, installation, test and commissioning of ten rail mounted, level luffing, portal ...
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Dongkuk ups steel price
Dongkuk Steel Mill Co, which sells 30 % of steel used by South Korea's shipbuilders, raised the price of heavy plates by 13 % as yards face record orders for vessels. The first increase since July raises the price to 820,000 won ($870) a tonne on 11 February, a company ...
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New ICS environment code
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has updated its Code of Practice on Shipping and the Environment. The expanded 4th edition is intended to provide a concise but comprehensive summary of the environmental obligations of shipping companies as required by the latest international regulations, and a clear set of environmental ...
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Sietas delivers first type 176
The German heavy lift shipping company Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land GmbH & Co. KG (SAL) has named the first of eight new heavy lift vessels to be built by the German yard of Sietas. Named ?Frauke?, the vessel of type 176, with an unrivalled speed of 20 knots and a combined ...
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Keppel secures FPSO conversions
Singapore-based Keppel Shipyard Limited has secured contracts worth over S$215 million ($152 million) for the conversion of tankers to floating, production, storage and offloading units.These include the conversions of a tanker for Danish rig operator Maersk Contractors and the first FPSO in the US Gulf of Mexico for Norwegian contractor ...
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Prospects rosy for ASL
Singapore-based ASL Marine Holdings Ltd. posted 23.7% increase in revenue to S$193.4 million ($136.7 million) on the back of higher value shipbuilding projects and increase in ship repairing and conversion jobs during the first half ended 31 December, 2007. ASL's total gross profit rose 48.5% to over S$36 million ($25 ...
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China leads the world in ship orders
As of the end of December 2007, Chinese shipbuilders? orders-in-hand had totaled 158.89 million dwt, rising by 131% year-on-year, according to statistics released by the Shipping Industry Administrative Office of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence. China accounted for 33% of the world's total shipbuilding orders-in-hand ...
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HHI wins boxship sextet
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has won a deal valued at 794 billion won ($843 million) to build six container ships. The deal with a European shipping company calls on HHI to deliver the vessels by May 2011.The shipbuilder has enough orders to keep it busy for about four years. To ...
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China building Italian Capers
Italian shipping company Rizzo-Bottiglieri-De Carlini Armatori SpA (RBD) signed a $180 million contract with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard for two 177,000 dwt Capesize bulk carriers. "These will be the largest ships in our fleet. With them, we will develop a deep and stable commercial relationship with China, especially with its major ...
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Vietnam completes second Diamond bulker
The Ha Long Shipbuilding Company in the northern province of Quang Ninh, Vietnam, recently handed over the second 53,000 dwt bulk carrier to Graig group of the UK. The Blue Diamond freighter was designed by the Carl Bro company of Denmark and classed by DNV.Construction of the third newbuilding of ...
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Aussie yard bags another European order
The Netherlands-based maritime services company Smit has awarded Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine a contract to build three aluminium hulled crew/pilot boats for use in its Middle East operations.Strategic Marine chairman, Mark Newbold, said the sale of the 22.10m crew/pilot boats re-enforced Strategic Marine?s reputation as a global shipbuilder. "This is ...
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STX confirms new shipyard in Vietnam
STX Group's construction of a shipbuilding yard in Vietnam has been confirmed. The Korean shipbuilder announced that the Vietnamese government has recently approved of STX's plan to construct an offshore production base and that the company plans to invest $150 million by 2015. This event will provide the STX Group ...
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NASSCO wins T-AKE number 10
General Dynamics NASSCO, a unit of defense contractor General Dynamics Corp, said it was awarded a $460 million contract to build a tenth T-AKE dry cargo ammunition ship and buy materials for an eleventh. Construction on the tenth ship is due to start in January 2009, with delivery planned for ...
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SkySail ship slashes fuel consumption
The world's first commercial ship powered in part by a giant kite is recording fuel savings of between 10 and 15 % midway into its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, according to Bremen-based Beluga Shipping.The 10,000 dwt ?Beluga SkySails? left Germany on 22 January for Venezuela and its computer-guided kite ...
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Europe orders big cat
MGC Chartering Limited has placed an order with Australian high-speed catamaran builder Incat in Tasmania for Incat?s third state-of-the-art 112 metre wave piercing catamaran due for delivery in February 2009.Incat hull 066, the latest vessel in the successful 112 metre range from Incat, is specifically designed with the European ferry ...
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Low sulphur fuel deal for WWL
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics? (WWL), represented by their marine fuels partner Wilhelmsen Premier Marine Fuels, has signed its largest ever deal for low sulphur fuel with Shell Marine Products A/S. The deal is one of Shell Marine Product?s (SMP) largest supply agreements for low sulphur fuel oil and will see ...
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AMD helps build China's warcats
The Chinese Navy is using Australian technology to upgrade its warships, a move which experts warn may be detrimental to Australia's national security. Through a joint venture company based in China, an Australian business, AMD, has sold designs for the hull and propulsion system of high-speed missile-armed catamarans to the ...
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More support for lower speeds
There has been another call for ships to cut their sailing speed to save bunker fuel and cut harmful emissions. Lars Carlsson, chairman of the cross-industry lobby group SEAaT (Shipping Emissions Abatement and Trading) said it wasn't that oil was going to run out it was rather that "we cannot ...
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Container claims going overboard
The North of England P&I club based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, reports in the latest issue of its loss-prevention newsletter Signals that container damage and loss continues to be a problem on container ships. "Container losses and collapsed stows in heavy weather continue to occur," says the club?s head of loss-prevention ...
