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Yangzijiang to build 20 boxships for Cosco
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has won a $1.4 billion contract from China's Cosco Container Lines to build twenty 4,250 teu container ships. This includes options for four ships.The vessels are to be delivered between 2011 and 2012. This is the largest deal the China-based shipbuilder has received this year.
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Korean yards bag offshore orders
Samsung Heavy Industries has obtained new orders totaling $2.41 billion including a $1.15-billion deal to build two semi-submersible floating drilling rigs for an undisclosed Russian client for delivery in September 2010. In addition African and American clients ordered two oil drilling ships worth $1.26 billion for delivery in May 2011.Daewoo ...
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STX wins $200 mln order
STX Shipbuilding in Korea has secured a $200 million order from the Middle East to build four bulk carriers. The ships would be delivered by 15 June, 2011.
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RR wins additional offshore marine contract
Rolls-Royce has won £72 million of further business on its largest ever offshore marine contract from Germany's Nordcapital Group, taking the total order value to £155 million. The company said it will design and equip four more offshore service vessels, in addition to the six Nordcapital ordered in June. The ...
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Yangzijiang signs mega Cosco contract
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding based in Jiangyin, China, has signed a preliminary contract with Cosco Container Lines to build 20 vessels worth $1.36 billion. The ships are expected to be delivered between August 2011 and June 2012.
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APJ orders three bulkers
Kolkata-based Apeejay Shipping, (APJ Shipping), part of the Apeejay Surrendra group, has placed orders for three dry bulk carriers of 57,000 DWT from Cosco shipyard group of China at a total cost of $130 million. The three vessels will be built at Cosco?s Guangzhou shipyard and will be delivered between ...
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China builds two for Transworld
Dubai-based logistics and shipping firm Transworld has awarded a Dh293.6 million ($80 million) shipbuilding contract to China's Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard for two feeder container vessels. The order is in line with Transworld's aim to strengthen its fleet given the growing demand for cargo transportation by sea. The 175-metre ships are ...
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Samsung wins LNG quartet
Samsung Heavy Industries has won an 851.3 billion won ($905.4 million) order for four LNG carriers. The order came from an unidentified company in the Americas and the ships will be delivered by January 2012.
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Aker delivers another Conti boxship
Aker Yards Germany in Wismar and Rostock-Warnemünde delivered the fourth container vessel in a series of five of the newly developed type Aker CS 2100 container ships for Conti Reederei in Munich. The 30,750 DWT newbuilding was named Conti Arabella and will sail on its maiden voyage under its charter ...
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WWL's orders world's largest ro-ros
WWL's owners Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA of Norway and Wallenius Lines of Sweden have ordered four of the world's largest ro-ro vessels from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' (MHI) Nagasaki yard in Japan for delivery in 2011 and 2012. The new ships will service Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and have a carrying capacity of ...
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Krasnoye Sormovo scoops another five tankers
The Baku-based shipbuilder Krasnoye Sormovo, part of the MNP Group, has won another contract from Palnali Shipping Company for five IMO2 tankers of "New Armada" type of RST22 project with high "ECO Project" ecologic class. Andrey Ivanov, MNP Group Shipbuilding Director, said that the first contract for five contracts was ...
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China in bulker mode
China Shipping Development Co plans to order four very large ore carriers (VLOCs) from Chinese shipbuilders for a total of $470 million. Each vessel will have capacity of 300,000 dead weight tonnes. The company also plans to order ten 57,300 DWT bulk carriers for a total $386 million from China ...
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Saipem to build deepwater FDS
Milan-based Saipem SpA will build a new deepwater field development ship (FDS)to be named 'Saipem FDS 2?, at an overall cost of 380 million euros. The order with the shipyard is expected to be signed in the second quarter of next year for delivery in three years time. The new ...
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GE Shipping orders two more bulkers
Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd in India has placed an order for building two 57,000 DWT dry bulk carriers. The order has been placed with Cosco (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co Ltd and the vessels are expected to be delivered by second quarter of 2010-11. This is the second contract GE Shipping ...
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ABG delivers Egyptian AHTV
Mumbai-based ABG Shipyard has delivered its third anchor handling tug vessel (AHTV) to Egypt-based Maridrive & Oil Services SAE. The AHTV, named ?Maridive-229?, will assist in the offshore oil and gas field activities of Maridrive on Egyptian shores. The AHTV is 61 metres long and displaces 3,600 tonne fully loaded. ...
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CMB announces fleet expansion
Bocimar, part of the Belgium CMB Group, has expanded its newbuilding programme with the acquisition of two newbuilding Capesize vessels. The first vessel is a 180,000 DWT bulker that has been ordered from Imabari in Japan at a cost of $108 million and delivery is expected to take place in ...
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New reefer for Eimskip-CTG
The Icelandic shipping company Eimskip-CTG has received its fifth new reefer vessel in approximately two years. The newbuilding, a combined reefer and container vessel, was built at Myklebust Verft AS in Norway and will be named ?Holmfoss?. It is 82m long and 16m wide, with maximum cruising speed of 16 ...
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K Line gets new LNG carrier
"K" Line LNG Shipping (UK) Limited (KLNG) in London has taken delivery of its brand new 145,000 m3 LNG carrier ?Celestine River?. This Moss LNG tanker was constructed at the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation?s Sakaide Shipyard in Japan and will be chartered to a subsidiary of Cheniere Energy Inc. for a ...
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Austal to go ahead with expansion
Austal USA plans to go ahead with a $200 million-plus expansion of its Mobile River shipbuilding facility, whether it wins major new military work or not, company officials said. The shipbuilder expects to learn sometime in January whether it wins a preliminary, $3 million design contract for a high-speed troop ...
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Flensburger yard launches last BC ferry
The last in a three-ship order for double-ended ferries for Canadian ferry operator British Columbia Ferry Services (BC Ferries) was recently launched at Flensburger shipyard and delivery is planned for May 2008. BC Ferries owns approx. 35 ferries which are operating on 28 different routes on the Pacific coast of ...
