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Aker wins Laeisz contract
Norway's Aker Yards has won a ??¬245 million ($353 million) contract to build six container ships for the Rostock-based shipowner Reederei F. Laeisz GmbH which operates a fleet of about 50 freighters, tankers, and research vessels. The deal is contingent on financing.The Oslo-based shipbuilder said the contract calls for delivery ...
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DDW to buy Labroy
Dubai Drydocks World (DDW) is making a voluntary conditional cash offer to acquire Singapore's Labroy Marine Ltd for S$2.37 billion ($1.63 billion) in a further sign of the booming Gulf emirate's plan to aggressively expand its global holdings. DDW has received irrevocable undertakings from Labroy's substantial shareholders to accept the ...
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Pakistan plans mega shipyards
Pakistan expects to earn $60 billion a year from transit trade after completion of the national trade corridor, a couple of shipyards and improvement of the North-South road network.The estimate has been prepared by the Planning Commission that is seeking advisory services from international firms for establishment of two large ...
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GOGL orders eight Kamsarmax in China
Golden Ocean Group Limited in Norway has placed a newbuilding contract for eight 80,000 dwt bulk carriers with Zhoushan Jinhaiwan Shipyard (Jinhaiwan) in China. The contract is valued at about $410 million in total and delivery is slated to commence quarterly from September 2009. Golden Ocean has already ordered five ...
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Another MFSV for Ezra
Singapore-based Ezra Holdings Limited continues to build its deepwater service capabilities with the award of a contract for a second large 27,000 bhp (19,840 kW) Multi-Functional Support Vessel (MFSV) to Karmsund Maritime Service AS of Norway. This follows hot on the heels of its earlier order for a similar MFSV.This ...
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Ghost ships??? yard wins permission for scrap facility
Able UK has finally won planning permission to develop a controversial facility to dismantle and recycle unwanted ships at its yard near Seaton Carew, Teesside in the UK.Peter Stephenson, the firm's chief executive, said: ???Now we can at last start to establish the Tees Valley as world-class centre for the ...
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SCI selects Havyard design
Havyard Group in Norway has confirmed that Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has selected Bharati Shipyard Ltd to build four new anchor handlers based on the Havyard 841 AHTS design.???When the SCI tender was issued, Bharati chose to offer a Havyard 841 design and succeeded in securing the contract in ...
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Aker gets order for three coastal LNG ferries
Aker Yards has signed a contract with Tide Sj?ø AS for three ferries dedicated to operate the link between Oslo and the peninsula of Nesodden. The ferries will be built in France at Aker Yards, Lorient, at a total contract price is approximately 45 million Euros.Construction will start in March ...
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VT starts Oman OPVs
VT Shipbuilding???s facility in Portsmouth Naval Base, UK, has officially started manufacture of the UK???s first naval shipbuilding export order for nearly ten years. Rear Admiral Salim of the Royal Navy of Oman (RNO) cut the initial steel on the first of three sophisticated 99m. Ocean Patrol Vessels (OPVs) which ...
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Cosco clinches bulker orders
The Cosco Shipyard Group in China has secured an order to build 29 bulk carriers worth 1.34 billion US dollars. The latest orders put Cosco's current order book at $6.4 billion, $6.2 billion of which were secured this year and reports suggest that Cosco could secure another $900 million in ...
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Bourbon orders two MPSVs
Following a European bid tender, Bourbon, the French offshore fleet operator, has placed an order for two high-tech Multi Purpose Supply Vessels (MPSV) from Socarenam, the French shipyard based in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Delivery is slated for the second half of 2009.The design of these vessels is based on a concept established ...
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Ulstein in cluster collaboration
A letter of intent is signed on the contemplated acquisition of a majority stake by the Ulstein Group in Netherlands based Sea of Solutions. The deal is, amongst others, subject to a positive outcome of the due diligence process. Both the Ulstein Group and Sea of Solutions enjoy a solid ...
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BAE-VT JV approved
Britain's BAE Systems (BAE) and VT Group (VT) won permission from the European Commission to merge their shipbuilding operations, according to a Reuters report. BAE will hold 55% and VT the remainder, and the deal will involve BAE selling its 50% stake in Flagship Training Ltd to VT for up ...
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Daewoo close to topping target
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said that its Romanian joint venture Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries Shipyard won an order for nine 5,550 TEU container ships from a European shipping company. So far this year Daewoo Mangalia has secured a record $1.92 billion worth of orders for 21 ships, topping the ...
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STX acquires Aker Yards stake
STX Group in South Korea has paid $800 million to become the biggest shareholder in Norway's Aker Yards ASA, moving into cruise liners as competition increases with Chinese builders. New stock worth $300 million will be sold and $500 million will be borrowed to buy 39.2% of Europe's biggest shipbuilder, ...
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Hanjin hiring local labour for shipbuilding
Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. (Hanjin) is currently recruiting at least 20,000 Filipino workers for its new shipbuilding and ship repair yard in Subic, Philippines. Hanjin is investing some $2 billion on the new facility. The first batch of 700 applicants have already been interviewed at the provincial ...
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STX to build Caspian shipyard
South Korea???s shipbuilder STX is ready to launch a project to be realized jointly with Azerbaijan Investment Company (AIC) to construct a shipyard near Baku on the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan. Anar Akhundov, AIC Chief Executive, said that STX has completed feasibility study on the project.???Presentation of ship-building factory in ...
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Strike affects Finnish yards
In Finland, the Union of Salaried Employees (TU) began a strike yesterday. The first stage of the strike is affecting seven large enterprises in the mechanical engineering and metal products industry in Finland, including Aker Yards. ???Our 4,000 employees at Aker Yards in Finland may be affected within a week??, ...
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Shipyard jobs are safe
Williamstown shipbuilder Tenix has assured 1,000 local workers that their jobs will be safe after the company is sold to the highest bidder. The owners of the company, the Salteri family, announced plans to sell just days before signing a $500 million Australian Navy deal that would employ a further ...
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Aussie yards in battle to recruit workers
INCAT has fired a warning shot across the bow of Austal Ships as the two Australian shipbuilders enter into a labour-market war. Western Australia-based Austal bought the operations of North-West Bay Ships at Margate in Tasmania last year and wants to increase its Tasmanian workforce from 90 to at least ...
