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Damen AHTS for Med Offshore
Med Offshore (MO) has ordered a Damen 6615 AHTS from the Damen Offshore series. This is the second time MO has ordered an AHTS from Damen, following the AHTS 6114, Med Otto, which was delivered in September 2006. Construction of the 6615 AHTS vessel will take place at Damen Shipyards ...
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Abu Dhabi plans commercial yard
Abu Dhabi Ship Building Co (ADSB) in Dubai, the Middle East?s largest naval builder, may set up a new shipyard for commercial vessels to tap demand from the region?s booming offshore oil and gas industry. "We want to cater for the offshore industry in the niche market of supply and ...
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Gdansk shipyard workers plan EU protest
Some 100 trade unionists from Gdansk Shipyard will picket the headquarters of the European Union (EU) in Brussels later this month to protest against plans of a decision on capacity reduction in the yard. The Gdansk Shipyard Solidarity trade union says the demonstration will be peaceful and that nobody wants ...
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ABG delivers newbuilds
ABG Shipyard in Mumbai, India, has delivered one vessel each to UAE-based Lamnalco Group and Norway-based Deep Sea Supply ASA. An anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel was delivered to Lamnalco Group and the shipyard is building another five vessels for the UAE based group. The yard also delivered an ...
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Samsung expanding capacity
Samsung Heavy Industries plans to resolve its shortage of production facilities in light of the dramatic increase in orders it has experienced in recent years, by building a new mega block assembly factory on a 280,000m2 plot near the Geoje shipyard. The plot is located across from the Geoje Shipyard, ...
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Szczecin gets government subsidy
Deputy Prime Minister Przemyslaw Gosiewski recently announced that Szczecin Shipyard is to receive PLN 100-200 million ($35 to 70 million) from the Polish government as a subsidy.
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PSV delivered to North Star
The NSS-IMT 978 Platform Supply Vessel ?Grampian Talisman? was recently delivered to her owners North Star Shipping at the Balenciaga Shipyard in Northern Spain. The newbuilding sailed from the port of Pasajes in Northern Spain for Peterhead in Scotland where she will commence a long term contract with Talisman Energy ...
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Bulyard to build three ships
Bulgarian shipyard Bulyard Shipbuilding Industry will build three bulk carriers for Bulgarian state-owned shipping company Navigation Maritime Bulgare, after signing deals worth a total of EUR 88.2 million ($118.6 million).Two of the newbuildings will have a capacity of 55,500 dwt costing EUR 32.6 million apiece and are scheduled for delivery ...
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Gazprom awards Vyborg tender
Vyborg Shipyard in Russia won the tender for the construction of drilling rigs for Gazprom. Valery Golubev, deputy chair of Gazprom said that the $2.3 billion contract involves the construction of hulls and upper decks for the drilling rigs, which will be used for the development of the Shtokman field.
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DSME wins ten ship order
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), the world's third-largest shipbuilder, has won orders valued at $2.1 billion to build 10 vessels. The deal from a European shipping company calls on DSME to deliver nine container ships and one drill ship by December 2011. With the latest deal, Daewoo has won ...
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DESSC - Delivery of another newbuilding
Deep Sea Supply (DESSC) has taken delivery of ?Sea Otter?, a 6,500 bhp AHTS vessel from ABG shipyard in India. The vessel will go directly to Indonesia for a four months time charter with Conoco Philips at a rate of $17,500 per day or equal to an estimated value of ...
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High activity level for AFP
Aker Floating Production?s (AFP) first FPSO vessel, contracted for offshore India, is slated to be completed on schedule. In the second quarter of 2007, the Indian company Reliance Industries Limited entered into a contract for chartering an FPSO vessel from AFP and the bare boat contract value is on the ...
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SOFF places orders with Aker
Solstad Offshore SA (SOFF) in Norway has entered into two contracts with Aker Yards for the construction of one platform supply/ROV vessel of Aker PSV / ROV 06 CD design and one offshore construction service vessel of Aker OSCV 06 L design. The total value of the contracts, inclusive of ...
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MODEC names new FPSO
Last Friday MODEC, BHP Billiton, and the Jurong Shipyard celebrated the naming ceremony of the FPSO Stybarrow Venture MV16. MODEC is the vessel owner and operator, BHP Billiton holds the long term lease and Jurong is the shipyard responsible for integrating the topsides. The new-build FPSO was finished in only ...
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Daewoo wins German boxship quartet
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has signed a contract to build four container vessels valued at about $485 from an unidentified German shipping company. The 8,400 TEU newbuildings will be delivered by July 2010.
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SNSA orders bitumen tankers
Stolt-Nielsen S.A. (SNSA), the Norwegian shipping company, has signed an agreement with Xinshun Shipyard in China for the purchase of up to six 5,900 DWT bitumen tanker newbuildings due for delivery from February 2010. Under the terms of the agreement, SNSA has placed firm orders for two ships and holds ...
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Norway investing in Philippine shipyard project
A Norwegian firm will invest $4.3 million in the construction of a shipyard in Subic Bay Freeport in the Philippines, further boosting the capability of this former naval base for maritime logistics and services. The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) signed recently an agreement with the Subic Bay Shipyard Consortium ...
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Sinopacific seeks to expand
Chinese shipbuilder Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group is planning to raise about $660 million in a public listing in the domestic A-share market in June 2008. China's CITIC Bank will underwrite the Sinopacific listing according to its chairman and chief executive officer, Simon Liang, who founded the company. Sinopacific expects to book ...
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Poles urge EU to save Gdansk shipyard
Former leader of Poland's Solidarity trade union Lech Walesa has condemned an attempt by the EU to close most of the Gdansk shipyard. "The European Union should help us to bring efficiency to the shipyard, and we should not lose it as part of some stupid political game," Walesa has ...
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Baltic shipyard being demolished
Sergey Pugachev's United Industrial Corp. has found an investor to pay for the liquidation of one of Russia's largest shipbuilding companies, the Baltic Yard. Vneshtorgbank (VTB) will provide the corporation with $550 million to transfer the plant's capacities to Northern Wharfs and demolish the Baltic Yard to the ground in ...
