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    Guangzhou Shipyard sees H1 net up sharply

    2007-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Shanghai-based shipbuilder Guangzhou Shipyard International expects a massive increase in its net profits for the first half compared with a year earlier. Guangzhou Shipyard, controlled by the country's biggest shipbuilder China State Shipbuilding Corp., attributed the gain to improved efficiency and new accounting rules. The company booked $20.31 million net ...

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    Daewoo wins semisub order

    2007-07-25T00:00:00Z

    South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has won an order from an undisclosed South American country worth $633 million to build a semi-submersible drilling rig for delivery in August 2010.

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    ASL secures European orders

    2007-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Singapore shipbuilder ASL Marine Holdings has secured new shipbuilding contracts worth $67.5 million from European clients. The contracts are for one 90 metre DP-2 subsea operation vessel, two Rotor tugs and 2 self-propelled split hopper barges. The Rotor tugs are repeat orders and are expected to be completed in 2010. ...

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    Vinashin to build sixteen ships for India and Israel

    2007-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Vietnam's state-run Vinashin Business Group will build sixteen 316,000 DWT cargo ships for Indian and Israeli shipping firms. This will be the largest ships to be built in Vietnam and they will be constructed at the Dung Quat shipyard which is located in central Vietnam. No more details are available ...

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    ABG bags PSL order

    2007-07-25T00:00:00Z

    ABG Shipyard in Mumbai, India, has secured a major order for 12 bulk carriers of 32,000 DWT at a total price of $360 million from Precious Shipping Public Co. Ltd. (PSL), Thailand, as a part of its ship acquisition programme. Delivery of the first unit is scheduled in March 2010 ...

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    VP props for accommodation vessel

    2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Edda Accommodation, a company of the Norwegian ?stensj? Group, is currently building a highly specialized offshore support vessel which will be driven by five Voith Schneider Propellers. While this new supply vessel with a length of 130 meters and a weight of 7500 tonnes has not yet been named, the ...

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    EC welcomes Polish yard cuts

    2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

    The European Commission has welcomed the proposal by Poland to reduce capacity in the country?s shipyards at Szczecin and Gdynia, as a necessary step forward in the restructuring process financed by state aid. But it has warned that it needs more information on Gdansk or it may require subsidies to ...

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    MOL's new training ship starts lessons

    2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Mitsui O.S. K. Lines (MOL) has started onboard training using its newly built training vessel, the SPIRIT OF MOL. The first intake of trainees took place in Manila, one of the company?s main base of human resource, earlier this month.The ?Spirit of MOL? left on its first training voyage with ...

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    Keppel clinches specialised ship contracts

    2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd (Keppel Singmarine), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has secured four contracts worth a total of $230 million to build six offshore support vessels (OSV) and a derrick pipelay vessel. Delivery dates for these vessels are expected between the second half ...

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    Korea seeks investment in Fiji shipyard

    2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

    A Korean investor is looking for sites in Fiji to set up a shipyard and slipways for a multi-million dollar project. At the moment Fiji has the capacity to service vessels up to 1,000 tonnes although the government plans to increase it to 4,000 tonnes to meet international standards. Fiji ...

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    PNTL orders two newbuilds

    2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL) in the UK has ordered two new purpose built ships for transporting radioactive materials from Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding. The Japanese shipbuilder is currently building the ?Pacific Heron? at Tamano shipyard. The contract is for the design and build of two further INF 3 ships ...

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    UK to approve CVFs next week

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The long-awaited UK government announcement giving the go-ahead for the construction of two CVFs, the new future aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, is expected before the end of next week. Ministers hope to approve the £3.5 billion project before Parliament breaks for its summer recess next Thursday.British defence group ...

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    Century for UT755 design

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Simek shipyard in Norway has delivered ?Dina Supplier? to its owner Myklebusthaug Offshore AS, Fonnes, Norway. This PSV is the 100th UT 755 design to have been delivered to date.The newbuilding is a UT 755 LC, as of today, a total of 134 UT 755 designs have been built or ...

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    New pilot station vessels for Germany

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    To replace three 40 years old pilot station vessels, operating in the Deutsche Bucht, the German authorities recently ordered two new SWATH-type vessels from Abeking & Rasmussen (A&R) in Lemwerder, near Bremen. Time of delivery is respectively the second and fourth quarters in 2009.With an overall length of 59.90 metres, ...

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    SLS Shipbuilding chooses Aveva

    2007-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Aveva, a leading provider of plant and marine design and engineering lifecycle solutions, has won a new contract with Korean shipbuilder SLS Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Gyeongnam. SLS Shipbuilding is one of Korea?s oldest shipyards, internationally recognised as a highly specialised constructor of medium sized vessels and chemical tankers. The ...

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    Daewoo bags more boxships

    2007-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea has won a $592.3 million container ship order from an Asian shipper. The vessels will be delivered to the unidentified shipper by the end of July 2011.

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    Remontowa launches its biggest vessel

    2007-07-19T00:00:00Z

    The first of a series of ships ordered by Finnish chartering and operations company Meriaura Oy Ltd has been launched at Remontowa SA, in Poland.Named ?Aura?, (yard no. B 602/1), this is a new type of multipurpose deck cargo vessel and was recently launched at Northern Shipyard, a member of ...

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    DSS gets new PSV

    2007-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Deep Sea Supply ASA in Arendal, Norway, has taken delivery of the 3rd of eight PSV newbuildings from Cochin Shipyard in India. The vessel ?Sea Angler?, a UT 755L platform supply vessel, will go directly to Congo for a three (plus one) years time charter with ENI Congo.

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    CSBC full up until 2012

    2007-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Taiwan's state-run shipbuilding company CSBC has received orders for 11 container ships, which boosts its total orders to 67 ships, enough to keep the yard busy until 2012. On Monday, CSBC signed a contract to build seven container ships for Taiwan's Yangming Marine worth $800 million. The order consists of ...

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    Labroy bags two PSVs

    2007-07-17T00:00:00Z

    Singapore-based shipbuilder Labroy Marine has signed two shipbuilding contracts with a German customer for two platform supply vessels. The contracts are worth $47.2 million and the vessels are scheduled to be delivered in 2009. The latest orders will boost Labroy Marine's total outstanding order book to $1.5 billion.