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Ren Etive comes on stream
Aberdeen-based marine and subsea support specialist TSMarine (Contracting) Ltd has taken delivery of its new offshore support vessel, Rem Etive. The multi-purpose vessel was delivered from the Kleven shipyard in Norway last week to owner Rem Maritime and shortly thereafter was berthed in Aberdeen Harbour.TSMarine has the vessel on a ...
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Keppel to build fourth semi for ENSCO
Keppel FELS Limited has secured an order for an ultra-deepwater semi-submersible (semi) drilling rig from a wholly-owned subsidiary of ENSCO International Incorporated (ENSCO). The total project value is $427 million. The semi, ENSCO 8503, will be the fourth semi that Keppel FELS is constructing for ENSCO and is expected to ...
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First orders booked for Wartsila 82 series
Wärtsilä's licensed enginebuilders have in recent months booked orders for 52 of Wärtsilä's new series of 82-cm bore low-speed marine engines with an aggregate power of 1,726 MW. The engines were introduced to the market in the end of 2005. Orders for the new 82-cm bore engines have thus taken ...
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MacGregor Offshore formed
Building on the strengths of already established services in the North Sea and Asia pacific, the MacGregor Group?s new Offshore division is set to provide a greater level of attention and service to customers in these regionsThe recently acquired companies, Hydramarine in Kristiansand, Norway and Plimsoll in Singapore will be ...
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Northrop gets USN amphibious assault ship
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $2.4 billion contract to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems to design and build the first replacement amphibious assault ship.The work will be conducted at Northrop?s shipyards in Pascagoula and New Orleans.The contract, announced Friday, will fund construction of the first next-generation "bid-deck" amphibious ship, dubbed ...
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Keppel eyes shipyard purchase in Asia
Singapore?s Keppel Corp said it may look to snap up Asian shipbuilding yards in several years time when it expects a glut in capacity to depress asset prices.Choo Chiau Beng, Chief Executive of Keppel Corp's rig-building unit Keppel Offshore and Marine, was cautious on current expansion prospects and "paranoid" about ...
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Daewoo container ship order from Europe
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has received a 1.22 trillion-won ($1.3 billion) order to build container ships. The deal from a European company calls for Daewoo to build the 9,100 TEU vessels by 2010The shipbuilder has won orders worth $7.5 billion to build 48 vessels, including 18 container ships so ...
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STX Pan Ocean orders two product tankers
STX Pan Ocean has awarded the tender for the building of two product oil/chemical tankers to STX Shipbuilding. The award followed an open tender exercise carried out over six days in January which only attracted one bid from STX Shipbuilding of under $25 million for the building of each of ...
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Indian Navy may order ships from Korea
India and South Korea this week will lay the groundwork for defence cooperation during the first visit of a South Korean defence minister to India. The two country?s defence ministers will be discussing matters of mutual interest and, according to a statement from the Indian Defence Ministry, various steps to ...
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Subsea mining vessel ordered
Vancouver-based Nautilus Minerals Inc. (Nautilus) has announced that the Belgian Jan de Nul Group, one of the world's leading dredging companies, has signed the shipbuilding contract with La Naval, in Sestao, Northern Spain, for the construction of ?Jules Verne? a 191 metre vessel to be used as the ship for ...
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East Isle Shipyard lands contract for three escort tugs
Workers at the East Isle Shipyard in Georgetown, part of the Irving Shipbuilding Inc. group in Canada, have another contract to handle after Irving confirmed a contract to build a series of three escort tugs for Atlantic Reyser. "It means more work for our more than 100 employees at the ...
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Belships orders supramax bulkers
Norwegian-based Belships ASA has entered into an agreement whereby the company will purchase building contracts for 5 supramax bulk carriers at about 58.000 dwt at a total cost of about $200 million. The vessels will be built at Yangzhou Dayang Shipyard in China and the first vessel will be delivered ...
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Halul builds safety standby vessels
Halul Offshore Services (HOSC), the Qatari support services company, has signed a contract with the Singaporean shipbuilder Pacific Ocean Engineering for construction of four safety standby vessels at a cost of approximately $16 million. The ships will be classed by ABS and be built at Pacific Ocean Engineering?s shipyard in ...
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Eastern Echo opts for X-bow seismic ships
The newly formed Dubai-based shipping company, Eastern Echo is building four ships of the ULSTEIN SX124 design. These will be the first seismic vessels of Ulstein design and will be built with the ULSTEIN X-bow. To date, five shipowners have chosen this new bow concept. "My experience is that the ...
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LDA acquires Fairmount
The French shipowner Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has completed its wide variety of services offered to the offshore industry through the acquisition of Fairmount Marine. For two years, since the common operation of the Gavea Lifter semi-submersible heavy transportation barge, the two companies have learnt to work together in mutual ...
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Singapore orders two AHTS vessels
Rolls-Royce has won a contract worth approximately £50 million to supply an integrated system of design and equipment for two advanced offshore vessels to be built for Lewek Shipping, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Ezra Holdings. A new design has been developed to meet the shipowner?s requirements and has been given ...
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Samsung builds world?s biggest rig
Samsung Heavy Industries has completed the world?s largest offshore rig to be installed in seas off Russia?s Sakhalin Island. The rig, called ?Piltun B?, is 100 m wide, 105 m long and 120 m high. Construction of the 33,000 tonne rig started at Samsung?s yard in January 2004. From June ...
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DDDSC keen on setting up shipyard
Dubai Dry Docks and Shipping Company (DDDSC) is keen on setting up a shipyard in the vicinity of the deep-water port in Kakinada. Two technical teams of the company have already visited Kakinada for the past two months to study infrastructure available here. It is said that the teams have ...
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OOCL orders another boxship
Orient Overseas Container Line (OCCL) has taken its total order for Panamax ships at South Korea?s Samsung up to ten after announcing another addition to the series at a cost of $66.2m.Though no vessel specifications were given this is the same price paid for its last batch of 4,500TEU ships ...
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Sembawang wins crane ship
After the announcement that Acergy?s joint venture Seaway heavy Lifting is to build a new 5,000 tonne crane ship, the Singapore shipbuilder Sembawang Shipyard has also received an order to build a new crane vessel under a contract with Avonway Ltd of Cyprus, a subsidiary of Nordic Heavy Lift ASA. ...
