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Merwede lifts crane vessel contract
The UK-based Acergy S.A. announced the placing of an order by Seaway Heavy Lifting Engineering BV in Holland, its long term joint venture, with the Merwede shipyard in the Netherlands to build a DP crane vessel.The new 183 metre long monohull vessel will be fitted with a crane with a ...
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LR and IP join forces
Lloyd?s Register (LR) and International Paint (IP) have teamed up to offer shipyards in China step-by-step advice on how to prepare to meet the requirements of the new Performance Standard for Protective Coatings (PSPC) as the industry looks to increase vessel safety and lifecycles by preventing corrosion.This powerful new partnership, ...
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DD world buys PUM
Dubai Drydocks World (DD World) will take over 70% of Singapore shipyard operator Pan-United Marine (PUM) in a deal valuing PUM at $424million. The deal marks DD World's first international acquisition. Like DD World, PUM is involved in ship repair, ship building and conversion and is a major shipyard with ...
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Bharati bags German order
Bharati Shipyard in India bagged an order worth $103 million from Germany?s Man Ferrostaal AG for two large platform supply vessels.The 105 m vessels will be diesel electric and fitted with two sets of Voith Schneider cycloidal propeller units. Classed with GL, they will have a service speed of 17 ...
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HHI builds most powerful engine
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI) successfully completed a trial run with the world?s biggest electronically controlled marine engine, the Hyundai-Wartsila 14RT-flex96C-B. The 14RT-flex96C-B engine has 14 cylinders and a maximum capacity of 108,920 bhp, making it the world?s most powerful marine engine. It will be installed in a series ...
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ABG to acquire Vipul
ABG Shipyard, in India, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for acquisition of Vipul Shipyard, situated adjacent to the company?s existing shipyard at Magdalla Port, District-Surat, Gujarat. With this acquisition the company will add substantial land with a good water front to its resources along with slipway and other necessary ...
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Corona Majesty delivered
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Tokyo, ("K" Line) has taken delivery of ?Corona Majesty?, a new 88,159 DWT-type coal carrier, from Imabari Shipbuilding, Japan.The vessel?s specifications are length o.a. 229.93m, beam 38m, depth 19.90m. The Post - Panamax ?Corona-series?, which "K" Line originated and continues to develop, is a state-of-the-art coal ...
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Ezra awards pipe-layer contract to Labroy
Singapore based Ezra Holdings has awarded a contract to Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering worth $25.5 million, which excludes owner furnished equipment, to build an ultra-large pipe laying, accommodation, well service and maintenance vessel. The vessel is to be delivered by the first half of 2009. The vessel will be the ...
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AfDB finances Cameroon shipyard
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has financed funding for the construction of a shipyard in the country?s coastal village of Limbe in Cameroon. According to the bank?s statement, a grant amounting CFA 22 billion ($45 million) is earmarked for the Central African country?s shipyard project.
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Krasnoye Sormovo building more Palmali tankers
The Russian shipyard of Krasnoye Sormovo in Novgorod has won a contract from Palmali to build two more 13,000 dwt vessels of 'river-sea' class. These double-hulled tankers have 12 tanks with a total capacity of 14,770 cu. m for crude and oil products with vapour explosion temperature lower than 60°С. ...
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Colombo Dockyard set to win AHTS order
Sri Lankan shipbuilder Colombo Dockyard has emerged the lowest bidder among 13 contenders, including several Indian firms, to build five anchor handling tug-cum-supply vessels (AHTSVs) for state-run Shipping Corporation of India (SCI). The cost of building the five vessels, with a 70 tonne bollard pull, will likely be around $100 ...
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Kuwait's tender of four oil tankers to float soon
The Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) will float a tender to build four crude oil tankers soon. The budget for the new fleet is between $120 to $130 million and is expected to rise to $520 million amid world market price fluctuations, KOTC chairman Abdullah al-Roum was quoted as saying. ...
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L&T looking at integrated port-shipyard facility
The Indian engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro plans to broaden the scope of its proposed Rs 2,000-crore mega greenfield shipyard in favour of an integrated port-cum-shipyard facility. The company, which has been actively looking at three locations for setting up the facility, now plans to go in for ...
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STX scoops up bulker sextet
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has secured a $257 million order from a South Korean company to build six bulk carriers for delivery by June 2010.
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Norway pledges aid for shipbuilding
Norway is committed to supporting a project aimed at boosting technology and improving management and product quality control at the Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin). An agreement on the project was signed recently between Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and the Norwegian Ambassador to Viet Nam ...
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Work begins on Nakilat?s 2nd Q-Max
Work on Qatar Gas Transport Company?s (Nakilat) second Q-Max LNG tanker has begun with its managing director Mohamed A Ghannam initiating the steel cutting.Nakilat has placed orders for 14 such tankers, which would be fully owned by it. The delivery is expected by early 2010.This is the first Q-Max, the ...
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China Dalian strengthens fleet
China Dalian International Corp has ordered three 57,000 dwt supramaxes at a total cost of $101m from an east China shipyard. The vessels, which will be operated through Singapore subsidiary Da Sin Shipping, will more than double the size of the company?s bulker fleet by 2009. The newbuildings will be ...
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FESCO orders supramaxes from China
The Russian Far Eastern Shipping Co (Fesco) is jumping on the supramax-bulker bandwagon with a series of newbuildings in China. The fast expanding Russian shipping company has returned to Jinling Shipyard for four 57,000 dwt bulk carriers for delivery in 2010. These supramax newbuildings, which will not be built to ...
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Ebba named
Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark unveiled its latest newbuilding, an 11,000 TEU container vessel, for the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group. Like her four predecessors, ?Ebba Maersk? will be part of the series of the world?s largest container vessels and, like her sister vessels, sets new standards for safety and ...
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Solstice number four ordered
The Miami-based cruise company Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., has placed a contract for a fourth large cruise ship with Meyer Werft in Papenburg. After ordering the first ship of the Solstice class back in summer 2005, and number two and three in February and July ...
