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Gladding-Hearn delivers ferry
Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, has delivered ?Iyanough?, a new 393 passenger, high-speed ferry, to the Woods Hole, Martha?s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority in Massachusetts. The all-aluminium catamaran, designed by Incat-Crowther in Sydney, Australia, is 47m long, 12m wide and draws only 1.6m. The vessel, which will operate a 26-mile ...
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Petrobras cancels tenders
Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras will restart a tender to build the P-55 semi-submersible platform. According to a company spokesperson, prices offered in bidding were too high. Brazilian-Singapore shipyard Keppel-Fels offered the lowest price at $1.65bn according to unconfirmed press reports. The only other bidder was the Atlantico Sul consortium ...
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Damen lands another Turkish ferry contract
Damen signed a shipbuilding contract with ferry operator Istanbul Deniz Otobusleri (IDO) of Turkey, for construction and delivery of 2 double-ended car ferries of the Damen Fast RoPax (DFR) 8521 design. The ferries will be delivered in 2008 and will operate on the existing line between terminals at Pendik and ...
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SAR boost for Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Another gap in the effective search and rescue coverage along the coast of Africa and out into the Indian and Atlantic Oceans has been filled with the inauguration of a new Maritime Rescue Co ordination Centre (MRCC) in Cape Town, South Africa. The MRCC was commissioned, on 16 January 2007, ...
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Korean shipbuilders go overseas
Although Korea's shipbuilding industry is still outpacing its foreign rivals in technology, skill and orders, it is looking for cheaper land and labour overseas. The shipbuilding industry is enormously important to the Korean economy, supplying hundreds of thousands of jobs and the business generates tremendous foreign currency income. If Korean ...
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Wärtsilä supplying SWS
Wärtsilä is supplying air/oil lubricated stern tube seals and bearings to Chinese shipyard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) for a series of new tankers under construction by SWS for Singapore-based Ocean Tankers. A complete Wärtsilä package of JMT Airguard seals, stern tube bearings, and shaft line bearings, was ordered in October ...
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Korean and Chinese yards bag orders
Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard (HVS) in Vietnam signed two more PCTC conversion from Eukor Car Carriers Inc. The new order also attaches two more options. HVS will extend ship length by 28.8m and install bow thrusters. When the conversion work is completed, car carrying capacity of each ship will be increased ...
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GD unaffected by navy stop-work order
The USA shipbuilder Bath Iron Works (BIW), a General Dynamics? (GD) subsidiary, is not affected by a stop-work order on the Navy's program to build a new generation of fast manoeuvrable warships. The Navy ordered defence contractor Lockheed Martin to stop work for three months on its second ship in ...
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Samsung doubles profit
Samsung Heavy Industries, the world's second largest shipyard, more than doubled its fourth-quarter profit as it built more vessels at higher prices. Net income surged to 76.2 billion won ($81million) in the three months ended 31 December, from 27.9 billion won the year before. South Korean shipbuilders are building more ...
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Solar-powered water tankers for Oz
The dream of a transcontinental pipeline carrying water from Australia''s wet north to the drought-stricken southern cities appears all but dead. Rising from its ashes is a proposal to ship water from Tasmania to Sydney.
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GE completes gas turbine certification
GE - Marine reports that it has completed a major milestone in the three-year marine development and type-testing program on its LM2500+G4 aero-derivative gas turbine. The engine performed flawlessly during high-power demonstration testing recently completed in late 2006. GE is seeking simultaneous marine type approval for the LM2500+G4 with Bureau ...
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Vinashin hands over freighter
The Bach Dang Shipyard, an affiliate of Vinashin, recently handed over the 10,500 DWT dry cargo vessel ?Sun Spirits? to the Japanese NOMA Marine Transport Company (NOMA). The 110m long, 18.8m wide and 13m high newbuilding is powered by a 3,400kW engine manufactured by Mitsubishi and is the second ship ...
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RINA classes UK?s new super yacht
Italian classification society RINA has classed the first of Sunseeker?s new 37 metre motor yachts. The Snapper is the largest and most ambitious build in Sunseeker?s history and is the largest semi-custom production motor yacht ever to be built in the UK, at just under 124 feet and 200 tonnes. ...
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ABG bags Singapore order
ABG Shipyard in Mumbai, the largest private sector shipyard in India, has bagged a $229 million order from Singapore-based Pacific First Shipping Pte for 12 vessels. The order is for the construction of nine Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessels and three 54,000 DWT bulk carriers and the last delivery ...
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Stena Poseidon delivered
The product tanker ?Stena Poseidon? has been delivered from Brodosplit Shipyard in Split. This 75,000 DWT Panamax tanker is jointly owned by Concordia Maritime and Neste Oil on a 50-50 basis and Neste Oil has chartered the vessel for 10 years. The 228.40 metre long newbuilding has been built to ...
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Qingdao names new ship
Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding (QHS) recently held a naming ceremony for a 2,600 DWT general cargo carrier ordered by Mirai Shipping Inc. The vessel named ?Mirai Astro? measures 80m in length, 13.6m in width, and 7m in depth with a service speed of 11.5 knots. The ship will be delivered in ...
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Superferry to launch first vessel
An Alabama shipyard this week intends to launch the first of two catamaran ferries ordered by Hawaii Superferry Inc. Superferry, planning to launch its first inter-island has the necessary approvals to launch the service, but opponents of the venture have some additional legal and political options. They are pressing state ...
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New one-stop resource for oil companies
Three well established offshore, ship and tug design and technical consulting companies have joined forces to provide a major new one-stop resource for oil companies, offshore operators, tug owners, ports and shipyards. Offshore Ship Designers (OSD), based in Ijmuiden, the Netherlands, bring together the skills, experience, innovation and workforce of ...
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Cunard?s new Queen takes to the water
Yesterday, Fincantieri floated out the new Cunarder, ?Queen Victoria?, at its Venice-Marghera shipyard. Scheduled for delivery by the end of 2007, the 90,000 GT cruise ship will be one of the largest Panamax (i.e. capable of passing through the Panama Canal) ships ever built. With 1,007 cabins ? including a ...
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VT signs Oman contract
VT Group (VT), the UK Support Services and Shipbuilding Company, has signed a contract with the Government of Oman to supply three Ocean Patrol Vessels (OPVs) for the Royal Navy of Oman.Work will start immediately on the programme with the first of the ships, which are approximately 100 metres in ...
