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Vinashin affiliates sign major contracts
Vinashin Lines Ltd Co, a subsidiary of Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin), signed two major shipbuilding contracts. Under the first contract, the Ha Long Shipyard will build one 54,000 dwt bulk carrier at a cost of $30 million.It was designed by the Shipbuilding Science and Technology Institute of Vinashin, ...
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Ensco Contracts Shipyard for Rig Work
Offshore drilling rig contractor Ensco International has contracted Singapore shipyard Keppel FELS to construct a $385 million ultra-deep water semisubmersible rig. Delivery is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2009.Ensco said is currently awaiting construction and delivery of two other deep water semisubmersible rigs from Keppel, which are expected to ...
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Stocznia Gdynia to receive assets from the state
Stocznia Gdynia in Poland may next year receive the stakes of companies whose minority shareholder is still the Polish state. The shipyard has started negotiations with its potential investors including Israeli shipowner Rami Ungar and Ukrainian Donbas. They are supposed to inject PLN 500m (EUR 125.9m) of cash in the ...
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Hanjin upbeat on Subic Bay shipyard
In what could be the world?s fourth-largest shipyard is nearing completion in Redondo Peninsula, Subic Bay, Philippines, and it promises to generate $3.6 billion in annual sales. The $1 billion Hanjin Shipbuilding facility will be able to accommodate the construction of 60 ships a year. Even as the construction of ...
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HHI to buy Chinese steel plant
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is in advanced talks to buy Chinese steel maker Qinhuangdao Shouqin Metal Materials Co. Ltd. after completing due diligence. "We are in negotiations over the terms of the stake purchase with the selling party," the company told the Korea Exchange. No financial terms had been decided ...
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MHI to use stronger steel
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will build container ships using Nippon Steel Corp. steel plates with a tensile strength much stronger than plates used in commercial ships throughout the industry. The plates, which have a higher resistance to cracks but are thinner than the old plates, will enable Japan's largest shipbuilder ...
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PGS Ramform option at Aker Yards
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA has decided to exercise the option with Aker Yards, Langsten, to build an additional new third generation Ramform vessel, "Ramform 8". This new and improved Ramform class seismic vessel is a sister vessel of the previously announced "Ramform 7", which is currently being built at the same ...
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Mississippi shipyard awarded $200M contract
The US Navy has awarded a $200 million contract to Pascagoula-based shipbuilder VT Halter Marine for construction of a vessel that will carry high-tech radar equipment to monitor ballistic missile activity. The 700-foot vessel will carry 88 crew members and be capable of performing its mission in waves as high ...
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Navy's first LCS launched
A new class of U.S. Navy warships was launched recently at Marinette Marine. The littoral combat ship, named Freedom, is 377-foot long, can sail at more than 40 knots and will act as a platform for launch and recovery of manned and unmanned vehicles. Its modular design will allow the ...
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New NOAA vessel ordered
V-T Halter Marine will build a new $15 million coastal mapping ship for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company expects to deliver the 124-foot, twin-hull ship in the summer of 2008.The ship will have side scan and multi-beam sonar to survey the coastal sea floor. The data will ...
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MTU to unveil improved 4000 series
MTU in Friedrichshafen is unveiling at SMM its new generation of the 4000 series marine diesel engines which will be cleaner and more powerful than their predecessors.The latest Series 4000 engines are the result of ten years of experience with the previous generation and the new units will meet the ...
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Irving to build cruise ship
The Halifax Shipyard of Irving Shipbuilding is getting back into building ships with a contract to build a small cruise ship for Pearl Sea Cruises of Connecticut. Although there is no firm commitment on a second vessel, it is expected another ship will be also be built in Halifax.Charles Robertson, ...
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Ensolve introduces MEPC compliant separator
EnSolve Biosystems in the USA has successfully completed testing its new oily water separator (OWS) system for U.S. Coast Guard type approval. The new-generation PetroLiminator PL630M was tested to meet the new IMO MEPC.107(49) clean water standards for overboard discharge. "The PL630M consistently achieved effluent levels of less than one ...
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Carnival Outfitting Ship for Wireless
Cruise ship operator Carnival Corp.'s Holland America Line has hired SeaMobile Enterprises to provide the company's 13 ships with wireless cell phone and personal digital assistant device communications. SeaMobile will begin installing wireless equipment on the ships later this year. The company said its technology is compatible with all wireless ...
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CSSC building huge repair facility
CSSC held a ceremony in Guangzhou Longxue Island for the start of construction of the largest ship repair yard in southern China. Ship repair business is one of the primary sectors in Longxue shipbuilding base and the company is planning to invest over $100 million in the first construction stage ...
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MHFCA established
The Marine Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Association (MHFCA) has been officially registered this week in Germany as a non-profit organisation and has already attracted over 120 organisations to pre-register for membership from around the world.The nine founding members of MHFCA include: Randy Dey, of ISO, Canada; Panos Koroyannakis, of Islenet, ...
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Posco eyes Asian steelmaker
South Korea?s Posco, the world's fifth-largest steel maker, is looking to buy an Asian steel maker and studying a possible buyout target and timing of an acquisition. "In line with the merger and acquisition trend in the global steel industry, we are thinking of embarking on overseas mergers and acquisitions," ...
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Judge orders EPA to control ballast water
A federal court in California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate ballast water discharges from freighters, a ruling that has huge implications for the Great Lakes shipping industry. Three environmental groups sued the EPA in 1999 after the federal agency declared that ballast water in freighters was ...
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Esnaad orders five
The Abu Dhabi-based Adnoc subsidiary Esnaad, a marine and supply base services company, has ordered five new vessels from Singapore at a cost of $60 million as part of its fleet replacement. The fleet replacement process is ongoing to meet the expansion needs of the company.The five new vessels consisting ...
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Repsol looks to build five LNG carriers
Spain's leading oil company Repsol YPF SA and its affiliate Gas Natural SDG SA plan shortly to put out for tender a contract to build a fleet of five LNG carriers. According to the unnamed source, the 25-year contract will be worth some one billion Euros and is the largest ...
