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BV links up with VR
Bureau Veritas (BV) has joined forces with the growing Vietnam Register (VR)and have agreed to co-operate on the following services:classification/certification surveys of construction, transformation and major repairs of vessels and offshore structures, holding or intended to hold the dual classification/certification VR/BV, or the single classification/certification VR or BV ;classification/certification surveys ...
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Saigon Shipmarin to build first export vessels
The Saigon Shipbuilding and Maritime Industry Company (Saigon Shipmarin) signed a contract with Japan's Kanematsu Corp. to build two 6,500-tonne general cargo vessels. These are the first vessels that the shipyard, a member Vinashin, will be building for export. The first vessel is expected to be handed over in March ...
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Pan-United secures Malaysian contracts
The Singapore shipbuilder Pan-United Marine has won two shipbuilding contracts worth $25 million from Malaysia's leading offshore fleet operator Bumi Armada Navigation. The contracts involve the construction of two maintenance work vessels and are the third and fourth vessels ordered by Bumi Armada. They will be built in Pan-United Marine's ...
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EU adopts tough stance on Polish yards
The future of Poland?s shipyards was called into doubt yesterday in a stand-off between Brussels and Warsaw over hundreds of millions of euros of state aid. Neelie Kroes, EU competition commissioner, has given Warsaw until the end of the week to justify the state support by setting out restructuring plans ...
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Hanjin bags another two boxships
Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co in South Korea has received an order to build two 3,100 TEU container vessels from A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S for $124 million. The ships will be delivered by the end of September 2009.With this latest contract, Hanjin Heavy now has an order backlog to build ...
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Thales, DCN near agreement
Thales and French state shipyard DCN are close to a long-awaited agreement on a tie-up and an announcement is likely in October.
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UASC orders 8 ships from Hyundai
The United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has signed a contract with South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Company Limited (HHI) to build eight 6,500 TEU container ships at a cost of $835 million. UASC will start taking delivery of the 25. knot ships from March 2008 and the delivery will be ...
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Aker inks Island Offshore pair
Aker Yards ASA has signed contracts worth a combined $96 million with Island Offshore in Ulsteinvik, Norway, to deliver two new oil services vessels. The contracts are for a 78.3 metre UT 712 L anchor handling tug supply vessel, while the second is for a 93 metre UT 776 CD ...
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Bibby orders Topaz
Bibby Offshore Ltd, the Aberdeen based Subsea Contractor, part of Bibby Line Limited of Liverpool, has placed an order for a second new-build diving support vessel (DSV) to the market, following on from the ?Bibby Sapphire? conversion which delivered in the first quarter 2005. The new vessel, named Bibby Topaz, ...
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Another Rem order for Kleven
Rem Maritime in Norway has ordered another UT712L anchor handling tug (AHTS) from Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway. The vessel will be identical to two more vessels already under construction at Kleven for Rem Maritime and the value of the contract is $47 million. The vessel is 78.3m long, with ...
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Ruia floats shipyard proposal at Haldia
Indian industrialist Pawan Ruia has stepped into the shipping sector with a proposal to set up a shipyard in a 2000-acre area at Jelingham in Haldia at a total cost of Rs 3,000 crore. Ruia will fund Rs 400 crore while the rest will be raised from commercial banks and ...
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Hamworthy acquires Serck Como
Hamworthy has acquired Serck Como, which specialises in cruise ship desalination systems. "The acquisition complements our existing wastewater business and has excellent growth prospects both in the marine sector and ashore," said Kelvyn Derrick, Hamworthy?s chief executive. Benefits of the acquisition from Serck Como?s point of view include the use ...
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SK to order a VLGC
SK Shipping in South Korea has decided to order an 82,000 cbm LPG carrier at a contract price of $88.4 million. Shipbuilder is not decided yet.
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CMA CGM orders boxship quartet - ndh
CMA CGM has placed a new order for four 6,500TEU container ships at the price of $420 million with Hanjin Heavy Industries. Ship particulars are 300m in length, 40m in breadth and 24.6m in depth with a service speed of 25.6 knots. They will be delivered by September 2009.
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Eidesvik exercises option
Eidesvik Offshore ASA has exercised its right with Westcon shipbuilder in ?lensvåg, Norway, to build its third platform supply vessel (PSV) type VS 493 LNG-AVANT. The value of the contract is approximately NOK 325 mill and delivery is slated for 2nd quarter of 2008.This will be the third natural gas ...
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Far East newbuilding round-up
Jinling Shipyard in China seals six MR product carriers from Changjiang Shipping Group Nanjing Oil Shipping. Pacific International Line in Singapore placed an order for two 600TEU container ships with Penglai Bohai Shipbuilding in China at a cost of $24 million. Shanghai Chengxi Shipyard in China will build five 53,000DWT ...
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MSET plans to build larger vessels
MSET Shipbuilding Corporation Sdn Bhd, a leading shipbuilding and repair company in Kuala Terengganu on the East coast of Peninsular Malaysia, is aiming to build larger ships measuring up to 120 metres long when it moves into a new shipyard soon, its chairman Hasnan Abdullah said.He said the state government ...
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Indonesia to build mega shipyard
South Korea's Daeju Construction Engineering, which specialises in dockyard and city developments, will invest $500 million in a shipyard project in Karimun Island, one of the islands in the Riau Islands province of Indonesia. "The construction of the shipyard is expected to start in September or October," Oh Jae Hong, ...
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Hanjin orders 10,000TEU quintet
Hanjin Shipping has placed an order for five 10,000TEU containerships with Samsung Heavy Industries. The five 117,000 DWT newbuildings are scheduled for successive deployment from February of 2010 on Hanjin's trans-Pacific route. Ship particulars are 349 metre length and 45.6 metre width, a 68,332 kW diesel engine and a service ...
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Another Siem contract for Kleven
Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway, has signed a contract with Siem Offshore Inc for the building of a new, sophisticated multifunctional platform supply vessel. The newbuilding is based on the new MT 6017 design, developed in close cooperation between owner and yard, and is designed by Marin Teknikk. The contract ...
