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Fiji ship repair facility takes shape
Work is underway on the Lautoka waterfront in Fiji for a new development project for Fiji Ports Corporation (FPCL) that is expected to put Fiji on the world port map.The first phase of the $9million reclamation project, to be completed soon, will have the western division's first ship repair facility ...
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Swan?s swan song?
Swan Hunter, the last remaining shipyard on the Tyne, is likely to be mothballed with the loss of more than 300 jobs, all but marking the end of naval shipbuilding in the North-East. Swans has been given no alternative but to close its yard in Wallsend, North Tyneside, after the ...
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CCS and DNV tighten cooperation
DNV Software is to supply the China Classification Society (CCS) with Nauticus software. Amongst a range of mutual exchanges between the two classification societies, the recent purchase of the Nauticus software is further indication of China?s technological advance. CCS is a member IACS and a central player in the fast ...
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Transpetro orders locally built tankers
Transpetro, the transport arm of Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras, has awarded the Atl?ntico Sul consortium a contract to build 10 Suezmax tankers for $120.9 million each. Atl?ntico Sul is made up of Brazilian engineering companies Andrade Gutierrez, Camargo Corr?a, Queiroz Galv?o and shipyard Aker Promar. Atl?ntico Sul initially wanted ...
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Lintec advises on SECA trigger limit
Leading fuel testing agency Lintec Testing Services has urged shipowners to act, but not panic, should their fuel tests marginally exceed the 1.5% sulphur limit imposed within the MARPOL Annex VI Sulphur Emissions Control Area (SECA) in the Baltic Sea.Geoff Jones, Lintec?s managing director, says: "Since the SECA?s enforcement on ...
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Arctic Voyager delivered
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) taken delivery of the 140,000 cbm Moss type LNG carrier "Arctic Voyager", constructed at Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation?s Sakaide Shipyard in Japan. This second vessel for Sn?hvit project, a sister vessel of ?Arctic Discoverer? delivered in February this year, is co-owned with Statoil, Mitsui & ...
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FVH expresses interest in Stocznia Gdanska
The Italian LPG tanker company, FVH SpA in Brindisi, would like to acquire the Stocznia Gdanska shipyard in Poland and plans to carry out due diligence and submit its offer."Italian FVH has sent a letter where it says it would like to conduct due diligence in the company", one of ...
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Aker delivers fourth Matson boxship
Matson Navigation took delivery of the ?Maunalei?, the fourth and last of its Independence Class CV2500 containerships from Aker Philadelphia shipyard. Oakland-based Matson is owned by Honolulu-based Alexander & Baldwin Inc. and the ?Maunalei? is the fourth ship Matson has bought since 2003 in a modernization and replacement program costing ...
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Six LPG for Mipo
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea has clinched six LPG carriers from two European ship owners. Total contract price is about $340 million for the 20,600 cbm LPG carriers which will be delivered by December 2009. This is the first time a Korean shipbuilder has won an order for LPG ...
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Rami Ungar bids for Gdanska shipyard
Rami Ungar, the owner of Ray Car Carriers in Israel, has submitted an offer to buy Stocznia Gdanska shipyard which is looking for a private investor. The yard is trying to become independent from its owner, Stocznia Gdynia and, according to "Puls Biznesu" sources, Rami Ungar made a strong bid ...
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Four moss LNG carriers ordered
NYK Line placed an order for four 145,000 cbm moss type LNG carriers with two Japanese shipbuilders. Kawasaki Shipbuilding and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries each will build two ships with delivery from 2009 to 2010. NYK signed a LNG transportation contract with Chinese Petroleum Corporation to carry 3 million tonnes of ...
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World?s largest Boxship delivered
Samsung Heavy Industries recently delivered the world?s largest container ship, breaking its own world record of 9,200 teu which it set less than 12 months ago. The ?Xin Los Angeles? is now the new champion with a 9,600 teu capacity. Ironically, the record will almost certainly be broken again in ...
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Boxships for Korean yards
Samsung Heavy Industries clinched two more 4,300TEU container ships from Itochu in Japan. The new order is option declaration and will be delivered during 2009. Hyundai Heavy Industries secured two contract for 6,500TEU container ships from two German owners. The first is from Oltmann while the other is from Herman ...
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Mangalia shipyard back on sale
The tender for the privatization of the Santierul Naval Mangalia Shipyard in Romania could resume this autumn as new evaluation procedures are under way, said the shipyard's General Director Eugen Tudor. This follows the failure of the first tender in January which was won by Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries with ...
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Vietnam aims to be number four
Vietnam aims to be number fourThe Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin Group) will exert an all-out effort to make the country the world's fourth largest shipbuilder by 2015. President and CEO of Vinashin Group, Pham Thanh Binh, spoke about the plan at a recent ceremony in Hanoi to announce the ...
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SOFF construction vessel for Subsea 7
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) in Norway has received a Letter of Intent from Subsea 7 for the hire of a large construction service vessel for a fixed period of six years with an option to extend his period by another 4 x 1 years. The commencement of the contract is ...
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Titan orders bunker barges
The Hong Kong-based Titan Petrochemicals Group has entered a contract for the purchase of up to ten 6,500 dwt double hulled bunker barges, at $8.67 million each, as part of its plan to expand and upgrade its bunkering business."The bunkering market in Asia is experiencing steady growth in demand, and ...
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Daewoo grabs handful of orders
Daewoo Shipbuilding in South Korea has clinched orders valued at $1.84 billion comprising of a semi-submersible drilling rig, a drillship, a LNG carrier and four 4,800TEU container ships.Pertoserv S.A. in Brasil ordered a drilling rig with own dynamic positioning system and mooring system for delivery in July 2009. The drilling ...
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Northrop Grumman gets USCG approval for S-VDR
The US conglomerate Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded type approval by the U.S. Coast Guard for the Sperry Marine VoyageMaster II Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR). The Coast Guard type approval certifies that the Sperry Marine S-VDR meets the IMO carriage requirements and International Electrotechnical Commission performance standards for ...
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BV approval for RR gas turbine
Bureau Veritas has awarded approval in principal to the Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbine power station for LNG carrier propulsion in conjunction with electric drive. The MT30, producing 36MW, is an aero-derived gas turbine which has 80% commonality with the well-known Rolls-Royce Trent 800 aero engine which has been in service ...
