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Cosco orders two bulkers
Cosco (H.K) Shipping Co., Limited places new order of two 300,000DWT bulk carriers with the Chinese shipbuilder NACKS. The new order also attaches two options. Ship price and delivery dates are not revealed.
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Shipyard to be established in Azerbaijan
It is intended to construct a shipbuilding yard in the Garadagh District, Baku, by upgrading an existing shiprepair yard. Azerbaijan state-owned Caspian Sea Shipping Company?s chairman, Aydin Bashirov, told journalists that there are four shiprepair facilities in Baku and the company is negotiating with a number of Russian and Korean ...
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Mersey gets new shipyard
A new shiprepair business has been launched in Bromborough, Wirral in the UK, which aims to build new vessels and could bid to break up toxic "ghost ships".The Merseyside Slipway Company is a joint venture between Liverpool-based Mersey Heritage Ship Repair and Warbreck Engineering.The new venture has spent £1.5m buying ...
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ABB supplies Chinese train ferry project
Swiss-based ABB has won a contract to provide an electrical power plant and podded propulsion system for a train ferry between the eastern Chinese cities of Yantai and Dalian. Construction of the new ferry will begin in April next year and is scheduled to be completed in May 2008. The ...
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Fugro orders survey ship
Dutch-based offshore survey company Fugro N.V. has placed an order for a new vessel (Geo Caribbean) with the Bergen Mekaniske Verksted (BMV) shipyard in Norway. The vessel will be owned by Fugro and will be delivered no later than October 2008.The overall length of the vessel is 101 metres and ...
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Major semi-sub contracts for SBM Offshore
Three Letters Of Intent have been received by Atlantia Offshore Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of SBM Offshore N.V., from several Brazilian drilling contractors in the wake of major drilling contracts recently awarded by Petrobras for their deep offshore development plans. Under these LOI's, Atlantia would provide, on a lump sum ...
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Chinese build Ketchikan floating drydock
A new 2,500-tonne floating dry dock will be built by the Chinese shipbuilder Penglai Bohai Ship Co for the Ketchikan Shipyard, in Alaska, at a cost of $9.2 million for delivery in July 2007."This will provide us with the additional shiplift capacity on the dry docks themselves and, more importantly, ...
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South African shipper places barge orders in China
Grindrod?s ship owning arm, Unicorn Shipping, has placed shipbuilding orders for two high-specification bunkering barges and secured options for more from a southern China shipyard.This had been done in response to the announcement by South Africa?s Grindrod?s black-economic-empowerment subsidiary, Southern Tankers, that it was diversifying into barged in-port bunker delivery ...
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Wärtsilä acquires German service company
Wärtsilä has acquired the German service company INTEC Injectortechnic GmbH from the four persons owning and managing the company. The Hamburg-based company is specialized in fuel injection equipment, providing installation and services of injection components for marine diesel engines. The annual net sales are approx. EUR 3 million and the ...
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New waterjets from Wärtsilä
Wärtsilä Corporation has introduced a new compact, high-performance waterjet that is optimized for fast vessels. The new Wärtsilä LJX waterjet offers, in comparison with other waterjets available today, a 25% reduction in mounting flange diameter, a 10% overall weight reduction and a 35% increase in cavitation margin. The LJX waterjet ...
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STX seals two boxships
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has secured an order for two 2,700TEU class container ships from an Asian ship owner for delivery during 2009.
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Mangalia in the red
Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries (DMHI) shipyard, the biggest shipyard in Romania, last year recorded losses worth 18.5 million euros despite a 46% increase in its turnover. DMHI slipped into the red mainly because of the increase in the price of sheet metal according to a statement by the company management. ...
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Korean top trio likely to win $30b in orders
South Korea's top three shipyards are likely to win higher-than-expected orders worth at least $30 billion this year on strong sales in the first half of the year, industry sources said. The three companies - Hyundai Heavy Industries Co, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co and Samsung Heavy Industries Co ...
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CSIC to triple turnover
China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC), one of the nation's two state-run shipbuilding groups, plans to triple its turnover by 2015 when it expands its building capacity to meet rising global demand. The Beijing-based group said yesterday it expects to achieve a turnover of 150 billion yuan ($18.75 billion) in 2015, ...
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Esnaad orders two UT vessels
Esnaad, a wholly owned subsidiary of Adnoc in Abu Dhabi, has become the first Middle East based ship owner to order a vessel of UT-Design from Rolls-Royce. The contract covers the supply of two vessels with full of Rolls-Royce equipment. Construction of the UT780 Anchor handling Tugs (AHTS) has begun ...
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Germans order chemical carriers from China
Two German shipping companies, Aquarius Marine Consulting GmbH & Co. KG (AMC) and TB Marine-Hamburg GmbH have ordered a class of four chemical tankers from the Chinese shipbuilder Liaoning Hongguan Shipbuilding. With a carrying capacity of 19,500 cbm and 16,500 dwt, these IMO II-class carriers will be ice-classed and delivery ...
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Delivery Stena Performance
Concordia Maritime took delivery of 62,500 dwt Stena Performance, the fourth vessel in the P-MAX series of total eight vessels. The vessel is on charter for five years to the American oil company Amerada Hess Corporation.
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SOLAS, SAR amendments enter into force
Amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) enter into force on 1 July 2006, including amendments relating to bulk carrier safety and persons in distress at sea. The amendments to SOLAS (adopted in December ...
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K Line launch coal carrier
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) has launched the "JP GUNJO," an 88,000 DWT-type special coal carrier at Marugame Shipyard of Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Japan. Vessel?s specifications are length 229.93 m, beam 38 m and draught 13.8 m.The new vessel is the same type as "K" Line?s specialized fleet ...
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ThyssenKrupp to build two more 3,400 TEU feeders
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems ? a company of ThyssenKrupp Technologies ? has got an order to build two 3,400 TEU container ships. These compact vessels will be built at the company?s yard Nordseewerke in Emden and are designed for worldwide trade enabling this ship type to be employed for feeder traffic ...
