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Samsung clinches massive new orders
In addition to clinching the three 266,000 cbm LNG carriers from Qatar Shipping, Samsung has also won orders for eight boxships. Four 4,300TEU container ships from Danaos in Greece for delivery during 2008. Ship particulars are 277m in length, 40m in breadth and 24m in depth with a service speed ...
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QGTC orders QMax carriers
Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) is ordering six QMax LNG carriers of 266,000 cu. m capacity each. These will be the largest LNG carriers built to date with about 25% greater capacity than any other LNG tanker currently on order. The ships are to be built by Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding ...
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ETA in expansion mode
ETA Shipping and Trading, part of the Dubai-based, ETA-Ascon Group, has placed an order for two 81,200 dwt super Panamax bulk carrier vessels with Japanese shipbuilder Universal Shipbuilding Corporation. Delivery is scheduled for 2009. ETA's Shipping Division currently owns 16 ships and has placed orders for 8 more tankers worth ...
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Ezra expanding fleet
Singapore-based Ezra Holdings has earmarked $240 million to increase its fleet over the next two years in hopes of cashing in on strong demand for offshore support services in the oil and gas industry. Ezra, which provides offshore support vessels to the oil and gas sector, expects to grow its ...
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Eighteen more for SMIT
SMIT, the Dutch towage company, has reached an agreement with Damen Shipyards for the construction of 11 newly built tugs. Two of these will be type ASD 3211 tugs (65 tons bp) which have been awarded with a long-term contract for the Terminals Division in Equatorial Guinea and will be ...
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Bharati scoops Bourbon newbuilds
Bharati Shipyard in India has secured $112 million order from Bourbon, the French offshore, towage and salvage company, for five sophisticated offshore vessels. The French company had already placed an order with the yard earlier and the good progress on this vessel has encouraged Bourbon to place this latest order. ...
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CSD?s tanker spree
China Shipping Development Co. (CSD), a subsidiary of China Shipping Group, will be placing an order estimated at $748 million for eight VLCCs with Dalian New Ship Heavy Industry shipyard. Another order for four 42,000 dwt oil tankers will be placed with a shipbuilder in southern China's Guangdong province.
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OSG contracts four Aframax tankers
Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) based in New York will build four 114,000 dwt Aframax tankers at the New Times Shipbuilding yard in Jinjiang, China. The vessels, scheduled for delivery in 2008 and 2009, will increase OSG's Aframax fleet to 21 tankers serving customers in the Atlantic basin, and will operate ...
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Aker inks GEO ROV support vessel
Aker Yards has entered into a contract with GEO ASA for the building of a ROV support vessel at a cost of $60 million. The vessel will be built by Aker Yards in Brazil, with delivery scheduled for May 2008, and is of the design Aker ROV 06, designed by ...
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Closed Dutch yard could be reopened
The former shipbuilding yard at Krimpen a/d Ijssel near Rotterdam, Holland, which was closed three years ago when Van der Giessen-De Noord went into receivership, could be reactivated to provide much needed newbuilding capacity. This has been brought about by the current boom in Holland for newbuilding orders and one ...
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MOL restructures management system
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) announced a restructuring of the company?s ship management system to enhance the company?s safety program in the light of its plan to expand its fleet from about 700 vessels today to 900 by the end of March 2010, based on the mid-term management plan MOL STEP ...
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Five Turkish cats for Damen
The Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Gorinchem has secured a contract to build five 42 metre catamaran passenger ferries from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, on behalf of operator Istanbul Deniz Otobusu (IDO). The five new "Sea Buses" for IDO are of the Damen Fast Ferry 4212 type; each can carry 449 ...
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Hanjin to order boxship quartet
Hanjin Shipping will, this Friday, sign a $256.4 million contract with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to build four additional 4,275TEU containerships. They will be of the same capacity and type as the four 39,600 dwt vessels previously ordered last November and start to be deployed on the major service lanes ...
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Kleven builds gas powered coastguard ship
Myklebust Verft in Gursken, Norway has entered into a contract with Rem?y Management, Norway, for the delivery of a coastguard vessel, with an option for one additional unit. The vessel is a VS 794 CGV design, developed in close cooperation between owner and yard, designed by Vik-Sandvik of Fitjar, Norway. ...
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Princess goes to Germany
Having arrived at the Grand Bahama shipyard in Freeport for temporary repairs to its 150 fire damaged cabins, the ?Star Princess? will set sail later this week for the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany, where permanent repairs will be carried out. The 2,600 passenger cruise ship is scheduled to ...
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DNV commits to Hong Kong
Earlier this week, DNV launched a maritime academy for industry professionals in Hong Kong, agreed to certify new curriculum at the ailing Hong Kong Sea School, and donated half a million HK$ dollars to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum - a triple pronged effort to ensure greater maritime technical competency ...
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NYK expansion benefits Vietnamese yards
NYK Lines of Japan plans to invest $200 million over the next five years on a number of shipping and logistics projects in Viet Nam in a bid to tap what it described as one of the region?s most promising emerging transportation markets. The Tokyo-based logistics firm said investment projects ...
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GAIL upbeat on CNG bids
Gail (India) Ltd has received response from eight national and international firms/consortiums for the expression of interest (EoI) invited by it for transportation of compressed natural gas (CNG) from Myanmar. The company had recently invited bids for long-term chartering service of CNG ship or barge for transportation of natural gas ...
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Malta Shipyards busy
The Malta Shipyards has recently secured two contracts which will keep it fully occupied until the end of this year. In the first contract, the yard won a $8.4 million job for the upgrading of the Ikdam. This vessel was converted into an FPSO from the 133,560 dwt tanker Northia ...
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FAR goes with Aker
Farstad Shipping ASA in Ålesund, through its subsidiary Farstad Supply AS, has signed a contract with Aker Yards to build two platform supply vessels at a total cost of $87 million. The first vessel is a PSV of UT 751E type and the second vessel is an AHTS of UT ...
