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    ABB wins multi contracts

    2005-12-07T00:00:00Z

    ABB has won contracts worth $140 million to supply its Azipod propulsion systems for three vessels and electrical power systems for 11 new marine vessels and for two semi-submersible drilling rigs. The order includes six 10MW Azipod propulsion units for three Arctic shuttle tankers being built for Russia's Sococomflot at ...

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    Odense delivers Gjertrud

    2005-12-05T00:00:00Z

    The Odense Steel Shipyard presented its latest newbuilding for the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group. The 7,000TEU post-Panamax boxship was named Gjertrud M?rsk and is the fourth ship in a new series of updated container ships operated with extensive automation. With its 12-cylinder Wärtsilä RT-flex96C diesel engine from Doosan Engine, ...

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    Petronet charters Exmar LNG carrier

    2005-12-05T00:00:00Z

    Petronet LNG Ltd, India's largest liquefied natural gas importer, has awarded a 25 year charter agreement for one additional LNG ship from a consortium led by Exmar of Belgium at a day rate of about $82,000. Exmar, together with its Indian consortium partners, Varun Shipping Company and Indian Oil Corporation, ...

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    Mipo clinches 8 PCs

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Hyundai Mipo Dockyard recently captured two orders for product carriers. The first comprised of three 37,000DWT tankers from a European ship owner for as a total value of $124 million. The second is for five 47,000DWT product carriers valued at $230 million for delivery from 2008 to February 2009.

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    Research vessel for Macduff

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    A new marine research vessel will be built by the Macduff shipyard in Aberdeenshire. Ministers are expected to confirm that the $7 million contract has been awarded to the north east yard, which will safeguard 130 jobs.

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    China delivers Iranian bulker

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Iran's Shipping Lines (IRISL) Panamax bulk carrier ?Iran Bojnourd? was recently delivered by Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. The 74,000 DWT newbuilding is the second in a five-ship series ordered by IRISL and is 225 metres long, 32.2 metres wide and has a maximum speed of 14.6 knots. It is notable ...

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    L-3 acquires SAM

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    L-3 Communications based in New York has signed an agreement to acquire SAM Electronics GmbH (SAM) for $150 million in cash, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. SAM is expected to generate approximately $320 million of sales for the year ending December 31, 2006. The acquisition is expected ...

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    Norden signs contracts with CSSC

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    Norden, Denmark-based shipping company, signed three contracts with China State Ship-building Corporation (CSSC). The contracts will increase Norden's current investment in China to over $100 million. Under the agreement, Norden will commission 2 product carriers from Guangzhou Shipyard and one bulk carrier from Chengxi Shipyard.

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    Ferguson picks up ferry job

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The Ferguson shipyard in Inverclyde has been awarded a multi-million pound contract to build a new ferry for Caledonian MacBrayne. The $10.4 million order was won by the Port Glasgow yard despite competition from Poland, Germany, Norway and Italy. The announcement comes as the yard faces the threat of closure, ...

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    Aker launches Galaxy

    2005-12-02T00:00:00Z

    The christening and launching ceremony of the large cruise ferry ordered by Tallink took place at Aker Yards shipyard in Rauma. The 165 million Euro vessel was named ?Galaxy? and will start cruises from Helsinki to Tallinn next spring. The vessel will be one of the biggest cruise ferries in ...

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    Philly yard starts tanker number two

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Aker Philadelphia Shipyard has begun production on the second of ten vessels in the 46,000 dwt product tanker build program announced last spring. Steel cutting for the ship, the sixth built by the yard since its opening five years ago, begins just weeks after keel laying for the first tanker ...

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    Petersburg shipyard tests new generation submarine

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The St. Petersburg-based Admiralty Shipyard has begun sea trials of a fourth-generation Project 677 Lada class diesel-electric submarine, according to the company's press office. During the next few months, the submarine, called ?St. Petersburg?, will undergo manoeuvrability and submersion tests and operations in extreme conditions. After completion of the tests, ...

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    Chinese shipbuilders win LNG and VLCC jobs -

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding secured a contract for three LNG carriers from two domestic gas tanker operators. The 47,000 cbm newbuildings will be delivered on November 2008, July and October 2009. This latest order will bring the number of LNG carriers under construction at HZ to five. CSSC won an order ...

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    RasGas orders 12 Q-Flex LNG carriers

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    In the largest ever commercial shipping contract in the world, RasGas (3) signed time charter agreements with JC Nakilat and Teekay Nakilat for $9bn 25-year charter of 12 large Q-Flex sized membrane LNG tankers. The ships will be built at the three South Korean shipyards - Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine ...

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    Huangpu standardizes on PTC(R) shipbuilding solution

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The Product Development Company(TM), and Guangzhou-based CSSC Guangzhou Huangpu Shipbuilding (HS), announced that HS has expanded its use of PTC Shipbuilding Solution, which includes CADDS(R) 5i to improve its overall design capabilities. With the expanded software implementation, HS is standardizing on PTC Shipbuilding Solution as its manufacturing design platform. HS ...

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    New AHTS for GulfMark Offshore

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The newbuilding, currently being built by Jaya Shipbuilding and Engineering at their Batam, Indonesia, yard near Singapore, is a 70 m, 5,500 BHP, approximately 70 tonne bollard pull, DP2 anchor handling towing supply vessel. The purchase price for this vessel is approximately $14.5 million, with delivery currently expected during the ...

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    Vyborg yard to build 6 fishing boats for Turkmenistan

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The Vyborg Shipbuilding Yard of Russia has won an international tender to design and build six refrigerated fishing vessels for the State Committee of Fishing Industry of Turkmenistan. The document, which was adopted with a view to fulfilling the task of increasing volumes of fishing in the Caspian Sea and ...

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    BP gets third Alaska tanker

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    BP Oil Shipping Co. USA has received delivery of the third of four 193,050 dwt Alaska-class double-hull crude oil tankers being built by National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. (Nassco), San Diego. The fourth ship will be delivered in late 2006. The ?Alaskan Navigator?, 25% owned by BP, will be operated ...

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    Stolt Offshore charters new build IMR and survey ship

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Stolt Offshore has entered into an agreement with Eidesvik Shipping AS to charter a new build ship for the inspection, maintenance, repair (IMR) and survey market for a period of 8 years, plus options for a further 12 years. The charter commences on delivery of the ship in mid 2007.The ...

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    New boxship for E.R. Schiffahrt

    2005-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The Hamburg shipping company E.R. Schiffahrt recently commissioned its 60th ship, with the 8,200TEU ?E.R. Tianan?. This Post-Panamax ship is one of the largest in the world, with length overall 335 metres, beam 42.8 metres and draught 14.5 metres.The main engine, an MAN B&W with twelve cylinders and an output ...