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HSL launches research vessel
The buoy tender cum research vessel ?Sagar Manjusha? was launched last week by Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL). Ordered by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), the newbuilding is 60 metre long, 11 metres wide and 5 metres deep. It is powered by two Caterpillar diesel engines and will have ...
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Korean shipyard in Subic venture
A Korean shipbuilding company plans to set up a $1-billion shipyard in Subic Bay, on the west coast of Luzon Island in the Philippines, and hire 20,000 shipbuilders in adjacent communities in the Freeport to help solve the unemployment problem of the country. Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) administrator, Armand ...
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Waigaoqiao sets new delivery record
Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) has become China's first shipbuilder to deliver more than 2 million deadweight tonnes in a year after it recently handed over a 175,000 dwt Capesize bulk carrier. Waigaoqiao has delivered ships of 2.06 million dwt this year, following its record 1.7 million dwt last year. Overseas ...
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Teekay to acquire three Suezmaxes
Teekay Lng Partners plans to acquire three Suezmax crude oil tankers and related long-term fixed-rate charters for $180 million from its parent company, Teekay Shipping. The company said Teekay Lng plans to finance the acquisition with the net proceeds of a proposed public offering of its common units, together with ...
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STX mulls shipbuilding facility expansion
STX Shipbuilding in Korea is considering the construction of a new shipbuilding dry dock. The aim is to increase output to 70 ships per year by 2008.
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Korean shipowners in ordering spree
Korea Line has placed an order for a Capesize bulk carrier costing $ 70 million. The shipping company declined to give shipbuilder?s name and ship size but said that the order is a part of medium and long-term fleet expansion plan. Delivery is scheduled during first half of 2009.STX Pan ...
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Wärtsilä powers VeKa feeders
Wärtsilä was awarded a contract from Bijlsma Shipyard in Lemmer, Netherlands, to deliver propulsion plants for two 350 TEU container feeder vessels ordered by the Dutch VeKa Group For each vessel, Wärtsilä will deliver an eight-cylinder Wärtsilä Vasa 32LN main engine, a Wärtsilä reduction gearbox, a 3.20 m-diameter Lips controllable-pitch ...
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Oil drilling ship gets Wartsila power
Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to deliver six Wärtsilä 32 diesel engines with a combined power of over 40 MW for the world's largest oil drilling ship which is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. Ordered by Stena Drilling, a member of the Stena group of Gothenburg, ...
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ITS to help build warships
The Indonesian shipbuilder PT PAL will cooperate with the Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS) to build corvette warships using technology similar to stealth aircraft technology. The cooperation was conceived under a Ministry of Defense program, which requires PAL to cooperate with the country's universities to build the warships. Aside from ...
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ABS and RS sign bilateral agreement
A new bilateral agreement that extends the long-standing agreement on cooperation between ABS and the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has been signed by the two societies in St Petersburg, Russia. The wide ranging, cooperative agreement principally addresses the provision of field surveys for ships and floating structures in ...
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Two superspeed Color ferries for Aker
Color Line has signed a Letter of Intent with Aker Yards for the building of two new ships for delivery in 2007 and 2008 respectively. These ships represent a new type of transport solution and are to be put into service between Norway and Denmark in a new concept called ...
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Wärtsilä power for heavy-lift jobs
Wärtsilä diesel-electric propulsion plants of 11.5 MW have been ordered for two heavy-lift transport vessels to be converted for Fairmount Heavy Transport NV, an associated company of the Rotterdam-based towage contractor Fairmount Marine BV. The "Fairmount Fjord" and "Fairmount Fjell" were originally semi-submersible barges and are being converted to self-propelled ...
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ARL introduces revolutionary software
Albacore Research Ltd. (ARL), the creator of the 3D product modeling software ShipConstructor, is putting the last touches on this year?s new software version, ShipConstructor 2006, scheduled for release towards the end of 2005, represents a quantum leap in CAD/CAM with the introduction of the Database Driven Relational Object Model ...
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SCI inks two VLCCs
The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), today signed contracts with Daewoo Ship Building and Marine Engineering (DSME) of South Korea for building and delivering two VLCCs. The tankers, to be built at DSME's shipbuilding yard in South Korea, will have a deadweight of about 300,000 tonnes at the design draft ...
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Merwede and VT sign MOU
Britain's VT Shipbuilding and the Dutch company Merwede Shipyard have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on naval warship procurement programs outside the U.K.VT Shipbuilding, is part of the support services and shipbuilding company VT Group (the former Vosper Thorneycroft) while Merwede is a 100% subsidiary company of ...
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UK carrier contract delayed
The decision on the Royal Navy?s aircraft carrier contracts for Barrow shipyard has been delayed until next year. Yard bosses are keeping a ?watching brief? on the timetable for the work after a government minister said the first of two new carriers will not be in service by the target ...
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DD(X) propulsion motor achieves full power
Alstom Power Conversion Incorporated (APCI) reports that the DD(X) Integrated Power System (IPS) test team has achieved full torque of over one million foot pounds on the Advanced Induction Motor (AIM) at the NGSS, NSWC land based test site in Philadelphia. This AIM is rated at 18.25 MW at 127 ...
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Saigon shipbuilder signs first export deal
The Saigon shipbuilding industry company (SSIC), a member company of the Vinashin group, has won its first ever export contract to build ten 5,190 DWT multipurpose ships.Under the contract inked with Midland Shipping Co (MSC). of Canada, SSIC will build a ten-ship series over the next four years at a ...
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Reliance plans 25-ship fleet
Reliance Industries Ltd, the largest and one of the fastest growing private sector companies in India with business activities encompassing oil & gas exploration and production, petroleum refining, petrochemicals and textiles, is planning to acquire a fleet of 25 ships. The fleet will consist of a combination of chemical tankers, ...
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Fairmount Summit joins fleet
The second in a series of five supertugs ordered from Niigata Shipbuilders in Japan by Fairmount Marine recently joined the fleet. The 200 tonnes bollard pull anchor handling/salvage/long distance towing vessel ?Fairmount Summit? joins the first in the newbuilding series, ?Fairmount Sherpa?, which has been operating successfully since going into ...
