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Rosy outlook for Singapore shipyards
Analysts in Singapore are forecasting robust growth and earnings this year from local shipyards which are claimed to be achieving global leadership in the offshore marine sector. The two biggest players, SembCorp Marine, the Sembawang group's marine engineering arm, and Keppel Corp, the parent of Keppel Offshore and Marine, account ...
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Kongsberg positive about Galileo bid
As an international partner to the iNavSat consortium, Kongsberg Maritime has played a key role in the maritime activities of Galileo Concession bid, which will be evaluated by the European Commission (EC) in February 2005. iNavSat is one of two consortiums bidding for the concession, with the winner effectively taking ...
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Ex Matson chief launches new shipping company
The former head of Matson Navigation Company, C. Bradley Mulholland, is involved in the launch of a new shipping company in the Hawaiian islands that will undercut shipping prices by 12%. He will be president and chief executive officer of OceanBlue Express which is the creation of Norwegian industrialist Kjell ...
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REPASA?s new tugs
MAN B&W has been awarded the contract to supply two medium-speed L27/38 twin engine packages for two escort and terminal handling tugs. The newbuildings are under construction at the Spanish shipyard of Astilleros Balenciaga for the Tarragona-based Remolcadores de Puerto y Altura SA. (REPASA) fleet. The vessels, named Romulo and ...
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BMT transforms maritime simulation
A development kit unlocking the modeling expertise that has placed British Maritime Technology Ltd (BMT) at the forefront of manoeuvring simulation software for nearly three decades was unveiled today by BMT SeaTech Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT. The launch of the Manoeuvring Engine Software Development Kit (MeSDK) heralds a ...
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Wallem introduces TRS
The Norwegian ship management company Wallem has introduced the TransparentSea Reporting Solution (TRS) to manage and archive the condition surveys of the ships they manage and which is now being rolled out for use by third parties. Wallem has been working on this system in one form or another since ...
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Wärtsilä extends range of marine gears
Wärtsilä will extend its range of marine reduction gears and begin manufacturing these products in Khopoli, India. Production will start on the same site as Wärtsilä?s existing factory. The value of the investment is approximately EUR 1 million. The new unit in Khopoli will have 20 employees and it will ...
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Caribbean shipyard upgrade
During 2006, the St. Maarten Shipyard in the Caribbean, will complete a modernisation programme, which will expand the facilities into a top class mega yacht repair yard. The new facilities will comprise a Syncrolift and a new ship transfer system from Norwegian-based TTS Handling Systems.This new TTS transfer system, PWT ...
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Secret cash for Swan Hunter
The British government has been accused of trying to keep secret an £84m cash lifeline to the troubled shipyard of Swan Hunter in the north-east of England and which is located near the constituencies of the prime minister and other senior cabinet ministers.The conservatives demanded to know why there had ...
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Aurora heads for Germany
P&O?s cruise liner Aurora, which recently suffered serious propulsion problems causing the abandonment of its world cruise last week, is heading for the German shiprepair yard of Lloydwerft in Bremerhaven to have repair works carried out. These are likely to take twice as long as the four to five weeks ...
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Korea top dog again
South Korean shipbuilders enjoyed another bumper year in 2004 by winning the largest amount of orders in the world totalling 17.3 million compensated gross tonnes (CGT) last year. This was well ahead of Japan in second position with 12.2 million CGT according to the London-based research firm Clarkson.South Korean shipbuilders ...
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Polish yards sinking Ferguson
Ferguson Shipbuilders, the last independent yard on the Clyde, is facing a ?life or death? battle over government contracts for two new fisheries vessels. Alan Dunnet, Ferguson's chief executive, who rescued the 102-year-old Port Glasgow shipyard in the mid-1990s with his father, Frank, believes the Scottish Executive is driving the ...
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Owners rush for extra fuel protection
Leading fuel testing company Lintec Testing Services says it has had a massive response to its revolutionary new service to screen bunkers for chemical contamination. Over 300 vessels have signed up for Lintec's extra level of protection since it was launched at the end of October last year.Lintec developed the ...
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Farstad orders another AHTS
Farstad Supply AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Farstad Shipping ASA, has reached an agreement with Simek AS, Flekkefjord, for the building of an anchor handling tug supply vessel for delivery in April 2006. The vessel is of design UT 712L from Rolls-Royce Marine, which also will be a major supplier ...
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Cutty Sark lives on
The future of the museum ship Cutty Sark in Greenwich, UK, has been safeguarded following a grant of £11.25 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund which will enable the old tea clipper to be protected from further damage for the next 50 years. There had been fears that without a ...
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Mid-life upgrade for BC ferry
Refurbishments will bring Service Improvements for Nanaimo-Horseshoe Bay The Queen of Oak Bay, which plies on BC Ferries' Nanaimo-Horseshoe Bay route in British Columbia, Canada, is undergoing an extensive, six-month upgrade at Vancouver Drydock Company (VDC) in North Vancouver. The contract with the ship repairer, which is part of the ...
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VT Halter build third NOAA vessel
VT Halter Marine Inc. (VTHM), a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., will build another Fisheries Survey Vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which organised their option for the third of four planned vessels under an existing contract. This vessel is valued at approximately $38 million and ...
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Ballast Water Convention gains first signatories
Spain and Brazil have become the first states to sign the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004.The Ballast Water Convention contains measures to prevent the potentially devastating effects of the spread of harmful aquatic organisms carried by ships' ballast water. It will ...
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H&W at full capacity
Harland and Wolff is gearing up for a second year of substantial business growth following a successful 2004 which saw ship repair and conversion work increasing by 60%. The Belfast shipyard is at maximum capacity with no fewer than two ferries, two high speed catamaran ferries, a tanker and three ...
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Germany claims France not ready
German Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement said European shipbuilders aren't ready to merge with their German counterparts as many are still government-controlled. "The potential partners are not yet advanced enough,"' Clement told reporters at a maritime conference in Bremen, Germany when asked if he would support a merger between ThyssenKrupp Marine ...
