Ships & Yards 13-18 – Page 63
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Sovcomflot plans fleet expansion with RS
Sovcomflot has enlisted the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) as it embarks on a fleet expansion to serve growing offshore projects on Russia’s continental shelf.
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NewsMitsubishi reorganises at Nagasaki
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is to increase its focus on commercial vessels at its Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works Koyagi Plant, establishing two new companies for ship construction and the manufacture of hull blocks.
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NewsASRY wins repair deal for Kuwaiti vessels
Arab Ship Repair Yard (ASRY) of Bahrain has signed one of its biggest block repair deals with Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC), taking exclusive maintenance rights for 19 vessels over the next two and a half years under a contract valued at US$33 million.
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NewsSpecialist ship repairs highlight German expertise
Propulsion and emission issues have again been at the core of repair and refurbishment activity in German yards in the past quarter, Tom Todd reports in the February edition of The Motorship, out soon.
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NewsMeyer stays put but strategy changes
Meyer Werft has told its 3,100 workers it will not leave home base in Papenburg for at least 15 years, writes Tom Todd. The company has also revealed a new shipbuilding process at the yard.
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NewsOman Drydock wins major conversion job
Oman Drydock Company (ODC) is looking to significantly increase its market share of global shiprepair work after completing its first major conversion job.
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Hyundai launches Marine Service Center
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has merged the aftersales service units of HHI, Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries and Hyundai Mipo Dockyard to create the Hyundai Marine Service Center in Ulsan, South Korea.
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NewsHainan ro-pax ferrry project completed
Kned E Hansen, CS Marine (Shanghai) and Bo Hai Shipyard have delivered the first ro-pax vessel designed for the Chinese market, ‘San Sha No 1’, commissioned by the Hainan government.
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GE powers US Coast Guard cutter
The US Coast Guard has commissioned the National Security Cutter ‘Hamilton’, to be powered by a combined diesel and gas turbine (CODAG) system comprising a GE LM2500 gas turbine and two diesel engines.
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NewsKeppel wins MCS ice class contract
Shipbuilder Keppel Singmarine has been awarded a contract to build an ice-class, multipurpose vessel for Maritime Construction Services valued at around US$265m.
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NewsSkangass commissions LNG bunker vessel
Skangass has commissioned the first LNG bunker and feeder vessel to be built in Europe. The Coralius will be built by Royal Bodewes in the Netherlands and owned by Swedish-Dutch joint venture Sirius Veder Gas.
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NewsUlstein to build offshore wind service vessels
Norwegian ship builder and designer Ulstein will supply two SX175 service operation vessels to Bernhard Schulte in its first contract within the offshore wind industry.
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NewsDamen Shiprepair completes Saga Sapphire refurb
The 196.63m Saga Sapphire has been repaired and refurbished at Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam, with works including the replacement of two sewage plants and a scheduled DNV GL class survey.
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NewsDamen delivers Van Oord cable laying vessel
Offshore contractor Van Oord has taken delivery of The Nexus, a new DOC 8500 cable laying vessel from Damen.
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NewsGerman yards do better in 2014, study says
An end-of-year study says German shipyards enjoyed more positive business overall in 2014 with orders and deliveries up on previous years. reports Tom Todd.
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NewsMarin Teknikk wins diving vessel contract
Marin Teknikk has entered into a contract for design and delivery of a large multipurpose diving support and construction vessel (DSCV) for Ultra Deep Solutions (UDS) in Singapore.
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NewsRevitalisation of Pacific Northwest ferry fleet
David Tinsley describes the first of a new class of double ended vessels for Washington State Ferries, strongly conventional and traditional in concept, but designed with conversion to gas fuel in mind.
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NewsAir support technology to be tried on wind farm vessel
Construction has started on a new type of wind farm vessel at a Danish shipyard, based on air supported vessel (ASV) technology and claimed to offer much reduced fuel consumption combined with high speeds, writes Dag Pike.
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NewsFerry interior refurbishments for UK company
Trimline, a Southampton, UK, based marine interior refurbishment specialist, has announced a contract with Condor Ferries to customise its new high-speed passenger and vehicle ferry.
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Yet another FPSO conversion at Jurong
Sembcorp Marine subsidiary Jurong Shipyard of Singapore has been contracted by regular customer MODEC Offshore Production Systems to complete the repair, life extension and conversion of a VLCC into a (FPSO vessel.
