All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1001
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Blohm + Voss wins QM2 contract
Cunard?s ?Queen Mary 2? (QM2) will arrive in Hamburg at Blohm + Voss Repair GmbH on November 8 for maintenance and repair work. The QM2, which was built in 2003, will go into drydock Elbe 17 for maintenance work for the first time. Classification work and extensive painting work will ...
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NYK ups LNG fleet forecast
Nippon Yusen KK, Japan's biggest shipping company, has revised its plan to expand its fleet of LNG tankers. NYK?s initial business plan called for it to either own or have invested in the construction of about 60 LNG carriers by fiscal year 2010. It has now raised that figure to ...
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Daewoo wins Norwegian semi-sub
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering received a $500million order from Norway's Seadrill to supply a semi-submersible oil drill facility. Under the deal, the buyer can place two additional orders for drill facilities, in November and six months thereafter, which would take the total value of the contract to $1.5billion.
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Qeshm to get Chinese yard
China has expressed its strong interest in having a widespread presence in investment projects in Iran, of which, a shipbuilding complex contract in Qeshm Free Trade Zone (QFTZ) will soon reach the final agreement. The Chinese, in general, follow the policy of investing in an economic climate of cheap energy ...
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Keppel FELS to build ultra-deepwater semi
Keppel FELS Limited has secured a contract to build a semi-submersible drilling platform, ENSCO 8500, for a subsidiary of ENSCO International Incorporated. The total project value is approximately $312 million and is expected to be completed in 32 months. ENSCO has secured for ENSCO 8500 a drilling contract with a ...
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TTS Bohai firm established
A firm claiming to be the first joint enterprise between a domestic shipyard and foreign enterprise to make ship equipment has been established. A new Chinese company called TTS Bohai Mechanical Equipment (Dalian) Co Ltd, has been established to manufacture marine equipment. It is jointly owned by Dalian New Shipbuilding ...
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BC yard to build BC ferry
B.C. Ferries in Vancouver, Canada, has plans to purchase a new ferry from a shipyard in North Vancouver and also may file with the ferry commissioner for another fuel surcharge if world fuel prices continue at today's levels.The new 110 metre long ferry, will have a carrying capacity for 125 ...
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Australia's ponders amphib ship design
Spanish shipbuilder Navantia is rapidly progressing the construction of its new generation amphibious ship that will be considered by the Federal Government as part of the A$2 billion amphibious ships project.Defence Minister Robert Hill visited Navantia's shipyards at Ferrol and Fene on the north west coast of Spain and was ...
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Carnival allocates new ship to P&O Cruises
Carnival has assigned a yet-to-be-built 116,000gt cruise ship to its UK-based unit P&O Cruises. To be built by Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, the new Ventura is scheduled to enter service in spring 2008, and will become the largest cruise ship specifically built for British cruise service, Carnival said. The newbuilding will ...
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SembCorp Marine acquires Sabine
A subsidiary of SembCorp Marine, PPL Shipyard, is acquiring the Texas-based Sabine Shipyard. No financial details were disclosed. Sabine is a 223-acre shipyard located on the Gulf of Mexico with immediate access to the Texas and Louisiana offshore drilling activities. The yard is involved in the building, repair and refurbishment ...
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Shipping Corp needs $2 bn to replace old fleet
The domestic shipping industry will require US $2 billion to replace the existing fleet older than 20 years. The current capacity of all the fleet stands at 8.3 million Gross Tonnage (GT) out of which fleet with 2.4 million GT is aged 20 years and olderSabyasachi Hajara, chairman and managing ...
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NQEA riding crest of wave
Queensland ship building and engineering company NQEA has won two engineering excellence awards for its construction of a luxury expedition cruise vessel for Cairns-based operator Coral Princess Cruises. Construction of the vessel gave a significant boost to the Far North Queensland ship building industry. The vessel, Oceanic Princess is the ...
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OVDS signs contract with Fincantieri
OVDS, the Norwegian shipping company, signed a contract with the Italian shipyard Fincantieri for the building of a new cruise ship.The contract is worth $82.7 million and the newbuilding is slated to be delivered in April 2007. The ship will be used for cruises to Greenland in summer, and will ...
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New bids for Washington ferry project
Shipyards will have a chance to submit new proposals to build four Washington state ferries after the state dropped its appeal of a court order that invalidated part of its selection process, according to a report in the Seattle Times. Last February, the state decided that Todd Shipyards of Seattle ...
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USA shipyards choose Autohydro
Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) in Vancouver, Canada, has added two new clients to their growing Autohydro user group. Alabama Shipyards, part of the Atlantic Marine Group, and Derecktor Shipyards have recently chosen Autohydro Pro Release 6 for their hydrostatics and stability calculations. Autohydro is a state of the art hydrostatics ...
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Defence companies bidding for Atlas Elektronik
The German press has been linking Thales with Germany's OHB Technology AG in a bid to ?Germanize? its bid for Atlas Elektronik. The French defence company has not commented on this rumour but considers it to be the most flexible bidder and has stated that an alliance between it and ...
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Criminalisation may adversely affect safety
John M Lyras, Chairman of the London P&I Club, has warned that there is a danger that recent moves - particularly within Europe - to criminalise those seafarers whose errors lead to accidents, could have an adverse, rather than a positive, effect on safety in shipping.In the Club's latest newsletter, ...
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Technip receives US platform order
The Technip Offshore Finland yard in Pori's Mäntyluoto on the west coast of Finland has been awarded an oilrig engineering, procurement, and construction contract worth $273 million by the American oil company Chevron. The Pori yard will deliver the hull and mooring systems for a drilling platform to be used ...
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New 'green' ship for WW
The latest addition to Wallenius Wilhelmsen?s (WW) fleet, the 20,228DWT Toronto, was recently christened. The UK registered newbuilding was constructed with a focus on environmental protection and has a carrying capacity of 6,500 cars. The Toronto is the third of a series of six new ships built by Mitsubishi Heavy ...
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Todd gets USCG repair job
The Seattle-based shipyard, Todd Pacific, has secured a ship repair contract form the US Coast Guard covering repairs and alterations on the icebreaker USCG Polar Sea. There is also an option for the alteration and repair of the ship's systems, engines and shipboard equipment. The work will take place at ...
