All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1008
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Fincantieri gets Tallink job
Fincantieri and Tallink have reached an agreement to build two new generation, high performance, ice-class cruise ferries, one of which is an option. They will be very similar to the two ferries recently ordered by the Estonian ferry company from Aker Finnyards. The ships? main features are 36,000 gross tonnes, ...
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NACKS expands
NACKS, the Chinese shipbuilder, recently won approval from the government on the construction of a 500,000DWT dry dock and work is scheduled to start in the autumn on this $247 million project. When the new VLCC dock is completed in 2008, it will produce 1.54 million DWT per annum ...
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Mipo earnings improved
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea reported that it earned $900 million in turnover for the first half this year compared with 658 million for the same period last year. Its operating profit increased by 4.3% to $67 million.
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New hope for Birkenhead
A six-month breathing space has been agreed to secure the future of ship repair work at the former Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead. Site owner Reddington Finance has awarded a licence for six months for Liverpool-based Mersey Heritage Shiprepair to carry on trading. This will give the yard?s management breathing ...
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South Vietnam?s biggest vessel launched
Saigon Shipbuilding Industry Company, a subsidiary of the country?s state-owned shipbuilder Vinashin, has launched a 6,500 DWT dry cargo vessel for as local shipping comapny. Named ?Saigon Queen?, this newbuilding is claimed to be the largest built to date in the country?s southern region of Ho Chi Minh City.
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Pertamina plans six new tankers
Indonesia's oil and gas company Pertamina plans to buy six new oil tankers next year to enlarge its fleet. The company will allocate between $60 million and $70 million next year to build six new tankers ranging from 6,500 to 35,000 DWT. A spokesman for the company did not indicate ...
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HHMC production increases
Hudong Heavy Machinery Co (HHMC) in China has produced 35 low speed marine diesel engines with a total output of 549,000 bhp for the first half this year, 18.4% up in terms of bhp. The engine maker achieved year-on-year growth of 29.3% in industrial output to $94 million and won ...
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Iridium wins security contract
ZOCA Container Security BV has developed an innovative approach to preventing unauthorized opening of shipping containers, a serious problem in today?s shipping industry. The ZOCA approach taps Iridium satellite data links to control the containers? locking devices remotely. The ZOCA system consists of a strong mechanical tamper-proof lock, which can ...
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Scottish yard faces closure
In the latest of a series of setbacks, Ferguson Shipyard in Port Glasgow has lost out on an order from the Aberdeen-based Fisheries Research Services for a new fisheries vessel. Once again, however, the Polish yard of Remontowa has snapped up an order form Scotland despite political pressure on the ...
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Vinashin wins UK handy bulker contract
The Hai Phong-based Pha Rung shipyard, a member of the Vinashin group in Vietnam, signed a contract worth $06 million to build four 34,000 DWT dry bulk carriers for the Graig group of Britain. This deal was first muted in the April 2005 issue of the ?Motor Ship? which reported ...
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Jewel delivered early
Meyer Werft has, today, handed over the 93,500 gt cruise ship ?Norwegian Jewel? to the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) in the Dutch port of Eemshaven. The handover took place one day ahead of the contractual date. Tomorrow, the newbuilding will set sail for two mini cruises to Amsterdam and Dover ...
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Daesun wins feeder duo
Daesun Shipbuilding in South Korea has won a $44 million order for two 1,000TEU container ships from an unspecified Korean shipping company for delivery in 2008.
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New ship repair facility in China
Daeyang Shipping in South Korea plans to build a ship repair facility in the Dagoshan Zone of Dalian Development Area in China. Total space of Dalian Daeyang Shipbuilding Corp will be 550,000 m2. The ship repair facilities will include a 200,000DWT dry dock, a 150,000DWT dry dock and five wharfs. ...
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HZ clinches Panamax bulker pair
Hudong Zhonghua (HZ) Shipyard in China clinched two 75,000DWT bulk carriers from the Greece shipping company Cardiff Marine. They will be delivered in March and June 2008. Ship particulars are 225m in length, 32.26m in breadth and 12.5m in depth and the newbuildings will be powered by a B&W 5S60MC-C ...
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Tees newbuildings
The only shipbuilder on the river Tees in England, Aveco's Normanby Wharf, is expecting a contract worth around £250,00 for a new river tanker, to be followed by the £1m-plus Blade Runner 3 - a 76m motorised shallow water barge used to transport wind turbines from Newport to Southampton.The yard ...
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NGV Tech secures Indian contract
The Malaysian shipbuilder, NGV Tech Sdn Bhd, has secured a contract worth about $1.8 million to build two passenger vessels for the Union Territory of Lakshadweep Administration Kavaratty in India. The two 18 metre aluminium vessels would cater for 20 passengers in economy class and 15 passengers in business class.A ...
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Chikyu delivered to JAMSTEC
The deep-sea drilling vessel ?Chikyu?, which will be used to drill to the deepest depths of the ocean to shed light on the mysteries beneath the planet's crust, was delivered to the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which built the research vessel, held a ...
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Fairmount converts semi-sub barges
Fairmount Heavy Transport N.V. will be acquiring the semi submersible barges BOA 19 and 20 from BOA Offshore AS in Trondheim, Norway, and convert them to self propelled transportation vessels. The work is planned to be completed in the second half of 2006.Fairmount Heavy Transport N.V. was recently established by ...
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Samsung rakes in the orders
Samsung Heavy Industries has won orders worth $1.01 billion from Canada's Teekay Shipping to build four LNG carriers for delivery by end June 2008. They will be used to carry LNG produced in Qatar to North America in a joint venture run by state-owned Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil. The 217,000 ...
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L & T keen on shipbuilding
As part of diversification of business, engineering and construction company Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) based in Mumbai is keen on entering into ship building business and developing minor ports. "L&T is keen on foraying into ship building business and we are tying to find a suitable location for the ...
