All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1009
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Hyundai gets Total rig
Hyundai Heavy Industries has received a $400 million order to build an offshore oil rig from a French oil company. Under the deal, Hyundai will construct a floating production unit for Total SA and install it off the coast of Congo in West Africa by February 2008. The facility will ...
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Tankers galore for PDVSA
The Brazilian press has reported that that Venezuela's oil company PDVSA is to pay $2 billion to buy 40 oil tankers from Brazil to renew its fleet. The deal includes Panamax, Aframax, Suezmax and VLCC tankers. Last week the Venezuelan media also reported that President Chavez will travel to Argentina ...
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Ferguson lifeline
Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow may have another chance to win a fisheries vessel which is going out to tender. The Scottish Executive has announced that the Aberdeen-based Fisheries Research Services is commissioning a new vessel but, once again, the decision would rest with Environment Minister Ross Finnie. The Scottish ...
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Keppel delivers semisub
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has delivered its latest semi-submersible drilling tender, ?West Setia?, to Smedvig Tender Rigs Pte (Smedvig) today. The delivery places Keppel FELS as the leader and pioneer in the design and construction of purpose-built semi-submersible drilling tenders (SSDT) for deepwater operations. It will be deployed by ...
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MAN B&W finalising LNG safety study
MAN B&W Diesel is closely cooperating with major Korean shipyards, Samsung, Daewoo and Hyundai, on the use of ME-GI engines for LNG carriers. Work is now being finalised on the Hazid/Hazop safety study for the entire gas supply system from LNG tanks including vapourizer gas compressors and oxidizers, as well ...
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Land hitch hits Laird ship repair bid
A local ship repair entrepreneur has teamed up with other investors in a bid to buy some of the dry docks at the former Cammell Laird shipyard. The Mersey Heritage Ship repair Company (MHS) would like to be able to offer current owner Reddington Finance £6 million to buy the ...
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Aker snaps up Brittany ferry
Aker Yards and the French company Brittany Ferries have signed a contract for the building of a ropax vessel worth EUR 80 million for delivery in autumn 2007. The contract includes an option of a similar vessel. The vessel will be delivered from the yard in Helsinki, while the blocks ...
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Revised sewage regs
Revised international regulations for the prevention of pollution of the sea by sewage from ships (revised MARPOL Annex IV, adopted by resolution MEPC.115(51)) will enter into force today, 1 August 2005. The regulations are important because the discharge of raw sewage into the sea can create a health hazard and, ...
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Rickmers orders newbuilds from Iran
Rickmers-Linie, the Hamburg based global breakbulk, heavy lift and project specialist, has ordered four multipurpose heavy lift vessels from the SADRA Shipyard in Busheher, Iran. They are scheduled for delivery between July 2007 and July 2008.The newbuildings have been purpose-designed for the carriage of breakbulk, heavy lift and project cargo. ...
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Malta Shipyards finances improve
Shipyard workers at Malta Shipyards are to get a performance bonus of Lm70 to Lm100 each next month after the company's financial performance superseded budget targets during the first three months of the year. According to the performance-related pay (PRP) scheme agreed by the government and the General Workers' Union ...
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Daewoo wins Qatar quintet
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has received an order to build five 210,100 cubic metre LNG tankers valued at $1.20 billion from a Qatari gas producer. DSME?s latest deal means that it has secured nine out of 20 LNG carriers for Qatar Liquefied Gas II since last year. Qatar ...
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Qatargas II inviting LNG bids
Talks are set to begin soon on Qatar's new LNG tanker procurement program. Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. II (Qatargas II), which plans to charter 6 to 8 large-size LNG carriers, said that it is inviting operators to make their commercial bids by Aug. 25.
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Aker inks Tallink ferry
Aker Yards and the Estonian Tallink Group have signed a contract for the building of a fast passenger ferry for delivery in spring 2007, worth around $134.5 million. The contract includes an option for another similar vessel. The new ice class ferry will be built at the Helsinki yard for ...
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MEPC adopts amendments
The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the IMO adopted amendments to its regulations on the prevention of air pollution to establish a new special emissions control area for the North Sea when it met for its 53rd session from 18-22 July. MEPC also agreed to develop a new mandatory ...
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UK focuses on RK280 production
MAN B&W Ltd, located in Stockport, UK, will in future be focusing on extended service business and on the production of the new RK280 engine series. The MAN B&W Diesel Group?s English site introduced measures to improve competitiveness at the beginning of April, which included optimising of the production facilities ...
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Petrobras signs loi with Modec
Brazil's state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) signed letters of intent with Modec Inc., Houston, to supply a floating production, storage, and offloading platform (FPSO) and a floating storage, and offloading vessel (FSO) in the Campos basin. Modec will operate the FPSO in Espadarte Sul field and the FSO will receive ...
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Chenega sets sail
Alaska?s second fast vehicle ferry, ?Chenega?, sailed from Auke Bay yesterday, en route to Prince William Sound, where it will serve the communities of Cordova, Valdez, and Whittier. The ferry, built by Derektor Shipyards of Bridgeport, Connecticut at a cost of $38 million, is expected to enter revenue service on ...
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K Line orders three LNG carriers
A group company consisting of Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K"Line), together with its Indonesian consortium partner, PT. Pelayaran Nusantara Meratus (PNM), has executed three 20-year long-term charter agreements for three new LNG carriers for Tangguh LNG Project with the Tangguh Production Sharing Contractors operated by BP Indonesia. The Tangguh LNG ...
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Teekay awarded LNG contracts
Teekay Shipping Corporation has been awarded contracts to charter two 155,000 cubic-metre LNG carriers to the Tangguh LNG project in Indonesia. The contractual relationship for the 20-year fixed-rate charters will be with the Tangguh Production Sharing Contractors, a consortium led by BP Berau, a subsidiary of BP plc. The vessels ...
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Austal delivers and wins new order
Austal Ships has delivered to a private owner the ?Electra? for operation in the Bahamas.With the initial design brief heavily based on carrying and deploying a 9 metre, twin engine RIB, ?Electra? is customised as a base for serious diving adventures. Complete with all the necessary equipment to support underwater ...
