All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1019
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Ferguson needs lifeline
The Port Glasgow yard of Ferguson is facing an empty order book and is hoping to receive a life-saving order for two new link-spans from the private ferry operator Western Ferries. There could also soon be an order for a new ferry. Western Ferries' managing director Gordon Ross said they ...
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Chinese shipbuilders expand
Xiamen Shipbuilding in China has started to build a new 80,000DWT shipbuilding berth at a cost of $20 million. Due for completion during 2006, it will enable Xiamen to build at least 600,000DWT per year. In addition, two dry docks in Zhoushan, China, will be operational from August this year. ...
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Q-Ship inks gas carrier deal
QATAR Shipping Company (Q-Ship) inked the largest deal in its history by signing a letter of intent with Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea, to build four identical 82,200 cbm very large gas carriers (VLGCs), for delivery in 2008-2009.The ?design, build, launch, equip and deliver? deal is worth about $385 million and ...
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Shipping shortage constrains Chinese car hopes
China wants to become a motorcar exporting powerhouse, but even if overseas demand for its cars soars, its ambitions may be constrained by a global shortage of car-carrying ships. These PCTCs (pure car and truck carriers) are in tight supply as car manufacturing becomes increasingly globalised while shipbuilders are already ...
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Fesco orders another feeder
Fesco in Russia has ordered another 1,730TEU container vessel for delivery in April 2008 from Stocznia Szczecinska Nowa in Poland which is already building two similar feeders for the same owner. The price of the newly ordered ship is $30.5 million which is higher than the first two due to ...
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IHI recovers profitability
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) said its group net balance has swung back into the black for the first time in three years in fiscal 2004 as it cut costs and boosted sales in industrial plant, machinery and shipbuilding operations.The company said net profit came to 2.18 billion yen in a ...
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Hospital ship lifeline
Two shipyards are discussing a £120m hospital ship contract for the UK?s Ministry of Defence in a bid to cope with a work gap caused by delays to the £3.5 billion aircraft carrier programme for the Royal Navy and a slowdown in refit contracts for navy warships. Jaap Kroese, owner ...
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Seastate looking to the future
Seastate, the Australian supplier of complete motion control solutions to luxury yachts, high speed ferries, military and para-military markets, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Austal. Seastate will join with the Austal team to form a resource with a vast knowledge of vessel design and operation that will push ...
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Color Line installs Ensolve
EnSolve Biosystems, the US biotechnology company, has received an order from Color Line to install a PetroLiminator 300 biomechanical bilge water treatment system on the passenger ferry Color Viking. The installation on the 1,460 passenger, 340 vehicle ferry will take place within the next three months. The PetroLiminator system ...
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BAE to upgrade Barrow
BAE, the UK?s major naval shipbuilder, is to spend more than £20 million modernising the Barrow shipyard and also preserving facilities that could be used for a return to surface shipbuilding. The company announced it is launching a "major site programme for 2005 comprising capital investment, preservation of existing facilities ...
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LR approves GE?s turbine propulsion for LNG carriers
Lloyd?s Register (LR) has issued an ?approval in principle? of GE Energy?s LM2500-based gas turbine propulsion system for LNG tankers. Gas turbine propulsion systems have been widely used on naval and cruise ships, but are new to LNG vessels. The approval in principle, issued through LR North America, gives GE ...
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Annex VI impacts on bunker buyers
Owners and charterers will need to revise the text of their fuel purchasing specifications after IMO's Marpol Annex VI enters into force on 19 May warns leading fuel testing agency, Lintec Testing Services. Almost all bunker buyers specify that their fuel must comply with ISO 8217, but Marpol Annex VI ...
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Palmani newbuildings
Palmali Shipping in Istanbul, Turkey, recently signed an agreement with the Russian shipbuilder Volgograd Shipyard for construction of two more 6,750DWT dry cargo vessels of "Palmali" type bringing the total ordered to six units. The first two have already been delivered with another two under construction and scheduled for delivery ...
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Mixed fortunes for Korean yards
Dae Sun Shipbuilding in South Korea has returned to profit for the first quarter this year. Although turnover dropped slightly from W20.4 billion compared with W 20.5 billion last year, the shipyard generated a profit of W1.2 billion compared with a loss of W964 million during the same period last ...
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Bijlsma back in business
Bijlsma Shipyard in Holland, which went bankrupt about a year ago and was taken over by the Dutch company VeKa Group, has booked a large order for 10 newbuildings from Delfzijl-based Wagenborg. The contract calls for six 3,200DWT and four 4,500DWT general cargo ships, all of which are slated for ...
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BMT to assess UK?s ship recycling
A contract to assess the UK?s ship recycling capability has been awarded to a team of BMT companies, led by BMT Defence Services Ltd, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology Ltd (BMT), by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The findings of the study will inform ...
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Aalborg links with Vinashin
Construction of a marine boiler manufacturing plant, jointly funded by the Viet Nam National Shipbuilding Corporation (Vinashin) and the Danish company Aalborg Industries, officially began in Hai Phong?s An Hong industrial park recently. The plant has an investment capital of $3 million, of which Vinashin contributed $750,000.The managing director of ...
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Intermarine orders four more from ENVC
Intermarine of New Orleans has ordered four more 8000DWT heavylift cargo ships from the Portuguese shipyard Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castello (ENVC) with the first delivery expected in the fourth quarter of 2006. They will feature dual 250 tonne capacity cranes that may be combined for 500 tonne lifts. ...
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Quartet mega boxships for Coscon
Coscon, the container shipping arm of Cosco Group, and Nantong Cosco KHI Ship Engineering Co (Nacks), a joint venture between Cosco and Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corp, entered into a shipbuilding contract for the construction of four 10,000 TEU containerships. These newbuildings are believed to be the largest of their kind to ...
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Keppel inks OSV orders
Keppel Singmarine, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. (Keppel O&M) has secured orders for three offshore support vessels (OSVs) and two tugboats totalling $49 million. The vessels will be delivered to their owners by the end 2006. The yard will build one ice-class OSV for anchor ...
