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Fjord1 to order gas ferries from Aker
Aker Yards has signed a LOI with Fjord1 to build five gas powered ferries with delivery scheduled for second half of 2006. The value of the contract is approximately $193 million. The world's first gas powered ferry, Glutra, was delivered from Aker Yards in 2000. The five new ferries will ...
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Farstad orders two OSVs
Aker Brattvaag AS, a company in the Aker Yards Group, has signed a contract with Farstad Supply AS, for the building of two Offshore Supply Vessels. The total contract value is approximately NOK 540 million ($87.5 million) and the newbuildings are scheduled for delivery from S?viknes Verft in May and ...
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New separators from Sasakura
Sasakura Engineering in Japan has developed and launched a range of oily water separators that fully complies with new IMO bilge water rules due to come into effect from 1 January 2005. Osaka-based Sasakura Engineering is a manufacturer of marine equipment, desalination plants, air-cooled heat exchangers and other environmental ...
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Japan delivers its largest boxship
The largest container ship ever to have been built in Japan was taken into service today as the ?P&O Nedlloyd Mondriaan?. With a length of 335 metres, a width of 42.80 metres and a draught of 14 metres, this 7,500TEU newbuilding is the first of a series of eight units, ...
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Iran Shipping in newbuilding spree
Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) ordered US$450 million of vessels from domestic yards in the country's biggest shipbuilding order. As the Middle East's biggest non-oil shipping company, IRISL ordered as many as ten 53,000DWT dry-bulk carriers at a total cost of $270 million. The Tehran based company, also agreed to buy ...
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K"Line orders LPG duo
Following the signing of a long-term time charter for two gas carriers with Yara, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K"Line) has ordered two 38,000 cubic metre, fully refrigerated ammonia/LPG carriers from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea. These are "K"Line?s first contracts for this type of gas carrier.Since ammonia has ...
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White collar jobs face axe
There are fears that up to 100 design jobs could go at Barrow shipyard by April unless the government comes up with stopgap work. During the year there has been concern for that hundreds of vital design and drawing office jobs in Barrow will be threatened unless more work is ...
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Aker gets Olympic PSV
Aker Brevik AS, a company in the Aker Yards Group, has been awarded a contract by Olympic Kombiskip KS, in Fosnavåg, Norway, to deliver a platform supply vessel of the UT 755LN type. The contract is worth approximately NOK 125 million ($20.2 million). Aker Yards already has 10 ships of ...
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Posco ups steel price again
POSCO will raise prices of its steel plates and hot-rolled coil to Japan by as much as 5,000 yen ($48) a tonne in the first quarter as demand from China pushes up prices. Korea?s largest steel maker will raise prices of steel plates used in construction and other purposes excluding ...
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Wartsila powers LNG newbuild
Wärtsilä has received an order from Alstom Chantiers de l'Atlantique of France to supply one set of Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines to power the 154,000 m3 dual-fuel-electric LNG carrier Gaselys. This newbuilding was ordered a few months ago by a joint-venture between Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) of Japan and Gaz ...
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Labroy cement order
Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering in Batam Island, Indonesia, a subsidiary of the Singapore-based Labroy Marine, has won a new shipbuilding contract worth $23.1 million from Norway's Belden Shipping Group. It is a repeat order for a 20,200DWT cement carrier to be delivered in October 2006.
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Samsung develops mega boxship
Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a 12,000TEU container ship design which it is now actively marketing. As the largest container carrier to date, the vessel will have a length of 383m and sail at the speed of 26 knots powered by a 109,000 bhp (80,080kW) two stroke MAN B&W 14K98ME ...
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Kawasaki wins LNG orders
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) is to build and operate two LNG carriers for use by Osaka Gas Company to import LNG, and has concluded a shipbuilding contract with Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation. The first carrier is scheduled to be completed in December 2008, and the second carrier is due for completion ...
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Hamworthy hits LNG jackpot
Hamworthy has won orders and a letter of intent totalling £48 million ($92 million) to supply eight LNG reliquefaction systems to the first LNG carriers to use slow-speed diesel propulsion engines. The newbuildings, which are the world?s largest LNG carriers, were ordered from Korean shipbuilders. Hamworthy plc has won orders ...
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Daewoo in expansion mood
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), South Korea's most profitable shipbuilder, is planning to expand its global network through acquisitions. "We are considering boosting our overseas presence by acquiring small and medium shipbuilders in China, Brazil and Angola," DSME president Jung Sung-leep said.DSME, the second-largest shipbuilder in the world, acquired ...
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Aker Yards signs up sextet
Aker Brevik, a part of Aker Yards ASA, has signed a contract to build six 18,000 m3 product-tankers with six Cyprus-based single purpose companies. The 15,000 DWT vessels are to be built at Aker Braila in Romania and the total contract value is around EUR 130 million ($176 million).The design ...
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Cosco orders 300,000DWT bulker pair
COSCO Hong Kong Group has placed an order for two 300,000 DWT bulk carriers with the Japanese shipbuilders Universal Shipbuilding and Sumitomo. The two newbuildings will be used to ship ore products for the Shanghai Bao Steel Group.
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Titan to expand fleet
Hong Kong oil trader, Titan Petrochemicals Group, has signed a one-year contract with China's Zhuhai Zhenrong that will give it access to 3 million metric tonnes of Iranian fuel oil, valued at $600 million, for trading. Under the renewable contract, Titan will transport the fuel oil from Iran and then ...
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Japan develops silencer
The Japanese NMRI (National Maritime Research Institute) and fire protecting door and noise-proof package manufacturer Taiko Sangyo have developed a new silencer system that dampens low frequency noise from diesel engines. This noise pollution emanates from ships berthed in port areas and is particularly noticeable at night when the humming ...
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CSISC challenges V-Ships
China's largest ship-management company plans to launch a global challenge to its competitors. "Our purpose is to catch up with the world's largest V-Ships Company," said Wang Xiangyun, Party secretary of the newly established China Shipping International Ship management Co Ltd (CSISC). CSISC is aiming to manage several hundred ...
