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    UMC International receives largest ever order for hull aperture blanks.

    2004-07-12T00:00:00Z

    UMC received a boost recently when it secured an order for 22 ship sets of hull aperture blanks from Hyundai Mipo shipyard in Korea. Each set comprises 8 blanks plus ancillary fitting equipment and discharge bungs. The value of this order is £134,000, and all the vessels are identical 2,824 ...

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    SSCS plans expansion into shipbuilding

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    The newly formed Shanghai Shipyard & Chengxi Shipyard (SSCS) aims to maintain its top ranking in China's ship-repairing market while, at the same time, planning to enter into the domestic shipbuilding industry. Company officials unveiled these objectives following SSCS's launch on June 30, the result of a multi-billion-Yuan restructuring that ...

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    Inaugural compressed gas forum a success

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    A number of recommendations relating to the marine transportation of compressed natural gas (CNG) have emerged following an international gathering held in St. John, Canada. With support from the Centre for Marine Compressed Natural Gas (CMCNG) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, more than 50 delegates representing commercial and governmental organizations ...

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    C-MAP wins CSCL contract

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL), one of the largest shipping companies in China, owns a fleet of 103 container vessels with a total capacity of over 120,000 TEUs, and is operating dozens of domestic coastal and international routes from China to Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, Europe, Mediterranean and North ...

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    Daesun cancels order

    2004-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Daesun Shipbuilding cancelled an order for two 1,043TEU container ships which it had received from two German KG ship owners at a total cost of $34 million. The order was placed with the Korean shipbuilder in April this year but the shipowners had failed to pay the first down ...

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    Damen creates a ?short,fat monster?

    2004-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Since introducing its first azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug, the ASD 3110 Citta Della Spezia back in 1993, the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards has built almost 100 compact ASD tugs in various design sizes such as the 2509, 2810, 3110, 3111 and 3211. All these are multi-purpose ASD tugs ...

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    Samsung delivers world's largest container ship

    2004-07-08T00:00:00Z

    South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered the world's largest container ship to a Canadian shipping company. Christened CSCL Asia, the 8,500 TEU ship is 334 metres long, 42.8 metres wide and has a service speed of 25 knots.

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    MOL's vessels and US terminals ISPS certified

    2004-07-08T00:00:00Z

    MOL (America) Inc confirma that all of the company's containerships calling at North American ports and all of MOL's own terminals are in compliance with IMO?s International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) and have been certified accordingly.The US Coast Guard will use ISPS Certification to enforce the US ...

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    Korea Line orders a capesize bulker

    2004-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Korea Line has ordered a 176,000DWT bulk carrier from a Japanese shipbuilder. The newbuilding, costing $51 million, will be delivered during the first quarter in 2006.

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    New crane for A&P Falmouth

    2004-07-08T00:00:00Z

    A&P Falmouth has a new 60 tonne crane which will service Nos. 3 & 4 drydocks in the yard. The new Bailey crane effectively doubles the lifting capacity, replacing the 30 tonne No. 18 crane which was dismantled in April.

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    Daewoo clinches orders worth $800 million

    2004-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has clinched orders for six vessels, including four LNG carriers, worth a combined $800 million. The orders include three 150,000 cubic metre LNG carriers for Teekay Shipping of Canada and one 146,000 cubic metre gas carrier for Sovcomflot from Russia.The LNG carriers for Teekay ...

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    New heights for common rail

    2004-07-05T00:00:00Z

    A 70-ton four-stroke marine diesel engine resting majestically amid the Austrian Alps is not something one sees everyday. MAN B&W Deisel recently went to the trouble of transporting the 32/40CR to the Hotel Gut Brandhof in Saalfelden in order to introduce the new medium-speed marine diesel engine and, in particular, ...

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    Scania marine engine gets EMS

    2004-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Designed to provide high performance, low operating costs and low exhaust emissions, the DI12M EMS is Scania?s latest 12-litre marine engine equipped with the Scania EMS engine management system. Intended for use in vessels such as ferries, rescue and combat craft, and vessels for transporting wind turbine blades, the DI12 ...

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    Kongsberg Maritime launches new simulation software

    2004-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Kongsberg Maritime of Norway has raised the standards of ship simulation,with the launch of Polaris 4.4.0, the latest version of its groundbreaking Polaris bridge simulation architecture. The fully scaleable Polaris 4.4.0 software forms the basis of either PC based desktop simulation systems or multi-channel full mission simulators based on real-life ...

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    Orient Steamship gets handymax

    2004-07-02T00:00:00Z

    The Hong Kong based Orient Steamship is expanding its fleet of large dry cargo ships with a $29 million deal for a 55,000DWT bulk carrier. Sources said the firm tied up the ship under a resale agreement with Jiangsu Ocean Shipping (Josco) which had ordered the vessel last year from ...

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    Daewoo wins TeeKay LNG trio

    2004-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Teekay Shipping Corporation based in Nassau, Bahamas, has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea to construct three LNG carriers, representing a total contract price of approximately $510 million.These 151,700 cub metre newbuildings will be chartered by TeeKay to Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas, a ...

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    Two more capesize bulkers for Waigaoqiao shipyard

    2004-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Two Hong Kong owners have placed newbuilding orders worth $70 million with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard for a pair of Capesize bulk carriers. The contracts have been placed by Wah Kwong Shipping, owned by shipowner George Chao, and Cape Asia, a pool of seven Hong Kong and Taiwanese shipowners, including Wah ...

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    Secure and safe

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Though the prime cause of the accident was the vessel?s grounding, the tragic capsize of the 28,100 DWT bulk carrier Rocknes off Bergen in January this year, with the loss of a number of lives, highlighted once again the dangers inherent in poor cargo stowage arrangements. More recently in April, ...

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    Secure and safe

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Though the prime cause of the accident was the vessel?s grounding, the tragic capsize of the 28,100 DWT bulk carrier Rocknes off Bergen in January this year, with the loss of a number of lives, highlighted once again the dangers inherent in poor cargo stowage arrangements. More recently in April, ...

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    Nothing much to report

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July the first has arrived and gone without the mass ship detentions predicted. However, a number of people that The Motor Ship has spoken to are surprised. "Where have all the ships gone," asks Andy Mitchell manager of Lloyd?s Register?s marine management systems? "They don?t seem to be where there ...