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Rem?y orders two PX105s
Rem?y Shipping has signed a contract with Ulstein Verft for the building of two eco-friendly platform supply vessels (PSV) of Ulstein PX105 type designed by Ulstein Design with future oriented products and systems from Ulstein Elektro. The vessels are already set for long-term contracts with StatoilHydro upon completion. The vessels ...
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NMB plans fleet renewal
The KG Maritime Shipping consortium which has a 70% stake in Bulgarian national maritime carrier NMB, will add to the fleet 25 new vessels over the next decade, The initial talks will focus on the delivery of eight 34,000 DWT vessels according to a company spokesman. He did not say ...
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JdN signs contract for five workboats
The Jan De Nul Group in Belgium has signed contracts with Tianjin Xinhe Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co Ltd in Tianjin, China, for the construction of five work boats. The workboats are similar to the DN 46, built by the same shipyard in 2006. The vessels have a length of 28m, ...
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Wartsila centralizes spare parts centre
Wärtsilä will strengthen its international customer service by centralizing the spare parts logistics and by building a new spare parts distribution centre in the Netherlands. A large and modern central warehouse is planned near the company's current service unit in the Netherlands. Wärtsilä will invest approximately EUR 70 million in ...
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Any advance on 22,000 TEUs?
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea reports that it has succeeded in developing a 22,000 TEU containership making it the worlds largest of its type. The containership is 460m in length, 60m in width and 30m in height. To date, according to STX, the world?s largest containership currently in service is ...
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Philly yard makes start on first shuttle tanker
Aker American Shipping (AKASA) representative Michelle Pinto started a plasma cutter today to officially begin production of the company?s first shuttle tanker. When this vessel is completed, Aker American Shipping will become the first company in the United States to own a U.S. flag shuttle tanker for use in the ...
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Maersk ponders job cuts at Lindo
Danish shipping group AP Moller Maersk is to launch a cost-cutting programme at its Odense shipyard that could jeopardise jobs as it seeks to stem mounting losses. "The shipyard is still operating at a massive loss and is hit hard by the international fluctuations, including the development of the U.S. ...
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Daewoo to build Oman yard
Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. has won a 277 billion won ($264 million) order from the Omani government to build a ship repair yard and dry dock complex in southeastern Oman. The deal, signed with Oman's Ministry of National Economy, calls for Daewoo E&C to complete the construction of the ...
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Jurong yard inks another Seadrill semisub
Jurong Shipyard in Singapore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, has secured a Letter of Intent (LOI) from Seadrill Limited to build a deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig at a turnkey contract value of $640 million. This is a repeat order and the fourth identical newbuild deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig that ...
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STX to add floating dock
STX Shipbuilding plans to raise capacity at its South Korean yards by 20% this year after adding a second floating dock to meet demand for new vessels. Yards in Busan and Jinhae will be able to handle 60 ships compared with 50 last year, senior vice president Kang Ssang Won ...
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Transpetro launches 2nd phase of tanker order
The shipping arm of Brazil's state oil company Petrobras launched an expanded second phase of its tanker order with planned tenders for 23 vessels, including four Suezmax and three Aframax carriers. The order prospectus for Brazil-based shipyards will be published in the coming weeks, Petrobras unit Transpetro said. The ships ...
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Vale inks record VLOC order
Brazilian mining giant Vale is set to recast the world?s seaborne iron ore trade, with the confirmation of an order for 14 giant bulk carriers worth as much as $2 billion. The largest order to date of very large ore carriers (VLOC) is at the centre of Vale?s ambitious plan ...
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Viability of greenfield yard questioned
The chief executive of Excel Maritime Carriers has called into question the financial health of a new shipbuilder, Korea Shipyard Co. Excel bought out Quintana Maritime and in the process took over an orderbook that included four 180,000 dwt Capesizes at the greenfield site. Excel ce Stamatis Molaris says these ...
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Malta Shipyard's future looks gloomy
As government, the management, and the workers? union blame each other for the failure of the Malta Shipyards to become financially viable, the fate of this state company, one of Malta?s largest employers, remains uncertain. At the end of December 2008, the EU will no longer allow Malta to give ...
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Wärtsilä and Mitsubishi join forces
Wärtsilä Corporation of Finland and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd of Japan have signed a joint development agreement to design and develop new small, low-speed marine diesel engines of less than 450 mm cylinder bore.The two companies see good business potential in pooling their resources and experience to develop new small ...
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DOF goes to India for newbuilding
Norwegian offshore operator DOF ASA has awarded Tebma Shipyards Limited in India a contract for the construction of a new multi-purpose service vessel (MPSV). The NOK250m vessel will be of the design VS 485, and is scheduled for delivery in April 2010. DOF, headquartered in Storebo, Norway, operates platform supply, ...
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Subic yard delivers first newbuilding
The South Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries has started running sea trials for the first-ever ship built at its $1.6 billion Subic shipyard in Indonesia. Hanjin, whose projects in Subic and Misamis were alleged to have been tainted with anomalies, said the sea trial in the South China Sea is ...
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Daewoo secures two drill ship orders
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. has recently won a 1.44 trillion won ($1.37 billion) deal to build two drill ships. The deal from an American customer calls for the Korean shipbuilder to deliver the vessels, used for deep-water oil exploration, by April 2011.
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Deaths close Tuzla yard
The Selah Shipyard in Istanbul's Tuzla region will be shut down until the safety issues have been properly addressed and rectified. The decision to shut down the shipyard, taken by the provincial labour department, was based on investigations carried out by Labour Ministry inspectors after a succession of fatal incidents. ...
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New LNG carrier has training facilities
NYK has taken delivery of a new LNG vessel, Grace Cosmos, which is equipped with training facilities for cadets. It is the first vessel in Japan with such cadet-training facilities. The first group of cadets had been students in the NYK Class at Shanghai Maritime University and boarded Grace Cosmos ...
