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Tera-block speeds up shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a new shipbuilding system, called the "tera-block" method that allows the company to assemble a vessel from just two large ship blocks. An extra-large ship usually consists of dozens of blocks, but in recent years shipbuilders have been trying to reduce the number of ship ...
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World's largest windjammer
Star Clippers have been in discussions with shipyards to build a new five-mast vessel for delivery in 2010. Expected to be the largest, most expensive sailing vessel ever constructed, the 7,400 gt barque is modelled on ?France II?, which at 5,000 gross tons was the world's largest sailing ship when ...
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COSCO to build bigger vessels
COSCO Corporation has secured shipbuilding contracts worth $724 million to build 16 bulk carriers for German, Taiwanese and Greek shipowners. The vessels consist of bulk carriers of 57,000, 80,000 and 92,500 dwt and will be delivered between March 2010 and July 2011. The contracts are seen as significant for COSCO ...
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Essar orders bulkers from ABG
Cyprus-based sea transportation company Essar Shipping & Logistics Ltd (ESLL), which is a unit of the diversified Essar Global Ltd, has placed a mega order for constructing six bulk carriers with ABG Shipyard. The Mumbai-based shipbuilder will construct six geared Supramax bulk carriers at a total contract price of $210 ...
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Guangzhou gets go-ahead for new yard
Guangzhou has received the go-ahead to begin construction on a big ship-production base that could help advance the southern China city?s status as a major Chinese ship producer.The first phase of Longxue Ship Production Base, formally approved by the National Development and Reform Commission early this week, includes the construction ...
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Eitzen declares options
Eitzen Chemical ASA in Norway has declared an option to build two additional vessels with Jinse Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Korea. The vessels are coated 13,000 dwt chemical carriers and will be delivered in 2008 at a cost of $24 million each. This brings the series from Jinse to four ...
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New shiprepair yard coming to Philly
A company that has repaired some of the world's largest cruise ships plans to set up a second operation in Philadelphia. The new shipyard, to be called PennShip Service, is expected to employ a core group of 200 workers and more when big projects are scheduled.Under an agreement signed recently, ...
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MWB to expand capacity
Bremerhaven-based shiprepair and conversion specialist MWB is to open a third floating dock to meet increasing demand.
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Bocimar's ordering spree
Bocimar International, the dry cargo ship owning subsidiary of Belgian-based CMB, has ordered 10 handysize bulk carriers from Samjin Corporation, in South Korea, for $36m per vessel. The 33,500 dwt newbuildings are scheduled for delivery between September 2009 and December 2010. In addition, as part of a 50/50 joint venture ...
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Stena President named in Split
Concordia Maritime?s product tanker ?Stena President?, the fifth of ten tankers in the P-MAX series, was recently named at Brodosplit Shipyard in Split. After her delivery in the third quarter of 2007, the tanker will enter a 10-year charter with Argo Shipping and transport oil from ports in the Baltic ...
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Schat-Harding strengthens European service network
Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has significantly strengthened its European service network with the acquisition of major independent service company Willem Pot BV. The Rotterdam-based Willem Pot is the largest independent lifeboat and davit service company in the world and provides service for all types of lifeboats, hook and davits ...
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Global Alliance to build floating LNG liquefaction plants
The German company Linde has formed a Global Alliance with Single Buoying Mooring Inc. (SBM) to develop and market FPSOs for the growing LNG industry, based on Linde's proprietary natural gas liquefaction technology.SBM is based in the Netherlands and a market leader in the field of FPSOs for the offshore ...
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Multi billion job for Aker Kvaerner
BP has chosen Aker Kvaerner to perform the detail engineering, procurement and construction management assistance (EPcma) for the Skarv field development in the Norwegian Sea. Since November 2005, Aker Kvaerner has been involved with the project, performing the front end engineering design of the complete production ship (FPSO) and intermediate ...
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Ezra confirms additional MFSV
Singapore- based Ezra Holdings Limited has awarded a contract worth approximately $108 million for the design and construction of a large 27,000bhp Multi-Functional Support Vessel (MFSV) to Karmsund Maritime Service AS in Norway. The contract value includes the cost of sophisticated equipment as well as integrated features such as an ...
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Höegh LNG goes for LNG FPSO
Höegh LNG has entered into agreements with major contractors and formally started the engineering and design for its first LNG FPSO unit. "Our strategy is to develop Höegh LNG's business model from pure LNG transportation into offering also solutions for LNG production and floating regasification terminals", says Sveinung St?hle, President ...
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Distillates switch unfeasible
The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) was told at its annual convention in Montreal that a new report estimates that it would cost $67billion over the next five years to implement a wholesale switch from traditional bunker fuels to distillates only for the world merchant fleet. The distillates-only option was ...
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APJ Bharti and Essar to build shipyards in West Bengal
Indian shipbuilding companies APJ Bharti Shipyard and Essar have expressed interest in setting up two shipyards in West Bengal. Principal industry secretary Sabyasachi Sen told media that the representatives of the two companies had made presentations to the state government in this regard. Each shipyard would require around 400 acres ...
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Samsung Heavy wins $1.2 billion order
Samsung Heavy Industries has won a $1.2 billion contract to build two drillships for an unidentified company for delivery by March 2011.
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Danaos extends boxship order
The Greek shipping company Danaos has extended its shipbuilding contracts with China Shipbuilding Trading Company to include one more 8,530 TEU vessel, bringing the total number on order to five vessels. All five Post Panamax containerships will be built by the Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry Company and are expected ...
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China blocks STX shipyard
Plans by Korean shipbuilder STX to build its new shipyard in Dalian, northern China, is being challenged by the Chinese government's restraint on building large ships. STX began construction on the $1-billion shipyard near Dalian in March but regulations on foreign firms are barring the firm from digging a dry ...
