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    DDDSC keen on setting up shipyard

    2007-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Dubai Dry Docks and Shipping Company (DDDSC) is keen on setting up a shipyard in the vicinity of the deep-water port in Kakinada. Two technical teams of the company have already visited Kakinada for the past two months to study infrastructure available here. It is said that the teams have ...

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    Sembawang wins crane ship

    2007-05-30T00:00:00Z

    After the announcement that Acergy?s joint venture Seaway heavy Lifting is to build a new 5,000 tonne crane ship, the Singapore shipbuilder Sembawang Shipyard has also received an order to build a new crane vessel under a contract with Avonway Ltd of Cyprus, a subsidiary of Nordic Heavy Lift ASA. ...

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    Merwede lifts crane vessel contract

    2007-05-30T00:00:00Z

    The UK-based Acergy S.A. announced the placing of an order by Seaway Heavy Lifting Engineering BV in Holland, its long term joint venture, with the Merwede shipyard in the Netherlands to build a DP crane vessel.The new 183 metre long monohull vessel will be fitted with a crane with a ...

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    Samsung builds world?s biggest rig

    2007-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Samsung Heavy Industries has completed the world?s largest offshore rig to be installed in seas off Russia?s Sakhalin Island. The rig, called ?Piltun B?, is 100 m wide, 105 m long and 120 m high. Construction of the 33,000 tonne rig started at Samsung?s yard in January 2004. From June ...

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    OOCL orders another boxship

    2007-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Orient Overseas Container Line (OCCL) has taken its total order for Panamax ships at South Korea?s Samsung up to ten after announcing another addition to the series at a cost of $66.2m.Though no vessel specifications were given this is the same price paid for its last batch of 4,500TEU ships ...

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    LR and IP join forces

    2007-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Lloyd?s Register (LR) and International Paint (IP) have teamed up to offer shipyards in China step-by-step advice on how to prepare to meet the requirements of the new Performance Standard for Protective Coatings (PSPC) as the industry looks to increase vessel safety and lifecycles by preventing corrosion.This powerful new partnership, ...

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    DD world buys PUM

    2007-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Dubai Drydocks World (DD World) will take over 70% of Singapore shipyard operator Pan-United Marine (PUM) in a deal valuing PUM at $424million. The deal marks DD World's first international acquisition. Like DD World, PUM is involved in ship repair, ship building and conversion and is a major shipyard with ...

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    HHI builds most powerful engine

    2007-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI) successfully completed a trial run with the world?s biggest electronically controlled marine engine, the Hyundai-Wartsila 14RT-flex96C-B. The 14RT-flex96C-B engine has 14 cylinders and a maximum capacity of 108,920 bhp, making it the world?s most powerful marine engine. It will be installed in a series ...

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    Bharati bags German order

    2007-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Bharati Shipyard in India bagged an order worth $103 million from Germany?s Man Ferrostaal AG for two large platform supply vessels.The 105 m vessels will be diesel electric and fitted with two sets of Voith Schneider cycloidal propeller units. Classed with GL, they will have a service speed of 17 ...

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    Corona Majesty delivered

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Tokyo, ("K" Line) has taken delivery of ?Corona Majesty?, a new 88,159 DWT-type coal carrier, from Imabari Shipbuilding, Japan.The vessel?s specifications are length o.a. 229.93m, beam 38m, depth 19.90m. The Post - Panamax ?Corona-series?, which "K" Line originated and continues to develop, is a state-of-the-art coal ...

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    Krasnoye Sormovo building more Palmali tankers

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The Russian shipyard of Krasnoye Sormovo in Novgorod has won a contract from Palmali to build two more 13,000 dwt vessels of 'river-sea' class. These double-hulled tankers have 12 tanks with a total capacity of 14,770 cu. m for crude and oil products with vapour explosion temperature lower than 60°С. ...

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    Ezra awards pipe-layer contract to Labroy

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Singapore based Ezra Holdings has awarded a contract to Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering worth $25.5 million, which excludes owner furnished equipment, to build an ultra-large pipe laying, accommodation, well service and maintenance vessel. The vessel is to be delivered by the first half of 2009. The vessel will be the ...

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    Colombo Dockyard set to win AHTS order

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Sri Lankan shipbuilder Colombo Dockyard has emerged the lowest bidder among 13 contenders, including several Indian firms, to build five anchor handling tug-cum-supply vessels (AHTSVs) for state-run Shipping Corporation of India (SCI). The cost of building the five vessels, with a 70 tonne bollard pull, will likely be around $100 ...

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    AfDB finances Cameroon shipyard

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The African Development Bank (AfDB) has financed funding for the construction of a shipyard in the country?s coastal village of Limbe in Cameroon. According to the bank?s statement, a grant amounting CFA 22 billion ($45 million) is earmarked for the Central African country?s shipyard project.

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    ABG to acquire Vipul

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    ABG Shipyard, in India, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for acquisition of Vipul Shipyard, situated adjacent to the company?s existing shipyard at Magdalla Port, District-Surat, Gujarat. With this acquisition the company will add substantial land with a good water front to its resources along with slipway and other necessary ...

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    Kuwait's tender of four oil tankers to float soon

    2007-05-23T00:00:00Z

    The Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) will float a tender to build four crude oil tankers soon. The budget for the new fleet is between $120 to $130 million and is expected to rise to $520 million amid world market price fluctuations, KOTC chairman Abdullah al-Roum was quoted as saying. ...

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    L&T looking at integrated port-shipyard facility

    2007-05-23T00:00:00Z

    The Indian engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro plans to broaden the scope of its proposed Rs 2,000-crore mega greenfield shipyard in favour of an integrated port-cum-shipyard facility. The company, which has been actively looking at three locations for setting up the facility, now plans to go in for ...

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    STX scoops up bulker sextet

    2007-05-23T00:00:00Z

    STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has secured a $257 million order from a South Korean company to build six bulk carriers for delivery by June 2010.

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    Norway pledges aid for shipbuilding

    2007-05-23T00:00:00Z

    Norway is committed to supporting a project aimed at boosting technology and improving management and product quality control at the Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin). An agreement on the project was signed recently between Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and the Norwegian Ambassador to Viet Nam ...

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    Solstice number four ordered

    2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

    The Miami-based cruise company Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., has placed a contract for a fourth large cruise ship with Meyer Werft in Papenburg. After ordering the first ship of the Solstice class back in summer 2005, and number two and three in February and July ...