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Unifleet orders ice tanker octet
The Dutch shipping company Unifleet, a subsidiary of the Heuvelman Shipping Group, has placed a newbuilding order for eight chemical/product tankers with two Chinese shipyards at a total cost exceeding $130 million. One yard will build four units of 4.500 m³ and the other yard four units of 8.500 m³. ...
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Celebrity Eclipse named
Miami-based Celebrity Cruises has announced the name of the third "celestial" ship in its 118,000 gt Solstice-class fleet. The 2,850 passenger Celebrity Eclipse will make its maiden voyage in 2010, following sister ships Celebrity Solstice in 2008 and Celebrity Equinox in 2009, bringing the Celebrity fleet to 13 ships. All ...
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Panama Canal expansion
Following the recent referendum in which the people of the Republic of Panama voted 78% in favour President Martin Torrijos? plans to start work this year on ambitious expansion plans for the Panama Canal, the news is that international tenders are to be invited soon for the initial stages of ...
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Aquabus on course for Dubai
Waterbuses designed in Wales could soon be running passenger services around the rapidly-expanding city of Dubai. Aquabus Water Transport Solutions (AWTS) of Cardiff is competing to win the contract to replace many of the 300 small vessels which today transport the city's inhabitants.A delegation of the Dubai Road & Traffic ...
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IHC rents Alblas yard
IHC Holland Merwede is renting the former Dutch shipbuilder Alblas Scheepsbouw B.V. in Hendrik Ido Ambacht. The deal includes bringing the employees of the Alblas yard in the employment of IHC Holland Dredgers in Kinderdijk although they will remain at Hendrik Ido Ambacht.IHC-Alblas will undertake the construction of ship blocks ...
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Tianjin standardizes on PTC(R) olutions
Tianjin New Harbor Shipyard (TNHS) in China has expanded its use of PTC Shipbuilding Solution, which includes CADDS(R) 5i to improve its overall design capabilities. With the expanded software implementation, TNHS is standardizing on PTC Shipbuilding Solution as its manufacturing design platform and believes that this decision will further accelerate ...
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Shipbuilding facility to rise in Subic
A modern domestic shipbuilding facility will soon rise in Subic Bay Freeport, Philippines, as part of the government?s Investment Priority Plan. Government officials say there is a pressing need to build about 18 new tankers by next year for the use of local shipping operators, through a lease-to-own scheme. The ...
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Labroy clinches two contracts
Labroy Marine in Singapore has clinched two shipbuilding contracts worth a total of $37.8 million. Under the contracts, it will build two anchor handling tug supply vessels for a Norwegian customer for delivery in 2009. With the latest orders, Labroy's total outstanding order book value stands at nearly $1.3 billion.
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IMSK adds two more Multigas carriers
Norwegian shipping group I.M. Skaugen ASA has confirmed an order for another two 10.000cbm sized Multigas carriers at a total cost of $62 million. These latest newbuildings will have advanced ice-class specifications (E3 in Germanischer Lloyd). IMS now has 11 gas carriers in various sizes on order through Skaugen Marine ...
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Top 3 shipbuilders target $36 billion
Korea's three major shipbuilders have set a target of $36 billion in ship orders this year, slightly down from last year's record $37.4 billion. The figure was calculated based on an expected decline in orders and a fall in contract prices. Hyundai Heavy Industries expects $13 billion in orders of ...
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CSL plans small ship division
With the Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) in India getting orders from reputed offshore operators for building OSVs and AHTSs vessels, it plans to open a Small Ship Division, its Chairman and Managing Director M Jitendran said. The yard is at present constructing 14 Platform Supply vessels (PSV) for European clients. ...
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Old Cammell Laird yard safe
A future for ship working has been guaranteed at the famous former Cammell Laird yard England after the historic Birkenhead site had been acquired by property giant Peel Holdings. The previous owner, Reddington Finance, had planned a £2bn leisure, residential and retail redevelopment.Peel Holdings announced that ship conversions and repairs ...
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P&O to build new cruise ship
Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise operator, will build a new ship for its P&O Cruises brand at an estimated all-in cost of $705 million, delaying delivery of a previously announced vessel by a year. Fincantieri, Italy's state- owned shipbuilder, is constructing the 116,000 gt ship at its Monfalcone yard. ...
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BAE gets rebranded
From 1 January the Barrow in Furness shipyard became BAE Systems Submarine Solutions after the name was selected by the headquarters of the global defence giant. BAE says it was switched from the former BAE Systems Submarines to reflect the full life support service offered by the yard. As well ...
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SWS joins top 10 club
The Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co (SWS), the country's top shipbuilder, churned out 3.11 million DWT of ships last year, making it the world's eighth-largest shipyard. This was the first time a Chinese shipbuilder had crossed the 3 million DWT output mark and edged into the world's top 10 shipbuilding league ...
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Samsung gets BG duo
BG Group plc in the UK has signed an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea for the delivery of two new-build dual-fuel diesel electric (DFDE) LNG ships. The new ships will each have a cargo capacity of 170,000 m3 and are scheduled to be delivered in 2010. Martin ...
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2006 was a good year for Keppel
Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M) completed and delivered 26 newbuilds and conversions totalling about S$2 billion ($1.3 billion), on time or ahead of time and within budget in 2006. Tong Chong Heong, Managing Director of Keppel O&M, said, "At present, many shipyards worldwide are faced with high level ...
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Kazakhstan to get new ship repair facility
Caspian Services Inc. in Kazakhstan has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a vessel maintenance and repair facility with joint venture partners Nico International and Kazmortransflot JSC. Nico International is a Dubai based international ship repair and ship building company with 30 years experience in the industry. Kazmortransflot ...
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Daewoo delivers first ship this year
Daewoo Shipbuilding has delivered a 151,700 cbm LNG carrier to Teekay named Al Areesh. Ship particulars are 285.40m in length, 43.0m in breadth and 26m in depth with a draught of 11.50m and is the first South Korean export ship this year.
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Cobelfret exercises options
The Belgian shipping company Cobelfret NV has declared two options for Flensburger?s ConRo 220 type. The German shipbuilder will deliver the first 14,800 DWT vessel in November 2010 with the second unit in February 2011. The main scantlings are a length of 195.40 metres, a breadth of 26.20 metres, a ...
