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Carnival Outfitting Ship for Wireless
Cruise ship operator Carnival Corp.'s Holland America Line has hired SeaMobile Enterprises to provide the company's 13 ships with wireless cell phone and personal digital assistant device communications. SeaMobile will begin installing wireless equipment on the ships later this year. The company said its technology is compatible with all wireless ...
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CSSC building huge repair facility
CSSC held a ceremony in Guangzhou Longxue Island for the start of construction of the largest ship repair yard in southern China. Ship repair business is one of the primary sectors in Longxue shipbuilding base and the company is planning to invest over $100 million in the first construction stage ...
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Repsol looks to build five LNG carriers
Spain's leading oil company Repsol YPF SA and its affiliate Gas Natural SDG SA plan shortly to put out for tender a contract to build a fleet of five LNG carriers. According to the unnamed source, the 25-year contract will be worth some one billion Euros and is the largest ...
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Judge orders EPA to control ballast water
A federal court in California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate ballast water discharges from freighters, a ruling that has huge implications for the Great Lakes shipping industry. Three environmental groups sued the EPA in 1999 after the federal agency declared that ballast water in freighters was ...
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Posco eyes Asian steelmaker
South Korea?s Posco, the world's fifth-largest steel maker, is looking to buy an Asian steel maker and studying a possible buyout target and timing of an acquisition. "In line with the merger and acquisition trend in the global steel industry, we are thinking of embarking on overseas mergers and acquisitions," ...
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Orders up at Japanese shipbuilders
Japanese shipbuilders received orders for vessels with a combined gross tonnage of 1.09 million tonnes last month, up 47.2% from a year before, the Japan Ship Exporters Association said. Orders rose in August after falling in July for the first time in six months, the association said. Last month?s orders ...
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DOF orders Indian pair
DOF ASA in Norway has placed a newbuilding order with Tebma Shipyard Limited in Goa, India, for two supply vessels (PSV), design VS 470 MK II. These 73.40 m long, 3,800 dwt vessels will be delivered in August 2008 and December 2008.
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LASCO receives second Croatian tanker
The Latvian Shipping Company (LASCO) has taken delivery of its second Craotian built products tanker, the 51,800 dwt ?Jurkalne?, from the 3.Maj shipyard. The commissioning ceremony of the first of the 10-ship series LASCO tankers took place in July this year with the handing over of the ?Ance?, while, in ...
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Cosco wins drilling vessel
Cosco has won its first contract to build the hull of a FPSO vessel at a cost of $120 million. The vessel combines drilling, production and storage facilities and is designed for multi-functional use in ultra-deep waters. The vessel will be build at the Cosco Dalian Shipyard and delivery is ...
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Tsuneishi expands Cebu yard
Cebu-based shipbuilding company Tsuneishi Heavy Industries Cebu Inc. (THICI) has committed to invest $ 100 million in the expansion of its shipyard in Balamban town in Cebu's western seaboard. THICI, a joint venture between Tsuneishi Corp. of Japan and Aboitiz and Co., has been building 58,000 dwt bulk carriers since ...
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Labroy books GE quartet
The Singapore-based shipbuilder Labroy Marine has signed a four ship newbuilding contract worth $60.4 million with Greatship (India) Limited (GIL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mumbai-based Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited in India. The contract is for the construction of four 63 metre, 80 tonne bollard pull anchor handling ...
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BV yacht rules benefit new designs
International classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has joined forces with leading yacht designers and builders to completely re-engineer its Rules for Classification and Certification of Yachts. The new Rules, launched yesterday, build on BV?s extensive experience with high-technology vessels and materials to provide designers and builders with a safe, pragmatic, ...
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ABS classes first CNG Carrier
US classification society ABS has given full design approval for the class of the compressed natural gas (CNG) carrier designed and developed by Canadian-based Sea NG Corporation. Full approval follows the earlier Approval in Principle (AIP) issued by ABS for the Sea NG design in 1997 and is the first ...
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Metalships gets first of North Ocean options
Metalships & Dock, the Spanish shipyard based in Vigo which is a subsidiary of Rodman Polyships Group, has secured the first of two options under a contract to build offshore construction vessels for North Ocean 1 KS, a Norwegian-Dutch joint venture based in Bergen, Norway. This vessel will be some ...
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Austal buys out Bender
Six years after it expanded its operations to the US, Western Australian shipbuilder Austal has bought out its minority American partner in the rapidly growing venture for $20.6 million. The acquisition of the 30% stake from Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co values the entire operation in Mobile, Alabama, at a ...
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Nigeria has plans for local shipbuilding
The Nigerian Navy is making plans to commence shipbuilding locally in the near future with a view to meeting the navy?s requirements. This disclosure was made by the Admiral Superintendent of the Naval Dockyard in Lagos, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha J. Jonah, while receiving a 24-man team of South African Navy ...
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New funds for Polish yard
Stocznia Szczecinska Nowa Shipyard, owned by the Industrial Development Agency (ARP), will cease to receive state guarantees for production financing at the end of the year. Although further subsidies will have to be approved by the European Commission, ARP has found a way out via commercial support. "We have entered ...
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Mipo wins four PCs
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard clinched four 37,000DWT product carriers from a European ship owner at a total price of $166.4 million. They will be delivered by November 2009.
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Fincantieri gets Iraqi patrol vessels
Fincantieri has won an order worth over 80 million euros ($101 million) for the construction of four patrol vessels for the Iraqi Navy. The ships will be delivered within the first six months of 2009, phased at three months intervals one from the other. The newbuildings will be delivered within ...
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Far-reaching effects of MAN bid
At a recent board meeting of Scania AB in Stockholm, the directors unanimously decided to reject an offer from the Chairman of the Executive Board of MAN AG, which could have led to a take-over bid of Scania, the Swedish manufacturer of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and ...
