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BAE gets Malaysian boost
BAE Systems has received a Letter of Intent (LoI) from the Government of Malaysia for the procurement of two frigates for the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN). The project represents a highly significant industrial partnership between the Malaysian and British maritime industries. BAE Systems, through its Naval Ships business, based in ...
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Singapore orders new patrol vessels
The Singapore government has placed an order with Damen Shipyards Singapore for 10 specially-designed coastal patrol craft worth $85 million which includes the provision of training, spares and other services. The newbuildings will be bigger, faster and better than the current fleet of Police Coast Guard craft which will be ...
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BMT SeaTech relieves stress
With the launch earlier this year of BMT SeaTech Ltd?s new touchscreen version of its world-leading hull stress monitoring system, SMART Stress, ship owners are snapping it up. Already, a number of major tanker, bulker and LNG operators have ordered a total of 12 complete systems during their newbuild stage. ...
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Celebrity orders another from Meyer
Celebrity orders third vessel The cruise operator Celebrity Cruises, an affiliated company of Royal Caribbean Cruises, has ordered a third large cruise vessel from German shipbuilder Meyer Werft in Papenburg. The contract calls for the construction of a third unit of the Solstice class following the two orders which were ...
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Latest version of ABS CSR SafeShip
ABS has released an enhanced new version of the CSR SafeShip for Tankers software. The new version 6.8 is an upgrade of the previous version 6.63, which shipyards have been using to evaluate tanker designs for conformance with the new IACS Common Structural Rules (CSR) since February 2006. The new ...
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More Traders on order
GTR Campbell, the designers of standard design ships like Freedom, Fortune, Friendship and Fantasy, in cooperation with their associated concept design firm Algoship Designers in the Bahamas, are behind the latest new building order for 12 ships of the 30,000 DWT Trader class handysize double hull bulk carriers. The order ...
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WA wants naval contract
The State Government of Western Australia has stepped-up its campaign to convince theAustralian government that WA should play a major role in a $2billion Australian Navy vessel contract. It believes that the Australian Marine Complex (AMC), located near Perth, and includes Austal Ships, is the logical choice to assemble the ...
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Bohai inks four PCs
Bohai Shipbuilding in China clinched four 49,000DWT product carriers from Nanjing Changjiang Shipping for delivery during 2010 at a cost of $35 million each. The yard is currently building four similar vessels for the same owner with delivery of two in 2008 and two in 2009.
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Russia orders four more from Aker
Aker Yards has signed a contract with the large Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel for delivery of four container/cargo ships for arctic operations, with an option for a fifth newbuilding. This order has a total value of approximately $400 million for four vessels and follows Norilsk Nickel's recent deployment of ...
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Keppel FELS/Technip completes P-52 FPU
The consortium of Keppel FELS and Technip has completed the offshore mating of the 25,000-tonne topside and the 4,500-tonne spider deck with hull structure, weighing 17,500 tonnes, for one of the world?s largest floating production platforms, the P-52, in Brazil. Considered the most challenging phases in the construction of the ...
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Swan?s swan song?
Swan Hunter, the last remaining shipyard on the Tyne, is likely to be mothballed with the loss of more than 300 jobs, all but marking the end of naval shipbuilding in the North-East. Swans has been given no alternative but to close its yard in Wallsend, North Tyneside, after the ...
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Fiji ship repair facility takes shape
Work is underway on the Lautoka waterfront in Fiji for a new development project for Fiji Ports Corporation (FPCL) that is expected to put Fiji on the world port map.The first phase of the $9million reclamation project, to be completed soon, will have the western division's first ship repair facility ...
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CCS and DNV tighten cooperation
DNV Software is to supply the China Classification Society (CCS) with Nauticus software. Amongst a range of mutual exchanges between the two classification societies, the recent purchase of the Nauticus software is further indication of China?s technological advance. CCS is a member IACS and a central player in the fast ...
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SembCorp expands offshore engineering business
SembCorp Marine Ltd in Singapore has signed two conditional sale and purchase agreements comprising the acquisitions of SemBeth and SMOE for S$183.73 million to expand and grow its rig building and offshore engineering business.The acquisition of SemBeth, whose assets include the 86 hectares of 22-year leasehold land, workshops, quays and ...
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MES delivers a bulker
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding in Japan has delivered a 56,056 DWT handymax bulk carrier to Lepta Shipping of Liberia. Named ?Darya Vishnu?, the newbuilding has a length of 189.99m, a width of 32.26m and a 17.9m depth with a draught of 12.55m. Mitsui made MAN B&W 6S50MC-C main diesel engine ...
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Transpetro orders locally built tankers
Transpetro, the transport arm of Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras, has awarded the Atl?ntico Sul consortium a contract to build 10 Suezmax tankers for $120.9 million each. Atl?ntico Sul is made up of Brazilian engineering companies Andrade Gutierrez, Camargo Corr?a, Queiroz Galv?o and shipyard Aker Promar. Atl?ntico Sul initially wanted ...
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Daewoo to build blocks in China
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering will start building a factory in China next week to produce blocks for ships. The plant, located in the Chinese northeastern port city of Yantai in Shandong Province, is projected to have an annual production capacity of 50,000 tonnes of ship blocks, or steel structures ...
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Arctic Voyager delivered
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) taken delivery of the 140,000 cbm Moss type LNG carrier "Arctic Voyager", constructed at Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation?s Sakaide Shipyard in Japan. This second vessel for Sn?hvit project, a sister vessel of ?Arctic Discoverer? delivered in February this year, is co-owned with Statoil, Mitsui & ...
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Lintec advises on SECA trigger limit
Leading fuel testing agency Lintec Testing Services has urged shipowners to act, but not panic, should their fuel tests marginally exceed the 1.5% sulphur limit imposed within the MARPOL Annex VI Sulphur Emissions Control Area (SECA) in the Baltic Sea.Geoff Jones, Lintec?s managing director, says: "Since the SECA?s enforcement on ...
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Six LPG for Mipo
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea has clinched six LPG carriers from two European ship owners. Total contract price is about $340 million for the 20,600 cbm LPG carriers which will be delivered by December 2009. This is the first time a Korean shipbuilder has won an order for LPG ...
