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Northrop Grumman gets S-VDR type approval
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded type approval from the German certification authority Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt & Hydrographie (BSH) for the Sperry Marine VoyageMaster II Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR). The BSH type approval certifies that the Sperry Marine S-VDR meets the International Maritime Organization (IMO) carriage requirements and International ...
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Global Compact agreement with Cosco
DNV has signed an agreement with Cosco, the world?s largest shipowner. Under their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), DNV will provide services to support Cosco?s sustainable business developments under the United Nations Global Compact.The programme will cover the ten core principles of the United Nations Global Compact initiative (see link) which ...
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CSD?s tanker spree
China Shipping Development Co. (CSD), a subsidiary of China Shipping Group, will be placing an order estimated at $748 million for eight VLCCs with Dalian New Ship Heavy Industry shipyard. Another order for four 42,000 dwt oil tankers will be placed with a shipbuilder in southern China's Guangdong province.
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Aker inks GEO ROV support vessel
Aker Yards has entered into a contract with GEO ASA for the building of a ROV support vessel at a cost of $60 million. The vessel will be built by Aker Yards in Brazil, with delivery scheduled for May 2008, and is of the design Aker ROV 06, designed by ...
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OSG contracts four Aframax tankers
Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) based in New York will build four 114,000 dwt Aframax tankers at the New Times Shipbuilding yard in Jinjiang, China. The vessels, scheduled for delivery in 2008 and 2009, will increase OSG's Aframax fleet to 21 tankers serving customers in the Atlantic basin, and will operate ...
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MOL restructures management system
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) announced a restructuring of the company?s ship management system to enhance the company?s safety program in the light of its plan to expand its fleet from about 700 vessels today to 900 by the end of March 2010, based on the mid-term management plan MOL STEP ...
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Princess goes to Germany
Having arrived at the Grand Bahama shipyard in Freeport for temporary repairs to its 150 fire damaged cabins, the ?Star Princess? will set sail later this week for the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany, where permanent repairs will be carried out. The 2,600 passenger cruise ship is scheduled to ...
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Closed Dutch yard could be reopened
The former shipbuilding yard at Krimpen a/d Ijssel near Rotterdam, Holland, which was closed three years ago when Van der Giessen-De Noord went into receivership, could be reactivated to provide much needed newbuilding capacity. This has been brought about by the current boom in Holland for newbuilding orders and one ...
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Five Turkish cats for Damen
The Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Gorinchem has secured a contract to build five 42 metre catamaran passenger ferries from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, on behalf of operator Istanbul Deniz Otobusu (IDO). The five new "Sea Buses" for IDO are of the Damen Fast Ferry 4212 type; each can carry 449 ...
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Kleven builds gas powered coastguard ship
Myklebust Verft in Gursken, Norway has entered into a contract with Rem?y Management, Norway, for the delivery of a coastguard vessel, with an option for one additional unit. The vessel is a VS 794 CGV design, developed in close cooperation between owner and yard, designed by Vik-Sandvik of Fitjar, Norway. ...
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Hanjin to order boxship quartet
Hanjin Shipping will, this Friday, sign a $256.4 million contract with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to build four additional 4,275TEU containerships. They will be of the same capacity and type as the four 39,600 dwt vessels previously ordered last November and start to be deployed on the major service lanes ...
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Hyundai wins six tankers
Hyundai Heavy Industries has won an order for four VLCCs at the price of $480 million from a European ship owner. They will be delivered by June 2009.
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GBS examines Star Princess
Cruises? ?Star Princess? recently arrived at the Grand Bahama Shipyard where an examination will be carried out to assess the extent of the fire damage sustained to some 150 cabins. The fire broke out in the early hours last Thursday as the cruise ship was sailing from the Cayman Islands ...
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Mangalia delivers first newbuildings
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has delivered the first three vessels built at its Romanian shipyard Daewoo Mangalia. These 69,180 dwt crude oil tankers are the largest-ever built in the Black Sea area and were ordered by LMZ Transoil Shipping Enterprises S.A. of Greece in October 2003. With design ...
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DNV commits to Hong Kong
Earlier this week, DNV launched a maritime academy for industry professionals in Hong Kong, agreed to certify new curriculum at the ailing Hong Kong Sea School, and donated half a million HK$ dollars to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum - a triple pronged effort to ensure greater maritime technical competency ...
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Malta Shipyards busy
The Malta Shipyards has recently secured two contracts which will keep it fully occupied until the end of this year. In the first contract, the yard won a $8.4 million job for the upgrading of the Ikdam. This vessel was converted into an FPSO from the 133,560 dwt tanker Northia ...
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HHI opens block factory
Hyundai Heavy Industries has started to use its new shipbuilding block factory in Ulsan, which will supply 86,000 tonnes of blocks for ships this year. The 347,500 m2 plant is equipped to manufacture hatch covers and LPG tanks and, together with the outdoor areas and warehouses, will have an annual ...
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GAIL upbeat on CNG bids
Gail (India) Ltd has received response from eight national and international firms/consortiums for the expression of interest (EoI) invited by it for transportation of compressed natural gas (CNG) from Myanmar. The company had recently invited bids for long-term chartering service of CNG ship or barge for transportation of natural gas ...
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NYK expansion benefits Vietnamese yards
NYK Lines of Japan plans to invest $200 million over the next five years on a number of shipping and logistics projects in Viet Nam in a bid to tap what it described as one of the region?s most promising emerging transportation markets. The Tokyo-based logistics firm said investment projects ...
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Babcock ready to do battle
Babcock International will defend itself with a robust trading statement this week as directors face up to the probability that they could be involved in a fierce take-over battle. Already BAE Systems and VT have announced that they are interested in making a break-up bid for the company, with its ...
