All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 978
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B.C. approves new ferries
The British Columbia government in Canada has approved funding for three replacement ferries on its north coast routes. This announcement was made on the same day Premier Gordon Campbell flew up to the site of the first-ever sinking of a BC Ferry. The ?Queen of the North? sank after apparently ...
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FAR goes with Aker
Farstad Shipping ASA in Ålesund, through its subsidiary Farstad Supply AS, has signed a contract with Aker Yards to build two platform supply vessels at a total cost of $87 million. The first vessel is a PSV of UT 751E type and the second vessel is an AHTS of UT ...
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GE Shipping acquires new OSV
The Mumbai based Great Eastern Shipping Company (GE) recently took delivery of a newly built OSV named Malaviya Twenty Five from the Indian shipbuilder Bharati Shipyard Ltd.Bharati Shipyard has also won an order from GE for a 140 tonne bollard pull anchor handling tug supply vessel with delivery expected by ...
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Garware fleet expansion
Garware Offshore Services based in Mumbai, India, plans to acquire two anchor handling towing-cum-supply vessels (AHTSs) and one platform supply vessel (PSV) for an estimated cost of $55 million. This will increase its fleet size to 10 vessels comprising six AHTSs and four PSVs.The company is in final stages of ...
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VLCC duo for Euronav
Euronav NV based in Antwerp, Belgium, has signed a contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries to build two double hull 318,000 dwt VLCCs to be delivered in the first quarter of 2009. The construction price for each ship is $120 million. Euronav already owns, fully or in joint venture, 4 ships ...
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Frontier Discoverer enhancement
Frontier Drilling USA in Houston has engaged Aker Arctic of Helsinki, Finland, to proceed with the initial design and conceptual development of the modification work for their turret moored drillship ?Frontier Discoverer?. The work includes development of a modified hull form and protection to the riser to suit the harsh ...
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Daesun wins chemical tankers
Daesun Shipbuilding in South Korea wins an order for four chemical tankers from an Asian ship owner. Total contract price is $139 million for delivery by June 2009.
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BAE and VT ponder Rosyth purchase
BAE Systems and VT, the UK defence and civil contracting groups, are considering a joint bid for the Rosyth dockyard owned by Babcock, the support services and shipbuilding group, in a move that could trigger the consolidation of Britain's warship construction capability. Industry insiders suggest that any bid would have ...
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Maersk contracts eight AHTS
Maersk Supply Service signed a contract for eight new 11,242kW VS 472 anchor handling and supply (AHTS) vessels from AKER Yards AS in Norway. The vessels are of Vik & Sandvik design and the first vessel is expected to be delivered during the first quarter of 2008 with the following ...
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GL publishes new IMO Pilot
Germanischer Lloyd has just published the new "IMO Pilot 2006" with an overview on the current legislation of the IMO is now available. New additions include the requirement to fit water level detectors in the cargo hold of single hold ships and the introduction of the "Company and registered owner ...
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STX signs up product carrier
STX Shipbuilding clinched a 51,000DWT ice class product carrier from Pietro Barbaro in Italy. Ship particulars are 183m in length, 32.2m in breadth and 19.1m in depth. Coincidently, the Italian owner christened three similar 51,000DWT product tankers at STX which are named West Point, Ice Point and Baltic Point.
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Indian company orders two Aframaxes
India`s Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals has placed an order with South Korea`s Hyundai Heavy Industries for two Afamax tankers. One vessel is expected to be delivered in the last quarter of 2008 and another in the first quarter of 2009.
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Samho clinches VLCC pair
Hyundai Samho Shipbuilding in South Korea clinched two more VLCCs from NSCSA in Saudi Arabia. The 318,000DWT tankers will be delivered by 2009 at a total price of around $240 million.
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Largest boxship christened
The world's largest container ship, a 9,500 TEU post-Panamax vessel classed by Germanischer Lloyd, has been christened ?COSCO NINGBO?. The 350 m long, 42.8 m wide 109,149 DWT ship was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea for the Greek ship owner Costamare and is chartered by COSCO. It is ...
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Orders continue being placed in China and Korea
Bohai Shipbuilding in China won an order for two 300,000DWT VLCCs and eight 50,000DWT product carriers from Nanjing Tanker Corporation at a total cost of around $500 million. No delivery date has been revealed.Shanghai Chengxi Shipyard in China secured five 53,000DWT bulk carriers from Parakou in Hong Kong. Total contract ...
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Orpheus undergoes sea trials
After successful trials on HMS Marlborough in 2005, QinetiQ's Onboard Risk Performance Hazard Evaluation system (ORPHEUS) is now undergoing year-long trials on three Royal Navy Type 23 frigates - HMS Northumberland, HMS Westminster and HMS Montrose. ORPHEUS is a dedicated and flexible operator guidance system that provides clear and concise ...
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W&D delivers tug
Washburn & Doughty Associates (W&D) of East Boothbay, Maine, delivered Bulldog, a 30.15 metre, 11.4 m wide, 6,700 hp, Z Drive firefighting tug, to Crescent Towing of New Orleans. The Z-drive Bulldog provides ship-assist and escort services for LNG tankers at the Elba Island LNG re-gasification terminal in Savannah and ...
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Mipo clinches six PCs
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea won an order for six 46,000DWT product carriers from the Norwegian shipping company Westfal-Larsen at a total contract price of $300 million. They will be delivered by December 2009.
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NOFOS chooses MIROS to manage spills
MIROS, the Norwegian supplier of sensor-based met-ocean systems for the offshore industry in Norway, has won an agreement to supply five of its marine x-band radar-based oil spill detection systems to the common oil spill response organization for oil producers on the Norwegian continental shelf, called NOFO. With these unique ...
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High speed trio for NorFerries
Norwegian ferry company NorFerries plans to order three new high-speed cargo vessels to operate on freight routes between Norway, France, Spain and Britain. According to NorFerries chairman, Sigurd Steen, the company plans to order two vessels of 180 metres capable of carrying 94 trailers and one larger vessel of 210 ...
