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    Samho wins NSCSA deal

    2006-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Hyundai Samho Shipyard clinched an order for six 318,000 DWT VLCCs from the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) worth $720 million. Two of six are options. Ship particulars are 333m in length, 60m in breadth, 30.4m in depth and have a speed of 16.7 knots. Deliveries will be ...

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    Clipper Group orders ten from VINASHIN

    2006-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Denmark?s Clipper Group has signed a contract with Vietnam Industry Shipbuilding Corporation (VINASHIN) to build ten 4.600 DWT multi-purpose vessels at Ben Kien Shipyard in Northern Vietnam. The first ship is expected to be completed in 2008.

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    DNV to class China?s largest tankers

    2006-03-14T00:00:00Z

    DNV has been contracted to class two new VLCCs for Bergesen World-Wide Shipping. The newbuildings will be built at Bohai Shipyard and will the largest tankers ever built in China as well as being the first built there to follow the common structural rules. BW will take delivery in 2009 ...

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    Austal and DSTO in alliance

    2006-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Austal and Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) have signed a five-year industry alliance that will strengthen Australia?s maritime defences. The purpose of this alliance is to formalise and strengthen links between DSTO?s maritime research and development activities and Austal?s expertise in high speed vessel design, construction and systems integration.Austal ...

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    FBMA and BMT Nigel Gee sign licence agreement

    2006-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Specialist shipbuilder FBMA Marine Inc (FBMA) and naval architects BMT Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Ltd, have announced the signing of a licence agreement allowing FBMA to market and construct vessels designed by BMT. The Cebu-based shipbuilder is a member of the Aboitiz Group and has ...

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    Swire takes two more PSVs

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Pan United Shipyard in Singapore has secured an order from Swire Pacific Offshore to build two UT755L PSVs at a cost of around $15.5 million each. Delivery is slated in the first and third quarters of 2008.

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    Ocean Mainport orders multipurpose vessel

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Ocean Mainport Offshore Limited (OSL) in Ireland has placed an order for a multipurpose vessel. OSL said the vessel, to be named Ocean Europe, is being built at the Solstrand shipyard in Tomrefjord Norway at a cost of $18 million. When delivered in May 2007, the newbuilding will be operated ...

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    R?kke wants Lenin shipyard

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Kjell Inge R?kke of Aker Yards is reportedly interested in buying the former Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, where the Solidarity movement started back in 1980. Although the yard is for sale, the labour union is unsure about R?kke's company. Aker Yards would not comment on the speculation but did ...

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    Job loss fears

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    DML in Devonport, UK, has given advance warning of 90 potential job losses at Appledore shipyard, which it took over from receivership in 2003. Jobs are likely to go progressively from early April due to a gap in shipbuilding work following completion of a large super yacht hull this month.The ...

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    Samsung lands drill ship

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea has secured a deal with Stena Drilling to build a drill ship worth in the region of $550 million. The vessel is slated for delivery in June 2008 and will then be deployed in West Africa and the North Sea to carry out deepwater oil ...

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    Vinashin and MacGREGOR strengthen co-operation

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) and MacGREGOR are further strengthening their co-operation by signing a memorandum of agreement to establish a joint venture in Vietnam to produce ships? cranes and hatch covers. The parties had already previously co-operated closely in the manufacture of hatch covers at Vinashin?s Ben Kien shipyard. ...

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    Mipo clinches four PCs

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Hyundai Mipo has clinched an order for four product carriers from a Cypriot ship owner at a cost of about $170 million for delivery in November, 2009

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    Ulstein wins quartet in China

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Bourbon has signed a contract with Zhejiang Shipbuilding in China concerning the construction of four ULSTEIN P105 platform supply vessels. Ulstein Design AS will deliver the design and major equipment for the vessels. The contract has a total value of around $52 million for Ulstein Design. The vessels will be ...

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    V. Ships buys UMC

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    The Monaco-based ship management company V.Ships has acquired UMC International PLC. Formed in 1972 as the Under Water Maintenance Company Ltd, UMC International has grown into an international specialist in innovative underwater engineering services with offices in Plymouth, Portland, Rotterdam, Dubai and Fujairah, It has a full time staff of ...

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    Venezuela on a tanker building spree

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Venezuela has reached a deal to build 36 large oil tankers in Brazil at a cost exceeding $3 billion. According to the local press, the governments of both countries reached a deal on the construction of the vessels, which will be built at various shipyards in Brazil. Also in the ...

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    Bluesky orders second LNG carrier

    2006-03-13T00:00:00Z

    Bluesky LNG Corporation, the Asia-based LNG owner, has ordered a second giant tanker from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). Bluesky?s first tanker, the 145,700 cbm ?Bluesky?, is nearing completion at DSME?s yard in Korea and will be delivered in the middle of this year. The vessel is the only ...

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    Petronet LNG to float shipping subsidiary

    2006-03-07T00:00:00Z

    The Indian gas importer, Petronet LNG Ltd (PLL), plans to float a shipping subsidiary overseas to haul gas to its greenfield re-gassification terminal of 2.5 million tonnes per annum capacity proposed at Kochi in Kerala. The diversification plan has been unveiled in the tender conditions stipulated by Petronet for selecting ...

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    Keppel secures Prosafe FPSO deals

    2006-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Keppel Shipyard has been awarded two contracts valued at approximately $80 million for the conversion of two new FPSO facilities for Prosafe Production (Prosafe). The first contract is for the conversion of the 25-year old tanker, Apollo, into an FPSO capable of handling a daily oil production of 90,000 barrels ...

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    FBMA launches high-tech crewboat

    2006-03-07T00:00:00Z

    FBMA Marine based shipyard in western Cebu, Philippines, has just launched the first of the two ?Sea Slice? 149 passenger offshore crew boats ordered by the Mexican company Hoteleria y Servicios Petroleros (HSP). Named ?Lider?, the innovative ?Sea Slice? design, developed by the US company Lockheed Martin, is based on ...

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    The Motor Ship Propulsion Conference Conference newsletter

    2006-03-07T00:00:00Z

    The Motor Ship Propulsion Conference 200626th ? 27th April, Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel, CopenhagenWorld?s largest shipowners? body back 2006 marine propulsion conferenceThe Motor Ship is pleased to confirm that The Motor Ship Propulsion Conference 2006 is now in association with BIMCO ? the Baltic and International Marine Council ? the ...