All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 999
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Lubmarine outlines current marine lubes crisis
TOTAL Lubmarine has outlined its position concerning increasing raw material costs and growing shortages of marine lubricants.Andrew Knox, Head of Marketing at TOTAL Lubmarine, says, "Recent events, even before Hurricane Katrina, and the force majeure declarations made by many suppliers after the hurricanes, have shown how tight the worldwide situation ...
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N.L. shipyards potential winners in navy ship contract
Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada could be the big winner in Ottawa's $1.8 billion plan to replace the navy's aging supply ships, as two of the four consortiums bidding on the project plan to utilize shipyards in that province. Canadian North Atlantic Marine Partnerships and BAE Systems Inc. both say ...
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New cats for India
Ferry passengers travelling between a group of Indian islands in the Arabian Sea will soon benefit from a new high-speed catamaran passenger ferry service. The service will employ three new vessels designed by BMT Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Ltd, for India?s premier shipping line, the ...
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HHI inks four LPG carriers
Hyundai Heavy Industries has won an order for two 60,000 m3 LPG carriers from Solvang and two 35,000 m3 LPG carriers from Itochu in Japan at the total contract price of $300 million.Ship particulars of Solvang vessels are 204.9m in length, 32.2m in breadth and 20.8m in depth with a ...
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Bids for DSME may be rejected
A South Korean state agency that is jointly selling 51% of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) might reject bids from companies that did not support national interests. Korea Asset Management (KAM), which liquidates distressed assets at financial companies, plans to sell its stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding, which it owns ...
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Petrobras opens bidding for large newbuild contract
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, opened bidding on more than $1 billion of contracts to build 26 oil tankers and other vessels as the company boosts its spending on domestic construction. The newbuilding contacts cover 10 Suezmax tankers, five Aframax tankers, four Panamax tankers, four product carriers and ...
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Vietnam yard wins RoK contract
The Pha Rung Shipyard Company, part of the Viet Nam Ship Building Industry Corporation (Vinashin), signed a contract to build five ships for the Forturne Marine Company of South Korea. The contract is Vinashin's first contract to export ships to Korea. The 6,500 dwt product tankers will measure 110 m ...
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NorSkan orders AHTS
Aker Yards has been awarded a contract worth approximately $47.5 million by NorSkan Offshore Ltda., Brazil, to build an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel for delivery in April 2007. The shipyard involved in the construction is Promar and the newbuilding will be of the UT 722L design with a ...
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Wärtsilä power for six Keppel FELS offshore rigs
Wärtsilä Corporation has been awarded contracts with a total value of above 50 million EUR, by Keppel FELS Ltd in Singapore for 32 diesel generating sets to power four jack-up rigs and two semi-submersible drilling platforms. The combined output of these orders is about 115 MW. Wärtsilä will also supply ...
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STX to enter India
STX Group will actively enter into the shipping and shipbuilding market in India. Kang Deuk Soo, chairman of STX Group, had a meeting with Thalikottai Rajuthevar Baalu, minister of Maritime Transport Ministry in India, on 5 October and discussed cooperative measure for the development of shipbuilding industry of India. STX ...
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India signs Scorpene deal
India and France have signed a $3.5 billion contract for construction of six Scorpene submarines in India. The Indian Ministry of Defence said in a statement that the submarines will be built at state-owned Mazagon Docks, Mumbai. The first submarine will be ready for service by 2012, and the remainder ...
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India signs Scorpene deal
India and France have signed a $3.5 billion contract for construction of six Scorpene submarines in India. The Indian Ministry of Defence said in a statement that the submarines will be built at state-owned Mazagon Docks, Mumbai. The first submarine will be ready for service by 2012, and the remainder ...
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FAR contract for newbuilding
Farstad Supply AS, a wholly owned company of Farstad Shipping ASA, has signed a contract with Aker Langsten AS, Tomrefjord, in Norway, for delivery of an anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) in June 2007. The vessel is of the new UT 732 CD design. Powered with 27.500 BHP, ...
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Hanjin to set up JV in China
Hanjin Shipping will construct ship repair joint venture in China. The shipping company said that it will invest $ 2 million to secure 50% share of the joint venture. An unknown shipping company in China will take the remaining 50% share. The ship repair facility will be constructed close to ...
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Peace talks at Cammell Laird
Talks have started that could bring an end to a dispute that is halting ship repair work at the former Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead. The owner of the site, Reddington Finance, has opened discussions with Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders after months of deadlock between the two firms. The two ...
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Dual fuelled Avant PSV
Norway's Eidesvik Offshore ASA group has ordered a second Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) of Vik Sandvik's innovative, superstructure aft AVANT design at a cost of $48.6 million. The new VS493 GASS AVANT will be LNG-fueled. The vessel will be marketed for long term North Sea and Barents Sea charters and ...
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MAN B&W packages for Swire AHTS's
MAN B&W Diesel is to supply complete twin-screw medium speed propulsion packages for six 120 tonne bollard pull Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessels (AHTS). The vessels will be built at the Batam, Indonesia, yard of Singapore's Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering and will be operated by Swire Pacific Offshore Limited, Singapore. ...
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Daewoo develops LNG scaffolding
Daewoo Shipbuilding has developed a new scaffolding system for LNG tanks. The ever increasing orderbook for LNG carriers had led the shipbuilder to develop the new scaffolding for which a patent has been applied. The scaffolding is primarily designed for use inside LNG tanks to be installed on a 210,000-cu.m ...
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NYK to expand LNG fleet
Nippon Yusen K.K., the largest Japanese shipping line, plans to order 20 new LNG carriers by 2010 and use five or six tankers for spot contracts, a change in strategy that may bring higher returns. The company will fund the purchase of 15 of the ships jointly with customers ...
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ET Marine launches SOx monitor
ET Marine in the UK has launched its own air quality monitor to measure sulphur dioxide (SO2) emitted by ships? engines ahead of a new IMO technical code for the emission of sulphurous gases. The SeaSox analyser uses the ultra violet florescence method to continuously measure emissions using a dilution ...
