General News 13-18 – Page 464
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Marieke christened
DEME?s latest trailing suction hopper dredger was christened in the port of Zwijndrecht, Belgium. Named ?Marieke?, the newbuilding was delivered by IHC Holland Dredgers BV on 28 July. The 5,600 m³ Marieke is an enlarged version of the highly successful 5,400 m³ trailing suction hopper dredger ?Pallieter? which was built ...
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UNO develops ship-welding robot technology
The University of New Orleans (UNO) received a $3.6 million grant from the Defence Advanced Research Projects agency to develop automated tools for programming robots to weld ship components. The grant is funded by the Office of Naval Research. "The shipbuilding industry can never find enough welders, and welding is ...
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MMHE eyes partnership with local shipyards
Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd (MMHE), a wholly-owned unit of MISC Bhd, is seeking to collaborate with other shipyards in the country in the construction of deepwater facilities for the oil and gas industry. MMHE is making initial contacts with other local shipyards to see whether it can ...
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STX clinches four box ships
South Korea's STX Shipbuilding has won a $198.6m contract to build four 2,700 TEU container carriers for a Japanese shipping company NYK Line. Delivery is scheduled by the end of 2009.
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Wärtsilä, CSIC and MHI join forces
Wärtsilä, China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) are establishing a joint venture to manufacture large, low-speed marine engines in China. CSIC will hold 50% of the joint venture, Wärtsilä 27% and Mitsubishi 23%. The investment will total around 75 million euros, spread over several years and ...
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Matson expands car-carrying capacity
Matson Navigation in the US has signed a $17 million contract with Atlantic Marine Alabama to convert a Matson containership to one that can partly serve as a vehicle carrier. The ?Mokihana? will be converted into a combination container and ro-ro vessel and work begins next April at Atlantic Marine's ...
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Concordia orders two more P-MAXs
Concordia Maritime in Sweden has exercised existing options and placed an order with the Brodosplit shipyard in Croatia for a further two vessels in the P-MAX series, thus extending the series to ten units. Concordia Maritime has invested a total of more than SEK 3.5 billion in its new fleet, ...
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Two more for Maersk
Two more for MaerskAP. Moller - Maersk AS has announced that they will exercise the option with Aker Yards to build another two Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessels (AHTS). The value of the contract is approx. NOK 670 million.The two vessels will be sister vessels to the eight Anchor Handling ...
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Stolt orders tanker quartet
Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group has ordered four 44,000 DWT product tankers from SLS Shipbuilding in Korea. The aggregate price for the four ships is expected to be approximately $340 million with deliveries scheduled to take place between mid 2010 and early 2011.The SLS newbuildings will have a combination of 24 stainless ...
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Solstad contract for two large AHTS
Solstad Offshore ASA has entered into a contract with Karmsund Maritime Service AS for the building of two large anchor handling vessels (AHTS). They are developed in close cooperation between SOFF and Vik-Sandvik. The vessels will have 28.000 BHP, a bollard pull of 300 tonnes, accommodation to 60 people and ...
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KOTC to order VLCCs
Kuwait Oil Tanker (KOTC) plans to order four VLCCs at a total cost of some $500 million. The new order was approved by the national oil conglomerate Kuwait Petroleum Corp. and will be offered in a tender soon. Each of the 300,000 dwt newbuildings will replace old tankers in the ...
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Vinashin affiliates sign major contracts
Vinashin Lines Ltd Co, a subsidiary of Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin), signed two major shipbuilding contracts. Under the first contract, the Ha Long Shipyard will build one 54,000 dwt bulk carrier at a cost of $30 million.It was designed by the Shipbuilding Science and Technology Institute of Vinashin, ...
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Ensco Contracts Shipyard for Rig Work
Offshore drilling rig contractor Ensco International has contracted Singapore shipyard Keppel FELS to construct a $385 million ultra-deep water semisubmersible rig. Delivery is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2009.Ensco said is currently awaiting construction and delivery of two other deep water semisubmersible rigs from Keppel, which are expected to ...
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Stocznia Gdynia to receive assets from the state
Stocznia Gdynia in Poland may next year receive the stakes of companies whose minority shareholder is still the Polish state. The shipyard has started negotiations with its potential investors including Israeli shipowner Rami Ungar and Ukrainian Donbas. They are supposed to inject PLN 500m (EUR 125.9m) of cash in the ...
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Hanjin upbeat on Subic Bay shipyard
In what could be the world?s fourth-largest shipyard is nearing completion in Redondo Peninsula, Subic Bay, Philippines, and it promises to generate $3.6 billion in annual sales. The $1 billion Hanjin Shipbuilding facility will be able to accommodate the construction of 60 ships a year. Even as the construction of ...
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HHI to buy Chinese steel plant
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is in advanced talks to buy Chinese steel maker Qinhuangdao Shouqin Metal Materials Co. Ltd. after completing due diligence. "We are in negotiations over the terms of the stake purchase with the selling party," the company told the Korea Exchange. No financial terms had been decided ...
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MHI to use stronger steel
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will build container ships using Nippon Steel Corp. steel plates with a tensile strength much stronger than plates used in commercial ships throughout the industry. The plates, which have a higher resistance to cracks but are thinner than the old plates, will enable Japan's largest shipbuilder ...
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PGS Ramform option at Aker Yards
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA has decided to exercise the option with Aker Yards, Langsten, to build an additional new third generation Ramform vessel, "Ramform 8". This new and improved Ramform class seismic vessel is a sister vessel of the previously announced "Ramform 7", which is currently being built at the same ...
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Mississippi shipyard awarded $200M contract
The US Navy has awarded a $200 million contract to Pascagoula-based shipbuilder VT Halter Marine for construction of a vessel that will carry high-tech radar equipment to monitor ballistic missile activity. The 700-foot vessel will carry 88 crew members and be capable of performing its mission in waves as high ...
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Navy's first LCS launched
A new class of U.S. Navy warships was launched recently at Marinette Marine. The littoral combat ship, named Freedom, is 377-foot long, can sail at more than 40 knots and will act as a platform for launch and recovery of manned and unmanned vehicles. Its modular design will allow the ...
