General News 13-18 – Page 466
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Austal buys out Bender
Six years after it expanded its operations to the US, Western Australian shipbuilder Austal has bought out its minority American partner in the rapidly growing venture for $20.6 million. The acquisition of the 30% stake from Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co values the entire operation in Mobile, Alabama, at a ...
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Metalships gets first of North Ocean options
Metalships & Dock, the Spanish shipyard based in Vigo which is a subsidiary of Rodman Polyships Group, has secured the first of two options under a contract to build offshore construction vessels for North Ocean 1 KS, a Norwegian-Dutch joint venture based in Bergen, Norway. This vessel will be some ...
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Mipo wins four PCs
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard clinched four 37,000DWT product carriers from a European ship owner at a total price of $166.4 million. They will be delivered by November 2009.
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Nigeria has plans for local shipbuilding
The Nigerian Navy is making plans to commence shipbuilding locally in the near future with a view to meeting the navy?s requirements. This disclosure was made by the Admiral Superintendent of the Naval Dockyard in Lagos, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha J. Jonah, while receiving a 24-man team of South African Navy ...
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New funds for Polish yard
Stocznia Szczecinska Nowa Shipyard, owned by the Industrial Development Agency (ARP), will cease to receive state guarantees for production financing at the end of the year. Although further subsidies will have to be approved by the European Commission, ARP has found a way out via commercial support. "We have entered ...
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UK CVF programme approaches deadline
Industry stakeholders in the Aircraft Carrier Alliance (ACA) established to deliver the UK's Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF) programme are to submit their latest pricing data on 20 September 2006, a little over a month ahead of a planned Main Gate 2 (MG2) submission to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) which ...
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Fincantieri gets Iraqi patrol vessels
Fincantieri has won an order worth over 80 million euros ($101 million) for the construction of four patrol vessels for the Iraqi Navy. The ships will be delivered within the first six months of 2009, phased at three months intervals one from the other. The newbuildings will be delivered within ...
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Far-reaching effects of MAN bid
At a recent board meeting of Scania AB in Stockholm, the directors unanimously decided to reject an offer from the Chairman of the Executive Board of MAN AG, which could have led to a take-over bid of Scania, the Swedish manufacturer of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and ...
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STX to build shipbuilding and block factories
STX will build shipbuilding and block factories in Liaoning, China, and has signed an MOU with the Chinese government to set up an investment plan for this project. STX is currently producing blocks totalling 450,000 tonnes per year and will require 700,000 tonnes by 2008. To meet this increase STX ...
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Flekkefjord gets Solstad order
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) in Norway has signed a letter of intent with compatriot shipbuilder Flekkefjord Slipp og Maskinfabrikk AS for the building of a large construction vessel. The new vessel will have a length of 113m and width of 24m, will be purpose built for the Inspection Maintenance and ...
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Tognum aims to expand market share
Since the sale of the Off-Highway division by DaimlerChrysler AG to EQT, a Swedish financial investor, the Tognum holding company is the group with globally leading companies and brands for diesel and gas engines as well as for complete propulsion systems for ships, heavy land and rail vehicles, industrial propulsion ...
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Danish giant big fan of China
AP Moller-Maersk AS will order 25 vessels from Chinese shipbuilders including Qingdao Qianjin Shipbuilding within the next 12 months, the China Business News reported. Citing an unnamed source from Maersk's China office, the newspaper said that the Danish shipping company signed two agreements last week to buy four 1,800 TEU ...
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TTS wins Ray Carrier contracts
Poland?s Gdynia Shipyard placed two orders with Swedish cargo equipment manufacturer TTS Ship Equipment AB, to supply almost 14,000 tonnes of roro equipment. The orders cover the supply of equipment for a total of eight vessels being built for Ray Car Carriers. The first new order, placed in June 2006, ...
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Wartsila powers Emma Maersk
The largest container ship built to date, the 11,000 TEU ?Emma Maersk?, is propelled by a Wartsila developed 14-cylinder RT-flex96C engine, the worlds most powerful engine in service with an output of 80,080 kW at 102 rpm.Traditionally low-speed marine engines have been built with a maximum of 12 cylinders. However, ...
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Schat-Harding buys Singapore lifeboat business
Schat-Harding, the world?s leading supplier of lifeboats and davits, has purchased the independent lifeboat servicing business of Singapore-based Lyttelton Marine.David Bradley, Schat-Harding group after sales and service manager says, "Singapore is a key hub for both the shipping and offshore worlds. From there engineers can service equipment in its busy ...
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BP to design new emissions measurement technology
Cascade Technologies has secured a technology licensing deal with BP, valued at in excess of £4million to the company over the next three years. The partnership will see Cascade Technologies, a major player in the application of quantum cascade lasers (QCL), exclusively designs and supplies emissions monitoring systems for use ...
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Malaysia seeking to share cost of maintaining Straits
MALAYSIA has called for the burden of maintaining the Straits of Malacca to be shared by all users, not just the littoral states. The Straits, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, requires more than $27 million a year to maintain and currently the cost is shared by the littoral ...
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Shanghai shipyard breaks record
Shanghai Shipyard & Chengxi Shipyard Company Ltd has recently built a 3,500 TEU container vessel in only 54 days, breaking China's record of 60 days for a mid-sized container vessel. The shipyard's accelerated shipbuilding technique has attracted more clients from the US and European countries and the yard has won ...
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European Parliament opposes extension of pilot's role
Intertanko is pleased to see that the European Parliament is set to oppose the extension of the pilot?s role to include reports of visible deficiencies on board. The EC is keen to ensure that Europe?s port state control directive, which is part of the Third Maritime Safety Package, extends to ...
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Gulf Craft delivers Honduras ferry
Honduras-based operator Safeway Maritime Transportation Co., has just taken delivery of its first Incat Crowther catamaran ferry for operation on the north coast of Honduras between La Ceiba and the Isla de Roat?n in the Caribbean Sea. The vessel is a 49 metre high speed catamaran ferry capable of carrying ...
