General News 13-18 – Page 467
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Rodriquez develops green Ropax prototype
Italian shipyard group Rodriquez Cantieri Navali and Genoa-based classification society RINA have jointly developed an innovative and environmentally friendly high-speed ferry. A full scale prototype of the ALISWATH, presently under construction, will undertake comprehensive sea trials in 2007.The ALISWATH hybrid design combines the small wetted area of the SWATH concept ...
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Samsung to build Norwegian drill ship
Samsung Heavy Industries has won an order to build a drill ship for Ferncliff Drilling in Norway. The new vessel will be delivered in 2009 at a cost of $500 million. The ship can drill to a depth of 11,000 metres, is 222 metres long and has a displacement of ...
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DSE enters 'Floatel' sector
A Dubai-based marine services company is building a floating hotel that will provide accommodation for people working in the offshore energy industry. Mubarak Marine will invest $19 million to build the floating structure that will be house 320 people."It will be a purpose-built barge serving oil and gas companies that ...
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EPA catalyst proposal could hit megayachts
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to propose a recreational marine diesel rule that could require large yacht builders to install exhaust after-treatment on all future yacht designs. Aware such a ruling may create problems for these manufacturers, EPA has asked the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) to ...
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Nordseewerke delivers another feeder
The German shipbuilder Nordseewerke, a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, has handed over the 2,700 TEU feeder container ship ?Nona? to the Meerbusch-based shipping company GEBAB. The owner of the ship is the Elsfleth-based shipping company Maritime. This is the second 37,950 dwt vessel in the six-ship series ordered by ...
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HHI wins mega French boxship order
French-based container line operator CMA CGM has upped the stakes against its arch rival, the Danish shipping giant Maersk Line, which recently took delivery of its first 11,000 TEU vessel, ?Emma Maersk?, by placing a $1.2 billion order for eight 11,400 TEU ships from South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries. ...
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Samsung wins drillship
Samsung Heavy Industries won an order for a drill ship from a ship owner in Africa at a cost of $554 million. Delivery is slated for October 2009.
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CA to get tough on ballast water
California is on the verge of blazing a new environmental path with the toughest restrictions in the nation on exotic clams, crabs and other non-native aquatic species that harm river and Bay environments, threaten water supplies and clog water pipes.State lawmakers last week sent the governor a bill to require ...
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HHI clinches two PCs
Hyundai Heavy Industries has clinches two 105,000DWT tankers from the Belgian shipping group Conti Lines. They will be delivered during 2009.
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Another AHTS frrom Remontowa
Remontowa shipyard in Poland reports that the christening took place on August 14th of the 120 tonnes bollard pull AHTS de Moulin Tide, which has since undertaken sea trials for customer Tidewater Marine Inc. In all, the Polish yard will deliver six similar vessels to the US-based operator with the ...
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Viking orders three more ERRVs
North Sea emergency response and rescue services provider Viking Offshore Services is extending its multi-million pound new-build programme to nine vessels. It is exercising its option on the construction of a further three field support vessels at the Astilleros Zamakona shipyard in Spain, to bring the total value of the ...
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HSL to develop Sarawak shipyard
Hock Seng Lee Bhd (HSL) will develop an RM50million ($14 million) shipbuilding industrial zone in the new township of Tanjung Manis in central Sarawak. The proposed zone of 142ha will cater for the construction, repair and maintenance of ships and other related downstream activities. HSL signed a memorandum of understanding ...
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Crowley orders four more ATBs
Crowley Maritime Corporation?s Vessel Management Services subsidiary has signed a contract with VT Halter Marine Inc. to build four more articulated tug-barges (ATB), 185,000-barrel tank vessels. The new vessels will have an estimated delivered cost of approximately $236 million, including owner-furnished equipment. The vessels will be delivered in six-month intervals ...
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Double naming ceremony for E.R. Schiffahrt
The naming ceremony was held for another two large container ships for E.R. Schiffahrt at the Hyundai shipyard in Samho, South Korea. The two Super-Post-Panamax vessels each have a capacity of 8,204 teu and are the planned continuation of the newbuilding programme of the shipping line belonging to the Nordcapital ...
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Davie shipyard facing closure
Barring another last-minute reprieve, Canada's oldest and most illustrious shipyard will be liquidated in a dockside auction beginning 23 October. Items for sale include shops, cranes, trucks, and memorabilia from its 181-year history.
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Aker France strikes it rich
Aker Yards is to build two cruise vessels for Norwegian Cruise Line, with an option for a third. The value of the two vessels is EUR 1,470 million ($1,869 million) and they will be delivered in 2009 and 2010 from the recently acquired yard in Saint Nazaire. This is the ...
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Seadrill secures work for semi-sub newbuild
Seadrill has been awarded a letter of intent by an E&P operator in the Gulf of Mexico for the semi-submersible drilling rig West Sirius (Jurong 1). The contract has a firm duration of four years with the option for the operator to extend the contract to five or six years. ...
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Austal teams with GL
Australian fast-vessel builder Austal Ships Pty Ltd. has prolonged its long-standing technical and commercial partnership with the classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL). The agreement was extended for the fourth time in the last eleven years. GL will continue to provide classificatory handling, technical advisory services and accompanying analyses of strength, ...
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Daewoo carries out 3D model review process
The Outfitting Design Team of Daewoo Shipbuilding carried out a drawing review of a 3-dimensional model using a CAD program together with representatives of A.P. Moller. The review was of vessel designs, bearing DSME?s H.N.4117~20, 8,100TEU containerships.Through the newly devised 3D outfitting design simulation, both the owner and builder are ...
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Dung Quat shipyard prepares for first newbuilding
The Dung Quat shipyard in Vietnam has imported 1,500 tonnes of steel, the first shipment of steel plates for the construction of a 100,000 dwt oil tanker. This newbuilding will be the first ship to be built by the new Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Corporation in the Dung Quat economic ...
