General News 13-18 – Page 658
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1999 Ship repair directory
This issue of Ship Repair included the Shiprepair Directory which lists repair facilities, country-by-country and port-by-port under 16 ocean areas. The information is given for each company: full name and postal address; telephone and fax; plus email and website details if applicable. It also give the names of company officials ...
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Daewoo replaces midbody
Major repairs to container vessel Aconcagua, now CSAV Shanghai, have been completed at Daewoo Heavy Industries Okpo yard. The 195m loa, 2,171 TEU container vessel Aconcagua sustained extensive damage to the midbody section when fire broke out near the Panama canal last December. As the ship was less than one ...
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Time to upgrade
Despite a downturn in trading and continued poor freight rates, container ship owners are ordering new tonnage, expanding services and introducing new routes. Evergreen’s fleet continues to grow. Last year, the Taiwanese line placed an order at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for five 5,364TEU U-class container ships; the yard already ...
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Turning a new page
With its announcement that it has signed letters of intent for a further five newbuildings P&O has also altered shipbuilding’s future. Although the order itself is significant, of greater importance is that Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will build two of the newbuildings. While P&O argues that the development is entirely ...
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Owners enter calmer waters
The second register, the Asian crisis, and domestic shipping reforms have provided benefits and challenges for Korean owners. At the end of last year, the Korean Shipowners Association’s members owned and operated a total of 377 vessels, with the aggregate tonnage of 16,682,135 dwt. The three largest fleets are ...
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Builders counter accusations
Korean shipyards refute European accusations that ships are being sold too cheaply, and that IMF funds are being used to bail out ailing yards. Despite heavy criticism from European shipbuilders, the Koreans say that the low prices they have been quoting for newbuildings will still allow highly productive yards ...
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Green credentials have potential
Over the next few years shipowners could find themselves having to contend with a patchwork of environmental legislation. Shipowners are accustomed to their existing fleet escaping the vast majority of new legislation — but things are changing. Sweden’s environmentally differentiated port and fairway schemes affect all vessels, not just ...
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Sea Spider starts laying cable in Baltic
A multi-purpose, state-of-the-art diesel electric cable layer has started work for the first time, in the Baltic, playing a key role in the SwePol power cable project. Van der Stoel Cable, a multi-disciplinary submarine engineering and installation contractor, acquired Sea Spider as part of a wide-ranging modernisation of its ...
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Shipyard automation: US yards try to catch up
US shipyards hope that a major initiative launched this summer will help them improve efficiency and productivity. While shipyards in Japan, Korea and, to a lesser extent, Europe, continue to invest heavily in shipbuilding production technology, US yards are only just beginning to do so, and are hampered by the ...
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Kvaerner sells second yard
Kvaerner has sold another of its yards, and been ordered by the EU to repay Euro41.5 million ($42.5 million) of state aid. Marconi Electronic Systems has agreed to pay £2.25 million ($3.55 million) for the Govan shipyard in Scotland and will complete two vessels currently under construction. This lifts ...
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Buy now - earn later
With most sectors of the shipping industry in crisis, Drewry Shipping Consultants argue that secondhand vessels bought now could prove to be bargains. Its analysis of market potential through to 2003 shows that the best returns could come from panamax and handymax bulk carriers but that most bulk carriers and ...
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Checklists reduced coating damge
After finding that incorrect use by the shipowner was usually the reason for claims of damage to tank coating, German shipbuilder Aker MTW Werft is issuing checklists to purchasers of its chemical tankers. "Modern tanker coatings are highly complex and cargo-specific," says Ed Jansen, principal surveyor with Antwerp-based Expertisebureau ...
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Study shows crew incompetence
A study covering 4,500 ships leaving Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia has found that many had incompetent crews. The study, undertaken by the Seafarers International Research Centre at Cardiff University, is further proof that the industry is headed for a crisis as a result of the lack of skilled manpower. ...
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New commission seeks change
The International Commission on the Regulation of Shipping, a new body that will seek to reform the rules governing the shipping industry, has been launched by the ITF. The three-man commission is headed by the former Australian minister Peter Morris who chaired two parliamentary enquiries into shipping. After the ...
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IMO consider ship scrapping
MEPC 44 will look at the issue of ship scrapping in March 2000 with the aim of developing safety and environmental measures, and safeguards for ship dismantlers. The proposal from Norway follows DNV’s damming report on ship dismantling at India’s Alang Beach (The Motor Ship, March 1999). Already considering ...
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DHI scoops ferry deal
Daewoo Heavy Industries is continuing to secure itself a foothold in the luxury passenger newbuilding field by winning a contract to build two fast cruise ferries for a European operator. Moby Lines, which is part of Italy’s Onorato Group, has placed an order for two newbuildings capable of carrying up ...
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P&O goes Japanese
P&O’s Princess Cruises has announced that it has signed letters of intent for four new cruise ships (see design feature) which will, along with the three ships it already has under construction, double its fleet size by 2004. Two 88,000g, 1,950-passenger vessels will be built at France’s Chantiers de ...
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...and Carnival exercises option
Following in the wake of Princess Cruises’ new order, Carnival Cruise Lines has announced that it has decided to exercise its option to build another 84,000g cruise ship at Kvaerner Masa-Yards Helsinki New Shipyard. The vessel will be named Carnival Pride and will be a sister ship to Carnival Spirit ...
