General News – Page 303
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DSME poised to win cruise ship order
According to industry sources, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) is in talks with a Greek firm over a deal to build the Korean shipbuilder’s first cruise ship at an estimated cost of $600 million.
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China's shipbuilding output expanded in 2009
China''s completed shipbuilding output in 2009 surged by more than 40 percent with its share in the global market rising further.
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Korea in partnership with UAE
The United Arab Emirates is bolstering ties with South Korea by signing a memorandum of understanding with STX Offshore and Shipbuilding and the Korea Shipbuilders’ Association with Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding (ADSB) for a business partnership.
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Japanese ship orders on the up
According to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporters'' Association, Japanese export ship orders rose for the first time in 15 months in December on a year-on-year basis by 71.5 percent to 471,600 gross tons.
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New web interface enhances RINA transparency
Genoa-based classification society RINA has published a new web interface in the ‘marine member’ area of its corporate website www.rina.org.
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NewsKeppel delivers first rig of 2010
Keppel FELS has delivered another ENSCO 8500 Series semi-submersible drilling rigs to customer Ensco International.
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NewsMaersk takes delivery of Maersk Meridian
Maersk Meridian, the last in a series of six 165,500 m³ DF electric LNG carriers from Samsung Heavy Industries, was taken over by Maersk LNG on 15 January 2010 in South Korea.
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Cassens Werft gets reprieve
Cassens Werft, located in Emden, Germany, has been bought by a group of investors, thereby saving the shipyard from bankruptcy.
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NewsWärtsilä to move part of production to China
Wartsila is rationalising production facilities in Europe and moving them to China.
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MISC names new chemical tanker
STX shipyard in Korea delivered the 38,000 DWT chemical tanker Bunga Allium to MISC Berhad (MISC) in Malaysia
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NewsKawasaki delivers LNG carrier
Kawasaki Shipbuilding delivers the LNG Carrier Taitar No.2 to NiMiC No. 2 S.A. of Panama
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Idle fleet falls as ESS mops up more boxships
According to the latest Alphaliner weekly newsletter, Extra Slow Steaming (ESS) continues to put more containerships back into active service.
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NewsFinland pondering aid for shipbuilding industry
Finland considering supporting domestic shipbuilding industry
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GOL to build additional deepwater OSVs
Gulf Offshore Logistics ordered eight deepwater offshore support vessels from Thoma-Sea Builders and Gulf Craft
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NewsSTX cuts Turku workforce
As a sign of the times, STX Europe’s Turku shipyard in Finland has confirmed that it will cut some 430 jobs.
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EPA accredits Krystallon scrubber
Hamworthy Krystallon Ltd. has become the first non-North American-based company to be awarded accreditation as a manufacturer of an ‘emerging technology’ that has the capability to reduce marine Particulate Matter emissions by the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The company's PM seawater scrubber technology was granted an Emerging Technology ...
