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Shipbuilding overcapacity warning from OECD
The OECD Council Working Party on Shipbuilding (WP6) says the economic downturn has hit shipbuilding hard where new orders have contracted by up to 90% and cancellations have increased. This situation is likely to result in significant excess shipbuilding capacity and the outlook is unlikely to improve for some time. ...
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WSS liferaft service station in Miami operational
Wilhelmsen Ships Service has announced that their Liferaft and Marin-Ark service station in Miami, Florida is now fully operational. It is a stand-alone station conveniently situated between the port of Miami and Port Everglades in South Florida, approximately 4 kilometers from the current Wilhelmsen Ships Service premises in Miami.The station ...
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New GL guidelines for more efficient ship designs
Germanischer Lloyd's new Guidelines for the Analysis of Alternative Ship Design and Arrangements (V-2-1) come into force in mid-July. Alternative ship design and arrangements are solutions which deviate from the prescriptive requirements of SOLAS regulations. Nevertheless they are suitable to satisfy the intent of the respective regulations. Alternative designs and ...
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Ship repair business bought out
The Bailey Group, based in Cardiff, has taken control of the A&P Group, which employs 600 staff at four sites. They include: Hebburn on Tyneside, Middlesbrough in Teesside, Chatham in Kent and Falmouth in Cornwall. Property developer and entrepreneur Paul Bailey, had taken a 50% stake in the group in ...
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STX France jobs on the line
The management of STX Europe?s St Nazaire yard in France is continuing to hope that they might yet avoid laying off employees during the final four months of the year. Last week, STX France told its 2,500 employees that about 1,500 jobs could go between September and December due to ...
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OPK and HHI sign cooperation agreement
Yan Yanovsky, Managing Director and Member of the Boards of Directors of United Industrial Corporation (OPK) in Russia and B.T. Ahn, Executive vice-president of Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), signed a cooperation agreement in the field of shipbuilding. The main purpose of this agreement is to establish a cooperation which will ...
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OPK and MCN to cooperate
Modern Commercial Navy (MCN) PLC and United Industrial Corporation JSC (OPK) have signed a cooperation agreement for the potential development and construction of a multifunctional supply icebreaker and a 75, 000 m³ LNG carrier. MCN PLC is the largest Russian shipping company with longstanding experience of collaboration with shipbuilders ...
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MSC delays delivery of mega-boxships
Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) is said to have pushed back deliveries for some of its mega boxships on order. MSC chairman Gianluigi Aponte told Italian media that deliveries of the largest containerships have been delayed by few months and up to a year."For ships that were imminent, those for delivery ...
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Chinese seeking buyer for cancelled ships
Ethiopian Shipping Lines (ESL) is in talks with a Chinese shipyard to buy cancelled newbuildings. The national carrier has been wooed by an unnamed Chinese yard looking to find a home for cancelled ships.It is offering nine vessels to ESL, with payments to be made over 10 to 15 years, ...
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Zim takes delivery of mega boxships
Israel?s Zim Integrated Shipping Services has received the first consignment of its twelve-vessel order with the arrival of ?Zim Los Angeles?. The 8,400 TEU vessel is the first mega container vessel owned by the company and will be followed by the delivery of ?Zim Djibouti? in two weeks? time. This ...
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Ship completion contract for Ulstein Verft
Ulstein Verft has won the contract with GIEK and Sparebank 1 SR-bank to complete the construction of a large anchor handling vessel for Solstad. The newbuilding comes from the bankrupt Karmsund Maritime Service AS and is an important component in filling up Ulstein Verft?s production capacity."Solstad was an important customer ...
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Kawasaki's China venture on hold
Kawasaki Heavy Industries' shipbuilding venture in China will delay operations of a second dock in Dalian by three years in the light of the current economic climate. The second dock, originally slated for operations in early 2012, may be postponed until 2015, said Yusuke Kamada, a spokesman at Kobe, Japan-based ...
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Wadan Yards get repreive
The Norwegian-registered STX Europe, an affiliate of the South Korean STX shipyard and shipping group, has used the occasion of Wadan Yards recentinsolvency and pulled out of the German shipbuilding sector entirely.STX had acquired the two German shipyards when it bought the Norwegian Aker Yards in early 2009. The company ...
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NewsMAN Diesel and MAN Turbo merge
MAN Diesel and MAN Turbo - a logical marriageMAN Diesel SE and MAN Turbo AG are to work more closely together in future with the aim of forming a merger with each other under corporate law. By combining the complementary product portfolios, the merged company will strive for further growth ...
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Pump maintenance eased through spare parts kits
Allweiler AG has launched original spare parts kits for all standard pumps. The kits contain all of the parts that must be replaced on a regular basis during standard maintenance and which have similar usage cycles. The packages are designed to save the customer money by providing immediate access to ...
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Cargo hold coating offers extended maintenance intervals
Hempadur Ultra-Strength is a new epoxy coating from Hempel for ship cargo holds, that is claimed to offer an industry-leading repair interval. The coating provides high abrasion and impact resistance ? making it suitable for protecting ship cargo holds subject to rough treatment. Hempadur Ultra-Strength 47500 protects ship cargo holds ...
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BV awards first 'energy efficient label'
Classification society Bureau Veritas has awarded its first Energy Efficient Design label to the new 3,952-passenger cruise vessel MSC Splendida. Just delivered to MSC from STX France Cruise's St Nazaire yard, MSC Splendida will be the flagship of the MSC Cruises fleet. She was officially named in Barcelona on July ...
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Forward progress for oil discharge monitoring system
According to UK company Rivertrace Engineering, three new territories have opened up for a technology that offers Port State Control surveyors a full demonstration of a vessel?s compliance with stringent ballast discharge regulations, after Rivertrace announced first orders for its Smart Oil Discharge Monitoring Equipment in India and Turkey, and ...
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Explosion relief valves for gas and dual-fuel engines
According to Austrian company Hoerbiger, explosions may occur in intake manifolds and exhaust lines as well as in the piping system of ship engines, when gaseous fuels are used. Together with leading engine manufacturers the company has developed explosion relief valves series EVT and EVM. The EVT and EVM series ...
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Utkilen cancels three chemical carriers
Norwegian shipowner Utkilen has cancelled an order for three 9,500 DWT chemical tankers at Italian shipyard Cantiere Navale De Poli. The ships had been scheduled for delivery in 2008 and this year but, in January, the yard entered into a voluntary liquidation process because of financial difficulties.Utkilen's annual report for ...
