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Gazprom mulls LNG tanker order
Gazprom Plc may place an order with Severnaya Verf plant for the construction of two LNG tankers to transport LNG from the Shtokman gas field offshore eastern Russia, said Gazprom Vice President Alexander Ananenkov. Ananenkov said the Severnaya Verf plant, part of United Industrial Corporation (OPK), is the only enterprise ...
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Croatia moves to privatize shipyards
Croatia's government has decided to move forward with privatisation of its ailing shipyards, part of reforms required by the European Union which the country hopes to join by 2011. An international call for tenders will be launched for five struggling shipyards, while the decision on the only solvent one, Uljanik ...
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Chinese shipbuilders expect idle capacity after 2011
The China Association of National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI) is quoted as saying that China's shipbuilding facilities are expected to have idle capacity of more than 20 million deadweight tons or one third of the total after 2011 as new shipyards commence operations amid a severe demand slump.Citing the London based ...
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Big jump in newbuilding orders
According to Clarkson latest data, the world signed 1.83 million DWT of new ship orders in June, representing an amazing jump from the zero in May. It?s also the first time that the global new ship orders had passed 1 million DWT since last November. Chinese shipbuilders gained nearly 1.6 ...
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Caterpillar celebrates anniversary of ship and its engine
Caterpillar has helped celebrate the 75th anniversary of the coastal ferry boat Stadt Keil, which coincided with the 55th anniversary of its propulsion engine, a MaK MAu 423.The Stadt Kiel was the first of a series of newbuildings of the thirties, built for regular service on the Kiel fjord. After ...
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NewsFirst 9L32/40 from new Chinese plant
The first licence-built 9L32/40MAN Diesel licensee Hangzhou ZhongGao Engine Co (ZGPT) recently celebrated both the delivery of its first license-built MAN Diesel 9L32/40 engine and the official inauguration of production at the Hangzhou plant. ZGPT's Honoured President, Shi QingZhe, lead celebrations at the company's modern plant, located southwest of Shanghai ...
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55 years of reliable engine operation
The Stadt Kiel ferry boat has celebrated its 75th anniversary in Germany with a big "open ship" event at Kiel's Seegartenbrücke jetty, close to the site where the ship was originally launched at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft on May 26, 1934. At the same time, the 55th service anniversary of ...
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DNV classes deepwater circular rig
Det Norske Veritas reports that a new milestone has been reached in the offshore drilling industry. The first circular drilling rig prepared for drilling at a water depth of almost 4,200 metres was named at COSCO Shipyard Group's Qidong Shipyard on June 28.A grand naming ceremony was held at the ...
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2010 to be 'The Year of the Seafarer'
The Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), meeting for its 102nd session in London (29 June to 3 July 2009), agreed that next year?s theme for World Maritime Day will be "2010: Year of the Seafarer", endorsing a proposal from IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos.The theme - to be ...
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Confidence returns, but too many newbuildings cause worries
Overall confidence levels in the shipping industry have shown a slight improvement over the past three months, according to the latest Shipping Confidence Survey from international accountant and shipping consultant Moore Stephens. But there are high levels of concern about the harmful effects of the glut of newbuildings that will ...
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Equipment makers' body supports EU sulphur cap
The Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Association (EGCSA) has called for factions within the shipping industry to refrain from what it describes as "counter-productive calls for the postponement of EU Directive 2005/33/EC".This EU ruling will see the mandatory use of bunker fuel that contains no more than 0.1% of sulphur by ...
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LPG equipment order for Chinese newbuild
Hamworthy is supplying equipment and engineering services for a 5,000m3 fully pressurised LPG carrier being built in China for a regular customer, Pertamina.Hamworthy recently signed a contract with Taizhou Wuzhou Shipbuilding Co Ltd for an LPG cargo handling system, its first in China. Its scope includes equipment and engineering services ...
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Canadian company gets two new cargo ships
Groupe Desgagnés has christened, in Quebec, two new vessels built for its subsidiary Transport Desgagnés in Shanghai, China. "With each a length of over 138m, a total carrying capacity of 20,000m3 in their holds and on their main deck, two cranes of 180 tonnes which may be twinned to lift ...
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New UK facility opens for shiprepair
A Southampton, UK-based ship repairer has taken over a 1,000 tonne lift facility in Portsmouth harbour. Testbank Ship Repair and partners Trafalgar Wharf unveiled the Rolls Royce syncrolift, said to be one of the biggest of its kind in the South of England. The lift was formerly part of the ...
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Carbon fibre for fast ferry construction
Fintry Marine Design AG and Kockums AB, part of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, have reached an agreement to co-operate in the marketing, design and construction of fast ferries, work and pilot boats built in an innovative carbon fibre reinforced sandwich structure.For the last five years, Swiss company Fintry says that it ...
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NewsSandwich plate technique reduces bulker repair timescale
Star Ypsilon, which recently received the SPS Overlay treatmentIn a breakthrough project, SPS Overlay (sandwich plate system) has been used for the first time by a Greek shipping company. In an 18 day project completed in June at China Shipbuilding Industry Corp?s Shanhaiguan yard, tanktops were reinstated on board the ...
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MAN Diesel's new UK facility gets underway
MAN Diesel has commenced the construction of a brand new multi-million pound Head Office at its PrimeServ UK location in Stockport. The factory, formerly the home of the Mirrlees Blackstone business in Hazel Grove, celebrated its centenary in 2008, the same year that approval was given to the plans for ...
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Amur to build special-purpose vessels
Russia's Gazprom subsidiary Gazflot is preparing a contract for construction of special-purpose vessels at Amur Shipyard (Komsomolsk-on-Amur). Details of the number of vessels and value of the order have not been revealed although the vessels in question are to serve platforms at Sakhalin.According to a spokesman, Gazprom has plans to ...
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Indian shipyard delivers another PSV
Cochin Shipyard in India recently delivered a platform supply vessel, the 11th built at the shipyard and the third in the Rolls Royce UT755 LN series, to an America-based owner. The 3,240 DWT newbuilding, named 'Olivier Tide', is 73.6m long, 16m wide and has a design draught of 4m. The ...
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Wuchang constructs new shipbuilding base
According to local industry sources, Wuchang in China has recently signed an agreement with Xinzhou, Hubei Province government authorities regarding establishment of a shipbuilding base for building specialized vessels and heavy weight structures.The base will be located in Yangluo Economic Development Zone in Wuhan City. The first phase construction works ...
