General News – Page 378
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Tata to order six large bulkers
India?s biggest private power utility, Tata Power Co. Ltd, is talking with shipbuilders in South Korea to construct six 175,000 dwt dry-bulk carriers, which it will use to carry coal from its mines in Indonesia to feed its ultra mega power plant at Mundra in Gujarat. The company will have ...
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Samsung buys stake in Brazil shipyard
Samsung Heavy Industries had agreed to buy a 10% stake in Brazil's Estaleiro Atlantico Sul shipyard for some $22 million. The purchase is expected to help Samsung Heavy win orders for drill ships and oil rigs in Brazil as the Brazilian shipyard is scheduled to begin operations from September next ...
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New bidders for Polish shipyards
The Norwegian shipyard Ulstein Verft AS wants to purchase the ?Nowa? Shipyard in Szczecin, northwest Poland and the company ETA Ascom Star from Dubai, owned by Star Holding, owner of a shipyard in China and 36 vessels, is, according to Polish sources, interested in buying the Gdynia Shipyard. At a ...
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Shipping told to slow down
Speed limits in the world's shipping lanes will be proposed today by Ruth Kelly, the transport secretary, when she announces plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Studies suggest that, although ships use less fuel than planes or road transport to carry a tonne of cargo, the industry is so big ...
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VT and BAE agree merger
Tens of thousands of British shipbuilding jobs have been secured and a further thousand created, after the two main navy warship builders agreed to merge their businesses and create one single national shipbuilding firm. BAE Systems and VT Group confirm that after almost a year of negotiations they had finally ...
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Daewoo wins drill ship order
Korean shipbuilder Daewoo has won a 697.3 billion won ($669.3 million) order to build a drill ship for an unidentified company in the Oceania region. Delivery is slated for December 2011.
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Safmarine names new boxship
Multi-trade shipping line Safmarine, a subsidiary of the AP Moller-Maersk group, has recently named its second post-Panamax container vessel, the ?Safmarine Komati?, after the Komati river that runs through South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. The 6,160 TEU vessel will join sister vessel, the ?Safmarine Kariba?, as the two largest vessels ...
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EU approves VW's takeover of Scania
The European Commission has cleared German car maker Volkswagen?s proposed takeover of Scandinavian commercial vehicles maker Scania, in which VW bought a majority stake in March. Volkswagen took sole control of Scania in March this year, pending regulatory approval from the European Competition Commission, when it raised its stake to ...
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Poland fails to convince EU on shipyard restructuring
The Polish Minister of the Economy Aleksander Grad has reportedly failed to convince the European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes to accept a plan on the restructuring of the Polish shipyards in Gdansk and Gdynia, northern Poland. In a meeting in Brussels last Friday, Grad presented to the EU Commissioner ...
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ABG secures AHTS order
ABG Shipyard Ltd in India has secured an order worth Rs 127 crore ($30 million) from Marnavi Spa, Italy, for the construction of a 130 tonne bollard pull AHTS vessel with a deadweight of 2,500 tonnes and a length of 72 metres. This is the first contract signed with the ...
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French government surprises Aker
Aker Yards has, through the media, been informed that the French government, after discussions with the company STX, intends to buy a total of 34% of the shares in Aker Yards France. Aker Yards France comprises two yards in Saint Nazaire and in Lorient.STX is a shareholder in the publicly ...
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KR quality initiative
Influential industry bodies including Intercargo and Intertanko have endorsed the Korean Register (KR) of Shipping?s initiative to raise quality standards throughout the industry at the class society?s European Committee meeting held in London on 9 and 10 June. Top of the agenda was the maintenance and furtherance of quality standards ...
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Largest ever Dover-Calais ferries ordered
P&O Ferries has signed a Letter of Intent with Aker Yards to construct two new ships for the Dover-Calais service at a reported cost of 360 million Euros ($556 million). They will be built at Aker?s Rauma yard in Finland with the first unit entering service in December 2010 and ...
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Ultrapetrol orders VS design
Norwegian naval architects Vik-Sandvik reports that Ultrapetrol Offshore has ordered two VS483 PSV Mk II vessels from Chinese shipyard Wison. The vessels will be 87.40m overall with a length between perpendiculars of 81.00m, and breadth (moulded) of 19.00m. UP Offshore now has a total of seven Vik-Sandvik-designed offshore vessels under ...
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Pelican to expand with four new AHTS
Pelican Offshore Services Pte Ltd in Singapore (previously known as Penguin Boat International Limited), is to acquire four new anchor handlers scheduled for delivery between the fourth quarter of FY2009 and second quarter of FY2010. The vessels will be built by a Malaysian shipbuilder.Each 60 metre DP2 AHTS will be ...
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Sevan secures six options
Sevan Marine ASA in Norway has secured options to build six additional Sevan drilling units (or other Sevan units) with China?s COSCO shipyard group. Sevan is currently building the cylinder shaped ultra deepwater, dynamically positioned ?Sevan Driller? at COSCO's Nantong shipyard and intends to build the two recently contracted deepwater ...
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LR urges Asian shipbuilders to focus on quality
Some of the maritime industry?s leading practitioners have urged global shipbuilders and suppliers not to let the current shipping boom distract them from what must remain their top priority: the construction of quality vessels.The comments, made at the 7th annual meeting of Lloyd?s Register Asia?s China National Committee (CNC), came ...
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Mipo inks bulk order
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., an affiliate of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., has won an order worth 163 billion won ($159 million) to build four bulk carriers for an unidentified shipowner in Asia. The quartet will be delivered by end 2011.
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Gujarat plans shipbuilding incentives
The state government of Gujarat in India has made provisions in the new industrial policy to boost shipbuilding and ship repair industry and is planning to offer special incentives for the sector with a vision to augment and enhance efficiency in ports-related services and make Gujarat a logistic hub. The ...
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Pertamina orders five tankers
Indonesia?s Pertamina has ordered five 30.000 dwt product oil tankers from China's Zhejiang Chenye shipyard. These vessels will be the first newbuildings ordered by an oil company in South East Asia to comply with DNV's environmental CLEAN class notation The vessels will be designed in accordance with IMO requirements for ...
