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Hyundai inks order for nine oil tankers
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest shipyard, has won a 852-billion-won ($837 million) deal to build nine oil tankers. The deal with a European shipping company calls on HHI to deliver the vessels by March 2012.
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LR readies shipping for ?seafarers? bill of rights?
Lloyd?s Register has developed a voluntary assessment programme, designed to support the practical implementation of the forthcoming ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2006) on new and existing ships. Not yet mandatory, the MLC, a significant development in international shipping described as a ?bill of rights? for maritime labour, is expected ...
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Wärtsilä acquires I.C.E.'s Dubai business
Wärtsilä continues to expand its boiler services with the acquisition of the boiler services business of International Combustion Engineering's (I.C.E.) former subsidiary in Dubai. The acquired boiler service business, which currently employs seven people, will be integrated into Wärtsilä in Dubai. This transaction follows Wärtsilä's acquisition of the Denmark-based ...
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?Shinas? arrives in Oman
The Sultanate of Oman?s record-breaking 65 metre vehicle-passenger catamaran ?Shinas? has arrived in Muscat, Oman, following its 15-day journey from Austal?s shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. The vessel made the journey under its own power, making scheduled stops at the Cocos Islands and Mal?e in the Maldives.?Shinas? is the world?s ...
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SCHIFFKO becomes Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany
Wärtsilä Corporation has re-named its Hamburg-based ship design company SCHIFFKO GmbH to Wärtsilä Ship Design Germany GmbH. The change is effective from 1 June 2008. The name SCHIFFKO is retained as a product name for the company's ship designs. Wärtsilä acquired SCHIFFKO GmbH at the end of 2006 with the ...
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LR introduces environmental management standard
Using the expertise of its quality assurance business, LRQA, Lloyd?s Register has developed a shipping industry specific guide for the ISO 14001 environmental management standard to enable ship operators to establish and implement effective environmental management systems.The core is an environmental ?practical pack? for ship operators - a step by ...
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BERG Propulsion launches Singapore factory
Swedish company BERG Propulsion, a leading manufacturer of controllable pitch propellers (CPP) for the marine industry, recently launched its new production facility in Tuas, Singapore. The new plant is the first of its kind in South East Asia, and the first ever for BERG outside of Sweden. With the new ...
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First ?Comfort Conscious? VLCC
The National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), the leading Iranian tanker company, has recently taken delivery of its latest newbuilding, the 320,000 dwt Marbat, from Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. The ship is notable as being the first VLCC to have DNV?s highest ?comfort? notation ? COMF-V(1). This means that seafarers ...
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Keppel bags Brazilian semisub contract
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has secured a $385 million repeat order to build a semisubmersible drilling rig for Brazilian oil and gas exploitation and production company Queiroz Galv?o Óleo e G?s (QGOG). This price excludes the drilling and subsea equipment which ...
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MAN Diesel expands service network in North America
MAN Diesel celebrated the official opening of service facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA, and is hereby expanding the MAN Diesel PrimeServ Network in North America. Over 200 customers, suppliers and business partners, including John E. McCormac, Mayor of Woodbridge, NJ, came to celebrate what is now the largest MAN ...
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SCI places LR-1 orders
State-owned Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has ordered six LR-1 product tankers of 60,000 DWT from STX Shipbuilding in a deal worth $371m for delivery from 2010 onwards. SCI has also received government approval to order two 4,400 TEU cellular container vessels from another shipyard to be finalised next month. ...
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MAN Diesel?s environmental milestone
MAN Diesel is relaunching its portfolio, making all its engines compatible with the limits established by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in its Tier II regulations. The relaunch is an historic milestone for the company, and one which preempts the January 2011 implementation of the new IMO NOx emission limits. ...
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Keppel bags Ensco semisub rig
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) in Singapore has won a contract to build a $537 million ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig from a subsidiary of Dallas-based Ensco International Incorporated (Ensco). This contract follows shortly after of the award of the fifth semisub, ?Ensco 8504?, that was announced on earlier last month. ...
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L&T to enter shipbuilding biz
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in India will enter into shipbuilding business with an initial investment of Rs 20 billion ($468 million) next year according to local reports. The shipbuilding project would start in April 2009 and the first L&T-built vessel will be out within two to three years. Moving ahead ...
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RINA launches ILO notation
Italy-based classification society RINA has introduced a new voluntary notation which will help shipowners meet the new international standards for crew accommodation. The notation, ILODESIGN will ensure compliance with the ship construction and accommodation layout and outfitting requirements of the new ILO Maritime Labour Convention 2006.Roberto Cazzulo, deputy director of ...
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Bureau Veritas focuses on access safety
The French classification society Bureau Veritas has developed guidelines intended to reduce the number of accidents to seafarers and surveyors during the inspection and maintenance of ships structures. The guidelines will help yards to design in safety indetail.Guidelines for the Design of the Means of Access for Inspection, Maintenance and ...
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K Line takes delivery of Unimax ore carrier
The 300,000 DWT type ore carrier ?Grande Progresso? of Kawasaki Kisen?s 100% owned foreign subsidiary was delivered at Ariake Shipyard of Universal Shipbuilding Corporation. The 327m long and 55m wide newbuilding with a draught of 21.40m is the first very large ore carrier dedicated for loading at Brazil and unloading ...
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Seaarland orders Suezmaxes
Amsterdam-based Seaarland Shipping Management has ordered three 165,000 dwt Suezmax tankers to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea, for deliveryin the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter 2011.
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Wärtsilä acquires German ship automation company
Wärtsilä has acquired the German company Claus D. Christophel Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH (CDC), which specializes in the design, delivery and service of automation systems for ship owners and yards. The company is based in Hamburg and has three business areas, which are maritime information technology, project engineering and customer ...
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IMO commissions Nigerian MRCC
A key link in the plan to provide effective search and rescue (SAR) coverage off the coast of Africa has been completed with the commissioning, by IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, of a fully-equipped regional Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in Lagos, Nigeria - the third such commissioning in just ...
