General News – Page 386
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Ezra takes delivery of Lewek Trogon
Singapore-based Ezra Holdings has taken delivery of an 18,000 bhp anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel ?Lewek Trogon? from Drydocks World Singapore. The newbuild AHTS is equipped with Rolls Royce engines and dynamic positioning capabilities. Construction on the vessel took place at the previous Pan-United shipyard which was acquired by ...
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Canadian warships to get upgrades on both coasts
Two multi-year contracts, worth $760 million in total, to upgrade Canada?s 12 Halifax-class frigates are expected to be announced today at Victoria and Halifax shipyards.Victoria Shipyards, owned by Washington Marine Group, will be refitting Canada?s five west coast-based frigates, and Irving Shipbuilding Inc?s Halifax shipyard will work on the seven ...
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Labour costs rising in Korean yards
Employees at Korea's top three shipbuilding companies receive an annual salary of almost 70 million won according to recent data. Annual salary for workers at Samsung Heavy Industries, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering went up by an average of 20% from last year, set to exceed ...
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Hyundai to build Korean-designed LNG carrier
Min Keh-sik, vice chairman of Hyundai Heavy Industries, recently said that Russia plans to purchase an LNG ship built with Korean design technology. Although Korea dominates global LNG carrier orders, it has been dependent on foreign companies that own the core technology for the containment systems for LNG. Korean shipbuilders ...
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Golar to provide Dubai with FSRU
Norwegian gas shipper Golar LNG has won a contract worth about $450 million to provide a floating gas storage and regasification unit to Dubai on a 10-year charter. The contract with Dubai Supply Authority includes options to extend for up to a further five years, Golar LNG said. The contract ...
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MSC denies DSME link
MSC Cruises has denied rumours that it is actively helping South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) break into the cruise ship construction business. This follows reports in the Italian press that MCS is looking at options to counter an emerging alliance between Aker Yards and Fincantieri which ...
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CSSC to build China's largest shipyard
China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) is looking for a site for its south China shipbuilding base, which could become China's largest shipyard when completed. A CSSC field study group has been scouting Guangdong's coastal areas for initial selection of an appropriate site. Jieyang city, with 82 km of coastline, has ...
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Repeat order for VOSTA LMG
A few months ago VOSTA LMG was awarded a contract for the delivery of three hopper barges for dredging and marine contractor Van Oord in the Netherlands. During the execution of this order VOSTA LMG received a repeat order for another three 10.000 m3 hopper barges for Van Oord. Just ...
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Dubai delivers Aker semisub
The hull substructure for the first Aker H-6e semi-submersible offshore drilling rig recently started on a 50 day journey from Dubai to Stord in Norway. Weighing 16,000 tonnes, this is one of the largest drilling rigs to be towed. The hull was constructed by Aker Solutions (the former Aker Kvaerner) ...
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Offshore boosts Schat-Harding order book
Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has booked orders for lifesaving equipment worth a record breaking NOK300m ($60m) so far in 2008. Over 60% of these orders came from the offshore sector.Ove Roessland, ceo of Schat-Harding says, "We have experienced strong growth in orders for merchant ships and cruise vessels, but ...
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Startek to finalise location for new yard
The Chennai-based Startek Shipyards Pvt Ltd will shortly finalise the location for its second shipyard. Deepak Rao Beedu, executive director, said: "We are looking at Chennai and two other locations south of Chennai. As the discussions are in the final stages, I am not in a position to divulge more."Currently ...
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New ship repair yard in Adana
The Bežiktaž Maritime Group has started the preliminary work for the construction of a shipyard on a 320,000 square meter plot in the southern city of Adana in Turkey. Yavuz Kalkavan, assistant CEO of the Bežiktaž Maritime Group, said that some 100 ships would be able to dock at the ...
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Aker delivers world?s largest
The third in the series of the world?s largest cruise vessels for Royal Caribbean was delivered today at Aker Yards, Turku in Finland. The ?Independence of the Seas? has all of the signature elements of her sister ships ?Freedom of the Seas and ?Liberty of the Seas?, making the Freedom-class ...
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Daewoo bidding hotting up
GS Holdings Corp, the holding firm of South Korea's GS Group, an energy and construction-focused conglomerate, said it is studying a possible bid for Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. Another domestic business group Hanwha said earlier it was considering bidding for Daewoo, sending the shipbuilder's shares higher.
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Sembcorp gets foothold in Brazil
Singapore-based Jurong Shipyard, a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, signed a strategic alliance agreement with Rio de Janeiro-based Mac Laren Shipyard to operate a shipyard in Brazil.Under the agreement, which takes effect immediately and is valid for 5 years and mutually renewable on expiry, Jurong Shipyard will collaborate with Mac Laren ...
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Vinashin reports strong growth
The Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) has earned a revenue of VND5.1 trillion ($318.7 million) in the first quarter of the year, an increase of 108% year-on-year.The nation?s largest shipbuilder attributed the business success to its strategy of progressive re-investment which helped to enhance its production capacity.In the first ...
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Floatel conversion for Tyne yard
A&P Tyne in the UK has been awarded the contract to carry out the conversion of a former ice breaking cargo vessel into a DP3 Floatel accommodation vessel carrying up to 399 persons. The contract has been awarded by the C&M Group of Aberdeen on behalf of the owners Silters. ...
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India?s naval yards aim for the world
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in Kolkata, India, is at an advanced stage of negotiations with French shipbuilding giant, DCNS (Direction des Constructions Navales Services), for jointly setting up a cutting edge design centre for warships and merchant ships. This will target both the Indian and the global markets.GRSE?s ...
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Samsung wins LNG production vessel
Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea has won a 452 billion won ($455 million) deal to build an LNG production vessel. The contract with a European shipping company calls on Samsung to deliver the vessel by March 2012.
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L&T invests in shipyard complex
Indian construction and engineering firm Larsen & Toubro has signed a joint venture agreement to invest 30 billion rupees ($750 million) in a shipyard and port facility. The venture with southern Tamil Nadu state would build the integrated facility near Ennore where construction was scheduled to start by end-2008, and ...
