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Angola???s Petromar to invest in shipyard
The Angolan company Petromar in Luanda plans to invest $40 million in the upgrading of a shipyard at Ambriz, in Zaire province, in order to provide services to the oil industry, the company???s director general, Philippe Ferderic said.Frederic told the press that conclusion of the project was expected in June ...
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Japan plans CO2 reductions for shipping
The Japanese government is preparing to set aside funds to develop fuel-efficiency standards for large ships. The Japanese Finance Ministry has been requested to allocate about 95 million yen ($827,000) in the fiscal 2008 budget for the project.The Ministry of Land Infrastructure & Transport (MLIT) will spearhead the project to ...
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Petrobras orders more semi-subs
Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras has sealed a $1.4 billion contract for a new 100,000 barrel-per-day P-56 semi submersible oil rig with FELS Setal-Technip consortium after months of exclusive negotiations. FELS Setal is controlled by Singapore's Keppel Corp while Offshore & Marine Ltd. Technip is a French energy services group. ...
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ABG nets German order
ABG Shipyard in Mumbai has bagged an order of £363 million from Germanys Bereederungsgesellschaft H Vogemann GmbH for the construction of 12 handysize bulk carriers of 35,000 DWT. With this order, the company's order book now stands at $1.8 billion. The order was signed on 3 July 2007 and financial ...
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Keppel wins two more conversions
Singapore based Keppel Shipyard Ltd was awarded two ship conversion contracts from repeat clients worth a combined $67 million. The first contract, awarded by Prosafe Production Pte Ltd, is for the conversion of a tanker into an FPSO facility, expected to be completed by late 2008. The second contract is ...
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India examines shipbuilding proposal
Official sources in India indicate that Bharati Shipyard Ltd and Apeejay Surendra Group have jointly proposed to develop a state-of-art shipbuilding and ship repair yards at Dhamara in Bhadrak district. "The government is examining the proposal", Industries Minister B B Harichandan said. Official sources said the government was serious about ...
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SCI confirms shipyard plans
Shipping corporation of India (SCI) has firmed up plans to build the country?s largest shipyard with an investment of around Rs 3,000 crore. The shipping company would compete with Larson and Toubro (L&T), Korean shipping major STX, Essar, Shapoorji Pallonji and Bharti Shipyard for the two shipbuilding projects that the ...
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Tera-block speeds up shipbuilding
Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a new shipbuilding system, called the "tera-block" method that allows the company to assemble a vessel from just two large ship blocks. An extra-large ship usually consists of dozens of blocks, but in recent years shipbuilders have been trying to reduce the number of ship ...
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World's largest windjammer
Star Clippers have been in discussions with shipyards to build a new five-mast vessel for delivery in 2010. Expected to be the largest, most expensive sailing vessel ever constructed, the 7,400 gt barque is modelled on ?France II?, which at 5,000 gross tons was the world's largest sailing ship when ...
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Essar orders bulkers from ABG
Cyprus-based sea transportation company Essar Shipping & Logistics Ltd (ESLL), which is a unit of the diversified Essar Global Ltd, has placed a mega order for constructing six bulk carriers with ABG Shipyard. The Mumbai-based shipbuilder will construct six geared Supramax bulk carriers at a total contract price of $210 ...
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COSCO to build bigger vessels
COSCO Corporation has secured shipbuilding contracts worth $724 million to build 16 bulk carriers for German, Taiwanese and Greek shipowners. The vessels consist of bulk carriers of 57,000, 80,000 and 92,500 dwt and will be delivered between March 2010 and July 2011. The contracts are seen as significant for COSCO ...
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New shiprepair yard coming to Philly
A company that has repaired some of the world's largest cruise ships plans to set up a second operation in Philadelphia. The new shipyard, to be called PennShip Service, is expected to employ a core group of 200 workers and more when big projects are scheduled.Under an agreement signed recently, ...
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Bocimar's ordering spree
Bocimar International, the dry cargo ship owning subsidiary of Belgian-based CMB, has ordered 10 handysize bulk carriers from Samjin Corporation, in South Korea, for $36m per vessel. The 33,500 dwt newbuildings are scheduled for delivery between September 2009 and December 2010. In addition, as part of a 50/50 joint venture ...
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MWB to expand capacity
Bremerhaven-based shiprepair and conversion specialist MWB is to open a third floating dock to meet increasing demand.
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Guangzhou gets go-ahead for new yard
Guangzhou has received the go-ahead to begin construction on a big ship-production base that could help advance the southern China city?s status as a major Chinese ship producer.The first phase of Longxue Ship Production Base, formally approved by the National Development and Reform Commission early this week, includes the construction ...
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Eitzen declares options
Eitzen Chemical ASA in Norway has declared an option to build two additional vessels with Jinse Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Korea. The vessels are coated 13,000 dwt chemical carriers and will be delivered in 2008 at a cost of $24 million each. This brings the series from Jinse to four ...
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Stena President named in Split
Concordia Maritime?s product tanker ?Stena President?, the fifth of ten tankers in the P-MAX series, was recently named at Brodosplit Shipyard in Split. After her delivery in the third quarter of 2007, the tanker will enter a 10-year charter with Argo Shipping and transport oil from ports in the Baltic ...
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Schat-Harding strengthens European service network
Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has significantly strengthened its European service network with the acquisition of major independent service company Willem Pot BV. The Rotterdam-based Willem Pot is the largest independent lifeboat and davit service company in the world and provides service for all types of lifeboats, hook and davits ...
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Multi billion job for Aker Kvaerner
BP has chosen Aker Kvaerner to perform the detail engineering, procurement and construction management assistance (EPcma) for the Skarv field development in the Norwegian Sea. Since November 2005, Aker Kvaerner has been involved with the project, performing the front end engineering design of the complete production ship (FPSO) and intermediate ...
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Global Alliance to build floating LNG liquefaction plants
The German company Linde has formed a Global Alliance with Single Buoying Mooring Inc. (SBM) to develop and market FPSOs for the growing LNG industry, based on Linde's proprietary natural gas liquefaction technology.SBM is based in the Netherlands and a market leader in the field of FPSOs for the offshore ...
