General News – Page 421
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Halter lays keels for NOAA vessels
V.T. Halter has laid the keels for two National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ships at its shipyard in Moss Point, Mississippi. These two high-tech newbuildings will replace ships that are over 40 years old.
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EBDG to design DP2 well stimulation vessel
ONGC in India has contracted with Seattle-based Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) to provide consultancy for the design, construction and delivery of a 110m x 19m x 9.25m well stimulation vessel. The function of the vessel is to provide well stimulation services in open ocean environments, primarily in the Arabian ...
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CMB orders two handymaxes
The Belgian shipping group CMB said its unit Bocimar International has ordered, in a joint venture with Wah Kwong, two newbuilding Handymax vessels from Chengxi Shipyard, China. Delivery of the vessels is scheduled to take place in March and August 2009.
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Langh Ship and Transmarine sign ?GL ShipManager?
The fleet management program ?GL ShipManager? has its first international clients. Finnish shipping company Oy Langh Ship and Danish company Transmarine Management have entrusted Ms Logistik Systeme, a Germanischer Lloyd Group company, with the implementation of the GL ShipManager in their fleets.Oy Langh Ship Ab of Piikkiö, Finland, has equipped ...
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DNV rides seismic wave
The booming global economy and high oil price have led to strong demand for seismographic ship and DNV is experiencing a tenfold increase in classification requests compared to previous years for this ship type. While the newbuilding activity for these vessels was nearly non-existent a couple of years ago, the ...
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SeaMetric signs contract for TML system
Stavanger-based SeaMetric International AS has signed a contract for the construction, assembly and testing of the first 20,000 tonnes capacity Twin Marine Lifter (TML) system. Developed for installation and removal of such objects as platform topside and jackets with weights up to 20,000 tonnes, the TML system is based on ...
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Ottawa renewing subsidy for Canadian-built ships
The Canadian federal government is keeping afloat a subsidy program for buyers of Canadian-built ships. Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay and Industry Minister Maxime Bernier said Thursday that Ottawa will renew and add $50 million over three years to the Structured Financing Facility, which reduces the interest cost of loans ...
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Turkey makes start on mega shipyard
Groundbreaking for the soon-to-be world's second-largest shipyard, to be constructed in the Yumurtalık Free Trade Zone in Adana, will take place in July this year. Bülent Uzunsa?, board chairman of Hay Shipbuilding and Maintenance & Repairs Inc. (HGS), said their preparations were in their last stages and that they had ...
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Indonesian shipyards recovering
The Indonesian shipbuilding industry is recovering from a two-year-long downturn as shipbuilders benefit from an influx of both domestic and overseas orders. A government official said "The industry is expected to grow by 9.5% this year and surpass 10% next year as shipbuilders have received major orders from both local ...
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MacGREGOR secures Chinese orders
MacGREGOR, part of the Cargotec Corporation, has been awarded a contract for the delivery of heavy-lift cranes and the design and key components for folding weather deck hatch covers and lift-away covers for tweendeck for four multi-purpose carries being built at Chinese COSCO Dalian shipyard. The vessels have been ordered ...
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RINA gains elite ranking from Paris MoU
International classification society RINA has been named as the second best performing classification society for 2006 in the Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control. The Paris MOU is an administrative agreement between the maritime authorities of twenty-four European countries and Canada. It is regularly amended to accommodate new ...
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Another reefer for Eimskip
Eimskip-CTG in Norway, has received its third newbuild reefer vessel in 18 months. The vessel was built at Myklebust Verft in Norway and is a combined reefer and container vessel. It is 82m long and 16m wide, with maximum cruising speed of 16 knots and deadweight of 2,500 tonnes. It ...
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Ren Etive comes on stream
Aberdeen-based marine and subsea support specialist TSMarine (Contracting) Ltd has taken delivery of its new offshore support vessel, Rem Etive. The multi-purpose vessel was delivered from the Kleven shipyard in Norway last week to owner Rem Maritime and shortly thereafter was berthed in Aberdeen Harbour.TSMarine has the vessel on a ...
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Keppel to build fourth semi for ENSCO
Keppel FELS Limited has secured an order for an ultra-deepwater semi-submersible (semi) drilling rig from a wholly-owned subsidiary of ENSCO International Incorporated (ENSCO). The total project value is $427 million. The semi, ENSCO 8503, will be the fourth semi that Keppel FELS is constructing for ENSCO and is expected to ...
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First orders booked for Wartsila 82 series
Wärtsilä's licensed enginebuilders have in recent months booked orders for 52 of Wärtsilä's new series of 82-cm bore low-speed marine engines with an aggregate power of 1,726 MW. The engines were introduced to the market in the end of 2005. Orders for the new 82-cm bore engines have thus taken ...
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MacGregor Offshore formed
Building on the strengths of already established services in the North Sea and Asia pacific, the MacGregor Group?s new Offshore division is set to provide a greater level of attention and service to customers in these regionsThe recently acquired companies, Hydramarine in Kristiansand, Norway and Plimsoll in Singapore will be ...
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Northrop gets USN amphibious assault ship
The U.S. Navy has awarded a $2.4 billion contract to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems to design and build the first replacement amphibious assault ship.The work will be conducted at Northrop?s shipyards in Pascagoula and New Orleans.The contract, announced Friday, will fund construction of the first next-generation "bid-deck" amphibious ship, dubbed ...
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Keppel eyes shipyard purchase in Asia
Singapore?s Keppel Corp said it may look to snap up Asian shipbuilding yards in several years time when it expects a glut in capacity to depress asset prices.Choo Chiau Beng, Chief Executive of Keppel Corp's rig-building unit Keppel Offshore and Marine, was cautious on current expansion prospects and "paranoid" about ...
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Daewoo container ship order from Europe
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has received a 1.22 trillion-won ($1.3 billion) order to build container ships. The deal from a European company calls for Daewoo to build the 9,100 TEU vessels by 2010The shipbuilder has won orders worth $7.5 billion to build 48 vessels, including 18 container ships so ...
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STX Pan Ocean orders two product tankers
STX Pan Ocean has awarded the tender for the building of two product oil/chemical tankers to STX Shipbuilding. The award followed an open tender exercise carried out over six days in January which only attracted one bid from STX Shipbuilding of under $25 million for the building of each of ...
