General News – Page 428
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Hanjin starts first Philippine built boxship
Hanjin Heavy Industries, Corp-Philippines, Inc. (HHIC-PI), has started switched on the steel plate cutting machine that signalled the start of its production. The first steel cutting ceremony was held at the newly-built HHIC-PI shipyard at the Redondo Peninsula. HHIC-PI constructed the shipyard complex inside the 480-hectare land area in the ...
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Cummins awards ABS ERO status
Diesel engine manufacturer Cummins has selected ABS as a Recognized Organization for engines (ERO). In that role ABS will be able to issue Engine International Air Pollution Prevention Certificates (EIAPP) to Cummins machinery for compliance with IMO?s MARPOL Annex VI NOx Technical Code governing NOx emissions of ship based diesel ...
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Vroon orders four PSVs
Vroon Offshore Services has ordered four PSVs at Cochin Shipyard in India. The new vessels are UT 755 LN designs and are scheduled for delivery between October 2009 and March 2010.
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Regional pollution controls will 'harm' shipping
There has been a new warning of the harm regional pollution control regulations could do to international shipping. "Only global regulations should be pursued in all aspects of shipping, including on matters related to atmospheric pollution," Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) told a meeting in ...
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Bore orders two RoRos
Bore, the Finnish shipping company, has, as part of its active fleet renewal program, signed a contract for two new RoRo vessels, and holds an option for another two, to be built at Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co KG in Germany.The two RoRo vessels will be delivered in May and ...
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EU plans shipping emissions cap
The European Commission has said that it will draft legislation, by the end of the year, aimed at tackling the shipping industry's rapidly growing contribution to climate change, by including the sector in Europe's carbon dioxide cap-and-trade system.Carbon dioxide emissions from shipping are thought to be double those of aviation ...
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Davie Québec confirms CECON contract
Davie Québec shipyard in Canada has confirmed that, barely four months after being acquired by Norwegian investors, the yard has signed two firm shipbuilding contracts worth $132.6 million each with Cecon AS for Vik-Sandvik designed VS 4220 offshore construction vessels.Construction of the two 10,000kW newbuilds measuring 130m in length with ...
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Schat-Harding starts Shanghai service station
Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has established a new after sales and service headquarters in Shanghai. The new service base will provide annual and five yearly SOLAS inspections and tests, refurbishment, repairs and genuine OEM spares for lifeboats, davits, hooks and winches on ships calling at Chinese, Hong Kong and ...
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Teekay, TORM to buy OMI
Teekay Shipping Corp., which owns and operates one of the world's largest fleets of crude oil tankers, will join with Danish product tanker operator TORM to acquire rival OMI Corp. for about $2.2 billion.Teekay and TORM, which plan to equally split the total cost of the transaction, will make a ...
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Bollinger launches first GPA 654 PSV
Bollinger Shipyard in Lockport, LA, has launched the first of ten GPA 654 PSVs ordered by Rigdon Marine in January 2006. With this multi-vessel order, Rigdon?s GPA (Guido Perla & Associates, Inc) -designed fleet has increased to 20 PSVs, including 8 GPA 640s.The design of the DP2- and FFV1-certified GPA ...
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Russia building floating reactor
The keel was laid for the world's first floating nuclear power plant at the Sevmash shipyard. The Akademik Lomonosov will house two 35 MW KLT-40S nuclear reactors, similar to those used in Russia's nuclear powered ice breakers, and two generators, and will be capable of supplying a city of 200,000 ...
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Third Awilco rig for Yantai
Singapore headquartered Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China has had an option exercised to build a third semi-submersible rig for Norwegian firm Awilco Offshore Semi ASA The GM4000-D rig is a semi-submersible unit with a dynamic positioning system, accommodation unit and ballasting system designed to support duties such asintervention and drilling. ...
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Goodearth bulk contract awarded to HSL
Goodearth Maritime Ltd of Chennai has placed an order for 16 new bulk carriers totalling 760,000 dwt with Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), Visakhapatnam. The company is currently operating five bulk carriers with combined capacity of 230,000 dwt. Goodearth's order is valued at Rs1,000 crore for the first phase of 10 ...
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AIDAdiva completed
Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, recently delivered the 69,200 gt cruise ship "AIDAdiva" to AIDA Cruises. The newbuilding is the first ship out of a series of four that the Papenburg shipyard is building for AIDA Cruises especially designed for the German market. Along with its new design, the luxury ...
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ASL secures new shipbuilding contracts
ASL Marine in Singapore has secured new shipbuilding contracts worth S$116 million ($77 million). The contracts are for the construction of six Anchor Handling Towing/ Supply vessels, five of which are expected to be completed in 2009 and the remaining unit in early 2010. Last month ASL Marine secured S$164 ...
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Korea looking to build cruiseships
Starting as early as the second half of this year, Korean shipbuilders plan to build value-added mega cruise ships in a bid to keep ahead of arch-rival China. The idea was broached at a meeting of executives from the country's top five shipbuilders including Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding ...
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USN cancels second LCS
The U.S. Navy is cancelling a widely criticized Lockheed Martin Corp. contract to build a next-generation combat ship after negotiations to control cost overruns failed. "We're disappointed but we have to have it at a price we can afford," Navy Admiral Charles Goddard said at a Pentagon press briefing to ...
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Keppel secures floatel contract
Keppel FELS Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has secured a $305 million contract to construct a 440-person North Sea accommodation semi-submersible for Floatel International (Floatel). The contract is subject to certain conditions being met by 30 April 2007. The new generation floatel will ...
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Another new order for Yantai
Following hard on the heels of their announcement of winning an order for a semi-submersible oil rig, Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China has received a contract from Saipem (43% owned by Eni), for the design and construction of an ice strengthened pipe-laying vessel of DP3 class. The 290 metres long ...
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Cala reconsiders proposal at Marsa shipyard
Cala Corp. based in Titusville, Florida, and trading under the ticker of CCAA, has submitted its proposal to Marsa Shipyard to construct the first ?undersea resort ship? in history. The proposal was submitted directly to top naval engineers in Malta about six weeks ago to determine whether the project can ...
