General News – Page 435
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Seacor takes delivery of crewboat
Seacor Marine, the subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings, has taken delivery of its latest vessel, the crewboat John G McCall. Built by Gulf Craft Shipyard in Patterson, Louisiana, the 190ft John G McCall is the first DP 2 fast support/crew vessel in the world, said the company, and boasts 9,000hp from ...
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Fincantieri starts on first mega yacht
Fincantieri?s shipyard in Muggiano-La Spezia recently held a keel laying ceremony for the company?s first mega yacht which was ordered by Nicholas Baker in May last year. When delivered in 2010, this 134-metre yacht will be one of the largest in the world and in all probability the most technologically ...
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CDL buoyant
Colombo Dockyard (CDL) is reporting a full order book until 2008 for new ships, after building seven fast patrol boats for the Sri Lankan Navy and two tugs for Saudi Arabia which saw revenues rising 21.3% to 7.4 billion rupees in 2006.Last year Dockyard group profits rose to 626 million ...
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STX Shipbuilding swings to profit in 2006
STX Shipbuilding, the world's seventh-largest shipbuilder, said that it swung to a profit in 2006 from a loss a year earlier on rising demand for high-priced ships.Net profit reached 41.1 billion won ($43.3 million) last year, compared with a loss of 6 billion won a year earlier, the company said ...
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Shipyard could close says union
It now looks certain, following meetings held on Monday at the Clyde shipyard of Ferguson Shipbuilders, that the vast majority of the workers employed there are to lose their jobs. Out of 126 jobs, 99 would be axed - 86 manual and 13 technical.The news was worse than the union ...
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Mizho expects 55M GT newbuilding orders
Mizho Bank in Japan expects that new order volume in 2007 will be 55 million GT. The bank said that Korean shipbuilders will take new orders at attractive prices because they have shipbuilding slots for 2010 and 2011. The bank predicts that Korean shipbuilders will clinch 23 million GT while ...
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Hyundai and Samsung win new orders
Hyundai Heavy Industries clinched four PCTCs from Eukor. The 7,900 unit car carriers will be delivered during 2010. Hyundai Samho won a new order for a 1,700TEU container ship from a French ship owner with delivery of 2008. Hyundai Mipo Dockyard snapped up four medium range product carriers from an ...
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CSD to build tanker sextet
Shanghai-based China Shipping Development Co. Ltd. (CSD) plans to build six oil tankers worth $307.56 million for delivery in 2009 and 2010 to help expand its ocean shipping business. CSD has signed an agreement with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry to build the six 76,000 dwt tankers. The deal needs the approval ...
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PC trio for STX
STX Pan Ocean has ordered three MR sized product carriers from STX Shipbuilding at the price of $130 million. The first will be delivered during this year and the other two in 2008.
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Viktor Lenac under new ownership
According to the insolvency plan, shipyard Uljanik of Pula and Tankerska plovidba of Zadar will obtain 60% part of the ownership in the Victor Lenac shipyard, while the government will sell them the outstanding claims for 10 million kuna. The news is encouraging for the future of the yard because, ...
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ICICI to pick up stake in Tebma
ICICI Ventures is close to picking up Rs 100 crore stake in Chennai-based mid-sized shipbuilder Tebma Shipping. Tebma, which is a Rs 300 crore company, supplies to the Navy and is the only builder of dredging ships in India. It is expanding into tugs and naval ships. The shipyard has ...
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Vinashin to build six ferries
The Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) is reportedly building six ferries to run on the north-south route in Vietnam. The 160 metre ships will be built at an estimated cost of $1.5-2 billion and each vessel will be capable of transporting 2,000 passengers, reaching a speed of 29 knots. The ...
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ABG delivers AHT to UAE
India's ABG Shipyard recently delivered a new AHTS vessel, the LAMNALCO MERLIN, to the UAE offshore support services company, Lamnalco Group. This 53 metre long newbuilding is the sixth vessel to be produced by the yard for Lamnalco and five more are under construction at ABG's yard for the company.
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Ferguson in crisis talks
A mass meeting of the workforce of Ferguson shipyard at Port Glasgow in Scotland is planned following threats that two thirds of the workers could be made redundant and threatening the survival of one of the last yards on the lower Clyde. Union officials said the shipyard is about to ...
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Aker lands sister-company deal
Aker Yards ASA has won a 4 billion nkr vessel deal from newly-formed sister company, Aker Oilfield Services (AOS). The contract involves the construction of four large well intervention/construction vessels, and includes an option for a further two vessels.The value of the contract for the four vessels is approximately NOK ...
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Palmali cements links with MNP
Palmali Shipping of Istanbul further cemented their relations with the Russian shipbuilding group MNP when they signed a contract for the construction of ten 6,900 DWT chemical tankers at the Krasnoye Sormovo Shipyard. Delivery of five of the tankers is scheduled in 2008 with the remaining five the following year.Both ...
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Aker gets DOF AHTSs
Aker Yards has entered into a contract with DOF ASA for building of two AHTS (anchor handling tug supply) vessels, and an option to build another two vessels. The value of the contract is approximately NOK 750 million per vessel which are based on the Aker AH 04 design.The 108 ...
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New cat for Orkneys
It was a case of out with the very old and in with the very new as FBMA Marine Inc, the Aboitiz Corp owned shipbuilders based in Cebu, Philippines, recently signed a contract with Pentland Ferries to supply a 70m catamaran ferry for operation from the Scottish mainland to the ...
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MAN B&W signs up Vinashin
The Danish delegation that is currently in Vietnam, witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding aimed at concluding a licence agreement between Vinashin and MANB&W for the production of 4-stroke engines and the signing of a shipping line facility agreement between Vinashin and Danish Export Credit Foundation.
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Vinashin starts construction of handymax
Construction of a 54,000 dwt bulk carrier worth $30 million was started recently at the Ha Long Shipyard, a Vinashin subsidiary in north-eastern Quang Ninh province. The H172 vessel will be 190 m long and 32,26 m wide and was designed by the Science and Technology Institute of Viet Nam ...
