General News – Page 437
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DSME lands Knutsen LNG order
Knutsen OAS Shipping in Norway has been awarded a long-term time charter with the Spanish energy company Repsol for two LNG new buildings. The two vessels will be delivered from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in 2010. Both are secured 20 years employment with 5 respectively 15 years options. ...
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DNV and VR sign corporate agreement
DNV and Vietnam Register (VR) have recently signed a corporate agreement to strengthen both positions in the growing Vietnam market. The agreement outlines a co-operation in training and work sharing for single and dual classed vessels within newbuilding, ships-in-operation and certification of materials and components for the shipping industry within ...
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China overtakes Korea
Korea's shipbuilding industry, ranked top in the world, was overtaken by China's in terms of order volume last January for the first time ever. According to Thursday's report from Clarkson, a market researcher for the ship construction industry, the Korean shipbuilding industry received orders totalling 600,000 CGT (compensated gross tonnage) ...
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Ciotat shipyard set to reopen
Those who take their megayachts to Monaco this summer will have a new place to go if repairs are required. La Ciotat, the new shipyard from Monaco Marine and Semidep is possibly the largest megayacht facility in the Mediterranean.Construction began in 2005 on this huge facility in the French port ...
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Disney plans big expansion
The small but successful Disney Cruise Line has ordered two large cruise ships in a move that will more than double its passenger capacity. Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company has contracted with the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, to build the 2,500-passenger vessels, scheduled to launch in ...
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Davie Quebec gears up for newbuildings
When Davie shipyard located in Levis, Canada, went into receivership this time last year, the outlook for the old yard was bleak. However, the new Norwegian owner, Teco Management AC, a company new to the shipbuilding industry, has turned the yard around and is on the brink of securing a ...
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The product tanker ?Palva? delivered
The product tanker ?Palva? was delivered today from Bordosplit Shipyard in Split. The ?Palva? and her sister the ?Stena Poseidon?, which was delivered from the same shipyard in January, this year, are jointly owned by Concordia Maritime and Neste Shipping on a 50-50 basis. Both vessels have been signed to ...
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Mipo clinches four PCs
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea won an order for four product carriers from a European ship owner for delivery by July 2010. The total contract price is $190 million.
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Penang yard to build chemical tankers
Penang Shipbuilding and Construction Sdn Bhd (PSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the PSC Industries Bhd (PSCI) in Malaysia, has secured a contract to build three chemical tankers valued at $42 million for Gagasan Carriers Sdn Bhd. Deliveries are scheduled for October 2008, January 2009 and March 2009.Bumiputera-owned Gagasan owns and ...
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STX Pan Ocean orders a PC
STX Pan Ocean Co in South Korea placed a new order for a 45,800DWT product carrier with STX Shipbuilding. Ship particulars are 183m in length, 32.2m in breadth and 19.1m in depth and has a speed of 15.2 knots. On November last year, the Korean shipping company placed an order ...
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DDD opens new dock
Dubai Dry Docks recently inaugurated the new extension to its ship repair and shipbuilding facilities. The new extension - the fifth dock - is to be added to the four existing dry docks and measures 130 metres long, 65 metres wide and a depth of five metres. The new drydock ...
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Wärtsilä extends Yichang licence
Wärtsilä Switzerland Ltd and Yichang Marine Diesel Engine Plant (YMD) of Yichang, China, jointly signed an agreement in January 2007 to extend the existing licence agreement for the manufacture and sale of Wärtsilä low-speed marine diesel engines. The new agreement enables YMD to deliver also certain types of low-speed engines ...
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Tug builder to expand
A shipyard in East Boothbay that has become the largest tugboat builder on the US East Coast is planning a multi-million-dollar expansion that could triple its work force of skilled boat-builders. Washburn & Doughty Associates Inc. has signed an agreement to buy 14 acres at a former oil terminal in ...
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Navatek gets USN contract
Honolulu-based naval architect Navatek has landed a $2 million contract from the US Navy to design a prototype ship to deliver heavy equipment onto beaches. Navatek's T-Craft design uses an amphibious transporter that can be launched from a specially designed ship. If its initial design is accepted by the Navy, ...
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L&T plans mega shipyard
With demand soaring and the waiting period for ships extending beyond three years anywhere in the world, engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) plans to make an initial investment of $230 million to build India`s largest shipyard. The new shipyard is likely to be built in the southern port of ...
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Whitby builder to expand
Parkol Marine in Whitby, UK, is hoping Scarborough Council will allow them to expand their shipyard premises to bring more work into the yard. The northern end of Eskdale Wharf, which includes the former harbour joinery workshop, was mothballed some time ago and the Council is weighing up what to ...
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Spain gets new coast guard vessel
The first of two coastal protection vessels has been delivered to Spain?s Maritime Safety Authority SASEMAR. The main role for 220-ton bollard pull ?Don Inda? is emergency towing of a tanker, for which it is also equipped with a full range of equipment for recovering spilled oil. Rolls-Royce developed the ...
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Russia carries out nuke sea-trials
Russia failed to report sea trials of its latest nuclear icebreaker in the Gulf of Finland in contravention of a bilateral agreement requiring advance notification. The Russian shipyard Baltiisky Zavod, based in St. Petersburg, ran two weeks of sea trials on a newly-built nuclear icebreaker in the Gulf of Finland ...
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STX enters LNG carrier market
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has secured its first 173,600 cbm LNG carrier from a Spanish owner for delivery in May 2010. The new order also attaches three more options and the total contract price, including options, is around $1 billion.
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ASL building two RotorTugs
Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading BV (KST) has received an order for two of their RT-80r class tugs from Unterweser Reederei GmbH of Bremen, Germany. These RotorTugs are to be built at ASL Shipyard Pte Ltd in Singapore. The 28.30 metre tugs will each have a bollard pull capacity of 80 ...
