General News – Page 443
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Taiwan ranks number four
Taiwan's China Shipbuilding Corp (CSC) ranked the fourth in the world in terms of accumulated container ship orders last year. The ranking was designated by the London-based Clarkson PLC which placed CSC behind the three South Korean shipyards of Hyundai, Samsung and Hanjin. By the end of 2006, CSC had ...
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Austal launches Hawaii superferry
Another important milestone in the development of Austal USA was achieved recently with the successful launch of Hull 615, a 107 metre high speed ropax catamaran for Hawaii Superferry.Austal USA?s facilities in Mobile, Alabama, secured a floating drydock to the Austal sea wall on the Mobile River in front of ...
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Daewoo expanding facilities
Plans are underway for Daewoo Shipbuilding to invest in facility expansion which includes the installation of a sea crane and building new quays. The planned major investment is considered to be essential for the foundations of achieving Daewoo?s mid-term strategic objectives. Firstly, the construction of a launching barge started last ...
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Emerald Princess leaves shipyard
Princess Cruises' newest ship ?Emerald Princess? completed its first sea trials in preparation for the launch of cruises in April. The 113,000 gt vessel, sister ship to Crown Princess, left its building dock at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, to undergo several days of sea trials. The 3,100-passenger ship ...
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Nexans to supply major Japanese shipyards
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Ishikajima Harima Industries (IHI) have selected Nexans as the sole cable supplier for 39 new vessels. The French company will be supplying power, control and communication shipboard JIS type cables (Japanese Industrial Standard) worth around 16 million Euros to these two major Japanese shipyards.The cables ...
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TOP Tankers exercises option
Greek tanker operator TOP Tankers Inc. has exercised its option for two additional 50,000 dwt product /chemical tankers. As with the previously announced four newbuildings, all the vessels will be sister ships built by SPP Shipbuilding Co, Ltd of South Korea and are expected to be delivered during the first ...
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Voith Schneider propels Ostensjo newbuilds
Two Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) and one multi-functional Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) will each be equipped with two Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP). The three vessels are owned by the Norwegian shipowner ?stensj? AS and will enter service in the North Sea over the next two years.The two 85.2-metre PSVs with ...
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LNG joins RasGas fleet
RasGas Company (RasGas), the leading player in Qatar?s energy sector, has named another long-term charter LNG tanker into its growing LNG carrier fleet. In doing so, RasGas took another major step towards controlling their transportation links with a growing portfolio of worldwide LNG customers. RasGas celebrated the launch of the ...
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Russia supplies corvettes to Vietnam
Rosoboronexport signed a contract with Vietnam for the delivery of two Project 11661 "Gepard" corvettes, developed by the Zelenodolsk Design Bureau, and the "Bastion" antiship coastal missile system. According to journalistic sources, the total value of this deal is about $300 million excluding the armament costs. The corvettes feature a ...
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RMK Marine to build coastguard vessels
RMK Marine shipyard in Tuzla, Turkey, signed a $325 million contract to build four military search and rescue vessels for the Turkish Coast Guard. The shipyard will become Ko? Holding's third arm in its defence business, after armoured vehicle maker Otokar and software and systems group Ko? Sistem. "This ...
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Gladding-Hearn delivers ferry
Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, has delivered ?Iyanough?, a new 393 passenger, high-speed ferry, to the Woods Hole, Martha?s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority in Massachusetts. The all-aluminium catamaran, designed by Incat-Crowther in Sydney, Australia, is 47m long, 12m wide and draws only 1.6m. The vessel, which will operate a 26-mile ...
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Petrobras cancels tenders
Brazil's federal energy company Petrobras will restart a tender to build the P-55 semi-submersible platform. According to a company spokesperson, prices offered in bidding were too high. Brazilian-Singapore shipyard Keppel-Fels offered the lowest price at $1.65bn according to unconfirmed press reports. The only other bidder was the Atlantico Sul consortium ...
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Damen lands another Turkish ferry contract
Damen signed a shipbuilding contract with ferry operator Istanbul Deniz Otobusleri (IDO) of Turkey, for construction and delivery of 2 double-ended car ferries of the Damen Fast RoPax (DFR) 8521 design. The ferries will be delivered in 2008 and will operate on the existing line between terminals at Pendik and ...
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SAR boost for Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Another gap in the effective search and rescue coverage along the coast of Africa and out into the Indian and Atlantic Oceans has been filled with the inauguration of a new Maritime Rescue Co ordination Centre (MRCC) in Cape Town, South Africa. The MRCC was commissioned, on 16 January 2007, ...
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Korean shipbuilders go overseas
Although Korea's shipbuilding industry is still outpacing its foreign rivals in technology, skill and orders, it is looking for cheaper land and labour overseas. The shipbuilding industry is enormously important to the Korean economy, supplying hundreds of thousands of jobs and the business generates tremendous foreign currency income. If Korean ...
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Wärtsilä supplying SWS
Wärtsilä is supplying air/oil lubricated stern tube seals and bearings to Chinese shipyard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) for a series of new tankers under construction by SWS for Singapore-based Ocean Tankers. A complete Wärtsilä package of JMT Airguard seals, stern tube bearings, and shaft line bearings, was ordered in October ...
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Korean and Chinese yards bag orders
Hyundai Vinashin Shipyard (HVS) in Vietnam signed two more PCTC conversion from Eukor Car Carriers Inc. The new order also attaches two more options. HVS will extend ship length by 28.8m and install bow thrusters. When the conversion work is completed, car carrying capacity of each ship will be increased ...
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GD unaffected by navy stop-work order
The USA shipbuilder Bath Iron Works (BIW), a General Dynamics? (GD) subsidiary, is not affected by a stop-work order on the Navy's program to build a new generation of fast manoeuvrable warships. The Navy ordered defence contractor Lockheed Martin to stop work for three months on its second ship in ...
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Samsung doubles profit
Samsung Heavy Industries, the world's second largest shipyard, more than doubled its fourth-quarter profit as it built more vessels at higher prices. Net income surged to 76.2 billion won ($81million) in the three months ended 31 December, from 27.9 billion won the year before. South Korean shipbuilders are building more ...
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Solar-powered water tankers for Oz
The dream of a transcontinental pipeline carrying water from Australia''s wet north to the drought-stricken southern cities appears all but dead. Rising from its ashes is a proposal to ship water from Tasmania to Sydney.
