General News – Page 444
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GE completes gas turbine certification
GE - Marine reports that it has completed a major milestone in the three-year marine development and type-testing program on its LM2500+G4 aero-derivative gas turbine. The engine performed flawlessly during high-power demonstration testing recently completed in late 2006. GE is seeking simultaneous marine type approval for the LM2500+G4 with Bureau ...
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Vinashin hands over freighter
The Bach Dang Shipyard, an affiliate of Vinashin, recently handed over the 10,500 DWT dry cargo vessel ?Sun Spirits? to the Japanese NOMA Marine Transport Company (NOMA). The 110m long, 18.8m wide and 13m high newbuilding is powered by a 3,400kW engine manufactured by Mitsubishi and is the second ship ...
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RINA classes UK?s new super yacht
Italian classification society RINA has classed the first of Sunseeker?s new 37 metre motor yachts. The Snapper is the largest and most ambitious build in Sunseeker?s history and is the largest semi-custom production motor yacht ever to be built in the UK, at just under 124 feet and 200 tonnes. ...
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ABG bags Singapore order
ABG Shipyard in Mumbai, the largest private sector shipyard in India, has bagged a $229 million order from Singapore-based Pacific First Shipping Pte for 12 vessels. The order is for the construction of nine Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessels and three 54,000 DWT bulk carriers and the last delivery ...
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Stena Poseidon delivered
The product tanker ?Stena Poseidon? has been delivered from Brodosplit Shipyard in Split. This 75,000 DWT Panamax tanker is jointly owned by Concordia Maritime and Neste Oil on a 50-50 basis and Neste Oil has chartered the vessel for 10 years. The 228.40 metre long newbuilding has been built to ...
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Qingdao names new ship
Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding (QHS) recently held a naming ceremony for a 2,600 DWT general cargo carrier ordered by Mirai Shipping Inc. The vessel named ?Mirai Astro? measures 80m in length, 13.6m in width, and 7m in depth with a service speed of 11.5 knots. The ship will be delivered in ...
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Superferry to launch first vessel
An Alabama shipyard this week intends to launch the first of two catamaran ferries ordered by Hawaii Superferry Inc. Superferry, planning to launch its first inter-island has the necessary approvals to launch the service, but opponents of the venture have some additional legal and political options. They are pressing state ...
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New one-stop resource for oil companies
Three well established offshore, ship and tug design and technical consulting companies have joined forces to provide a major new one-stop resource for oil companies, offshore operators, tug owners, ports and shipyards. Offshore Ship Designers (OSD), based in Ijmuiden, the Netherlands, bring together the skills, experience, innovation and workforce of ...
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Cunard?s new Queen takes to the water
Yesterday, Fincantieri floated out the new Cunarder, ?Queen Victoria?, at its Venice-Marghera shipyard. Scheduled for delivery by the end of 2007, the 90,000 GT cruise ship will be one of the largest Panamax (i.e. capable of passing through the Panama Canal) ships ever built. With 1,007 cabins ? including a ...
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VT signs Oman contract
VT Group (VT), the UK Support Services and Shipbuilding Company, has signed a contract with the Government of Oman to supply three Ocean Patrol Vessels (OPVs) for the Royal Navy of Oman.Work will start immediately on the programme with the first of the ships, which are approximately 100 metres in ...
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World's largest yacht
Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire who owns Chelsea Football club, is getting himself a new yacht. It will be the largest privately owned yacht in the world.The ?Eclipse?, currently taking shape at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, is expected to boast two helicopter landing pads, three launches, several hot ...
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Colombo Dockyard on a high
2006 was an extremely busy one for Colombo Dockyard Limited (CDL) while 2007 is set to be even busier, having executed many prestigious shipbuilding and ship repair contracts against stiff international competition for export and domestic markets, the company said. "All these new orders are mainly, results of CDL?s good ...
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ONGC`s vessel tender attracts big names
Leading Indian shipping majors have been short-listed by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for its mega tender for 30 offshore support vessels. Great Eastern Shipping-promoted Greatship India (GIL), GE Shipping?s demerged entity Great Offshore (GOL), Essar Shipping-promoted Tag Sea Logistics, Gareware Offshore, ABG Shipping and state-run Shipping Corporation ...
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Navy halts Lockheed contract
The US Navy ordered Lockheed Martin to stop work on a $260 million littoral combat ship (LCS) after the company warned of a significant cost increase that has also spurred the service to reconsider the way it purchases the vessels. The unusual order, which lasts 90 days, is a blow ...
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Alaska builds E-Craft
Alaska Ship & Drydock (ASD) in Ketchikan is getting ready to start construction of an unusual vessel called the 'E-craft?. Now officially named the ?Susitna?, the E-Craft is an experimental prototype being constructed on behalf of the U.S. Office of Naval Research. ONR will be testing the design's capabilities for ...
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AFL-CIO blocks kit-ships
The Metal Trades Department of the AFL-CIO has sued the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to block controversial rulings that violate the 80-year-old Jones Act to allow U.S. shipbuilders to mass produce so-called "kit-ships." The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charges that a ...
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Crowley christens heavy-lift deck barge
Crowley Maritime Corporation in the US has christened Marty J, the first of three Heavy Lift 455 Series barges under construction at Gunderson Marine in Portland, Oregon. The three 123 metre by 32.20 metre deck barges are being built to be utilized for project work in the offshore energy industry ...
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Russia manufactures its largest propeller
The propeller, which is the largest in Russian shipbuilding history, has a diameter of 8.20 m and was manufactured at the naval shipyard 'Zvezdochka' in the city of Severodvinsk. Made in stainless steel and weighing about 50 tonnes, the propeller is intended for an arctic tanker under construction at Hyundai ...
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Iran orders Korean Seuzmax
Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries received an order from Irano Hind Shipping Co. of Iran for a 159,000 dwt crude oil tanker. The Suezmax will measure 274m in length, 48m in width and 23.1m in depth with a service speed of 15.4 knots.The new regulation and requirement, i.e. CSR (Common Structural ...
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SLS wins four PCs
SLS Shipbuilding in South Korea won an order for four 51,000DWT product carriers from ST Shipping & Transport in Singapore. They will be delivered from 2008 to early 2009. The new order also attaches two more options.
