General News – Page 445
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Dutch give up Orsova
Dutch firm Rensen Beheer, specialising in building and selling fluvial vessels, sold its entire 16.8% stake in Orsova Shipyard (SNO) in Romania according to Constantin Badoiu, general manager of the SNO. Badoiu did not specify who the buyer was.The Dutch collected over 2.5 million euros for the stake they held. ...
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Halifax gets shipbuilding job
Halifax Capital Bhd in Malaysia has won a shipbuilding contract worth about $23.2 million from PT Kasih Industri Indonesia. Under the deal, the company would supply four sets of tugs and barges to Kasih Industri. The vessels would be completed and delivered within two years. In a separate statement, Halifax ...
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Halmatic jobs to be axed
Portchester-based VT Halmatic has told workers that up to 130 of the 270-strong workforce could be made redundant. The business has been under threat for some months and has now announced it is to cut costs by making fewer types of boats and reducing the workforce.VT Shipbuilding managing director, Geoff ...
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Motia takes delivery of newbuilds
Venice-based tanker operator Motia Compagnia di Navigazione has taken delivery of two state of the art 35,000 dwt IMO Type II chemical/product tankers. The vessels, named Alice and Aurora, were built by Korea's STX Shipbuilding Co and will enter service with the Handy tankers pool.Antonio Zacchello, managing director of Motia, ...
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Wärtsilä offers SOx scrubbing technology
Wärtsilä Corporation initiated in 2006 a two-year development project to test scrubbing plant for removing sulphur oxides (SOx) from the exhaust gases of marine diesel engines and oil-fired boilers. The project involves testing of scrubbing equipment on marine engines burning typical grades of heavy fuel oil. The objective of ...
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Aker in Vietnam JV
Aker Yards is taking a strategic position in the fast growing Asian market for offshore vessels by setting up a shipyard in Vietnam. The shipyard will be a joint venture between Aker Yards (70%) and Amanda Group (30%). The Amanda Group with headquarter in Singapore has extensive industrial experience in ...
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Panama Canal expansion
Following the recent referendum in which the people of the Republic of Panama voted 78% in favour President Martin Torrijos? plans to start work this year on ambitious expansion plans for the Panama Canal, the news is that international tenders are to be invited soon for the initial stages of ...
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Celebrity Eclipse named
Miami-based Celebrity Cruises has announced the name of the third "celestial" ship in its 118,000 gt Solstice-class fleet. The 2,850 passenger Celebrity Eclipse will make its maiden voyage in 2010, following sister ships Celebrity Solstice in 2008 and Celebrity Equinox in 2009, bringing the Celebrity fleet to 13 ships. All ...
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Aquabus on course for Dubai
Waterbuses designed in Wales could soon be running passenger services around the rapidly-expanding city of Dubai. Aquabus Water Transport Solutions (AWTS) of Cardiff is competing to win the contract to replace many of the 300 small vessels which today transport the city's inhabitants.A delegation of the Dubai Road & Traffic ...
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IHC rents Alblas yard
IHC Holland Merwede is renting the former Dutch shipbuilder Alblas Scheepsbouw B.V. in Hendrik Ido Ambacht. The deal includes bringing the employees of the Alblas yard in the employment of IHC Holland Dredgers in Kinderdijk although they will remain at Hendrik Ido Ambacht.IHC-Alblas will undertake the construction of ship blocks ...
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Unifleet orders ice tanker octet
The Dutch shipping company Unifleet, a subsidiary of the Heuvelman Shipping Group, has placed a newbuilding order for eight chemical/product tankers with two Chinese shipyards at a total cost exceeding $130 million. One yard will build four units of 4.500 m³ and the other yard four units of 8.500 m³. ...
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Top 3 shipbuilders target $36 billion
Korea's three major shipbuilders have set a target of $36 billion in ship orders this year, slightly down from last year's record $37.4 billion. The figure was calculated based on an expected decline in orders and a fall in contract prices. Hyundai Heavy Industries expects $13 billion in orders of ...
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Shipbuilding facility to rise in Subic
A modern domestic shipbuilding facility will soon rise in Subic Bay Freeport, Philippines, as part of the government?s Investment Priority Plan. Government officials say there is a pressing need to build about 18 new tankers by next year for the use of local shipping operators, through a lease-to-own scheme. The ...
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Tianjin standardizes on PTC(R) olutions
Tianjin New Harbor Shipyard (TNHS) in China has expanded its use of PTC Shipbuilding Solution, which includes CADDS(R) 5i to improve its overall design capabilities. With the expanded software implementation, TNHS is standardizing on PTC Shipbuilding Solution as its manufacturing design platform and believes that this decision will further accelerate ...
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Labroy clinches two contracts
Labroy Marine in Singapore has clinched two shipbuilding contracts worth a total of $37.8 million. Under the contracts, it will build two anchor handling tug supply vessels for a Norwegian customer for delivery in 2009. With the latest orders, Labroy's total outstanding order book value stands at nearly $1.3 billion.
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IMSK adds two more Multigas carriers
Norwegian shipping group I.M. Skaugen ASA has confirmed an order for another two 10.000cbm sized Multigas carriers at a total cost of $62 million. These latest newbuildings will have advanced ice-class specifications (E3 in Germanischer Lloyd). IMS now has 11 gas carriers in various sizes on order through Skaugen Marine ...
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SWS joins top 10 club
The Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co (SWS), the country's top shipbuilder, churned out 3.11 million DWT of ships last year, making it the world's eighth-largest shipyard. This was the first time a Chinese shipbuilder had crossed the 3 million DWT output mark and edged into the world's top 10 shipbuilding league ...
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CSL plans small ship division
With the Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) in India getting orders from reputed offshore operators for building OSVs and AHTSs vessels, it plans to open a Small Ship Division, its Chairman and Managing Director M Jitendran said. The yard is at present constructing 14 Platform Supply vessels (PSV) for European clients. ...
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BAE gets rebranded
From 1 January the Barrow in Furness shipyard became BAE Systems Submarine Solutions after the name was selected by the headquarters of the global defence giant. BAE says it was switched from the former BAE Systems Submarines to reflect the full life support service offered by the yard. As well ...
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Old Cammell Laird yard safe
A future for ship working has been guaranteed at the famous former Cammell Laird yard England after the historic Birkenhead site had been acquired by property giant Peel Holdings. The previous owner, Reddington Finance, had planned a £2bn leisure, residential and retail redevelopment.Peel Holdings announced that ship conversions and repairs ...
