General News – Page 451
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Klyne Tugs wins UK contract
International towage and salvage firm, Klyne Tugs of Lowestoft, has won a £19 million contract extension for the ongoing supply of Emergency Towing Vessels (ETV) to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) at strategic UK points.The new deal takes the current eight-year deal beyond 2009 to September 2011 and lifts ...
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James Fisher acquires FT Everard
James Fisher, the UK?s leading provider of marine services, has acquired the UK-based short sea operator FT Everard for a total cash consideration of approximately £23.7 million and the assumption of £28.0 million of debt.FT Everard currently operates 11 CPP tankers, 9 of which it owns, with four further tankers ...
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Malaysian yard gets local order
Malaysia?s premier dredging and reclamation contractor Inai Kiara Sdn Bhd will purchase a fleet of seven vessels, including two dredgers, from MSET Shipbuilding Corporation Sdn Bhd, a Terengganu based company. The $28.20 million newbuilding order is the biggest awarded by Inai Kiara to a local shipbuilder and the vessels will ...
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Jurong builds jack-up barge
Singapore's Jurong Shipyard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SembCorp Marine, has received a Letter of Award from Saudi Aramco Overseas Company B.V. for the design, construction and delivery of a self-elevating heavy-lift jack-up barge. The contract value is approximately $180 million. Scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2010, the ...
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Samho clinches two VLCCs
Hyundai Samho has clinched two VLCCs from a ship owner in Latin America. Total contract price is $259 million and delivery is scheduled for April 2010.
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France SOS
Desperate attempts are being made to save the former transatlantic liner ?France?, ex-Norway, and now renamed ?Blue Lady?, from being dismantled in India where she has been languishing for the last couple of months while the Indian government decides whether or not to allow the 44 year ocean greyhound to ...
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Merwede wins Helix vessel
Merwede Shipyard, a subsidiary of IHC Holland Merwede BV, has received a contract for the design and construction of a new well intervention / diving support / offshore construction vessel for Helix Energy Solutions. This vessel will be the second to be built at the newly commissioned fourth slipway of ...
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Nico plans Kazakhstan yard
UAE-based Nico International has signed a joint venture agreement to build a ship repair yard in Kazakhstan and also has plans to set up a shipbuilding facility in the Central Asian nation.Nico and Almaty-based oilfield service firm Caspian Services Inc and Kazmortransflot, the national marine company of Kazakhstan, will invest ...
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Horizon gets first of five newbuildings
The US shipping company Horizon Lines announced today it took delivery of its first new containership, the ?Horizon Hunter? from the Hyundai Mipo shipyard in South Korea. The newbuilding is the first of five new, US-flag, foreign built, sister vessels that the company is chartering from subsidiaries of Ship Finance ...
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Heung-A orders chemical tanker
Heung-A Shipping in South Korea placed an order for a 11,500DWT chemical tanker with a Japanese shipbuilder. Contract price is $29 million and delivery is January 2011. The shipping company also has two chemical tankers on order at Nokbong Shipbuilding in Korea.
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Cebu teams up with Dutch shipbuilder
The Shipyard Association of Cebu (SAC) has entered into a technical agreement with the Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards, Gorinchem, to construct four double-hulled oil tankers for delivery by 2008.The partnership will allow the eight-member SAC to meet an expected surge in demand for double-hulled tankers by April 2008, the government's ...
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Vinashin building Norwegian PCTCs
Höegh Autoliners of Norway has entered a long term strategic co-operation with Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) including the construction of four large pure car truck carriers (PCTC) with options for four more. The cooperation provides for technology transfer and includes participation by Det Norske Veritas and the Finnish ship ...
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Wärtsilä-run consortium to develop methanol fuel-cells
The EU has chosen a research consortium coordinated by Wärtsilä to receive a EUR 1.0 million grant to develop the use of methanol-consuming fuel cells to provide electrical power to marine vessels. The project is entitled "Validation of a Renewable Methanol Based Auxiliary Power System for Commercial Vessels" (METHAPU). The ...
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Daehan wins European order
Daehan Shipbuilding Co, a South Korean shipbuilder, has won a $590 million order to build eight ships for a European company. Daehan, which is building a shipyard in the south-western part of the Korean peninsula and another in Indonesia, will build eight 175,000 DWT Capesize bulk carriers. Although the shipbuilder ...
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Turkish delight for Flensburger
U.N Ro-Ro, Istanbul, awarded contracts to Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft for two 3,735 lane metre RoRo vessels. The Turkish company has already ordered twelve vessels from Flensburger, of which ten have been delivered to date. Together with these two newbuildings U.N Ro-Ro has ordered in total 14 ships at Flensburger-Schiffbaugesellschaft. This is ...
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Foreign navies interested in LCS
The U.S. Navy said that foreign governments have expressed interest in buying into the new Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, creating the potential for the first foreign sale in 30 years of a U.S.-made military ship. A US Navy spokesman said there's interest in both the General Dynamics Corp. (GD) ...
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NGC receives approval for FT radars
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received type approval from the U.K. certification body QinetiQ for its new-generation marine radar systems. The QinetiQ type approval certifies that the new Sperry Marine VisionMaster FT radars conform to the technical specifications and performance standards of the United States Coastguard as well as the International ...
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EMEC welcomes EP report
The European Marine Equipment Council (EMEC), which represents more than 1,250 companies across Europe in the marine equipment sector, welcomes the draft EEuropean Parliament (EP TRAN) committee report from Luis de Grandes Pascual MEP, on the Commission?s Draft Classification Societies? Directive. The amendments proposed by the Rapporteur in the TRAN ...
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EPS thruster wins DMI award
The revolutionary EPS thruster by Van der Velden Marine Systems has won the 2006 Dutch Maritime Innovation (DMI) award. This completed a successful year for the EPS thruster which was already well respected after winning the DAME award at METS 2005 For the DMI award, the EPS thruster faced stiff ...
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Domestic yard loses survey vessel
Uncertainty again hangs over Appledore Shipbuilders in England with the loss of a hoped-for £30 million order which has been awarded to a Norwegian shipbuilder and sparking a Transatlantic row.Following the loss of this order, a local politician has condemned the role of KBR, the American owners of Appledore's parent ...
