General News – Page 461
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Italian shipbuilders reach record-high orders
Faced with fierce competition from shipbuilders in Korea, Japan and China, Europe has responded by focusing on technological supremacy and is third in terms of tonnage built and first in terms of value. Italy has distinguished itself in the highly specialised niche market for passenger ships, cruise ships and ferries ...
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Pearl ready for trials
Having completed extensive tests and engine trials, the 93,500 gt cruise ship Norwegian Pearl was floated out of the covered building dock of Meyer Werft and berthed at the yard?s outfitting pier where outstanding work will be completed. She will then proceed down the river Ems to carry out sea ...
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GulfMark gets AHTS newbuilding
GulfMark Offshore, Inc. in Houston, Texas, has received delivery of the newbuilding Sea Sovereign built by Jaya Shipbuilding and Engineering PTE LTD at their Batam, Indonesia yard near Singapore. The newbuilding is a 70 metre, 5,500 BHP, 70 tonne bollard pull, dynamic positioning 2 (DP-2) anchor handling towing supply (AHTS) ...
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Sovcomflot tanker delivered
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea delivered a new product tanker to Sovcomflot JS?. Named ?SKF Neva?, this is the first product tanker of the series and the 46,520 tonne vessel is 183 metres long and 32.20 metres wide. ?SKF Neva? will be deployed between Vladivostok and ports in South-East ...
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Vinashin FSO first
PetroVietNam Technical Services Company signed a $110 million contract with Vinashin for a new floating storage offshore (FSO) vessel. This will be the first FSO to be built in Vietnam and is scheduled for completion in 17 months.
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Galbraith's predicts Suezmax growth
International shipbroker and consultant Galbraith's Ltd says that demand for Suezmax tankers is expected to grow strongly in the next five years in line with large-scale expansion of crude oil exports in three of the four main Suezmax markets. In a new report on the Suezmax market, Galbraith?s notes that ...
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Clyde yards threatened
Plans for two Clyde-built Type 45 destroyers could be scrapped by the UK?s Ministry of Defence as part of a long-term £12bn budget cut demanded by the Treasury ahead of next year's Whitehall departmental spending review.Six of the advanced air-warfare ships have already been ordered, with one launched and two ...
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Davie shipyard going Norwegian
The Davie Industries shipyard in Lévis, Quebec in Canada, has avoided liquidation and finally found a buyer. Teco Management of Norway will invest $13 million to buy the facility, while the Quebec government will guarantee half of a $15.5-million loan which is conditional on the company having a payroll of ...
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Swee Joo acquiring more ships
The Sarawak-based shipping company Swee Joo Bhd may acquire more than five vessels over the next 15 months in anticipation of growth in the palm oil industry in East Malaysia and an increase in trade activities within the Asian region.Swee Joo, which is a market leader for domestic containerised cargo ...
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Wärtsilä acquires Swedish shipyard
Wärtsilä has signed an agreement to acquire the entire business of the Swedish company Stockholms Fartygsreparationer AB. The agreement is worth 7.5 million Swedish krona (EUR 0.8 million). Stockholms Fartygsreparationer handles all types of ship repair on the eastern coast of Sweden and in 2005 had net sales of 8 ...
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BAE, VT resume merger talks
BAE Systems and VT Group have resumed talks to combine their shipbuilding operations according to news paper reports. The assets that are expected to be merged include BAE's yards at Barrow-in-Furness, Scotstoun and Govan on the Clyde, and VT's dock in Portsmouth.
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Austal expands US plant
Western Australian shipbuilder Austal plans to increase significantly the capacity of its US manufacturing plant as the company ramps up its operation to meet forecast demand from the US defence sector. Austal expects to receive an order for a second littoral combat ship (LCS) in the near future and the ...
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Anti-fouling foot-dragging unacceptable
The International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships was adopted on 5 October 2001. But to date only 17 out of 166 IMO member states have ratified the Convention. The IMO Secretariat has recently submitted a paper strongly urging member states to ratify the Convention; but ...
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PRS granted EU recognition
The Polish classification society Polski Rejestr Statków (PRS) has been granted European Community limited recognition, following the publication of European Commission (EC) Decision 2006/660/EC on 29 September 2006. Limited recognition applies to a classification society that satisfies all the requirements of amended EU Directive 94/57/EC, covering ship inspection and survey ...
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Bohai wins four PCs
Bohai Shipbuilding in China clinched order for four product carriers from Nanjing Oil Tankers. The order consists of two 46,000DWT and two 49,000DWT product carriers and deliveries are scheduled between from June to September 2010.
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Aker wins order for ropax
The departmental council of Morbihan (Brittany, France) has confirmed the option to build a second Ropax vessel at Aker Yards, Lorient, a shipyard located in Lanester, Morbihan. It is a sister ship to the ?Bangor? delivered in June 2006. With a capacity of 450 passenger and 32 cars, the newbuilding ...
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Keppel inks conversion and newbuilding contracts
Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited (Keppel O&M) has secured contracts worth a total of $132 million to carry out the conversion of two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facilities and the construction of five Anchor Handling Tug/Supply vessels. The conversion contracts were clinched by Keppel Shipyard from regular customers, ...
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Code of Practice for PSC officers adopted
The Port State Control Committee of the Tokyo MOU has adopted a Code of Practice for PSC Officers in line with the Paris MOU. The Code is aimed at ensuring "integrity, professionalism and transparency" in the conduct of Port State Control (PSC) inspections, the Committee said in a press statement. ...
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India sets up world-class shipyards
Two shipyards of international standards are being planned in India and, when completed, they will have the capability to build vessels in excess of 300,000 dwt. At a cost of $656 million each, the intention to build these shipyards will be formally flagged up within the next two weeks when ...
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Daewoo 2011 strategy
Daewoo Shipbuilding has announced its ?2011 Medium Term Strategy? which aims to earn $15.6 billion in turnover by 2011. To achieve the goal, DSME will build 75 commercial ships from shipyards in Korea and abroad with a turnover of $8.3 billion, five offshore facilities at a value of $3.1 billion ...
