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EU receives Polish shipyard restructuring plans
The Polish government has now provided the EU with details of government subsidies for shipyards after a warning that failure to do so could force the EU to demand the yards repay the funds. "The commission will now need several weeks to analyze the restructuring plans to assess whether ...
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Trico orders two OSVs
Trico Marine Services, Inc. has signed an agreement to build two GPA 640, 64.6 metre offshore supply vessels (OSV) for a total cost of approximately $35 million. The vessels will have diesel electric propulsion and class 2 DP systems. Bender Shipbuilding & Repair will build the vessels at its shipyard ...
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DCN offers maintenance system to RCN
A French naval shipyard wants to sell the Canadian navy (RCN) a maintenance formula designed to ensure its troubled submarine fleet spends more time at sea. Direction des Constructions Navales, known as DCN, is based in Cherbourg, France and representatives are in Halifax this week touting a maintenance method which, ...
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Umoe abandons Schat-Harding TTS merger
Plans by the Norwegian group Umoe Industri to merge its lifeboat and davit subsidiary Umoe Schat-Harding with Bergen-based equipment manufacturer TTS Marine ASA have been cancelled. Umoe has called off the proposed all-share merger following a significant change in the shareholder profile of TTS.Jarle Roth, executive vice-president of the Umoe ...
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Struggling yard secures barge contract
New vessel construction will return to the Portland Shipyard in the USA for the first time in years under a contract announced Tuesday. New venture U.S. Barge expects to deliver its first ocean-going barge to Young Brothers Ltd. in Hawaii in September 2007. U.S. Barge is co-owned by Vigor Industrial ...
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Exmar completes first LNG STS
Exmar, the Belgian gas tanker operator with a diversified fleet of 50 ships, has successfully carried out the first commercial ship-to-ship (STS) transfer of LNG. A total of 20,650m³ of LNG was successfully transferred from the LNGRV Excelsior (130,800m³ built 2005) to Excalibur (138,000m³ built 2002) in in the Gulf ...
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Stella Polaris no more
A liner once used by millionaire travelers sank early Saturday in the Pacific Ocean off Wakayama Prefecture in Japan while it was being towed to Chin. The 5,100 gt Scandinavia, formerly named the Stella Polaris, was built in 1927 and was sailing as a luxury cruise ship until 1969, was ...
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Northrop Grumman awarded DDG 1000
Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a $95.8 million contract for the detail design of the US Navy's 21st century DDG 1000, formerly called the DD(X), destroyer. The contract, to be performed by the company's Ship Systems sector in Pascagoula and Gulfport, includes the detail design and procurement of any ...
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Korean shipyards face BRIC challenge
Korean shipbuilders' earnings are forecast to improve through 2008 and beyond as the tight supply and demand balance allows them to pass on rising costs, said US-based investment bank Lehman Brothers in a report. Lehman's expects earnings at the shipyards to report a 64% growth over the 2006-2008 period as ...
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Poland to revise shipyard strategy
The Polish government said it will revise plans for restructuring its shipyards, seeking to save 16,000 jobs. Under pressure from the European Commission, Poland said it will come up with a new strategy to rescue the three Baltic coast shipyards that doesn't violate European rules on government subsidies. The European ...
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Halul receives first Indian AHTS
Doha-based Halul Offshore Service Company (HOSC) received their latest new anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS), the Halul 24, which was built by Bharati Shipyard in India. This vessel is the first of four AHTSs ordered by HOSC as a part of modernising their fleet and Halul 24 will be ...
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Hyundai develops new LNG scaffolding
Hyundai Heavy Industries has developed a new membrane LNG scaffolding system based on modular design. Until now, the shipbuilder has used 256 scaffolding units when installing the membrane containment system in LNG carriers. However, thanks to the module unit method, the number of scaffolding units is reduced to 16. In ...
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Guidelines for composite joints in ships
A new set of guidelines is now available summing up all the steps necessary to design, create, inspect and repair all types of bonded joints in ships. Cruise ships and other high-tech ships such as LNG tankers are increasingly utilising materials that cannot be cost-effectively joined by welding. Adhesive bonding ...
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PMA seeks revisions to ISM Code
According to an exclusive report by Fairplay, the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) is to make recommendations to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) that revisions be made to the ISM Code in particular with respect to the incorporation of drills that recreate real, practical scenarios.These recommendations come as the AMP presents ...
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Third enhanced Enterprise drillship ordered
Chevron has awarded Transocean a drilling contract for the construction of an enhanced Enterprise-class drillship, the third such contract award for Transocean in 2006 and the second contract award from Chevron, following a five-year contract for the construction of the Discoverer Clear Leader announced in March 2006. The enhanced Enterprise-class ...
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Polish restructuring plans not convincing
The European Commission is still awaiting details from Poland on government subsidies for shipyards after warning Warsaw that failure to reply could force the EU to demand the troubled yards repay the funds. Poland missed a 31 August deadline to provide more information to prove that the aid was legal ...
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STX clinches Russian PCs
STX Shipbuilding has clinched three product carriers from a Russian ship owner at a total value of $160 million. They will be delivered by May 2009.
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Daewoo wins Angola order
Daewoo Shipbuilding clinched a DPP (Drilling and Production Platform) from Chevron Corp valued at $1.27 billion. The 85,000 tonne DPP will be the world?s largest offshore plant order in terms of value and the facility's size and will be delivered to Chevron?s subsidiary in Angola, Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, in ...
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RCC buying Pullmantur
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is expanding in Europe and Latin America by purchasing Pullmantur, the largest cruise ship operator in Spain with five cruise ships.In addition to its cruise ships, Pullmantur has a tour operation that sells vacation packages to Caribbean resorts to Spanish customers, and European tour packages to ...
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Aker builds two more Nordcapital PSVs
Nordcapital Holding in Hamburg, Germany, and Aker Yards have signed a contract to build another two Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) of the type UT 755 LN. The two newbuildings are scheduled for delivery in December 2008 and March 2009, and will be built at Aker Yards, Aukra in Norway. The ...
