General News – Page 478
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Island Offshore orders PSVs
Aker Yards has signed a contract with Sneingen AS, a company within the Island Offshore Group in Ulsteinvik, Norway, to deliver two 3,200 dwt UT 755 LN platform supply vessels. The value of the contract is approximately $51 million. The 74 metre long and 16 metre wide hulls will be ...
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Keppel secures Lukoil contracts
Keppel Singmarine in Singapore has clinched contracts worth $164 million for two highly specialised vessels from Lukoil Kaliningradmorneft, a subsidiary of the Russian oil giant Lukoil Oil Company. These two new contracts, secured on the back of the AHTS, are turnkey projects and comprise the construction of an auxiliary icebreaking ...
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Keel laying UAE Navy Corvette
The biggest ever naval construction project in the Arabian Gulf Region was officially launched today with the keel laying ceremony of a Corvette at Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB).The vessel is one of six being built by ADSB for the UAE Navy. The ?Baynunah? class vessels are highly advanced 71 ...
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Hanjin deploys world?s fastest boxships
Hanjin Shipping has entered into service the 6,655TEU ?Hanjin Bremerhaven?, the world's fastest containership, on its Asia-Europe trade.Built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea, the 304 metre long newbuilding is the first of the company's series of eight 58,000 dwt-class newbuildings. With a 68,332 kW main engine, the vessel will ...
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EC investigates Greek shipyard
The European Commission (EC) has decided to extend its formal investigation under EC Treaty State aid rules into aid granted by Greece to Hellenic Shipyards S.A. (HSY), based at Skaramangas near Athens. In 2004, the Commission opened an investigation into amendments to an investment plan financed by investment aid to ...
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RR delivers gas turbine gensets to Korean Navy
Rolls-Royce has delivered the first three gas turbine generator sets which will provide the main electrical power system for the Republic of Korea Navy?s first 7,000-tonne destroyer, designated KDX-III. The first AG9140RF gas turbine genset was produced at the Rolls-Royce Indianapolis plant, and the other two were assembled by Samsung ...
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RK 280 becomes MAN 28/33D
MAN B&W Diesel are making a further step in strengthening and consolidating their medium speed engine portfolio. The RK 280, previously developed and sold through the UK branch of MAN B&W Diesel, will be transferred to the headquarters in Augsburg and newly launched as an MAN 28/33D engine.The commercial responsibility ...
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Gearbulk demands compensation from Stocznia Gdynia
Stocznia Gdynia, the Polish shipyard owned by the Ministry of the Treasure and its subsidies, was expected to get out of the red. Its GSM has agreed to increase the equity by up to PLN 500m (EUR 123.5m), the state-owned shipyard agency KPS is to lend it PLN 19m to ...
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Daewoo develops LNG scaffolding
Daewoo Shipbuilding has developed scaffoldings to be used in all large LNG carriers? cargo containment tanks using an original design, manufacture and installation for the first time in Korean shipbuilding. In the past, the shipbuilder was dependent on imported scaffoldings that would result in problems with costs, and in ...
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Cosco orders two bulkers
Cosco (H.K) Shipping Co., Limited places new order of two 300,000DWT bulk carriers with the Chinese shipbuilder NACKS. The new order also attaches two options. Ship price and delivery dates are not revealed.
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Shipyard to be established in Azerbaijan
It is intended to construct a shipbuilding yard in the Garadagh District, Baku, by upgrading an existing shiprepair yard. Azerbaijan state-owned Caspian Sea Shipping Company?s chairman, Aydin Bashirov, told journalists that there are four shiprepair facilities in Baku and the company is negotiating with a number of Russian and Korean ...
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Mersey gets new shipyard
A new shiprepair business has been launched in Bromborough, Wirral in the UK, which aims to build new vessels and could bid to break up toxic "ghost ships".The Merseyside Slipway Company is a joint venture between Liverpool-based Mersey Heritage Ship Repair and Warbreck Engineering.The new venture has spent £1.5m buying ...
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ABB supplies Chinese train ferry project
Swiss-based ABB has won a contract to provide an electrical power plant and podded propulsion system for a train ferry between the eastern Chinese cities of Yantai and Dalian. Construction of the new ferry will begin in April next year and is scheduled to be completed in May 2008. The ...
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Fugro orders survey ship
Dutch-based offshore survey company Fugro N.V. has placed an order for a new vessel (Geo Caribbean) with the Bergen Mekaniske Verksted (BMV) shipyard in Norway. The vessel will be owned by Fugro and will be delivered no later than October 2008.The overall length of the vessel is 101 metres and ...
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Major semi-sub contracts for SBM Offshore
Three Letters Of Intent have been received by Atlantia Offshore Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of SBM Offshore N.V., from several Brazilian drilling contractors in the wake of major drilling contracts recently awarded by Petrobras for their deep offshore development plans. Under these LOI's, Atlantia would provide, on a lump sum ...
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Chinese build Ketchikan floating drydock
A new 2,500-tonne floating dry dock will be built by the Chinese shipbuilder Penglai Bohai Ship Co for the Ketchikan Shipyard, in Alaska, at a cost of $9.2 million for delivery in July 2007."This will provide us with the additional shiplift capacity on the dry docks themselves and, more importantly, ...
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South African shipper places barge orders in China
Grindrod?s ship owning arm, Unicorn Shipping, has placed shipbuilding orders for two high-specification bunkering barges and secured options for more from a southern China shipyard.This had been done in response to the announcement by South Africa?s Grindrod?s black-economic-empowerment subsidiary, Southern Tankers, that it was diversifying into barged in-port bunker delivery ...
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Wärtsilä acquires German service company
Wärtsilä has acquired the German service company INTEC Injectortechnic GmbH from the four persons owning and managing the company. The Hamburg-based company is specialized in fuel injection equipment, providing installation and services of injection components for marine diesel engines. The annual net sales are approx. EUR 3 million and the ...
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New waterjets from Wärtsilä
Wärtsilä Corporation has introduced a new compact, high-performance waterjet that is optimized for fast vessels. The new Wärtsilä LJX waterjet offers, in comparison with other waterjets available today, a 25% reduction in mounting flange diameter, a 10% overall weight reduction and a 35% increase in cavitation margin. The LJX waterjet ...
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STX seals two boxships
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has secured an order for two 2,700TEU class container ships from an Asian ship owner for delivery during 2009.
