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NCC signs deal for six tankers
The Saudi Arabian shipping company National Chemical Carriers (NCC) awarded a $300 million contract for six 45,000 dwt chemical tankers to Shina Shipbuilding of Korea for delivery in 2009-10. The six newbuildings will each have 20 fully segregated cargo tanks and a cruising speed of 15 knots.
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ABG bags Dutch order for DSV
ABG Shipyard in Surat, India, has bagged a $21 million order for construction of a diving support vessel, from Netherlands-based Vroon Offshore BV. The contract includes an option for a similar vessel. The DSV will have a length 78 metres and delivery is scheduled for mid 2008 from the effective ...
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Zim in billion dollar boxship order
Zim, the Israeli shipping company, has ordered eight container ships, four 8,200 TEU and four 10,000 TEU vessels, from the Hyundai Shipyards in Korea. The deal is worth $1 billion and Zim will take delivery of the ships during the second half of 2009. The ordering of these large capacity ...
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VT launches OPVH
The first complete ship to be built at a major British naval base for nearly 40 years recently emerged from its assembly hall. The 80 metre offshore patrol vessel (OPVH) ?HMS Clyde? will be loaded on to a barge at Portsmouth Naval Base ahead of its first floating.The 1,300 tonne ...
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Aker christens ice class containership
Aker Yard's Rauma shipyard in Finland recently christened the first of three ice class 1A Super containerships ordered by Baltic Container Shipping and is to be managed by Rederi AB TransAtlanti. The newbuilding, named ?TransPaper?, will be delivered in a few weeks, and a sister ships later this year. The ...
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H&W sees its future in scrapping
The Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast is seeking to enter the ?green recycling? market, after applying for a licence to scrap ships and offshore installations.The yard, which built the ?Titanic?, has joined forces with environmental waste management company, Golder Associates, and is bidding to become the first in the ...
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Tender shortlist for WA?s first floating dock
Western Australia?s government has announced the shortlist of contractors invited to tender for the construction of the first stage of the state?s first floating dock at the Australian Marine Complex in Henderson. The four short-listed companies are the Ausclad Group of Companies Ltd (AGC), Forgacs Shipyard, John Holland Pty Ltd ...
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Vinashin launches second Diamond 53
Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Industry Co, a subsidiary of the Vinashin, recently launched a 53,000 dwt bulk carrier. The vessel is the second of 21 contracted to Vinashin and its companies by the British group Graig, with the first one launched back in April at the Ha Long shipyard. The entire ...
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Floating atomic plant for Russia
The Sevmash naval shipyard and Russia's Atomic Power Agency signed a contract to build the world's first floating nuclear reactor. The $336 million reactor will be built by the Sevmash plant in the Arctic port of Severodvinsk beginning next year, and will be commissioned in October 2010. Work is expected ...
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China to build more LNG carriers
Shanghai-based Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co Ltd is the builder of the LNG carriers, considered the most technologically demanding ship. The ship, costing US$160 million, is 292 meters long and 43.35 meters wide. It can store 65,000 tons of liquefied natural gas at 163 degrees Celsius below zero. Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) ...
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MOL aims for 15% of world iron ore transport with 43 newbuilds
MOL (Mitsui OSK Line) has announced plans to construct 43 new iron ore carriers to meet anticipated long-term growth in demand for ore transport. In a construction period from April 2006 until mid 2010 it plans to build the following vessels: five 300,000 dwt vessels; three of 230,000 dwt; 11 ...
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Incat giants for Japan
Australian fast ferry builder Incat has won orders for two 112m long craft from Japan?s Libera Corp.Incat?s largest units to date, the two new catamarans, for delivery in June 2007 and mid 2008 respectively, will be able to carry up to 800 passengers and 412 cars or 520 lane metres ...
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Ferry and cruise orders for Wärtsilä
Wärtsilä has announced that it is to supply machinery to two ro-ro passenger ferries and a cruise ferry.The two ro-ro ferries are high-speed units for Norwegian company Color Line AS, building at Aker Yards? Rauma facility for delivery in December 2007 and April 2008. Each 33,500 gross ton vessel will ...
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Pakistan finalises China frigate deal
Pakistan has placed a $ 600-million defence deal with China, which includes construction of four F-22P frigates for the Pakistani Navy, upgrading of the Karachi dockyard and transfer of technology for indigenous production of modern surface fleet.The deal has been finalised and the keel for construction of the F-22P frigates ...
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Baltic Sea SECA
The Baltic Sea became a Sulphur Oxide Emission Control Area (SECA) as from 19 May 2006. Ships entering the Baltic Sea are now required only to use marine fuels with a sulphur content not exceeding 1.5% m/m. Alternatively, an exhaust gas cleaning system capable of reducing SOx emissions to 6.0 ...
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Success propels Pendennis Shipyard
The successful diversification of its core business has generated over £4.5 million additional revenue for Pendennis Shipyard in the UK since its introduction, and as a result it has won the Best Diversification Award in Cornwall Enterprises? inaugural Cornwall Business Awards 2006 hosted on 18 May.Pendennis Shipyard was created in ...
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Sumatec orders a couple of tankers
Sumatec Resources in Selangor, Malaysia, has ordered two 8,000 dwt double-hull product oil tanker from a Chinese shipyard for $11.6 million each. Sumatec said it had entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with Yangzhou Kejin Shipyard and Jiangsu Guotai International Group Textile for the purchase of the tankers to ...
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PUM builds DSV
Singapore based shipbuilder Pan-United Marine Limited has clinched a $49.5 million contract from Coastline Maritime Pte to construct a specialized offshore diving support vessel at its Batam shipyard in Indonesia. The value of the vessel, expected to be delivered in 3Q08, is estimated at above $130 million, including the cost ...
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Olympic orders subsea vessel from Ulstein
Ulstein Verft AS has signed a contract with Olympic Shipping AS in Fosnavåg to build yet another large, multifunctional subsea vessel, model Ulstein P101 designed by Ulstein Design AS. Olympic contracted a similar vessel in early 2006. Olympic was the first shipowner to contract a ship by Ulstein Design back ...
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The Motor Ship Propulsion Conference 2006 26th ? 27th April, Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel, Copenhagen
The Motor Ship?s 28th annual event is a huge successThe Motor Ship?s 28th annual conference held on 26th and 27th April at Radisson SAS Scandinavia in Copenhagen was a huge success with over one hundred attendees taking part in the two days. Carsten Melchiors, Secretary General of BIMCO ? ...
