General News – Page 495
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Keppel secures GlobalSantaFe semi
Keppel FELS has secured a contract with GlobalSantaFe Corporation (GSF) to build an ultra-deepwater drilling rig for $270 million.Under the contract agreement, GSF will supply the drilling and sub-sea equipment while Keppel FELS provides the design, engineering and construction of the hull as well as the accommodation quarters for 180 ...
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New Wärtsilä company in Baltic region
Wärtsilä Corporation and the BLRT Grupp of Estonia will set up a second joint venture to service ships in the Baltic area. The joint venture will be owned 51% by Wärtsilä and 49% by the BLRT Grupp. Establishing a service company is integral to Wärtsilä's strategy of strengthening its position ...
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Carisbrooke converts options
A $45 million order from UK shipowner Carisbrooke Shipping for three new vessels will keep the Port Weller Dry Docks shipyard in Ontario, Canada, in full employment for the next two years. The deal covers three of the four options of the contract announced last October that included two hulls ...
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Daewoo wins Transocean drillship
Chevron Corporation has awarded the Houston-based offshore drilling company, Transocean Inc., a drilling contract for the construction of an enhanced Enterprise-class drillship. The enhanced Enterprise-class drillship, to be named the ?Discoverer Clear Leader?, is being designed to include the most advanced drilling capabilities in the offshore drilling industry, building on ...
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Wartsila renames AKPAS
The Norwegian automation company AKPAS, acquired by Wärtsilä last month, has been renamed Wärtsilä Automation Norway AS. The company becomes part of Wärtsilä from 1 March 2006 and supplements Wärtsilä's product offering in electric propulsion systems, power distribution and automation for the oil & gas and marine sectors. It also ...
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Seaspan orders feeders
Seaspan Corporation has signed a contract to build four 2,500 TEU vessels from Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding in China. These new orders are incremental to Seaspan's original contracted fleet and will increase the company's total fleet to 29 vessels. The four newbuilding vessels will be delivered between September 2008 and March ...
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China wins BW VLCCs
Bergesen Worldwide Tankers signed contracts to build two 320,000 DWT VLCCs at Bohai Shipyard. These will be the largest ships of their type ever built in China and delivery is slated in 2009 and 2010. The specifications were jointly developed between BW Tankers, Bohai Shipyard, part of the CSIC Shipbuilding ...
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Samsung clinches LNG carrier
Samsung Heavy Industries clinched a 155,000 cbm LNG carrier from Petronet and an oil platform from ONGC in India at a total price of $500 million. The 285m long, 44m wide LNG carrier will be delivered on September 2009 and will trade between Qatar and Dahei in India. Samsung HI ...
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Hanjin sets up shop in Subic Bay
Hanjin Heavy Industries has signed a land lease agreement with the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority to construct and operate a $1 billion shipyard at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Zambales. The lease agreement covers 230-hectare of land and Hanjin will invest $1 billion over the next 10 years for ...
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Clipper Target delivered
?Clipper Target?, a bulk carrier for the Clipper Group of Bahamas, was recently launched at the Cochin Shipyard (CSL) in India together with a fire-fighting tug for the Jeddah Port Authority, Saudi Arabia and a platform supply vessel for Seatankers Management Group, Norway. Based on the standard TRADER design from ...
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Good times for Vietnamese shipbuilding
Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Company (NASICO), part of the Vinashin shipbuilders group, began work on a vessel that will be Viet Nam?s biggest container ship. The 700 TEU ship is 133.60 metres long, 19.40 metres wide, 9.45 metres high and will be powered by a 7,200kW main engine. The ship is ...
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Labroy prepares Indonesian offshore services yard
Singapore company Labroy Marine Ltd is preparing a site on Indonesia's Batam Island for a new rigs and FPSO conversion yard, which would be partially managed by Labroy Offshore Ltd. The 40-ha area would more than double Labroy's newbuilding capacity to meet rising demand for rigs and FPSO conversions.Labroy has ...
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Meyer starts work on Solvang gas tankers
Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, has cut the first steel plate for the lead-ship in a four-ship series of LEG/LPG tankers ordered by Norwegian shipowner Solvang AS. The 17,000 cubic metre gas carriers will have a length overall of 154.9 m, a breadth of 22.70 m and a service speed ...
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STX Pan Ocean aims big
STX Pan Ocean Co. aims to reach sales of $1 billion in tanker operations by 2010 as its first two petrochemical product carriers built by affiliated STX Shipbuilding recently entered service. The new 46,000 DWT vessels were named STX Ace 1 and 2.The shipping company plans to get three more ...
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Exports of Malaysian vessels booming
Exports of ships, boats (including hovercrafts) and floating structures in 2005 (January-November) recorded an increase of 66% to $565 million compared with the corresponding period in 2004. During the same period, the government approved five new shipyard projects with investments totalling $26 million. All of these projects were Malaysian-owned and ...
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Quebec-based Davie Shipyard sold
The Davie shipyard near Quebec City is expected to be sold to the Quebec-based ship repair company, Navamar. The trustee for the bankrupt shipyard announced it has accepted Navamar's purchase offer, considered the most suitable offer of the five companies interested in purchasing it.Navamar will carry out a due diligence ...
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CMA CGM orders 4,300TEU quartet
CMA CGM of France placed a new order of four 4,300TEU container ships with Hanjin Heavy Industries at a total price of $250million. The first unit will be delivered in the second half of 2008. The four ships will be built at Hanjin?s new shipbuilding facility in Subic, Philippines.
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Kleven wins Siem newbuilding
Siem Offshore in Norway has awarded a shipbuilding contract to Kleven Maritime AS for a multi-functional field & ROV support vessel for delivery June 2007, at a cost of approximately $50 million. The vessel is a MT 6016 L designed by Marin Teknikk with a length of 103.70 metres and ...
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STX clinches seven ships
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea announces on February 24 that it clinched two plus three 51,000DWT product carriers from Primorsk International Shipping Limited at a cost of $53 million each. Ship particulars are 183m in length, 32.2m in breadth, 19.1m in depth and have a speed of 14.8 knots. Delivery ...
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Gard warns about container losses
A large container vessel insured with Gard has recently experienced a serious loss of containers. Whilst investigating the incident they learned of similar events with several other new, large vessels covered by other P&I clubs. One of the common factors of all these incidents seems to be that the vessels ...
