General News – Page 521
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Rickmers orders quartet from Sadra Group
Sadra Group of Iran has been contracted by the German shipowner Rickmers to build four multi-purpose vessels. The Iranian shipbuilder will construct the 24,000 DWT vessels with the first unit slated for delivery in July 2007 and the last one during 2008.The 175-meter vessels will be capable of carrying vehicles ...
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SembCorp wins rig
Jurong Shipyard, a wholly owned subsidiary of SembCorp Marine in Singapore, is pleased to announce that the Bermuda-based SeaDrill Limited has exercised the option to build the second unit of the 6th generation ultra deep water semi-submersible drilling rig at a contract value of $404 million. The contract price is ...
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RCL orders two feeders
Regional Container Lines in Bangkok, Thailand, has ordered two 1,108 TEU box ships from the Chinese shipbuilder, Jiangsu Eastern Shipyard, at a cost of $24.5 million each. They will have a service speed of 19.3 knots and will be delivered in June 2007. At present, RCL owns and operates 36 ...
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Rem Maritime orders MPSV from Kleven
Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway has signed a new contract with Norwegian owner Rem Maritime for delivery of one offshore vessel. The newbuilding is a multi-purpose supply vessel (MPSV) of the MT 6016 design, the second in a row for Rem Maritime, developed in close cooperation between the owner and ...
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Ferguson faces new setbacks
Ferguson Marine, the Port Glasgow-based shipbuilder, which last week lost out to a Polish yard in a multi-million pound Scottish Executive shipbuilding deal, reported that the latest accounts for the parent company of the Clydeside yard showed operating losses of almost £900,000 for 2004 ? a similar amount to 2003. ...
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Ukraine shipyard incident
Two workers were killed and another 12 injured as a result of an incident at Damen's Okean Shipyard in Nikolaev, Ukraine. The incident occurred on one of the vessels under construction when a fire-control system depressurized releasing carbon dioxide into the space where 14 employees were working. Two died immediately ...
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Russia to consolidate naval yards
Russia?s Federal Agency for Industry plans to unite all shipyards that build surface navy ships and submarines into two holdings thereby putting state interests above that of the shipyards? private shareholders, Izvestia daily reported. The decision is dictated by security reasons, the state officials say. The paper said that the ...
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Three bid for Oman OPV programme
Three shipbuilders have been invited to present revised proposals for Oman's Project Khareef Ocean Patrol Vessel (OPV) programme. Schelde Naval Shipbuilding in Netherland, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in South Korea and VT Shipbuilding in the UK were, earlier this year, short-listed to enter the final phase of competition for ...
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India considering extending shipbuilding subsidies
India?s shipping ministry plans to extend the shipbuilding subsidy scheme by another five years to 2012. The ministry is preparing a cabinet note for this purpose saying that it is examining whether the same magnitude of subsidy should be given or not. Under the current policy, 30% subsidy on the ...
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Dubai Drydocks awarded FPSO conversion
Dubai Drydocks (DD) has been awarded a $25 million contract to convert a VLCC into a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. Work on ?Knock Adoon?, a 240,000 DWT oil tanker owned by Fred Olsen Production (FOP), will begin in early November and be completed within 12 months. The ...
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HHI wins 9,700TEU quartet
Hyundai Heavy Industries has clinched four 9,700TEU container ships from C. P. Offen at the price of $ 530 million for delivery by 2008. Ship particulars are 350m in length, 42.8m in breadth and 27.2m in depth. Hyundai will also build the 68,332kW main engines for these newbuildings to give ...
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Mipo earnings improved
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea reported that it earned $900 million in turnover for the first half this year compared with 658 million for the same period last year. Its operating profit increased by 4.3% to $67 million.
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Lisnave gets UltraStrip
UltraStrip Systems Inc., the developer of high production, environmentally friendly robotic ship-hull cleaning equipment, has agreed to a five-year agreement with Tecor-Tecnologia Anticorrosao SA to be the exclusive ultra high pressure water jetting contractor at the ship repair yard of Lisnave Estaleiros Navais in Portugal. The agreement reflects the shipping ...
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New PSV for GE Shipping
Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd (GE Shipping) in Mumbai, India, has taken delivery of a new platform supply vessel (PSV), named ?'Malaviya Twenty Four?' from the Indian shipbuilder, Bharati Shipyard. The vessel was contracted by the company in September 2003 and is the fifth PSV in GE?s fleet. With the ...
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NACKS expands
NACKS, the Chinese shipbuilder, recently won approval from the government on the construction of a 500,000DWT dry dock and work is scheduled to start in the autumn on this $247 million project. When the new VLCC dock is completed in 2008, it will produce 1.54 million DWT per annum ...
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South Vietnam?s biggest vessel launched
Saigon Shipbuilding Industry Company, a subsidiary of the country?s state-owned shipbuilder Vinashin, has launched a 6,500 DWT dry cargo vessel for as local shipping comapny. Named ?Saigon Queen?, this newbuilding is claimed to be the largest built to date in the country?s southern region of Ho Chi Minh City.
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New hope for Birkenhead
A six-month breathing space has been agreed to secure the future of ship repair work at the former Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead. Site owner Reddington Finance has awarded a licence for six months for Liverpool-based Mersey Heritage Shiprepair to carry on trading. This will give the yard?s management breathing ...
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Fincantieri gets Tallink job
Fincantieri and Tallink have reached an agreement to build two new generation, high performance, ice-class cruise ferries, one of which is an option. They will be very similar to the two ferries recently ordered by the Estonian ferry company from Aker Finnyards. The ships? main features are 36,000 gross tonnes, ...
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Pertamina plans six new tankers
Indonesia's oil and gas company Pertamina plans to buy six new oil tankers next year to enlarge its fleet. The company will allocate between $60 million and $70 million next year to build six new tankers ranging from 6,500 to 35,000 DWT. A spokesman for the company did not indicate ...
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HHMC production increases
Hudong Heavy Machinery Co (HHMC) in China has produced 35 low speed marine diesel engines with a total output of 549,000 bhp for the first half this year, 18.4% up in terms of bhp. The engine maker achieved year-on-year growth of 29.3% in industrial output to $94 million and won ...
