General News – Page 526
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Daewoo clinches German boxships
South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has won a contract to build four 3,200TEU container ships worth $249.6 million from German ship owner Hamburg Sud. Delivery of the 22 knot quartet is scheduled by June 2007 and payment would be made in cash. The contract also includes an ...
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Kockums powers Japanese subs
Swedish-based shipbuilder Kockums, a division of Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, has signed a contract with Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries to deliver Stirling engines to Japan?s submarine program. The order follows several years of evaluation of Stirling engines aboard the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force's training submarine, the company said. Submarines ...
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HVS completes Elektra lengthening
The Vietnamese shipbuilder Hyundai-Vinashin (HVS) has completed the lengthening of the Wallenius owned car carrier ?Elektra? increasing its gross tonnage from 57,018 to 66,624. Elektra, built in 1999 at Daewoo, is the first of five Wallenius PCTCs to be elongated by HVS. Its length has been increased from 199.1 metres ...
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New EU rules for maritime polluters
Tomorrow, the Council of Ministers is expected to adopt formally two pieces of legislation that aim at combating ship-source pollution through a system of sanctions in case of intentional acts or serious negligence. This legislation, proposed two years ago by the European Commission, will put in place effective and dissuasive ...
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Exxon Mobil going for double-hulls
Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corp. said it would replace its Alaska fleet of single-hull oil tankers with double-hull vessels. The US energy company will first buy and refurbish two ageing double-hull tankers now shipping crude oil for BP. The tankers, the ?Kenai? and the ?Tonsina?, will be overhauled in a Singapore ...
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STX to build ice breaking research ship
STX has been appointed by the South Korean Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries to design and build a 6,900 tonne ice-breaking research vessel. The shipbuilder will complete the design work by the end of this year.
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STX to enter LNG market
STX Shipbuilding will enter into the LNG carrier newbuilding market and has signed a technology supply agreement with Gaz Transport & Technigaz S.A. earlier this year. At present, STX has completed setting up the relevant organization for production of cargo tanks and is developing a design for a 155,000 cbm ...
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Bulyard wins two-ship order
The new shipbuilding consortium Bulyard and Cyprus-registered Bulcon have signed a letter of intent for one 9,300DWT and one 42,000DWT general cargo ships worth $35 million. In May, Bulgarian shipping company Navigation Maritime Bulgare (NMB) and Bulyard signed their first mutual contracts for the building of 3 ships valued at ...
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Korean Navy launches LPX
South Korea will launch a 13,000 tonne large-deck landing ship as part of its naval force improvement programme. The amphibious ship, called LPX, was unveiled at Hanjin Heavy Industries shipyard in Busan and is the first of the two LPXs the Navy plans to develop by 2010. The new LPX ...
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DFDS orders roro duo
DFDS has signed a 10-year time-charter deal with an option on a further three years for two ro-ro vessels with Macoma Shipping Ltd. The vessels will be built at the Jinling Shipyard in Nanjing, China, and delivered late 2007 and early 2008, respectively. Both vessels have a capacity of 3,343 ...
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World class patrol vessel for India
The Indian Coast Guard has received a new patrol vessel, built at Goa Shipyard, named ?ICG Kasturba Gandhi? and is claimed to be the fastest of its type in the world. The 48 metre long ship has a displacement of 260 tonnes and is capable of cruising at a speed ...
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Turkey to build Freedom City
The "floating city", one of the world's largest newbuilding projects, will be constructed in Isdemir Port in the Gulf of Iskenderun on the Eastern end of the Turkish Mediterranean coast, at a cost of $11 billion. Although no contract has been signed yet, negotiations with Turkish authorities have been going ...
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GEM doubles fleet
Dubai-based Gulf Energy Maritime (GEM) took delivery of the second of four vessels it has on order from Korean shipbuilder, Hyundai Heavy Industries, in a deal which has seen the tanker operator double the size of its fleet in only one year of operations. GEM is a joint venture in ...
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MHI develops new low-speed engine
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has developed a new low-speed marine diesel engine, the UEC50LSE, in cooperation with Wärtsilä Switzerland Ltd. MHI initially reached an agreement with Wärtsilä in November 2002 toward joint development of marine diesel engines and the 6-cylinder UEC50LSE is the first fruit of their collaborative effort. After verification ...
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Container screening device developed
Electronic Sensor Technology, Inc., has developed a new technique for screening cargo containers. To date, the most reliable way to search for illicit materials in cargo containers is by manual inspection and, partly because of the time-consuming nature of this procedure, very few containers (less than 4% of the 6 ...
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MHI bids for Westinghouse
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is bidding to buy Westinghouse Electric of the USA and has begun negotiations with the UK-based BNFL which owns Westinghouse. The two sides could reach a deal, estimated at $1.79 billion, later this year. If successful, it would be the first overseas acquisition for the Japanese ...
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Steel plant for Venezuela
Venezuela's state-run Ferrominera del Orinoco and Italy's Danieli Spa signed a $570 million agreement for the construction of steel plant in eastern Venezuela. A government official said the factory would produce steel used for ship building in Venezuela, which is looking to expand its fleet of oil tankers. Although no ...
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World largest container ship delivered
The largest container ship to date, the 9,200TEU MSC Pamela, was recently delivered by Samsung to Offen. Measuring 337 metres long, 46 metres wide and 24.6 metres draught, the newbuilding is powered by a 72,240kW MAN B&W 12K98MC diesel engine giving a service speed of 26 knots.
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Doosan to build plant in China
Doosan Engine, a South Korean manufacturer of marine diesel engines, will establish an engine parts complex in China by 2008. The company plans to construct the complex on a 330,000 square metre site in the Dalian Economic Development Zone in northeastern China. It will first accommodate machinery that will produce ...
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Shanghai engine jv launched
The Hudong Heavy Machinery Company has launched a marine diesel engine joint venture in Shanghai with China State Shipbuilding Corp. (CSSC) and Mitsui Shipbuilding Co., (MSC) of Japan. The joint venture has a total investment of $144.9 million and will have an annual diesel engine capacity of one million bhp ...
