General News – Page 570
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INP nets two plus two chemical tankers
INP Heavy Industries in South Korea has secured a contract for two plus two 10,000DWT stainless steel chemical tankers from a UK ship owner. First ship will be delivered in March 2006 and the others in four monthly intervals. With a service speed of 14 knots, these ice class 1A ...
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C-MAP electronic charts obtain ISO certification
C-MAP is the first company to have an electronic chart database tested and approved in accordance with the ISO 19379 standard. This is an important step towards offering high quality and certified vector chart data for ECS and ECDIS use and the ISO certification is for its CM-93/3 electronic chart ...
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Enpaco and Kosaka sign technical cooperation
Enpaco Corp in South Korea, an affiliate of STX, signed a technical cooperation agreement with Kosaka in Japan for cargo oil pump system for ship. With this latest agreement, Enpaco, which produces equipment for diesel engine, will expand its business into marine equipment.
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BAE hands over Bulwark
BAE?s Barrow shipyard will officially hand over HMS Bulwark to the Royal Navy in a ceremony later today. The ship has taken six years to build at a cost of around £350m and it is feared it could be the last surface vessel to be built at the BAE Systems ...
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Shipping giant builds major repair facility
China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) has invested $243 million in building a major ship repair facility at Zhoushan in China's Zhejiang province. The repair base was established earlier this year when the shipping company consolidated its repair facilities at Dalian, Nantong and Guangzhou and other areas. Sources at COSCO claim ...
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MOL expands further into LNG
MOL has signed contracts for joint ownership of four additional new LNG carriers with Oman Shipping Company (OSC) and all four newbuildings will be chartered by OSC. As a result, MOL will have joint ownership in a total of six LNG carriers, including two already in service. Two of the ...
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Lloyd?s Register gains USCG authorisation for OSVs
Lloyd?s Register (LR) has been authorised by the US Coast Guard (USCG) to extend its Alternate Compliance Program (ACP) capabilities to offshore supply vessels (OSVs), in addition to cargo and tank vessels. The new authorisation was issued on July 9, 2004.ACP is a voluntary program available through authorised classification societies ...
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Castrol introduces new lubricant
Castrol Marine has launched its new Castrol TLX Plus, a range of oils specifically formulated to meet the lubrication challenges of today's demanding medium-speed engines. Castrol Marine launched the new oil to handle the increasingly demanding engine operating conditions. Higher operating temperatures and pressures, combined with smaller sumps and lower ...
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RR revolutionizes shiplift control
New software that provides revolutionary advances in shiplift control and operation technology by providing the safest and most cost-effective means of dry-docking ships was launched today by Syncrolift, a Rolls-Royce company. ATLAS DockMaster, its new flagship control software, will build on the success of the original ATLAS software in service ...
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UMC International receives largest ever order for hull aperture blanks.
UMC received a boost recently when it secured an order for 22 ship sets of hull aperture blanks from Hyundai Mipo shipyard in Korea. Each set comprises 8 blanks plus ancillary fitting equipment and discharge bungs. The value of this order is £134,000, and all the vessels are identical 2,824 ...
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PDVSA boosts Argentina?s shipbuilding industry
Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the Venezuelan state oil company last week closed on a deal for new tankers with Argentina?s Rio Santiago shipyard in Ensenada, 60 kilometers southeast of Buenos Aires. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised to order up to eight new oil tankers from Argentina during a surprise visit ...
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Daesun cancels order
Daesun Shipbuilding cancelled an order for two 1,043TEU container ships which it had received from two German KG ship owners at a total cost of $34 million. The order was placed with the Korean shipbuilder in April this year but the shipowners had failed to pay the first down ...
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C-MAP wins CSCL contract
China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL), one of the largest shipping companies in China, owns a fleet of 103 container vessels with a total capacity of over 120,000 TEUs, and is operating dozens of domestic coastal and international routes from China to Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, Europe, Mediterranean and North ...
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SSCS plans expansion into shipbuilding
The newly formed Shanghai Shipyard & Chengxi Shipyard (SSCS) aims to maintain its top ranking in China's ship-repairing market while, at the same time, planning to enter into the domestic shipbuilding industry. Company officials unveiled these objectives following SSCS's launch on June 30, the result of a multi-billion-Yuan restructuring that ...
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Inaugural compressed gas forum a success
A number of recommendations relating to the marine transportation of compressed natural gas (CNG) have emerged following an international gathering held in St. John, Canada. With support from the Centre for Marine Compressed Natural Gas (CMCNG) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, more than 50 delegates representing commercial and governmental organizations ...
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Damen creates a ?short,fat monster?
Since introducing its first azimuthing stern drive (ASD) tug, the ASD 3110 Citta Della Spezia back in 1993, the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards has built almost 100 compact ASD tugs in various design sizes such as the 2509, 2810, 3110, 3111 and 3211. All these are multi-purpose ASD tugs ...
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MOL's vessels and US terminals ISPS certified
MOL (America) Inc confirma that all of the company's containerships calling at North American ports and all of MOL's own terminals are in compliance with IMO?s International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) and have been certified accordingly.The US Coast Guard will use ISPS Certification to enforce the US ...
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Korea Line orders a capesize bulker
Korea Line has ordered a 176,000DWT bulk carrier from a Japanese shipbuilder. The newbuilding, costing $51 million, will be delivered during the first quarter in 2006.
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New crane for A&P Falmouth
A&P Falmouth has a new 60 tonne crane which will service Nos. 3 & 4 drydocks in the yard. The new Bailey crane effectively doubles the lifting capacity, replacing the 30 tonne No. 18 crane which was dismantled in April.
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Samsung delivers world's largest container ship
South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered the world's largest container ship to a Canadian shipping company. Christened CSCL Asia, the 8,500 TEU ship is 334 metres long, 42.8 metres wide and has a service speed of 25 knots.
