Industry News – Page 333
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ABS presentations at ISSDC
ABS made presentations at ISSDC ABS made three presentations focused on environmental issues to the International Symposium on Ship Design and Construction 2009 (ISSDC 2009) held in Tokyo, Japan, on 1-2 September 2009. Organized by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), the Symposium will take the theme of ?The ...
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US ballast water rules within IMO confines
A proposed rule unveiled by the US Coast Guard would ensure that ballast water thresholds required by US law adhere to standards set out in the IMO's yet to be ratified treaty, during a "phasing in" period through to 2016. The proposed rule, set out in a notice published in ...
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NASSCO delivers T-AKE number eight
The San Diego shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO recently delivered USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) to the U.S. Navy. Construction of the newbuilding began in October 2007. Including the Wally Schirra, NASSCO has delivered eight 212m long T-AKEs, which are also known as Lewis and Clark-class ships. NASSCO has construction contracts ...
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Bleak outlook for Polish yards
The sale of two struggling Polish shipyards to Qatari investors has failed after the potential buyers declined to pay up within the time period agreed with the European Commission, Poland's treasury minister has said. Neither a private client with Qatar roots, identified by Polish authorities as Stichting Particulier Fonds Greenrights, ...
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Shipyards risk global price war
Shipbuilders may be drawn into a global price war next year triggered by South Korean discounting, an executive at Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES), Japan?s second-largest builder of vessels, said. According to Norio Nagata, head of the company?s ship and ocean project division, "A risk of some new Korean yards ...
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BV to class Caspian ice-breaking tugs
Bureau Veritas (BV) has been chosen to class two different series of sophisticated ice-breaking tugs for service in the Caspian Sea.The first series is for three plus two 66 m loa ice-breaking and ice management tugs with 50 tonne bollard pull and Ice Class IA Super Special Service - North ...
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STX lays keel of pipe layer
South Korea's STX Group embarked on its first offshore plant construction when it recently held a keel laying ceremony for an offshore pipe layer at its Chinese subsidiary STX Dalian Shipbuilding complex.The 194 m long pipe laying vessel had been ordered by France's engineering firm Technip for around $200m in ...
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NewsABB sets up new turbocharger factory in China
An ABB turbocharger - which may soon carry a 'made in China' labelABB recently inaugurated a brand new turbocharger manufacturing base in Degan Industrial Park, Chongqing, localising and producing the company's latest turbocharging products which, says ABB, can improve diesel engine output by 300% and increase fuel efficiency by 10%. ...
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NewsGovernment funding saves Indonesian shipyard
The troubled PT PAL shipyard in Indonesia looks set to survive thanks to government assistanceThe ailing state-owned ship builder PT PAL Indonesia is to get an injection of $44 million from the government to keep it afloat. Saving PAL is in Indonesia's best interests since the government aims to meet ...
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Magnetic gears attract MoD interest
Technology from Sheffield in England could be powering the next generation of warships following city firm Magnomatics success in winning a six-figure contract with the Ministry of Defence. The Sheffield University spin-out specialises in developing revolutionary motors and transmissions, which use magnetic gears that do not physically mesh and are ...
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Hindustan Shipyard to become naval yard
Keen to increase the Indian Navy?s blue-water capability and improve self-sufficiency in defence production, the Ministry of Defence is to take over the Hindustan Shipyard at Visakhapatnam from the Union shipping ministry. The matter is before the Union Cabinet which has to resolve the issues on compensating the shipping ministry.The ...
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Korean yards eying Gorgon bonanza
South Korean shipbuilders may end an eight-month dry spell with an influx of new orders after Australia approved the $42 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project. Hyundai Heavy, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Samsung Heavy Industries have bid for Gorgon contracts that may be worth as much as $6 ...
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Iran to expand domestic shipbuilding
According to local media reports, Ali Akbar Mehrabian, Minister of Industry and Mines of Iran, said during the launching ceremony of a 35,000 dwt vessel that the country will build around 500 various types of ships during the next 20 years with passenger ships totalling 120 units and LNG carriers ...
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Keppel on track to deliver Lukoil FSO
Singapore-based Keppel Singmarine is on track to deliver an ice class Floating Storage and Offloading vessel (FSO) to repeat Russian customer, LUKOIL- Nizhnevolzhskneft (Lukoil). The vessel was recently christened YURI KORCHAGIN at Keppel Singmarine?s sister yard, Caspian Shipyard Company (CSC) in Azerbaijan and was completed on-time and with zero Lost-Time ...
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EC sets up think-tank
Brussels has called a meeting to discuss the state of Europe's shipbuilding and marine engineering industries. The key meeting of government and industry figures in Bremen on 11 September is being organized by the office of Günter Verheugen, vice-president of the commission for trade and industry.It is part of the ...
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Guangzhou Shipyard building ropax ferries
Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) has started building four 1,400 passenger, 2,000 lane metre ropax ferries for China Shipping (Group) Company. The four vessels will be delivered from the end of 2010 to 2012. Each 7,500 dwt newbuilding will have a length of 167.5 m and will be the most luxurious ...
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DW Dubai inaugurates ship lift
Drydocks World - Dubai, the region?s premier ship repair, conversion and new building company under the Drydocks World group, has successfully carried out its first operation on the advanced 6,000-tonne ship lift at the industrial precinct in Dubai Maritime City (DMC). The precinct at DMC also has another ship lift ...
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COSCO Dalian bags Noble bulkers
Commodity and global logistics service supplier, the Noble Group, has allocated $320 million towards expanding its bulk fleet through newbuild vessels ordered at COSCO Dalian shipyard in China. The arrangement for four 92,400 dwt post-Panamax vessels and one Capesize vessel is part of a joint order at the yard with ...
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NASSCO lays keel of T-AKE eleven
San Diego-based General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics, laid the keel for USNS Washington Chambers, the eleventh ship of the Lewis and Clark class of dry cargo-ammunition ships (T-AKE). Construction of the Washington Chambers began in March and is scheduled for delivery to the Navy in ...
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Orders continue to flow into China
The latest Chinese shipyard to benefit from the renewed flow of newbuilding orders is Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry. An undisclosed shipowner from Southeast Asia has placed an order for seven 57,000 dwt bulk carriers at a cost of around $29.3 million each for delivery during 2010-2011.Hantong is a modern, ...
