Industry News – Page 368
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Carnival sues Rolls-Royce
Carnival Corp. has sued Rolls-Royce for more than $100 million over allegations that Rolls-Royce marketed and sold defective propulsion systems for the Queen Mary 2.The system, known as the Mermaid pod propulsion system, has been targeted in lawsuits by other cruise lines, including Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises and Regent Seven ...
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Full ahead for Hanjin's Philippine shipyard
Hanjin Heavy Industries is proceeding with its plan to build a $2 billion shipyard project in the southern Philippines, Trade Secretary Peter Favila said. "Company officials told me that they are proceeding with the project. They are just waiting for some approval," Favila said in an interview. A Manila newspaper ...
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Norwegians cancel newbuilding order
The Norwegian shipping company Seatankers Management Co. Ltd (SMC), owned by shipping tycoon John Fredriksen, has cancelled an order for four chemical tankers placed with the Alcock Ashdown (Gujarat) Ltd, the shipbuilding firm owned by the Gujarat government. SMC walked away from a Rs301 crore deal citing high costs in ...
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Wärtsilä's slow steaming kit helps cut fuel costs
Wärtsilä has introduced a new upgrade kit for slow steaming for RTA and RT-flex low-speed engines to enable shipowners and operators to make major savings in fuel costs while slow steaming their ships. The upgrade kit allows Wärtsilä low-speed marine engines to be operated continuously at any power in the ...
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STM to design Swire seismic vessel
The marine arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. (ST Engineering), ST Marine, secured a $19.6 million contract to provide detailed design, construction and outfitting of a seismic survey vessel for Swire Pacific Offshore Operations, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific Ltd. Swire had been planning for the newbuild and will ...
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Aegean takes delivery of bunker tanker newbuilding
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. has taken delivery of the 'Paros', a 4,645 dwt double-hull bunkering tanker newbuild from Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China. The Paros will be deployed to the company's Singapore market.Including the Paros, Aegean now has a current bunkering fleet of 31 vessels and barges, of which ...
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World's largest floating dock goes into production
The world's largest floating dock, the "Zhonghai Emeishan," started production in CSG Ship-Repairing Base at Changxing Island, Shanghai a few days ago. This marks Shanghai's ability to undertake repair tasks and conversion projects for shipowners around the world. The "Zhonghai Emeishan" has an overall length of 410 metres, width of ...
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Cummins introduces the QSK60 tier 2
Cummins has upgraded the QSK60 marine engine for propulsion and auxiliary applications to meet U.S. EPA Tier 2 and European Union Stage IIIA emissions regulations. With propulsion ratings from 1492 - 1864 kW and auxiliary ratings from 1563 - 1900 kW, the QSK60 Tier 2 is ideally suited for high-hour ...
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STX Europe lays keel of Oasis sister
The keel of 'Allure of the Seas', the second in the series of two of the world's largest cruise ships was laid recently at the Turku yards of STX Europe. The "keelblock" of this size of vessel weighs several hundreds of tonnes and is but one of the 180 blocks, ...
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Zeppelin takes stake in SkySails
Zeppelin Power Systems GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, a subsidiary of the Zeppelin Group, and the towing-kite manufacturer SkySails GmbH & Co. KG, also of Hamburg, are joining forces to market SkySails propulsion systems. The Oltmann Gruppe has played a key role in financing the establishment of SkySails. Zeppelin Power ...
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Bilge water system receives USCG approval
Wärtsilä's Senitec sludge and bilge water treatment system has received US Coast Guard (USCG) Type Approval. Tests have confirmed the system's ability to remove oil in water levels to well below required by the IMO. Rigorous testing carried out by the USCG-approved SGS Institute Fresenius in Germany, one of Europe's ...
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Sinopacific forced to reassure customers
Sinopacific Shipbuilding, one of China?s biggest private shipbuilders, has convened an emergency meeting next week in Hamburg with its western customers to assure them that it can deliver ordered vessels.The Shanghai-based company, which employs over 10,000 people in its yards, called the meeting in response to industry speculation, possibly fuelled ...
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Vosta gets repeat order
Vosta LMG in Holland recently signed a contract for a repeat order with ASL Shipyard, Singapore. The contract calls for the delivery of an engineering and components package for a self propelled cutter suction dredge which ASL will construct in its Singapore shipyard and deliver to DEME in 2011. Vosta ...
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Newbuild options under review
Singapore-based Ezra Holdings Limited (Ezra), an integrated offshore support and marine services provider, is proactively reviewing its orderbook of five multi-functional support vessels (MFSVs) in view of the uncertainty arising from the current financial crisis.The first of its 30,000 brake horsepower MFSV options to come under review isEzra?s most recent ...
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Bourbon Liberty 110 delivered
The French offshore operator Bourbon took delivery yesterday of the 10th vessel in the Bourbon Liberty series. 'Bourbon Liberty 110' is a platform supply vessel (PSV) intended for operations in the Gulf of Guinea. Bourbon's decision to invest massively in a new generation of vessels able to operate in deepwater ...
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Hanjin still committed to Mindanao
The provincial government in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and the Phividec Industrial Authority have dismissed reports of an alleged decision by South Korea?s Hanjin Heavy Industries& Construction to pull out of its commitment to build a $2-billion shipyard complex.Misamis Oriental Governor Oscar S. Moreno said Hanjin officials had ...
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ASRY to invest in new facilities
ASRY?s Chairman Shaikh Daij Bin Salman Al-Khalifa says that the Qatar shipyard is to invest $188m in new facilities. The new investment follows the recent opening of two new slipways built at a cost of $20m The planned further new facilities will include a 1.2 km repair quay, with an ...
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New hydrogel silicone coating guarantees fuel savings
For the first time, shipowners can use a fouling release system that guarantees to reduce a vessel?s fuel consumption by at least 4-8% within the first year, depending on the type of ship. HEMPASIL X3, a new third-generation system launched by Hempel A/S end of November 2008, has already been ...
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?TANGGUH FOJA? delivered
A consortium comprising Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) and P.T. Meratus Line has taken delivery of a 154,800m3 LNG carrier, "TANGGUH FOJA", constructed at Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea.The vessel will be chartered to the TANGGUH LNG operated by BP soon after her delivery as the first in a ...
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China plans to build two aircraft carriers
Local sources in China report that China is secretly pushing the construction of a nuclear-powered "supercarrier" of 93,000 tons. The source, presenting internal Chinese Communist Party documents, said China plans to build a 48,000-ton conventional-powered aircraft carrier (so-called "Project 085) and a 93,000-ton monster carrier ("Project 089). The documents presented ...
