Industry News – Page 435
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STX scoops up bulker sextet
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has secured a $257 million order from a South Korean company to build six bulk carriers for delivery by June 2010.
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Norway pledges aid for shipbuilding
Norway is committed to supporting a project aimed at boosting technology and improving management and product quality control at the Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin). An agreement on the project was signed recently between Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and the Norwegian Ambassador to Viet Nam ...
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Work begins on Nakilat?s 2nd Q-Max
Work on Qatar Gas Transport Company?s (Nakilat) second Q-Max LNG tanker has begun with its managing director Mohamed A Ghannam initiating the steel cutting.Nakilat has placed orders for 14 such tankers, which would be fully owned by it. The delivery is expected by early 2010.This is the first Q-Max, the ...
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China Dalian strengthens fleet
China Dalian International Corp has ordered three 57,000 dwt supramaxes at a total cost of $101m from an east China shipyard. The vessels, which will be operated through Singapore subsidiary Da Sin Shipping, will more than double the size of the company?s bulker fleet by 2009. The newbuildings will be ...
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FESCO orders supramaxes from China
The Russian Far Eastern Shipping Co (Fesco) is jumping on the supramax-bulker bandwagon with a series of newbuildings in China. The fast expanding Russian shipping company has returned to Jinling Shipyard for four 57,000 dwt bulk carriers for delivery in 2010. These supramax newbuildings, which will not be built to ...
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Ebba named
Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark unveiled its latest newbuilding, an 11,000 TEU container vessel, for the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group. Like her four predecessors, ?Ebba Maersk? will be part of the series of the world?s largest container vessels and, like her sister vessels, sets new standards for safety and ...
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Solstice number four ordered
The Miami-based cruise company Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., has placed a contract for a fourth large cruise ship with Meyer Werft in Papenburg. After ordering the first ship of the Solstice class back in summer 2005, and number two and three in February and July ...
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MT design chosen by Gulmar Offshore
Marin Teknikk, the Norwegian naval architects, has secured a contract with Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction in Korea for delivery of a design and engineering package for two new MT 6022 XLs for Gulmar Offshore Middle East LLC in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The new multipurpose subsea operation support vessels ...
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Bourbon orders Damen quartet
Bourbon Offshore and Damen Shipyards Gorinchem in Holland have signed a contract for the construction and delivery of four Damen ASD 3213 tugs. The ASD 3213 is the latest development from Damen and the top of the range with a bollard of in excess of 83 tonnes. The tugs are ...
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Philippines helps local shipbuilders
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) in the Philippines has plans to create a 124-acre maritime park that offers tax incentives to local shipbuilders. The facility is aimed at boosting the country's local shipbuilding industry.SBMA chairman Feliciano G. Salonga said the incentives include affordable rental schemes, tax and duty-free importation ...
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Kiwi to build small cruise ship
InterCity Group Limited in New Zealand plans to boost tourism in Northland with a $7.3 million, fuel-efficient small cruise ship that will offer overnight cruises around the pristine waters of the Bay of Islands.The 46 metre long catamaran, which is being designed to cruise at 12 knots with maximum stability, ...
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Hapag-Lloyd orders eight from HHI
The Hamburg-based shipping line Hapag-Lloyd is responding to the forecast market expansion in the container trade by ordering eight 8,750 TEU container carriers for delivery in December 2009 (two ships) and in the first half of 2010. It is planned to deploy the newbuildings on the routes to and from ...
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Electronic charts may avert one in three groundings
If Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) are made mandatory on board ships, the number of groundings is likely to be reduced by a third according to a study carried out by DNV.The effect of ECDIS has been documented in previous studies, but uncertainty has remained relating to the ...
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Romania to privatise Mangalia shipyard
The Romanian government has launched tenders for the sale of its shipbuilding facility in the southeastern city of Mangalia, the national State Assets Agency (AVAS) said. The state plans to sell the entire company to a bidder who will then have five years to invest at least 4.5 mln euros ...
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Halifax Shipyard to build second cruise ship
US-based Pearl Seas Cruises of Guildford, Conn., an offshore affiliate of American Cruise Lines, has confirmed that it will have a second cruise ship built at the Halifax Shipyard, part of the Irving Shipbuilding company. These two new luxury cruise ships will carry 165 and 210 passengers and construction has ...
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Jurong wins conversion jobs
Singapore's Jurong Shipyard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SembCorp Marine, has secured two conversion contracts worth a total of $88 million. The first involves conversion of the 188,697 dwt tanker, the S.T. Polar Alaska, into an FPSO vessel for Aker Contracting FP AS. To be renamed FPSO Aker Smart 1 upon ...
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Wärtsilä acquires Railko
Wärtsilä has signed an agreement to acquire the marine business of Railko Ltd. in the UK, a company specializing in synthetic stern tube bearing technology. The net sales of the company's marine business is about EUR 6 million and the number of employees is 25. The deal is planned to ...
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FMBA wins another cat order
Aboitiz-owned shipbuilder FMBA Marine Inc. in the western Cebu town of Balamban, Philippines, has signed a contract to build another catamaran ferry for a company in New Caledonia in the South Pacific. This follows a contract the shipbuilder won last month to build a catamaran ferry for a Scottish company.FMBA ...
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US group to build steel plant in Vietnam
U.S. group Eminence plans to pour $30 billion into building a steel plant and auxiliary establishments in Vietnam's central region according to local newspaper Young People. Eminence will submit its investment plan, some time in the second quarter, to the Vietnamese government for approval. The plan includes $26 billion for ...
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BAE and VT agree jv terms
BAE Systems and VT Group have agreed the terms on which to merge their shipbuilding interests, but an announcement has been delayed by political uncertainties over plans for the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.Sir John Parker, chairman of the National Grid, is lined up to take the same role at ...
