Industry News – Page 502
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RH Group receives DNV worldwide recognition
RH Group receives DNV worldwide recognition Radio Holland Group (RHG) received the DNV (Det Norske Veritas) recognition for radio- and VDR surveys for all its RH subsidiaries engaged in these activities. RHG is the first company to receive such a worldwide recognition by DNV for servicing and testing radio communication ...
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Aussies question warship plans
Australian defense officials may have thrown a wrench into government plans to build new warships in the country. In a submission to a Senate panel, the Defence Department (DP) said there was no strong strategic reason for building the ships in Australia and that doing so could have a negative ...
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Northrop Grumman gets S-VDR type approval
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded type approval from the German certification authority Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt & Hydrographie (BSH) for the Sperry Marine VoyageMaster II Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR). The BSH type approval certifies that the Sperry Marine S-VDR meets the International Maritime Organization (IMO) carriage requirements and International ...
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Exmar orders more LNGRVs
Exmar has placed an order with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering for two more LNGRV vessels, the 6th and 7th in the series, for delivery during 2009. The vessels will be built incorporating the GTT membrane containment system and will have a capacity of approximately 150,900 cub m.
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Samsung clinches massive new orders
In addition to clinching the three 266,000 cbm LNG carriers from Qatar Shipping, Samsung has also won orders for eight boxships. Four 4,300TEU container ships from Danaos in Greece for delivery during 2008. Ship particulars are 277m in length, 40m in breadth and 24m in depth with a service speed ...
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QGTC orders QMax carriers
Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) is ordering six QMax LNG carriers of 266,000 cu. m capacity each. These will be the largest LNG carriers built to date with about 25% greater capacity than any other LNG tanker currently on order. The ships are to be built by Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding ...
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ETA in expansion mode
ETA Shipping and Trading, part of the Dubai-based, ETA-Ascon Group, has placed an order for two 81,200 dwt super Panamax bulk carrier vessels with Japanese shipbuilder Universal Shipbuilding Corporation. Delivery is scheduled for 2009. ETA's Shipping Division currently owns 16 ships and has placed orders for 8 more tankers worth ...
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Ezra expanding fleet
Singapore-based Ezra Holdings has earmarked $240 million to increase its fleet over the next two years in hopes of cashing in on strong demand for offshore support services in the oil and gas industry. Ezra, which provides offshore support vessels to the oil and gas sector, expects to grow its ...
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Eighteen more for SMIT
SMIT, the Dutch towage company, has reached an agreement with Damen Shipyards for the construction of 11 newly built tugs. Two of these will be type ASD 3211 tugs (65 tons bp) which have been awarded with a long-term contract for the Terminals Division in Equatorial Guinea and will be ...
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Bharati scoops Bourbon newbuilds
Bharati Shipyard in India has secured $112 million order from Bourbon, the French offshore, towage and salvage company, for five sophisticated offshore vessels. The French company had already placed an order with the yard earlier and the good progress on this vessel has encouraged Bourbon to place this latest order. ...
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CSD?s tanker spree
China Shipping Development Co. (CSD), a subsidiary of China Shipping Group, will be placing an order estimated at $748 million for eight VLCCs with Dalian New Ship Heavy Industry shipyard. Another order for four 42,000 dwt oil tankers will be placed with a shipbuilder in southern China's Guangdong province.
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OSG contracts four Aframax tankers
Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) based in New York will build four 114,000 dwt Aframax tankers at the New Times Shipbuilding yard in Jinjiang, China. The vessels, scheduled for delivery in 2008 and 2009, will increase OSG's Aframax fleet to 21 tankers serving customers in the Atlantic basin, and will operate ...
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Aker inks GEO ROV support vessel
Aker Yards has entered into a contract with GEO ASA for the building of a ROV support vessel at a cost of $60 million. The vessel will be built by Aker Yards in Brazil, with delivery scheduled for May 2008, and is of the design Aker ROV 06, designed by ...
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Closed Dutch yard could be reopened
The former shipbuilding yard at Krimpen a/d Ijssel near Rotterdam, Holland, which was closed three years ago when Van der Giessen-De Noord went into receivership, could be reactivated to provide much needed newbuilding capacity. This has been brought about by the current boom in Holland for newbuilding orders and one ...
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MOL restructures management system
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) announced a restructuring of the company?s ship management system to enhance the company?s safety program in the light of its plan to expand its fleet from about 700 vessels today to 900 by the end of March 2010, based on the mid-term management plan MOL STEP ...
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Five Turkish cats for Damen
The Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Gorinchem has secured a contract to build five 42 metre catamaran passenger ferries from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, on behalf of operator Istanbul Deniz Otobusu (IDO). The five new "Sea Buses" for IDO are of the Damen Fast Ferry 4212 type; each can carry 449 ...
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Hanjin to order boxship quartet
Hanjin Shipping will, this Friday, sign a $256.4 million contract with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to build four additional 4,275TEU containerships. They will be of the same capacity and type as the four 39,600 dwt vessels previously ordered last November and start to be deployed on the major service lanes ...
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Kleven builds gas powered coastguard ship
Myklebust Verft in Gursken, Norway has entered into a contract with Rem?y Management, Norway, for the delivery of a coastguard vessel, with an option for one additional unit. The vessel is a VS 794 CGV design, developed in close cooperation between owner and yard, designed by Vik-Sandvik of Fitjar, Norway. ...
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Princess goes to Germany
Having arrived at the Grand Bahama shipyard in Freeport for temporary repairs to its 150 fire damaged cabins, the ?Star Princess? will set sail later this week for the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany, where permanent repairs will be carried out. The 2,600 passenger cruise ship is scheduled to ...
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DNV commits to Hong Kong
Earlier this week, DNV launched a maritime academy for industry professionals in Hong Kong, agreed to certify new curriculum at the ailing Hong Kong Sea School, and donated half a million HK$ dollars to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum - a triple pronged effort to ensure greater maritime technical competency ...
