Industry News – Page 523
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LR posts strong performance for 2004/5
In his report on the accounts for the year ended 30 June, 2005, Lloyd?s Register Chairman David Moorhouse has announced that Group income rose by 1.4% to £371.8 million on the back of a strong performance by the organisation?s Marine business which grew revenues by 6%. The Group?s operating profit ...
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South African newbuilding
Just when they thought things could not get better, the owners of Farocean Marine, a private shipbuilding company in Cape Town, have landed a $15 million contract.This after they, in the face of international competition, secured a $67 million contract with the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in South ...
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Aker Kvaerner wins DDS for Gulf
Chevron, with partner Kerr-McGee, has awarded Aker Kvaerner, Inc. the semi submersible hull and mooring system contract for their Blind Faith project in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract has a total value of approximately $120 million. Aker Kvaerner's scope of work includes engineering, procurement, construction and transportation. The Blind ...
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LNG problem at Samsung
Samsung Heavy Industries has detected faults that can cause gas leakages in an LNG carrier it has built for the BG Group. However, the company has made it clear that it has not found faults in other ships. According to reports in TradeWinds, pressure tests show the secondary membrane barrier ...
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BW Gas finalises Suez LNG deal
Bergesen Worldwide Gas ASA (BW Gas) has finalised agreements with Suez LNG Trading SA for two LNG vessels for a period of 20 years. These vessels will be used to transport LNG primarily to the USA from the new liquefaction plant in Bal Haf, Yemen. The two 156,100 cubic metre ...
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Mitsui build BNG ship
The British Nuclear Group (BNG) has placed an order with the Japanese shipbuilder Mitsui Engineering to design and build a new INF 3 class nuclear waste vessel for the Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL) fleet following an extensive 11 month tender exercise.The new ship is expected to be delivered in ...
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Teknotherm buys Unitor?s HVAC business
Unitor Ships Equipment (now part of Wilhelmsen Maritime Services) has reached agreement with Teknotherm AS to transfer its activities in the shipbuilding heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) market to Teknotherm AS. The transfer includes HVAC products, a group of engineers in Poland as well as Unitor?s order backlog of ...
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Esnaad builds at ADSB
ESNAAD, a wholly owned ADNOC principal service company who provide offshore support services to oil operating companies and Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB), one of the major shipbuilding facilities in the region, have signed a newbuilding contact to design and build a 40 metre crew boat with an option for ...
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Aker inks anther PSV
Aker Yards and DOF ASA have agreed to build a platform supply vessel (PSV) worth approximately $33 million. The Aker designed vessel is scheduled for delivery in April 2007 from Aker Yards at Aukra.
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Russo-Brazilian JV to build Ekranoplans
A joint venture between the Sao Paulo boat builder Companhia C?mara Constru?ões Navais and the Russian company ATTK, is going to manufacture WIG (wing in ground effect) craft known as Ekranoplans or Aquaglide. These aircraft-like boats were developed in Russia and fly just above the surface of the water. The ...
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Polish technology for Vietnam
Vietnamese designers are attending a training course held by Polish experts in advanced shipbuilding technology. The course is held by the Vietnam Ship Buiding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) with assistance from Poland?s Ship Design and Research Center (CTO. As part of the three-month course, local trainees will join Polish experts in ...
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TMT bids for CSBC
Taiwan Maritime Transportation has submitted an expression of interest in bidding for the privatization of China Shipbuilding Corporation, the Taiwan government owned shipyard. It is believed that TMT was the only bidder when the process closed last Monday.TMT has bid for the privatization in order to assist the commercial development ...
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UT-design for Island Offshore
Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract for the delivery of design and equipment for an oil well intervention vessel that will allow operations previously only done from rigs or platforms. The Norwegian shipping company Island Offshore has entered a long-term contract with Statoil requiring a vessel capable of extracting more ...
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Austal secures US navy LCS order
The US Navy has awarded the construction contract for the Austal designed Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) project. The $223 million order for the first of two planned "Flight 0" vessels was awarded to prime contractor Bath Iron Works, a General Dynamics company which has teamed up with Austal, the designer ...
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Singapore's SembCorp Marine acquires US shipyard
Singapore oil rig manufacturer SembCorp Marine has completed the purchase of a Texas-based shipyard in a move expected to boost its presence in the oil-producing US Gulf Coast region. SembCorp Marine said its subsidiary PPL Shipyard has acquired a 100% stake in Sabine Industries, Inc and subsidiaries Sabine Offshore Services, ...
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CLNG wants two more LNG carriers
China LNG(CLNG), joint venture of Cosco and Chinese government, has decided to order two more 147,000 cbm LNG carriers. However, ship delivery date, shipbuilder, ship price and LNG projects have not yet been revealed.
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Korean shipbuilders win more LNG carriers
Following the selection of preferential bidders by Korea Gas Corporation to carry 5.5 million tonnes of LNG from 2008, the company has placed newbuilding orders for LNG carriers with local shipbuilders.Korea Line will operate two LNG carriers which will be built by Daewoo Shipbuilding. One of the two LNG carriers ...
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Aker inks Island order
Aker Yards has signed a contract worth approximately $100 million to build a Well Intervention Vessel for Island Offshore for delivery in January 2008. Main duties for the new vessel of Rolls Royce design, will be maintenance and repair of oil-/gaswells in depths of up to 600 metres, and operate ...
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Vinashin wins more Diamond orders
The Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) has signed a contract to build seven more Diamond 53,000 dwt bulk carriers for export to Britain. This latest contract brings the number of the Diamond 53 bulkers ordered from Vinashin for the UK-based company Graig British customers to 17. In addition, Vinashin has ...
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Quebec yard to upgrade ferry
Verreault Navigation Inc. of Les Méchins, Quebec in Canada, has been awarded a $4.8 million contract to modify and enhance some of the design elements of the ferry Madeleine operated by CTMA Traversier Ltée. between Cap-aux-Meules, in the Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, and Souris, Prince Edward Island. The Madeleine will be equipped ...
