Industry News – Page 524

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    Italians get Tallink job

    2005-10-13T00:00:00Z

    Fincantieri and Tallink signed a contract to build two new generation, high performance, ice-class cruise ferries, one of which is an option. Tallink, the leading Estonian ferry operators and one of the most important in the Baltic area, runs regular services connecting Estonia with Sweden and Finland.Each ship will have ...

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    Lukoil deal for Samsung

    2005-10-13T00:00:00Z

    Korean shipbuilder Samsung will build four ice-class 70,000-ton tankers for Russia?s oil major Lukoil to help it export crude from the Arctic to Western markets. Delivery is scheduled for 2008 and will be used to export crude from the Arctic port of Varandei, where Lukoil?s joint venture with US ConocoPhillips ...

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    Ferry lifeline for Ferguson

    2005-10-13T00:00:00Z

    Western Ferries, which operates from Dunoon to Gourock, has placed a £500,000 order for a roll on/roll off terminal with Ferguson's yard on the river Clyde in Scotland. The Port Glasgow yard had to pay off about 100 workers after it lost out on a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry order to ...

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    Daewoo to bid for Santierul

    2005-10-13T00:00:00Z

    Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said it will bid for Santierul Naval 2 Mai Mangalia, a Romanian government-owned shipyard, to expand capacity in the country."Daewoo Shipbuilding plans to make a bid next week," Ahn Wook-hyeon, a Daewoo Shipbuilding spokesman, said. He expects the starting bid to be around $4.2 ...

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    Iran-India order LNG octet

    2005-10-13T00:00:00Z

    The Joint Iran-India LNG consortium in its first step for LNG export is to place an order for 8 new carriers valued at $1.6billion. Four of the ships will have a capacity of carrying 145,000 cubic meters. Delivery is expected to be 2010 and the fleet would be carrying 7.5m ...

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    Bids for DSME may be rejected

    2005-10-11T00:00:00Z

    A South Korean state agency that is jointly selling 51% of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) might reject bids from companies that did not support national interests. Korea Asset Management (KAM), which liquidates distressed assets at financial companies, plans to sell its stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding, which it owns ...

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    HHI inks four LPG carriers

    2005-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Hyundai Heavy Industries has won an order for two 60,000 m3 LPG carriers from Solvang and two 35,000 m3 LPG carriers from Itochu in Japan at the total contract price of $300 million.Ship particulars of Solvang vessels are 204.9m in length, 32.2m in breadth and 20.8m in depth with a ...

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    Semi-subs for Daewoo

    2005-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Daewoo Shipbuilding has captured a contact for two semi-submersible drilling rigs from Frigstad Offshore Drilling in Singapore at the price of $480 million.They will be delivered on December 2008 and June 2009 and deployed at Palawan in the Philippines. Dynamic positioning system and mooring system will be installed enabling the ...

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    N.L. shipyards potential winners in navy ship contract

    2005-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada could be the big winner in Ottawa's $1.8 billion plan to replace the navy's aging supply ships, as two of the four consortiums bidding on the project plan to utilize shipyards in that province. Canadian North Atlantic Marine Partnerships and BAE Systems Inc. both say ...

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    Petrobras opens bidding for large newbuild contract

    2005-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, opened bidding on more than $1 billion of contracts to build 26 oil tankers and other vessels as the company boosts its spending on domestic construction. The newbuilding contacts cover 10 Suezmax tankers, five Aframax tankers, four Panamax tankers, four product carriers and ...

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    LNG tanker fleet needs to expand dramatically

    2005-10-11T00:00:00Z

    The global fleet of LNG tankers needs to expand by 66% by 2010 to meet current and future demand from exporters including Qatar, Australia and Nigeria, according to LNG Shipping Solutions. About 205 carriers need to be ordered, adding to the 182 ships in service and 127 vessels already contracted ...

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    SCI poised to order VLCCs

    2005-10-11T00:00:00Z

    National flag carrier Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) will sign a contract with Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to acquire two 300,000 dwt VLCCs at a cost of $253 million. Delivery is scheduled for 2008. Apart from these two vessels, SCI is also planning to order two ...

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    Lubmarine outlines current marine lubes crisis

    2005-10-11T00:00:00Z

    TOTAL Lubmarine has outlined its position concerning increasing raw material costs and growing shortages of marine lubricants.Andrew Knox, Head of Marketing at TOTAL Lubmarine, says, "Recent events, even before Hurricane Katrina, and the force majeure declarations made by many suppliers after the hurricanes, have shown how tight the worldwide situation ...

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    New cats for India

    2005-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Ferry passengers travelling between a group of Indian islands in the Arabian Sea will soon benefit from a new high-speed catamaran passenger ferry service. The service will employ three new vessels designed by BMT Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Ltd, for India?s premier shipping line, the ...

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    NorSkan orders AHTS

    2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Aker Yards has been awarded a contract worth approximately $47.5 million by NorSkan Offshore Ltda., Brazil, to build an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel for delivery in April 2007. The shipyard involved in the construction is Promar and the newbuilding will be of the UT 722L design with a ...

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    Vietnam yard wins RoK contract

    2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

    The Pha Rung Shipyard Company, part of the Viet Nam Ship Building Industry Corporation (Vinashin), signed a contract to build five ships for the Forturne Marine Company of South Korea. The contract is Vinashin's first contract to export ships to Korea. The 6,500 dwt product tankers will measure 110 m ...

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    India signs Scorpene deal

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    India and France have signed a $3.5 billion contract for construction of six Scorpene submarines in India. The Indian Ministry of Defence said in a statement that the submarines will be built at state-owned Mazagon Docks, Mumbai. The first submarine will be ready for service by 2012, and the remainder ...

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    India signs Scorpene deal

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    India and France have signed a $3.5 billion contract for construction of six Scorpene submarines in India. The Indian Ministry of Defence said in a statement that the submarines will be built at state-owned Mazagon Docks, Mumbai. The first submarine will be ready for service by 2012, and the remainder ...

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    MAN B&W packages for Swire AHTS's

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    MAN B&W Diesel is to supply complete twin-screw medium speed propulsion packages for six 120 tonne bollard pull Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessels (AHTS). The vessels will be built at the Batam, Indonesia, yard of Singapore's Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering and will be operated by Swire Pacific Offshore Limited, Singapore. ...

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    Hanjin to set up JV in China

    2005-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Hanjin Shipping will construct ship repair joint venture in China. The shipping company said that it will invest $ 2 million to secure 50% share of the joint venture. An unknown shipping company in China will take the remaining 50% share. The ship repair facility will be constructed close to ...