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Navy halts Lockheed contract
The US Navy ordered Lockheed Martin to stop work on a $260 million littoral combat ship (LCS) after the company warned of a significant cost increase that has also spurred the service to reconsider the way it purchases the vessels. The unusual order, which lasts 90 days, is a blow ...
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Alaska builds E-Craft
Alaska Ship & Drydock (ASD) in Ketchikan is getting ready to start construction of an unusual vessel called the 'E-craft?. Now officially named the ?Susitna?, the E-Craft is an experimental prototype being constructed on behalf of the U.S. Office of Naval Research. ONR will be testing the design's capabilities for ...
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AFL-CIO blocks kit-ships
The Metal Trades Department of the AFL-CIO has sued the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to block controversial rulings that violate the 80-year-old Jones Act to allow U.S. shipbuilders to mass produce so-called "kit-ships." The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charges that a ...
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Crowley christens heavy-lift deck barge
Crowley Maritime Corporation in the US has christened Marty J, the first of three Heavy Lift 455 Series barges under construction at Gunderson Marine in Portland, Oregon. The three 123 metre by 32.20 metre deck barges are being built to be utilized for project work in the offshore energy industry ...
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Russia manufactures its largest propeller
The propeller, which is the largest in Russian shipbuilding history, has a diameter of 8.20 m and was manufactured at the naval shipyard 'Zvezdochka' in the city of Severodvinsk. Made in stainless steel and weighing about 50 tonnes, the propeller is intended for an arctic tanker under construction at Hyundai ...
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Iran orders Korean Seuzmax
Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries received an order from Irano Hind Shipping Co. of Iran for a 159,000 dwt crude oil tanker. The Suezmax will measure 274m in length, 48m in width and 23.1m in depth with a service speed of 15.4 knots.The new regulation and requirement, i.e. CSR (Common Structural ...
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SLS wins four PCs
SLS Shipbuilding in South Korea won an order for four 51,000DWT product carriers from ST Shipping & Transport in Singapore. They will be delivered from 2008 to early 2009. The new order also attaches two more options.
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Dutch give up Orsova
Dutch firm Rensen Beheer, specialising in building and selling fluvial vessels, sold its entire 16.8% stake in Orsova Shipyard (SNO) in Romania according to Constantin Badoiu, general manager of the SNO. Badoiu did not specify who the buyer was.The Dutch collected over 2.5 million euros for the stake they held. ...
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Halifax gets shipbuilding job
Halifax Capital Bhd in Malaysia has won a shipbuilding contract worth about $23.2 million from PT Kasih Industri Indonesia. Under the deal, the company would supply four sets of tugs and barges to Kasih Industri. The vessels would be completed and delivered within two years. In a separate statement, Halifax ...
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Halmatic jobs to be axed
Portchester-based VT Halmatic has told workers that up to 130 of the 270-strong workforce could be made redundant. The business has been under threat for some months and has now announced it is to cut costs by making fewer types of boats and reducing the workforce.VT Shipbuilding managing director, Geoff ...
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Motia takes delivery of newbuilds
Venice-based tanker operator Motia Compagnia di Navigazione has taken delivery of two state of the art 35,000 dwt IMO Type II chemical/product tankers. The vessels, named Alice and Aurora, were built by Korea's STX Shipbuilding Co and will enter service with the Handy tankers pool.Antonio Zacchello, managing director of Motia, ...
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Wärtsilä offers SOx scrubbing technology
Wärtsilä Corporation initiated in 2006 a two-year development project to test scrubbing plant for removing sulphur oxides (SOx) from the exhaust gases of marine diesel engines and oil-fired boilers. The project involves testing of scrubbing equipment on marine engines burning typical grades of heavy fuel oil. The objective of ...
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Aker in Vietnam JV
Aker Yards is taking a strategic position in the fast growing Asian market for offshore vessels by setting up a shipyard in Vietnam. The shipyard will be a joint venture between Aker Yards (70%) and Amanda Group (30%). The Amanda Group with headquarter in Singapore has extensive industrial experience in ...
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Panama Canal expansion
Following the recent referendum in which the people of the Republic of Panama voted 78% in favour President Martin Torrijos? plans to start work this year on ambitious expansion plans for the Panama Canal, the news is that international tenders are to be invited soon for the initial stages of ...
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Celebrity Eclipse named
Miami-based Celebrity Cruises has announced the name of the third "celestial" ship in its 118,000 gt Solstice-class fleet. The 2,850 passenger Celebrity Eclipse will make its maiden voyage in 2010, following sister ships Celebrity Solstice in 2008 and Celebrity Equinox in 2009, bringing the Celebrity fleet to 13 ships. All ...
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Aquabus on course for Dubai
Waterbuses designed in Wales could soon be running passenger services around the rapidly-expanding city of Dubai. Aquabus Water Transport Solutions (AWTS) of Cardiff is competing to win the contract to replace many of the 300 small vessels which today transport the city's inhabitants.A delegation of the Dubai Road & Traffic ...
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IHC rents Alblas yard
IHC Holland Merwede is renting the former Dutch shipbuilder Alblas Scheepsbouw B.V. in Hendrik Ido Ambacht. The deal includes bringing the employees of the Alblas yard in the employment of IHC Holland Dredgers in Kinderdijk although they will remain at Hendrik Ido Ambacht.IHC-Alblas will undertake the construction of ship blocks ...
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Unifleet orders ice tanker octet
The Dutch shipping company Unifleet, a subsidiary of the Heuvelman Shipping Group, has placed a newbuilding order for eight chemical/product tankers with two Chinese shipyards at a total cost exceeding $130 million. One yard will build four units of 4.500 m³ and the other yard four units of 8.500 m³. ...
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Top 3 shipbuilders target $36 billion
Korea's three major shipbuilders have set a target of $36 billion in ship orders this year, slightly down from last year's record $37.4 billion. The figure was calculated based on an expected decline in orders and a fall in contract prices. Hyundai Heavy Industries expects $13 billion in orders of ...
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Shipbuilding facility to rise in Subic
A modern domestic shipbuilding facility will soon rise in Subic Bay Freeport, Philippines, as part of the government?s Investment Priority Plan. Government officials say there is a pressing need to build about 18 new tankers by next year for the use of local shipping operators, through a lease-to-own scheme. The ...
