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Daehan wins European order
Daehan Shipbuilding Co, a South Korean shipbuilder, has won a $590 million order to build eight ships for a European company. Daehan, which is building a shipyard in the south-western part of the Korean peninsula and another in Indonesia, will build eight 175,000 DWT Capesize bulk carriers. Although the shipbuilder ...
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Turkish delight for Flensburger
U.N Ro-Ro, Istanbul, awarded contracts to Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft for two 3,735 lane metre RoRo vessels. The Turkish company has already ordered twelve vessels from Flensburger, of which ten have been delivered to date. Together with these two newbuildings U.N Ro-Ro has ordered in total 14 ships at Flensburger-Schiffbaugesellschaft. This is ...
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Foreign navies interested in LCS
The U.S. Navy said that foreign governments have expressed interest in buying into the new Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, creating the potential for the first foreign sale in 30 years of a U.S.-made military ship. A US Navy spokesman said there's interest in both the General Dynamics Corp. (GD) ...
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NGC receives approval for FT radars
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received type approval from the U.K. certification body QinetiQ for its new-generation marine radar systems. The QinetiQ type approval certifies that the new Sperry Marine VisionMaster FT radars conform to the technical specifications and performance standards of the United States Coastguard as well as the International ...
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EMEC welcomes EP report
The European Marine Equipment Council (EMEC), which represents more than 1,250 companies across Europe in the marine equipment sector, welcomes the draft EEuropean Parliament (EP TRAN) committee report from Luis de Grandes Pascual MEP, on the Commission?s Draft Classification Societies? Directive. The amendments proposed by the Rapporteur in the TRAN ...
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EPS thruster wins DMI award
The revolutionary EPS thruster by Van der Velden Marine Systems has won the 2006 Dutch Maritime Innovation (DMI) award. This completed a successful year for the EPS thruster which was already well respected after winning the DAME award at METS 2005 For the DMI award, the EPS thruster faced stiff ...
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Domestic yard loses survey vessel
Uncertainty again hangs over Appledore Shipbuilders in England with the loss of a hoped-for £30 million order which has been awarded to a Norwegian shipbuilder and sparking a Transatlantic row.Following the loss of this order, a local politician has condemned the role of KBR, the American owners of Appledore's parent ...
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Philippines plans fleet expansion
The Philippine government intends to borrow $1 billion from the Japanese government to develop the shipping industry, Economic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri said recently. The loan would come next year from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), the Philippines? biggest source of official development assistance, as part of the ...
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Halifax loses out on navy contract
A consortium trying to land a large shipbuilding contract in Halifax, Canada, is out of the running, a spokeswoman for one of the companies in the syndicate said. Irving official Mary Keith said the consortium learned last week that its proposal for the contract for Canadian navy ships was knocked ...
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STX clinches three PCs
STX Shipbuilding received orders for three 50,400 DWT product carrier. One vessel was ordered by ETA (Emirates Trading Agency) in Dubai for delivery in 2009. Ship particulars are a length of 183m, breadth of 32.2m and depth of 19.1m with service speed of 15.2 knots. The second order was from ...
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Offshore boom creates shipyard backlog
More than 100 new offshore drilling rigs and drill ships scheduled for delivery during the next few years will likely be late because of a backlog of shipyard work, said Mark Burns, Gulf of Mexico vice president and division manager at Noble Corp.Burns claims that the newbuildings will not be ...
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Labuan can do it
BAE Systems, which recently received a Letter of Intent to provide two frigates for the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) via an industrial partnership with Labuan Shipyard & Engineering Sdn Bhd (LSE), believes that the local firm can undertake the job once it has readied itself. LSE has been appointed by ...
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Quintana takes delivery of Coal Gypsy
The Greek shipping company Quintana Maritime has taken delivery of a Kamsarmax bulk carrier ?Coal Gypsy? from Tsuneishi Shipbuilding in Japan. The 82,300 dwt newbuilding is the ninth of fourteen Kamsarmax vessels the company has agreed to acquire from Metrobulk. Quintana Maritime has to date taken delivery of eleven vessels ...
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Continued growth for Korean shipbuilding exports
Korea's shipbuilding exports will gain 6.1% every year on average for the next 10 years thanks to its technological edge and brisk market, said a London-based market research unit. Having posted an annual two-digit growth since 1996, the nation's shipbuilding exports are projected to jump from $17.7 billion last year ...
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GL rejects BV bid
The Executive Board and Supervisory Board of Germanischer Lloyd (GL) advised their shareholders to reject the acquisition offer by Bureau Veritas (BV). It would neither meet the needs of the Society and its 3,200 employees, nor be in the best interests of the shareholders themselves.After due examination and assessment of ...
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Converteam and Vacon sign cooperation agreement
Converteam, an international company developing systems and customized solutions for the conversion of electrical energy, and the AC drives manufacturer Vacon have entered into a global cooperation agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Vacon will supply low voltage air-cooled AC drives to Converteam worldwide. This arrangement is in ...
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Korea Line orders three bulkers
Korea Line has ordered three Capesize bulk carriers from an unspecified shipbuilder at a total cost of about $200 million. Delivery is scheduled from 2010 to 2012.
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Taiwan builds first steel hulled megayacht
Jade Yachts Shipbuilding, based in Kaohsiung, is to deliver the first ever Taiwan built steel super yacht representing a technology breakthrough and milestone in the nation's shipbuilding sector. "We hope to take the shipbuilding industry in Taiwan to a higher level in terms of quantity and quality," Jade Yachts chairman ...
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Global orders CPPs from China
Global Carriers Bhd in Malaysia has placed an order for two 7,000 DWT double hull clean petroleum product (CPP) tankers from China's Ningbo Dongfang Shipyard. The vessels, priced at $9.98 million, are expected to be delivered in May and August 2008 respectively. The new double hull CPP tankers will be ...
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Pearl delivered
Meyer Werft delivered the 93,500 gt cruise ship "Norwegian Pearl" to Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line in the Dutch port of Eemshaven. The "Norwegian Pearl" is the third ship out of a series of four the Papenburg shipyard is building for NCL. The 2,394 passenger cruise ship combines modern event gastronomy ...
