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Indian coast guard job for Rolls-Royce
ABG Shipyard, the largest private yard in India, has selected Rolls-Royce to design and provide equipment for three Indian Coast Guard ships which will prepare it to combat potential environmental crises ? particularly oil spills.The ships, which will feature a range of Rolls-Royce propulsion, steering and motion control equipment, are ...
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Izar reaches agreement with unions
Spanish shipyard workers and employers reached a basic agreement yesterday to save the jobs of 10,700 workers. The future of 10 yards controlled by Izar shipyards, owned by government industrial holding company SEPI, has hung in the balance amid European Union demands that Izar repays 300 million euros ($372.8 million) ...
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Mipo wins 15 more product carriers
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea secured orders for 11 product carriers plus four options from three ship owners valued at $550 million. Four 46,000DWT product carriers from National Chemical Carriers in Saudi Arabia, four 47,000DWT and five 37,000DWT product carriers from Gulf Energy Maritime in UAE, and two 37,000DWT ...
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Boxship quartet for Hanjin
Hanjin Heavy Industries picked up an order for four 5,100TEU container ships from Cosco at the total price of $ 280 million. Ship particulars are 294.1m long, 32.2m wide with a depth of 21.6m and a speed of 24.3 knots. Deliveries will take place from second half of 2007 to ...
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Vinashin expands with Chinese loans
Vietnam's largest shipbuilder, Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin), has obtained preferential loans from China amounting to $99.8 million to construct a large shipyard in the central region. Scheduled to become operational in 2008, the Dung Quat shipyard in the province of Quang Ngai will be able to build seagoing vessels ...
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Halter launches PCTC
V-T Halter Marine has launched a 178 metre vessel designed to transport more than 3,000 vehicles between California and Hawaii. The M-V Jean Anne is the first of its kind to be built in the United States. The ship is owned by Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines, a joint venture between ...
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Work on Longxue shipyard started
Construction work has commenced on the Longxue shipbuilding facility, South China?s largest shipbuilding base. The new shipyard complex will aim to be among the top shipbuilders in the world as well as being the biggest shipyard in South China. According to the plan, the first-phase task is to build two ...
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Tenders open for Australian Navy shipbuilding contract
Australian shipbuilders have been invited to tender for one of the countries? largest defence projects. The Federal Government has advertised for majority Australian-owned companies to construct three air warfare destroyers in a project worth between $4.5 billion and $6 billion. The tenders would remain open for about nine weeks before ...
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Aker Yards to build two PSV's for Siem Offshore
Aker Langsten, a company in the Aker Yards Group, and Siem Offshore Inc have entered into a contract to build two platform supply vessels (PSV's). The value of the newbuilding contract is approximately NOK 250 million ($35 million). "We are very pleased to have Siem Offshore as a new partner ...
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AIDA Cruises orders two new Club Ships
The German cruise operator AIDA Cruises (Rostock/Neu-Isenburg) has placed contracts with Meyer Werft in Papenburg for the construction of two 68,500 gt cruise ships. Delivery of the two newbuildings is scheduled for April 2007 and April 2009 respectively. These contracts will considerably improve the workload situation of the shipyard for ...
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Ten more for Daewoo
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), the world's second-largest shipbuilder, has clinched orders worth $1.2 billion for 10 ships from overseas shipping companies. DSME signed a deal with the Swedish car carrier Wallenius Lines for three 8,000 unit car carriers. These will be the largest of their kind. In a ...
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SES wins component contract for electric thruster motors
Scandinavian Electric Systems (SES) has entered a frame agreement with Rolls-Royce Marine for supply of low-voltage electric motors, motor starters and frequency convertersAfter evaluating a number of potential suppliers, Rolls-Royce Marine has selected Scandinavian Electric Systems (SES) as a supplier of motors and starters for Rolls-Royce Marine?s thruster systems. A ...
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Aker Yards sign LOI for three boxships
Aker Finnyards, a part of Aker Yards, has signed a Letter of Intent with the Swedish B & N Nordsjöfrakt for building three container carriers. The contract, worth in all approximately $188 million, will provide about 1,000 man-years of work. All three vessels are planned for delivery in 2006. "We ...
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News from Korea
On October 7, Hyundai Heavy Industries launched a 105,000DWT tanker built on land. She was ordered from Novoship in Russia and will be delivered by January next year. She is the first ship built on land. The South Korean shipbuilder will build a total of 16 ships on land. They ...
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Wrecking development
Hundreds of sunken ships ranging from large freighters and tankers to small tugs and dhows are blocking access to Iraq's principal seaports and threatening the marine environment of the northern Gulf, shows a detailed report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).A systematic survey of the ports of Umm Qasr ...
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Used subs
The Victoria-class submarine HMCS Chicoutimi, nee HMS Upholder, suffered two separate fires while cruising northwest of Ireland, on its maiden voyage as a Canadian boat after a formal handover last weekend. The 57-man crew was left shivering and wallowing on the surface in rough seas when she lost all power.Royal ...
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Extra safety
Emergency Towing Systems (ETS) are not yet mandatory on ships other than tankers greater than 20.000 t dwt as proposed in the IMO DE 47 document, however, the Italian owner of container ships ? Ignazio Messina & C SPA - has decided to install ETS. on 15 of its ships ...
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NewsShiprepair boom
Cosco Corp. Singapore expects its shiprepair business to account for about 70% of total revenue in the next 1 or 2 years after its recent acquisition of a shipyard in China, company President Ji Hai Sheng said recently. Cosco Corp., a unit of China's largest shipping conglomerate, COSCO Shipping Co. ...
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Volvo Penta diesels for Brazil
Volvo Penta Brazil has received orders for auxiliary engines and complete genset systems from two shipyards in Rio de Janeiro which build and refit ships under contract to Companhia de Navega??o Norsul, one of Brazil?s largest privately-owned shipping companies.The Volvo Penta order comprises 15 34-litre auxiliary diesel engines, three 16-litre ...
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Keeping it cool
Norwegian specialist Kongsberg has introduced a new bearing temperature monitoring system for two-stroke engines. The development of BearingMaster follows the April 2004 launch of GB-100 Sentry, a new wireless monitoring system for rotary machinery applications. BearingMaster is based on the company?s DataChief and AutoChief automation systems, and is said to ...
