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Preparation and expertise
The closing weeks of last year saw the completion of two demanding ocean towage and heavy transportation assignments by Rotterdam-based Fairmount Marine. The company completed its project management contract for the delivery of Shell?s Bonga ? the world?s largest FPSO ? from the UK to Nigeria. Two weeks later, a ...
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Videotel warns of gas tanker crew shortages
Videotel, the London-based training company, has produced three new distance-learning courses for specialised training on oil tankers, liquefied gas carriers and chemical tankers to follow on from its existing tanker familiarisation course. Liquefied gas tankers are a fast-expanding sector of the maritime business but the sector requires competent seafarers with ...
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FESCO orders box ship quartet
Vladivostok-based Far-Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) has signed contracts with Chinese shipbuilder Jinling Shipyard to construct four 1,080TEU containerships. Deliveries are scheduled for March, September, November and December 2006. These newbuildings will be the fastest in the Russian company?s fleet with a service speed of 19.6 knots and will serve their ...
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Shanghai and Chengxi merge
Shanghai Shipyard and Chengxi Shipyard in Jiangsu, China, merged recently to form a combined newbuilding and ship repair company called Shanghai Chengxi Shipyard. Shanghai Shipyard has an annual shipbuilding capacity of 200,000DWT and a ship repair turnover of value of $24 million while Chengxi Shipyard focuses mainly on ship repair. ...
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Hyundai Samho gets weather wise
Hyundai Samho Shipyard in South Korea has established an automatic weather observation system (AWS) to improve production efficiency through providing detailed weather information. This will enable the Mokpo-based shipbuilder to cope better with the vagaries of weather conditions and improve outdoor works such as coating and sea-trials.
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Order revival for a contracting industry
While traditional newbuild markets for Dutch yards become weaker, there is optimisim that financial incentives will throw a vital lifeline to new orders.Dutch shipyards have shown considerable resolve in being able to compete with other European yards despite an often lower subsidy level. With less government aid, they were forced ...
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Remontowa diversifies
Remontowa has recently purchased a 200 ton capacity floating crane. REM-220 was built in the Flender Werft yard and comes with its own propulsion system in that form of two Schottel propulsors and a tubular rudder, which ensures excellent manoeuvring characteristics in shipyard?s canals. The maximum speed of the crane ...
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A&P ready for ISPS
The A&P Group has announced that all its facilities are now certificated under the ISPS Code, which was introduced to bring shiprepair and shipbuilding yards up to the same level of certified security as ports and terminals. Facilities include shipyards at Wallsend, Hebburn, Aberdeen, Teesside, Chatham Dover, Ramsgate, Southampton, Falmouth ...
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IACS Joint Bulker Project proposes common rules
Common rules for bulk carriers have taken another step forward as the IACS Joint Bulker Project (JBP) team have made a series of presentations to shipowners, seeking industry input to the rules.The JBP is made up of BV, CCS, ClassNK, GL, KR, RINA and RS. The aim of JBP is ...
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Cape Africa gets lightened
Over the weekend, salvors have begun the long and expensive operation to get the damaged 150,000 DWT Capesize bulker Cape Africa repaired and on her way again. The Klaveness owned 46,996 gt trans-shipment vessel Bandar began removing the iron ore cargo from the Cape Africa, which has been anchored in ...
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Labroy secures cement carrier newbuilding
The Singapore shipyard Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering has secured a shipbuilding contract worth $23.6 million to build a 20,200 DWT single screw cement carrier for delivery in April 2006. The yard did not disclose further details of the contract. Tan Boy Tee, chairman and managing director of Labroy Marine, said ...
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French offer answer to challenges from Asian yards
A French parliamentary report has urged a consolidation in the European shipbuilding sector in order to meet the strong competition from Asian shipbuilders. The report claims that the shipbuilding industry in Europe remains too dispersed but nonetheless offers real consolidation opportunities at the European level based on the aeronautic model, ...
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EU tells shipowners to cut down on SO2
The European Union recently agreed to require owners of sea-going ships to make deep cuts in sulphur dioxide emissions starting in 2006. The requirements, to begin in 2007, will apply to international shipping entering EU ports. EU officials called the move long overdue, saying the shipping industry was a serious ...
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Bergesen selects APL?s ETP system for FPSO Project
Bergesen d.y. ASA has awarded Advanced Production and Loading AS (APL) an EPC contract for the Single Point Mooring (SPM) system to the Chinguetti oil field development located off the coast of Mauritania, North West Africa. APL will supply an External Turret Production system (ETP) for permanent mooring of the ...
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A century for STX
STX Shipbuilding in South Korea has delivered its 100th newbuilding from its Jinhae yard which was opened in 1996. The ship, named Antigmar, is a 45,800DWT product carrier ordered by Stelmar Shipping in Greece. Measuring 183 metres long and 32.2 metres wide with a depth of 19.1 metres, it has ...
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Universal clinches two bulkers
Universal Shipbuilding in Japan secured an order for two Capesize bulk carriers from domestic ship owner Shinwa Kaiun Kaisha. One of the bulkers is a 297,000DWT vessel measuring 327 metres long, 55 metres wide, a draught of 21.40 metres and scheduled for delivery in January 2009. The other bulker ...
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ADSB signs contracts with UAE Armed Forces
Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB) has signed three new major contracts with the UAE Armed Forces worth Dh180 million ($49 million). These new contracts add to the growing backlog of naval work already underway at ADSB, as reported a few months ago. The shipbuilding and ship repair company won an ...
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Convergence of naval and commercial shipbuilding standards
Traditionally, naval ships were designed by individual navies to their own rules, through their autonomous engineering houses. Today they are progressively being designed to commercial standards.In an address to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority?s ?Natship? conference, John Dikkenberg, business manager for the Anzac Alliance, said a revolution was occurring in ...
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Evergreen plans massive fleet expansion
Evergreen Marine, Taiwan's largest shipping company, is set for a massive expansion of its containership fleet with plans to order 54 vessels during the next 10 years. This is in addition to the 10 boxships the company has ordered from Japanese shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. It is estimated that the ...
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POSCO ups steel prices
POSCO, Korea's largest steel maker, will raise prices of steel plates used for shipbuilding for a third time this year because of rising demand. Prices will increase by 9% to $477 per metric ton on July 5. This will take the total increase for this year to 38%. "Demand for ...
