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New cats for India
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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Dual fuelled Avant PSV
Norway's Eidesvik Offshore ASA group has ordered a second Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) of Vik Sandvik's innovative, superstructure aft AVANT design at a cost of $48.6 million. The new VS493 GASS AVANT will be LNG-fueled. The vessel will be marketed for long term North Sea and Barents Sea charters and ...
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Peace talks at Cammell Laird
Talks have started that could bring an end to a dispute that is halting ship repair work at the former Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead. The owner of the site, Reddington Finance, has opened discussions with Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders after months of deadlock between the two firms. The two ...
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STX to enter India
STX Group will actively enter into the shipping and shipbuilding market in India. Kang Deuk Soo, chairman of STX Group, had a meeting with Thalikottai Rajuthevar Baalu, minister of Maritime Transport Ministry in India, on 5 October and discussed cooperative measure for the development of shipbuilding industry of India. STX ...
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Wärtsilä power for six Keppel FELS offshore rigs
Wärtsilä Corporation has been awarded contracts with a total value of above 50 million EUR, by Keppel FELS Ltd in Singapore for 32 diesel generating sets to power four jack-up rigs and two semi-submersible drilling platforms. The combined output of these orders is about 115 MW. Wärtsilä will also supply ...
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FAR contract for newbuilding
Farstad Supply AS, a wholly owned company of Farstad Shipping ASA, has signed a contract with Aker Langsten AS, Tomrefjord, in Norway, for delivery of an anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) in June 2007. The vessel is of the new UT 732 CD design. Powered with 27.500 BHP, ...
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Daewoo develops LNG scaffolding
Daewoo Shipbuilding has developed a new scaffolding system for LNG tanks. The ever increasing orderbook for LNG carriers had led the shipbuilder to develop the new scaffolding for which a patent has been applied. The scaffolding is primarily designed for use inside LNG tanks to be installed on a 210,000-cu.m ...
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ET Marine launches SOx monitor
ET Marine in the UK has launched its own air quality monitor to measure sulphur dioxide (SO2) emitted by ships? engines ahead of a new IMO technical code for the emission of sulphurous gases. The SeaSox analyser uses the ultra violet florescence method to continuously measure emissions using a dilution ...
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ABS fleet reaches record high
The American classification society, ABS, has broken through the 120million gross ton mark to establish a new all time fleet record. ABS has benefited from the current active newbuilding market and a steady inflow of existing vessels changing class. With more than 1,400 vessels of almost 25 m gt currently ...
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NYK to expand LNG fleet
Nippon Yusen K.K., the largest Japanese shipping line, plans to order 20 new LNG carriers by 2010 and use five or six tankers for spot contracts, a change in strategy that may bring higher returns. The company will fund the purchase of 15 of the ships jointly with customers ...
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Virtu ferry delayed
Delivery of the new vessel ?Maria Dolores?, under construction at Austal Ships for Virtu Ferries in Malta, has been delayed until January 2006. Originally due for delivery in the middle of this year, the delay is reportedly due to a shortage of labour in Western Australia. The vessel will have ...
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Awilco orders rig from SembCorp
Singapore-based SembCorp Marine has secured a $144 million rig building contract from Norway's Awilco Offshore ASA. Under the deal, PPL Shipyard will construct a deep drilling offshore jack-up rig. Construction of the jack-up is expected to commence in the third quarter of 2005, with delivery scheduled at the end of ...
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Aker to build Island PSV
Aker Yards has signed a contract with Island Offshore VI K/S, a company within the Island Offshore Group in Ulsteinvik, Norway, to deliver a UT 776 E platform supply vessel. The value of the contract is $35.6 million. This is the 16th contract between the shipowner, Island Offshore Group in ...
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Japan offers slipway to Fiji
The Japanese government is interested in building a 4000-tonne slipway in Fiji next year, a project that is expected to save and generate millions of dollars for the Fijian government. The nation's sole slipway at Walu Bay operated by Fiji Ships and Heavy Industries Limited (FSHIL) can only cater for ...
