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Norway shows the way
Next month, the shipping and marine engineering community will be travelling to Norway (after having spent a couple of days in Denmark, at our conference of course).
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NewsNorway's AISSat-1 satellite starts mission
The AISSat-1 was launched successfully from India in July. The satellite, with payload developed by Kongsberg Seatex has begun transmitting AIS messages from space to earth via Kongsberg Satellite Services'' ground station at Svalbard.
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UK and Norway shipowners back emissions trading
The shipping industry associations of Australia, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and the UK have launched a discussion paper detailing a practical solution for reducing CO2 through emissions trading. "It is important that legislators and regulators find a practical way of including shipping in the international work to reduce global warming," said ...
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Norway gets first newbuilding contract since November
Fosen Namsos has awarded the first newbuild contract in Norway since November 2008 to Fiskerstrand BLRT. The shipbuilder, which is a subsidiary of the BLRT Grupp, is a joint venture with Fiskerstrand Verft. The contract is for a standard double-ender ferry powered by a gas fuelled propulsion system. The vessel ...
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Norway investing in Philippine shipyard project
A Norwegian firm will invest $4.3 million in the construction of a shipyard in Subic Bay Freeport in the Philippines, further boosting the capability of this former naval base for maritime logistics and services. The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) signed recently an agreement with the Subic Bay Shipyard Consortium ...
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Norway to build field support vessels in Russia
Norway's KS North Sea Rescue AS has chosen an IMT 955-N design for a series of six Field Support Vessels (FSV) to be built at the Yaroslavsky Shipbuilding Plant, Russia. The vessels are a modified version of the IMT Marine Consultants IMT 955 design of which nine are currently building ...
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Bharati gets repeat orders from Norway
Indian shipbuilder Bharati Shipyard has received repeat orders worth $43.40 million from Norway-based Sea Cargo Skips AS for the design, construction and supply of two ro-ro/pallet/container vessels. The company said the 5,800 DWT vessels will operate between the various ports in Scandinavia and the UK. 'With this, our total order ...
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Norway pledges aid for shipbuilding
Norway is committed to supporting a project aimed at boosting technology and improving management and product quality control at the Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin). An agreement on the project was signed recently between Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and the Norwegian Ambassador to Viet Nam ...
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Cosco wins contracts from Belgium and Norway
COSCO Corp Singapore said its 51%-owned unit, COSCO Shipyard Group, has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Belgium and conversion contracts for five semi-submersible heavy lift vessels from Norway worth a total of $195.3 million. COSCO Shipyard secured the $38.2 million EPC deal from Belgian firm Exmar ...
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INTERTANKO welcomes Norway's action
Norway recently passed national legislation which will ensure that the IMO?s International Convention for the Control and Management for Ships? Ballast Water will be implemented for ships entering Norwegian waters by the end of 2007. INTERTANKO welcomes this bold move by the Norwegian administration, which goes with the country?s formal ...
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Schat-Harding acquires CleanHull Norway
SCHAT-Harding, the world's leading supplier of lifeboats and davits, has purchased the hull cleaning company CleanHull Norway AS from a group of Norwegian venture investors. CleanHull Norway AS offers cost-effective and environmentally-friendly ship hull cleaning solutions to its customers. The CleanROV-concept is based on well-established underwater vehicles and technology developed ...
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Daewoo wins orders from Norway and Greece
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has won orders from Norway and Greece worth $530 million. The shipbuilder secured an order from Norway's Odfjell Invest I Ltd to build a semi-submersible drilling rig and a deal from Kristen Navigation of Greece to build a 320,000 DWT VLCC, taking its order book ...
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Norway and Viet Nam cooperate in shipbuilding
"Norway will increase cooperation with Viet Nam in shipbuilding", said Marianne Lie, Director General of the Norwegian Ship-owners Association, who is among 130 business executives accompanying the Norwegian Royalty on a five-day visit to Viet Nam.Regarding Vietnamese - Norwegian business cooperation, this would develop and increase in the next few ...
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RR opens new marine propulsion service and training facility in Norway
A new service workshop has been opened at the Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine site in Ulsteinvik on the west of Norway. This will be the centre of excellence in the North Sea area for servicing and repair of thrusters and propulsion equipment.The 3,000m2 hall is fully equipped with cranes and also ...
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Rugged Australians for Norway?s worst
Image Marine, the Fremantle-based shipbuilder and part of the Austal Ships Group, has built its first vessels for the European market. This is particularly notable since Norway ? the destination of the vessels ? is a traditional home for fast ferry design, construction and operation. The two fast catamaran passenger-cargo ...
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Norway boiler suffering from ?significant material failure?
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigations into a boiler explosion on the Norwegian Cruise Line vessel Norway, which killed seven crewmembers and injured about twice that number, have found a water wall header suffering from significant material failure.The pace of the investigation has been slowed by the need to protect ...
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Norway issues demarche against Spain
Norway has issued a demarche against Spain for what it sees as an invasion of its sovereignty following the recent exclusion by Spanish authorities of two Norwegian flag ships from Spain?s 200 mile coastal zone. The demarche was in the form of a formal note sent by the Norwegian government ...
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Norway leads on ports of refuge
Norwegian authorities are better prepared than most to reach a "quick and rational" decision on whether a vessel in distress should be sent further out to sea or allowed to enter a place of refuge, according to a leading maritime lawyer.Trond Eilertsen, a partner at Oslo-based law firm Wikborg Rein, ...
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Norway: The World comes to Fosen
Norway: The World comes to Fosen Fosen Mekaniske Verksteder shipyard in Norway has confirmed that it has been awarded the much anticipated contract to build The World of ResidenSea, the 40,000g residential cruise vessel. Due for delivery in December 2001 at a price tag of $260 million, The ...
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