{"id":2200,"date":"2005-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2005\/01\/06\/stx-develops-on-land-construction-ndh\/"},"modified":"2005-01-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T00:00:00","slug":"stx-develops-on-land-construction-ndh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/general-news\/stx-develops-on-land-construction-ndh\/","title":{"rendered":"STX develops on-land construction &#8211; ndh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STX Shipbuilding has developed a ?Skid Launching System? involving building ships in two sections on land. After each section has been constructed, the two are joined in a floating dock.<\/p>\n<p>STX recently moved half of a 47,000DWT product carrier ?High Courage? onto a floating ?skid barge? and will move the remaining section onto a barge and complete the vessel. The company expects that the new construction method will give it the ability to take on more orders without having to build a new building dock.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STX Shipbuilding has developed a ?Skid Launching System? involving building ships in two sections on land. After each section has been constructed, the two are joined in a floating dock. STX recently moved half of a 47,000DWT product carrier ?High Courage? onto a floating ?skid barge? and will move the remaining section onto a barge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}