{"id":2321,"date":"2006-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2006\/03\/13\/vinashin-and-macgregor-strengthen-co-operation\/"},"modified":"2006-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T00:00:00","slug":"vinashin-and-macgregor-strengthen-co-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/general-news\/vinashin-and-macgregor-strengthen-co-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinashin and MacGREGOR strengthen co-operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) and MacGREGOR are further strengthening their co-operation by signing a memorandum of agreement to establish a joint venture in Vietnam to produce ships? cranes and hatch covers. The parties had already previously co-operated closely in the manufacture of hatch covers at Vinashin?s Ben Kien shipyard.<\/p>\n<p>According to Markku Mattila, president of MacGregor?s Asian operations: &#8220;Vinashin will spearhead Vietnam?s entry into shipbuilding and is expected to become a major exporter within the next 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the five years up to 2005, Vinashin is reported to have invested D4.21 trillion ($280 million) in strengthening technology and increasing the volume of local content which is currently around 40% of ship content.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) and MacGREGOR are further strengthening their co-operation by signing a memorandum of agreement to establish a joint venture in Vietnam to produce ships? cranes and hatch covers. The parties had already previously co-operated closely in the manufacture of hatch covers at Vinashin?s Ben Kien shipyard. According to Markku Mattila, president [&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-2321","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\/2321","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=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}