All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1043
-
News
Vietnamese get Japanese order
A Vietnamese shipbuilding company has won a $17 million contract to build two 8,700 tonne freighters for Tokyo-based Kanematsu Corporation, one of Japan?s leading general trading firms.The Ben Kien Shipyard, based in northern port city of Hai Phong and a subsidiary of state-owned Vinashin, is scheduled to deliver the first ...
-
News
Fiji Shipyard restructures
The Fiji Ships and Heavy Industries Limited shipyard (FSHIL) will be leased out and the slipway upgraded as part of plans to restructure the organisation. Amid calls for the state-owned entity to be closed down or sold, FSHIL said it would continue to be operational in view of its strategic ...
-
News
Mangalia to sign deal with Hamburg Sud
Romanian shipyard Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries (DMHI) will sign on Friday a deal worth more than $500 million with German Hamburg Sud to build six 5,200TEU container ships. DMHI is in talks with another German company, Gebab, to build four container ships in a deal worth up to $260 million. ...
-
News
INTERTANKO voices its concerns
INTERTANKO supports the investigation and prosecution of illegal discharges of oil from ships but strongly objects to criminalising accidental oil pollution and to treating seafarers as criminals Any criminal offence of pollution from a ship must be clearly defined and in accordance with international law and any penalties imposed on ...
-
News
Malaysia concerned at navy contract delay
Calls are being made for an enquiry into the delay of the RM24.3 billion contract to build 27 high-tech naval vessels for the Malaysian navy amidst warnings that it was affecting the navy's ability to operate effectively. The problem centres on PSC Naval Dockyard Sdn. Bhd. which was scheduled to ...
-
News
Wuhan to build crankshaft factory
Wuhan Marine Machinery Plant in China will build a crankshaft factory in Qingdao at a cost of $24 million. It will take two years for the project to be completed and will have an annual capacity of 50 crankshafts.
-
News
FSG launches another Turkish ro-ro
The second of four ro-ro vessels for the Turkish customer U.N Ro-Ro will be named and launched from the building berth at Flensburger Schiffbau. The 193 metre long newbuilding, to be named "U.N Marmara", has 3,735 lane metres and a service speed of 21.5 knots.U.N Ro-Ro was the first shipping ...
-
News
Battle for Akpo FPSO
The French firm Technip and the Italian firm Saipem are battling for the $1 billion contract to build the FPSO vessel for the huge Akpo deep offshore field off Nigeria. Industry sources indicate that contracts for the construction of the 2 million barrel FPSO might be awarded this week.Making a ...
-
News
First newbuilding for "K" Line Europe
"K" Line (Europe) Limited has taken delivery of its first newbuilding, the 185,500dwt bulk carrier Cape Riviera. Built at Kawasaki Shipbuilding in Japan, the bulker is the first of three sisters due to join the "K" Line Europe fleet. The shipping company has also announced a major fleet expansion for ...
-
News
EU pollution requirements could harm trade
The Union of Greek Shipowners warned that EU pressure on shipowners to shoulder progressively stricter anti-pollution safeguards will end up undermining a vital industry and encourage law-abiding operators to skirt regulations,. In a speech at the recent Intertanko conference in Piraeus, union chairman Nikos Efthymiou also said the EU's toughening ...
-
News
Far East shipbuilders win more boxships
Following their recent order for five 8,200TEU container ships, Yang Ming, the Taiwanese carrier, has now placed a contract with China Shipbuilding Corporation, for five 4,250TEU vessels with the same shipbuilder. The lead ship will be delivered during the third quarter 2008 and will be deployed on the Asia/North America ...
-
News
Halliburton bags Agbami contract
The US-based KBR oil services firm, a subsidiary of Halliburton, has won the engineering, design and procurement contract for the Agbami FPSO?s topsides. KBR said in a statement that it was handed the job by the Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering which was awarded the $1.1 billion engineering, ...
-
News
Vietnam wins more orders
The Swiss-German company Proftech International has placed an order for two 37,600DWT handy-size bulkers with Vinashin, Vietnam?s state-owned shipbuilder. The newbuildings will be built at Vinashin?s Bach Dang shipyard and are scheduled for delivery in July 2007 and May 2008. The identity of the shipowner is not known but industry ...
-
News
Gulf Marine relocates shipyard
The former Tampa Electric Hooker's Point power plant site is the new site for Gulf Marine?s shipyard facility. Gulf Marine plans to relocate most of its shipyard operations at the Port of Tampa to the 32-acre site over the next 12 to 18 months. The company is currently involved in ...
-
News
EC says no to Italian scheme
After an in-depth investigation, the European Commission has prohibited the implementation of an Italian aid scheme designed to cover the risk of loans for the construction and conversion of ships in Italian yards, because it is incompatible with EC Treaty state aid rules that prohibit aid liable to distort competition ...
-
News
GE receives GL certification
GE Transportation?s marine business announced it has received certification from Germanischer Lloyd (GL) for its 8, 12 and 16 cylinder, medium-speed diesel engines. "By obtaining the prestigious Germanischer Lloyd certification, we continue to reinforce GE?s commitment to offering customers low life cycle cost diesel engines that can operate on inland ...
-
News
Wärtsilä DF engines get gas boost
Wärtsilä has received a major order to supply twenty-four Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines to Samsung Heavy Industries of Korea. These engines will power a series of six 155,000 m3 dual-fuel-electric LNG carriers. Four of these ships were ordered by A.P. M?ller of Denmark, while Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Line) of ...
-
News
Russia?s big two to co-operate
Russia?s two largest shipbuilders are joining forces after years of rivalry in an effort to rationalize shipyard facilities in a shrinking market. St. Petersburg-based Baltiisky Zavod, builders of warships for more than a century, will withdraw from defence contracts and concentrate on building commercial ships while rival Severnaya Verf will ...
-
News
EU will not appeal
The European Union has decided against appealing a World Trade Organisation ruling on its dispute with South Korea over shipbuilding subsidies paid by Seoul, despite ongoing controversy over the outcome. The EU accepted the ruling made last month, during a meeting of the WTO's Disputes Settlement Body, a source close ...
-
News
A&P and MES strategic partnership
A&P Group and Marine Exhaust Solutions (MES), a subsidiary of Diversified Metal Engineering, of Canada, have announced a strategic partnership that will deliver groundbreaking abatement technology to the marine industry in time for Marpol Annex VI.By replacing the silencer in a ships engine exhaust stack, the MES EcoSilencer technology reduces ...
