All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1056
-
News
K"Line orders LPG duo
Following the signing of a long-term time charter for two gas carriers with Yara, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K"Line) has ordered two 38,000 cubic metre, fully refrigerated ammonia/LPG carriers from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea. These are "K"Line?s first contracts for this type of gas carrier.Since ammonia has ...
-
News
White collar jobs face axe
There are fears that up to 100 design jobs could go at Barrow shipyard by April unless the government comes up with stopgap work. During the year there has been concern for that hundreds of vital design and drawing office jobs in Barrow will be threatened unless more work is ...
-
News
Aker gets Olympic PSV
Aker Brevik AS, a company in the Aker Yards Group, has been awarded a contract by Olympic Kombiskip KS, in Fosnavåg, Norway, to deliver a platform supply vessel of the UT 755LN type. The contract is worth approximately NOK 125 million ($20.2 million). Aker Yards already has 10 ships of ...
-
News
Posco ups steel price again
POSCO will raise prices of its steel plates and hot-rolled coil to Japan by as much as 5,000 yen ($48) a tonne in the first quarter as demand from China pushes up prices. Korea?s largest steel maker will raise prices of steel plates used in construction and other purposes excluding ...
-
News
Wartsila powers LNG newbuild
Wärtsilä has received an order from Alstom Chantiers de l'Atlantique of France to supply one set of Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines to power the 154,000 m3 dual-fuel-electric LNG carrier Gaselys. This newbuilding was ordered a few months ago by a joint-venture between Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) of Japan and Gaz ...
-
News
Labroy cement order
Labroy Shipbuilding and Engineering in Batam Island, Indonesia, a subsidiary of the Singapore-based Labroy Marine, has won a new shipbuilding contract worth $23.1 million from Norway's Belden Shipping Group. It is a repeat order for a 20,200DWT cement carrier to be delivered in October 2006.
-
News
Samsung develops mega boxship
Samsung Heavy Industries has developed a 12,000TEU container ship design which it is now actively marketing. As the largest container carrier to date, the vessel will have a length of 383m and sail at the speed of 26 knots powered by a 109,000 bhp (80,080kW) two stroke MAN B&W 14K98ME ...
-
News
Kawasaki wins LNG orders
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) is to build and operate two LNG carriers for use by Osaka Gas Company to import LNG, and has concluded a shipbuilding contract with Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation. The first carrier is scheduled to be completed in December 2008, and the second carrier is due for completion ...
-
News
Hamworthy hits LNG jackpot
Hamworthy has won orders and a letter of intent totalling £48 million ($92 million) to supply eight LNG reliquefaction systems to the first LNG carriers to use slow-speed diesel propulsion engines. The newbuildings, which are the world?s largest LNG carriers, were ordered from Korean shipbuilders. Hamworthy plc has won orders ...
-
News
Daewoo in expansion mood
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), South Korea's most profitable shipbuilder, is planning to expand its global network through acquisitions. "We are considering boosting our overseas presence by acquiring small and medium shipbuilders in China, Brazil and Angola," DSME president Jung Sung-leep said.DSME, the second-largest shipbuilder in the world, acquired ...
-
News
Aker Yards signs up sextet
Aker Brevik, a part of Aker Yards ASA, has signed a contract to build six 18,000 m3 product-tankers with six Cyprus-based single purpose companies. The 15,000 DWT vessels are to be built at Aker Braila in Romania and the total contract value is around EUR 130 million ($176 million).The design ...
-
News
Cosco orders 300,000DWT bulker pair
COSCO Hong Kong Group has placed an order for two 300,000 DWT bulk carriers with the Japanese shipbuilders Universal Shipbuilding and Sumitomo. The two newbuildings will be used to ship ore products for the Shanghai Bao Steel Group.
-
News
Titan to expand fleet
Hong Kong oil trader, Titan Petrochemicals Group, has signed a one-year contract with China's Zhuhai Zhenrong that will give it access to 3 million metric tonnes of Iranian fuel oil, valued at $600 million, for trading. Under the renewable contract, Titan will transport the fuel oil from Iran and then ...
-
News
Japan develops silencer
The Japanese NMRI (National Maritime Research Institute) and fire protecting door and noise-proof package manufacturer Taiko Sangyo have developed a new silencer system that dampens low frequency noise from diesel engines. This noise pollution emanates from ships berthed in port areas and is particularly noticeable at night when the humming ...
-
News
CSISC challenges V-Ships
China's largest ship-management company plans to launch a global challenge to its competitors. "Our purpose is to catch up with the world's largest V-Ships Company," said Wang Xiangyun, Party secretary of the newly established China Shipping International Ship management Co Ltd (CSISC). CSISC is aiming to manage several hundred ...
-
News
POSCO and big three in steel study
POSCO, South Korea's largest steel maker has agreed with the country's three largest shipbuilders, Hyundai, Daewoo and Samsung, to set up a joint study group for the development of steel products for ships. The group will also study ways to improve the quality of thermo mechanical control process (TCMP) steel, ...
-
News
ABS gets Argentina cabotage authorisation
ABS has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Prefectura Naval Argentina (PNA ? the Argentine Coast Guard) by which the classification society is now authorized to issue statutory certificates on behalf of the PNA for Argentine flag vessels in the nation?s cabotage trades. ABS is one of only two ...
-
News
LM6000 seeks ABS certification
GE Transportation's marine gas turbine business has launched a program to obtain American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) certification, to the Steel Vessel and the new Naval Vessel Rules, for its LM6000 aero derivative gas turbine. GE plans to certify the LM6000 at a power level greater than 36 MW based ...
-
News
PTT joins TOTAL
TOTAL Lubrifiants and Thai oil major PTT have signed a partnership agreementcovering the sales of marine lubricants to Thai ship owners and the supplyof marine lubricants in Thai ports. PTT, the largest oil company inThailand, becomes the tenth partner to join TOTAL Lubmarine's global supplynetwork. "The arrival of this important ...
-
News
Old Cammell Laird yard sold
Reddington Finance, a leisure developer, has completed a multi million pound deal to take control of the A&P Birkenhead site and now owns all 140-acres of the former Cammell Laird yard. The company's £30m investment in acquiring the land will pave the way for a £1bn redevelopment project which aims ...
