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Izar reaches agreement with unions
Spanish shipyard workers and employers reached a basic agreement yesterday to save the jobs of 10,700 workers. The future of 10 yards controlled by Izar shipyards, owned by government industrial holding company SEPI, has hung in the balance amid European Union demands that Izar repays 300 million euros ($372.8 million) ...
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Mipo wins 15 more product carriers
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea secured orders for 11 product carriers plus four options from three ship owners valued at $550 million. Four 46,000DWT product carriers from National Chemical Carriers in Saudi Arabia, four 47,000DWT and five 37,000DWT product carriers from Gulf Energy Maritime in UAE, and two 37,000DWT ...
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Work on Longxue shipyard started
Construction work has commenced on the Longxue shipbuilding facility, South China?s largest shipbuilding base. The new shipyard complex will aim to be among the top shipbuilders in the world as well as being the biggest shipyard in South China. According to the plan, the first-phase task is to build two ...
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Ten more for Daewoo
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), the world's second-largest shipbuilder, has clinched orders worth $1.2 billion for 10 ships from overseas shipping companies. DSME signed a deal with the Swedish car carrier Wallenius Lines for three 8,000 unit car carriers. These will be the largest of their kind. In a ...
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SES wins component contract for electric thruster motors
Scandinavian Electric Systems (SES) has entered a frame agreement with Rolls-Royce Marine for supply of low-voltage electric motors, motor starters and frequency convertersAfter evaluating a number of potential suppliers, Rolls-Royce Marine has selected Scandinavian Electric Systems (SES) as a supplier of motors and starters for Rolls-Royce Marine?s thruster systems. A ...
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Tenders open for Australian Navy shipbuilding contract
Australian shipbuilders have been invited to tender for one of the countries? largest defence projects. The Federal Government has advertised for majority Australian-owned companies to construct three air warfare destroyers in a project worth between $4.5 billion and $6 billion. The tenders would remain open for about nine weeks before ...
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Aker Yards to build two PSV's for Siem Offshore
Aker Langsten, a company in the Aker Yards Group, and Siem Offshore Inc have entered into a contract to build two platform supply vessels (PSV's). The value of the newbuilding contract is approximately NOK 250 million ($35 million). "We are very pleased to have Siem Offshore as a new partner ...
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Aker Yards sign LOI for three boxships
Aker Finnyards, a part of Aker Yards, has signed a Letter of Intent with the Swedish B & N Nordsjöfrakt for building three container carriers. The contract, worth in all approximately $188 million, will provide about 1,000 man-years of work. All three vessels are planned for delivery in 2006. "We ...
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AIDA Cruises orders two new Club Ships
The German cruise operator AIDA Cruises (Rostock/Neu-Isenburg) has placed contracts with Meyer Werft in Papenburg for the construction of two 68,500 gt cruise ships. Delivery of the two newbuildings is scheduled for April 2007 and April 2009 respectively. These contracts will considerably improve the workload situation of the shipyard for ...
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NewsTankers up
Shares of leading oil tanker companies broke records at the close on Tuesday and surged again on Wednesday as costs for shipping crude oil on some of the world's most prominent export routes struck 30-year highs. Routes linking OPEC producer Nigeria to consumers in the United States and Asia have ...
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Used subs
The Victoria-class submarine HMCS Chicoutimi, nee HMS Upholder, suffered two separate fires while cruising northwest of Ireland, on its maiden voyage as a Canadian boat after a formal handover last weekend. The 57-man crew was left shivering and wallowing on the surface in rough seas when she lost all power.Royal ...
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News from Korea
On October 7, Hyundai Heavy Industries launched a 105,000DWT tanker built on land. She was ordered from Novoship in Russia and will be delivered by January next year. She is the first ship built on land. The South Korean shipbuilder will build a total of 16 ships on land. They ...
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Extra safety
Emergency Towing Systems (ETS) are not yet mandatory on ships other than tankers greater than 20.000 t dwt as proposed in the IMO DE 47 document, however, the Italian owner of container ships ? Ignazio Messina & C SPA - has decided to install ETS. on 15 of its ships ...
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Wrecking development
Hundreds of sunken ships ranging from large freighters and tankers to small tugs and dhows are blocking access to Iraq's principal seaports and threatening the marine environment of the northern Gulf, shows a detailed report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).A systematic survey of the ports of Umm Qasr ...
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Keeping it cool
Norwegian specialist Kongsberg has introduced a new bearing temperature monitoring system for two-stroke engines. The development of BearingMaster follows the April 2004 launch of GB-100 Sentry, a new wireless monitoring system for rotary machinery applications. BearingMaster is based on the company?s DataChief and AutoChief automation systems, and is said to ...
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Volvo Penta diesels for Brazil
Volvo Penta Brazil has received orders for auxiliary engines and complete genset systems from two shipyards in Rio de Janeiro which build and refit ships under contract to Companhia de Navega??o Norsul, one of Brazil?s largest privately-owned shipping companies.The Volvo Penta order comprises 15 34-litre auxiliary diesel engines, three 16-litre ...
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NewsShiprepair boom
Cosco Corp. Singapore expects its shiprepair business to account for about 70% of total revenue in the next 1 or 2 years after its recent acquisition of a shipyard in China, company President Ji Hai Sheng said recently. Cosco Corp., a unit of China's largest shipping conglomerate, COSCO Shipping Co. ...
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A question of rules
By now, most are aware of what exactly the new generation of classification rules for oil tankers are. The new Common Rules for Tankers are aimed at establishing a global standard, increased structural durability, longer asset life and the elimination of competition on minimum structural scantlings. The intention is also ...
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Rules that need tweaking
While most participants in the single-hull versus double-hull debate accept that a second hull is not a panacea, it is acknowledged that it is an acceptable and cost effective way of preventing oil spills in certain types of tanker incidents, such as low energy groundings or collisions. Lloyd?s Register says, ...
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Meeting today?s need
To meet the future legislative emission limits with today?s medium and high-speed diesel engines, all engine manufacturers have to consider electronic controlled injection systems, which allow optimised combustion and engine control close to the limits with best possible efficiency.In Germany there are two independent specialists developing standard and advanced injection ...
