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Dozens vie for stake in CSC
Dozens of foreign and Taiwanese companies, including Lockheed Martin and Detyens Shipyards of the US, and BAE of the UK, are looking to buy a stake in China Shipbuilding Corp (CSC) which wants to be privatised before 2009. The state-run CSC is the country's largest shipyard and has built container ...
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Namura boosting output
Namura Shipbuilding in Japan plans to invest around $54 million at its Imari shipyard to boost its annual newbuilding capacity by up to 50% by the end of 2005. The plan includes the introduction of a new 800 tonne goliath crane, which will increase productivity by reducing the number of ...
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B.C. shipyards being considered for smaller ferry
Following the recent announcement by B.C. Ferries in Canada that two European ferry builders, Flensburger Schiffbau of Germany and Aker Finnyards of Finland, are bidding for the $380million contract to build two new ferries, David Hahn, president and CEO of B.C. Ferries, said that local shipyards are in the running ...
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Zebra batteries to power submarine rescue vehicle
The Rolls-Royce ?zebra? battery has won its first order to power the submarine rescue vehicle (SRV) which forms a vital part of he NATO Submarine Rescue System. Eight ?zebra? batteries each with the energy of 17kWh will propel and power the SRV which will be able to raise up to ...
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Wynn Marine to launch advanced new window wiper and control systems
Wynstruments, now merged with B. Hepworth & Co, will launch an updatedversions of its best-selling ?straight line? window wiper and a brand newdigital control system at the SMM 2004 exhibition.The Type D MKIV Straight line wiper is based on the highly successful Type D MKIII wiper. In this case the ...
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MT30 completes US Navy milestone
The Rolls-Royce MT30 marine gas turbine engine has completed another major development milestone required for operation by the US Navy by successfully carrying out endurance test running for American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) certification. The 36MW marine gas turbine is already well positioned for two leading-edge US Navy programmes having ...
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Future of lower Clyde shipbuilding looks bleak
The last independent yard on the Lower Clyde has warned that shipbuilding there could come to an end as it launched its latest vessel today. Ferguson?s lost out on a £40 million contract for the UK's Environmental Research Council to a Norwegian company. They say that unless further orders are ...
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Austal's new image
Austal, a name associated worldwide with aluminium vessels of the highest quality, will now also be directly associated with the world?s best designed and built live-aboard vessels. This follows the shipbuilder?s decision to unite marketing of all its products under the Austal name. Previously the live-aboards for the dive and ...
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MOL launches state of the art car carrier
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan has launched the 60,200 gt car carrier Utopia Ace, the first of 12 carriers that will be delivered to MOL by March 2007. The Utopia Ace features advanced technologies such as a double-hulled fuel tank that reduces the risk of oil spills and a hull ...
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Port Qasim bans anything older than 20
INTERTANKO has just received notification today that following a port meeting on the 16 June 2004, the Port of Qasim Authority (PQA) in Pakistan has decided not to accept vessels more than 20 years old for berthing at the port, with effect from 1 January 2005. It is also stated ...
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Fairbanks to power LCS warship
Fairbanks Morse Engine, an EnPro Industries company, has been selected by the Lockheed Martin Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) team to supply 16-cylinder PA6B sequentially turbocharged (STC) diesel engines for the lead ship in the LCS program, the latest generation of U.S. Navy warships. The PA6B STC is a state of ...
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Ulstein wins large newbuilding contract
Ulstein Verft AS in Norway is to build a construction vessel for Solstad/SBM, ajoint-venture company owned by Solstad and the Monaco based Single Buoy Moorings(SBM) group. The project is one of the largest single projects the shipyard hasgained to date both in terms of weight and size and is worth ...
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Dutch shipyard challenges Kiwi decision
Dutch shipbuilder Schelde Marinebouw, part of the Damen Shipyads Group, says it has filed a legal claim seeking to overturn a decision by the New Zealand government's to award Australian firm Tenix a contract to build seven new ships for its navy. Schelde said it had lodged a claim in ...
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Cool fuel cells
A new kind of power source is being developed at the University of Houston that is so small yet so efficient it could make traditional power plants obsolete while greatly reducing the cost of electricity. The source is a so-called ?cool? fuel cell, officially known as thin film solid oxide ...
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Hornbeck Offshore exercises barge option
Hornbeck Offshore Services, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hornbeck Offshore Transportation (HOT), has exercised the second of its three fixed-price shipyard options for the construction of one additional 110,000-barrel double-hulled tank barge. The vessel, which will be constructed by Manitowoc Marine Group, is expected to be delivered during the ...
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Izar to be split
The Spanish government has allegedly decided to divide the Izar state shipbuilding group into two. What the government is aiming to do with this move, which has come in for severe criticism from the government of the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) and the trade unions, is to set up a ...
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Hamworthy pumps serve P-Max tankers
Hamworthy?s first major contract for its new Svaneh?j CKL 300 electric-drive deepwell cargo pump is for a series of six 49,900 dwt Stena P-MAX tankers, which are the largest products carriers yet supplied by the companyHamworthy is supplying its new deepwell cargo pump to six products tankers being built to ...
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Bank helps finance Vinashin
A $200 million credit agreement to expand and upgrade Vinashin's shipbuilding yards has been signed between the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) and Fortis Bank. Under the agreement, the Belgian bank will finance Vinashin's projects in the form of export credits with common clauses of terms, interest rates and insurance ...
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Alaskan yard looks for state help
Alaska Ship and Drydock, the operator of the Ketchikan Shipyard in Alaska, hopes to expand its facilities by obtaining substantial new federal funding, about $54 million, and other government participation for new infrastructure. Conceived when the state decided to appropriate £30 million in the 1970s for the facility, the shipyard ...
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Evergreen goes for 9,000-TEU-class newbuildings
The Taiwanese Evergreen Group has decided to have the loading capacity of its next-generation B-type containerships upgraded to more than 9,000 TEUs instead of 8,000 TEUs as earlier planned. An Evergreen official said that the decision is primarily aimed at enhancing investment efficiency. Initially, 20 B-type newbuildings will be ordered ...
