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Two drill ships for Samsung
Samsung Heavy Industries has received a contract worth $1.44 billion to build two deep-water oil exploration drill ships. The deal with a European client calls for delivery by March 2012 and the vessels will be used for drilling activities off the coast of Brazil.The contract comes as shipbuilding orders have ...
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Shipbuilding cancellations hit plate market
Shipbuilding cancellations hit plate market According to a recent report from World Steel Dynamics, perhaps 300 contracts to build capsize and Panamax vessels may be cancelled and some new shipyards may close. World Steel Dynamics estimates that approximately 15,000 tonnes of steel plate is needed to build each vessel, which ...
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Bulk carrier orders threathened
Around 20% of orders for building new dry bulk shipping vessels may be cancelled in 2009 as the financial crisis is hitting the shipping industry hard, a shipping industry executive told Dow Jones Newswires. "A lot of shipowners gave orders for building ships over the past two to three years ...
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Odense delivers another blue boxship
Odense Steel Shipyard in Denmark named its latest newbuilding, a 7,000 TEU container ship, for the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group. Named MARIT M?RSK, she is the fifth ship in a series of six container ships and is designed and built to meet the highest demands for safe, precise, environmentally ...
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Aegean takes delivery of newbuild
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. has taken delivery of the 'Patmos', a 6,280 dwt double-hull bunkering tanker newbuild, from Qingdao Hyundai Shipyard in China. The Patmos will be deployed in the company's U.A.E. market.Including the Patmos, Aegean now has a current bunkering delivery fleet of 30 vessels and barges, of ...
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Jotun introduces SeaMate
Jotun, the Norwegian paint manufacturer, has introduced a new self-smoothing and self-polishing hydrolysis antifouling coating based on the unique silyl acrylate technology. Called SeaMate, it is a TBT free antifouling, fully complying with the IMO rules for vessels which came into force on 1 January 2008, enabling ships sailing between ...
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Strategic Marine launches floating dry dock
Strategic Marine has launched the base of the floating dry dock it has on order from the Australian Marine Complex (AMC) on schedule from its Vietnamese shipyard.The dock?s 4,400 tonne base was launched from the company?s facility at Dong Xuyen Industrial Zone at Ba-Riang Vung Tau. The 99m long and ...
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Wärtsilä establishes DC Ecotech
Wärtsilä is to establish a new centralised environmental products know-how unit. Termed Delivery Centre Ecotech (DC Ecotech), the unit will focus on developing and delivering environmental technologies, as well as products for emissions reduction and efficiency improvement. By combining the broad and outstanding know-how within the company, Wärtsilä will strengthen ...
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CSBC to be privatised
Taiwan will release 51% stake in the state-run CSBC Corporation (China Shipbuilding) by the end of this year, marking it the largest initial public offering for 2008 so far. Fubon Securities Co. will handle the issuance of 33%, or approximately NT$3 billion ($90.9 million), of the CSBC shares. Fubon Securities ...
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Chouest taking over Tampa Bay shipyard
The Louisiana-based Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) is establishing an operation at the Port of Tampa, buying the Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair Co.'s lease and retaining its 500 employees with plans to add workers and additional trades.ECO, founded with a single vessel nearly 50 years ago, operates six shipyards along ...
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Calling all Pacific Coast mariners
Alan Haig-Brown has recently put up a new web page for mariners who visit or work the Pacific Coast of America. It is really a blog spot based on some of the articles that he has written over the years to cover Pacific Coast voyages that he's made. The page ...
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Cammell Laird back on Merseyside
Today sees the Cammell Laird name return to its historic Birkenhead shipyard home in a move the yard?s owners say could help them win new business from around the world. Cammell Laird, one of the best-known names in the shipbuilding world, has been absent from the Mersey since 2001 when ...
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KDB, Hanwha sign Daewoo deal
Last Friday Korea Development Bank (KDB) signed a preliminary deal with Hanwha Group on the sale of a controlling stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME). Starting next week, Hanwha will begin a due diligence on DSME for three or four weeks, the bank said. The deal came ...
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Seaspan takes delivery of another feeder
Seaspan takes delivery of another feederSeaspan Corporation has accepted delivery of the 'CSCL Santiago', a 2,500 TEU newbuilding. The new containership, which was built by Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding in China, expands Seaspan's current operating fleet to 34 vessels with 34 remaining newbuildings to be delivered over approximately the next three ...
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Hyundai Mipo order revised
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has signed a $408 million order that revised up a 2007 contract to reflect changes to ship types. The South Korean shipbuilder had initially won a $373 million order for eight container ships from an unidentified company in Europe in September 2007. The new contract now calls ...
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ST Engineering secures naval contract
Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine), the marine arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd, has secured a contract in a basket of currencies amounting to about S$200m, to design and build a 141metre landing platform dock (LPD) ship, two 23 metre landing craft mechanised (LCM) and two 13 metre landing ...
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Bangladesh on threshold of export binge
Bangladesh claims it is set to be swamped with orders for small ocean-going ships in the coming years as major Asian shipbuilders are now fully booked and are either turning down orders or delaying deliveries, industry people and service providers said.Policy and fiscal supports from the government can help the ...
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Austal wins JHSV contract
Austal USA has won a contract to design and build the US Department of Defence's next generation multi-use platform, the Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV), as part of a programme potentially worth over $1.6 billion. As the project's prime contractor, Austal will design and construct the first 103-metre JHSV, with ...
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Volstad orders seismic research vessel
Volstad Maritime AS in Aalesund, Norway, has ordered another seismic research vessel based on ST-design. The new vessel is a ST-327L CD with a length of 108 m and a beam of 24 m. This is the third seismic research vessel Skipsteknisk has designed for Volstad Maritime but vessel number ...
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STX secures tanker order
STX Shipbuilding has signed a deal worth 209 billion won ($151 million) to build an oil tanker for a European shipping company. The deal calls on STX Shipbuilding to deliver the VLCC by November 2011. The deal came amid concerns that future orders for new ships would fall sharply due ...
