All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 973
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HHI wins mega French boxship order
French-based container line operator CMA CGM has upped the stakes against its arch rival, the Danish shipping giant Maersk Line, which recently took delivery of its first 11,000 TEU vessel, ?Emma Maersk?, by placing a $1.2 billion order for eight 11,400 TEU ships from South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries. ...
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Nordseewerke delivers another feeder
The German shipbuilder Nordseewerke, a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, has handed over the 2,700 TEU feeder container ship ?Nona? to the Meerbusch-based shipping company GEBAB. The owner of the ship is the Elsfleth-based shipping company Maritime. This is the second 37,950 dwt vessel in the six-ship series ordered by ...
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Viking orders three more ERRVs
North Sea emergency response and rescue services provider Viking Offshore Services is extending its multi-million pound new-build programme to nine vessels. It is exercising its option on the construction of a further three field support vessels at the Astilleros Zamakona shipyard in Spain, to bring the total value of the ...
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Samsung wins drillship
Samsung Heavy Industries won an order for a drill ship from a ship owner in Africa at a cost of $554 million. Delivery is slated for October 2009.
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HHI clinches two PCs
Hyundai Heavy Industries has clinches two 105,000DWT tankers from the Belgian shipping group Conti Lines. They will be delivered during 2009.
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CA to get tough on ballast water
California is on the verge of blazing a new environmental path with the toughest restrictions in the nation on exotic clams, crabs and other non-native aquatic species that harm river and Bay environments, threaten water supplies and clog water pipes.State lawmakers last week sent the governor a bill to require ...
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Another AHTS frrom Remontowa
Remontowa shipyard in Poland reports that the christening took place on August 14th of the 120 tonnes bollard pull AHTS de Moulin Tide, which has since undertaken sea trials for customer Tidewater Marine Inc. In all, the Polish yard will deliver six similar vessels to the US-based operator with the ...
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Seadrill secures work for semi-sub newbuild
Seadrill has been awarded a letter of intent by an E&P operator in the Gulf of Mexico for the semi-submersible drilling rig West Sirius (Jurong 1). The contract has a firm duration of four years with the option for the operator to extend the contract to five or six years. ...
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HSL to develop Sarawak shipyard
Hock Seng Lee Bhd (HSL) will develop an RM50million ($14 million) shipbuilding industrial zone in the new township of Tanjung Manis in central Sarawak. The proposed zone of 142ha will cater for the construction, repair and maintenance of ships and other related downstream activities. HSL signed a memorandum of understanding ...
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Davie shipyard facing closure
Barring another last-minute reprieve, Canada's oldest and most illustrious shipyard will be liquidated in a dockside auction beginning 23 October. Items for sale include shops, cranes, trucks, and memorabilia from its 181-year history.
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Double naming ceremony for E.R. Schiffahrt
The naming ceremony was held for another two large container ships for E.R. Schiffahrt at the Hyundai shipyard in Samho, South Korea. The two Super-Post-Panamax vessels each have a capacity of 8,204 teu and are the planned continuation of the newbuilding programme of the shipping line belonging to the Nordcapital ...
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Crowley orders four more ATBs
Crowley Maritime Corporation?s Vessel Management Services subsidiary has signed a contract with VT Halter Marine Inc. to build four more articulated tug-barges (ATB), 185,000-barrel tank vessels. The new vessels will have an estimated delivered cost of approximately $236 million, including owner-furnished equipment. The vessels will be delivered in six-month intervals ...
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Aker France strikes it rich
Aker Yards is to build two cruise vessels for Norwegian Cruise Line, with an option for a third. The value of the two vessels is EUR 1,470 million ($1,869 million) and they will be delivered in 2009 and 2010 from the recently acquired yard in Saint Nazaire. This is the ...
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Trico orders two OSVs
Trico Marine Services, Inc. has signed an agreement to build two GPA 640, 64.6 metre offshore supply vessels (OSV) for a total cost of approximately $35 million. The vessels will have diesel electric propulsion and class 2 DP systems. Bender Shipbuilding & Repair will build the vessels at its shipyard ...
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EU receives Polish shipyard restructuring plans
The Polish government has now provided the EU with details of government subsidies for shipyards after a warning that failure to do so could force the EU to demand the yards repay the funds. "The commission will now need several weeks to analyze the restructuring plans to assess whether ...
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Dung Quat shipyard prepares for first newbuilding
The Dung Quat shipyard in Vietnam has imported 1,500 tonnes of steel, the first shipment of steel plates for the construction of a 100,000 dwt oil tanker. This newbuilding will be the first ship to be built by the new Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Corporation in the Dung Quat economic ...
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DCN offers maintenance system to RCN
A French naval shipyard wants to sell the Canadian navy (RCN) a maintenance formula designed to ensure its troubled submarine fleet spends more time at sea. Direction des Constructions Navales, known as DCN, is based in Cherbourg, France and representatives are in Halifax this week touting a maintenance method which, ...
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Clyde made in Portsmouth
?HMS Clyde?, the first ship to be built in Portsmouth Naval Base for nearly 40 years, will be named at VT Shipbuilding?s facilities on Thursday, 7 September. The Royal Navy?s new 80 metre Offshore Patrol Vessel (Helicopter) is the first ship constructed in the naval base since 1967 when the ...
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Struggling yard secures barge contract
New vessel construction will return to the Portland Shipyard in the USA for the first time in years under a contract announced Tuesday. New venture U.S. Barge expects to deliver its first ocean-going barge to Young Brothers Ltd. in Hawaii in September 2007. U.S. Barge is co-owned by Vigor Industrial ...
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Austal teams with GL
Australian fast-vessel builder Austal Ships Pty Ltd. has prolonged its long-standing technical and commercial partnership with the classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL). The agreement was extended for the fourth time in the last eleven years. GL will continue to provide classificatory handling, technical advisory services and accompanying analyses of strength, ...
