Shipbuilding
Chinese yards to bag LNGCs
Four Chinese shipyards - Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, Dalian Shipbuilding Industries Co, Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) and Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries - have submitted bids to build a series of up to six 170,000-cbm LNG carriers for Chinese buyer...
2012-06-01 12:58:19
USC approves $31bn backlog
Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation has approved a backlog of orders worth 1 trillion rubles (more than $31 billion), with 200 billion rubles ($6.2 billion) to be spent on civil-purpose ships, the corporation's representative Dmitry Sapov told...
2012-06-01 08:11:16
Chinese cut price to survive
Chinese shipyards are offering to sell vessels at discounts of up to 20 percent as builders look to protect market share from higher quality Asian rivals and stay afloat amid a wave of consolidation, industry sources said, Reuters report. Rock bot...
2012-06-01 08:03:23
130,000-gt Carnival Breeze delivered
MIAMI, May 31, 2012 - At a traditional maritime handover ceremony held earlier Thursday at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, Carnival Cruise Lines took delivery of the new 130,000-ton Carnival Breeze, the 24th vessel in the line's fleet....
2012-06-01 07:43:38
SINOPACIFIC's fuel-saving BCs
On May 29, before launch of the Posidonia 2012 in Greece, leading shipbuilding enterprise SINOPACIFIC Shipbuilding Group held an introductory meeting and social gathering in Athens. It highlighted the promotion of the CROWN 63, CROWN MHI 82 and C...
2012-05-31 07:21:40
End of order drought "Far Off"
Eurozone crisis, coupled with fleet oversupply and a lack of ship financing keep pressuring newbuilding ordering activity. Clarkson Hellas, in its recent weekly report, mentioned that "Although there have been some reports of new business being c...
2012-05-31 07:18:26
China self-design 30K LNGC
Recently, CNOOC Energy Technology & Services signed a basic design contract for 30,000-cbm LNG carrier with the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI). The small and medium-size LNG carrier is designed in China for the first ti...
2012-05-31 07:05:14
China to build cruiseship
With China's shipbuilding industry being encountered steepest earnings slump, for instance, new order plunged by 46% year on year during the first four months this year, Australia's wealthy businessman Clive Palmer signed a memorandum of understandin...
2012-05-30 10:10:56
China BC 20% cheaper
Shipowners can now buy a Chinese-built bulk carrier for 20% less than a comparable vessel from South Korean or Japanese yards, RS Platou Markets says. The widening disparity is linked to both the perceived build quality and the relative fuel perf...
2012-05-30 07:50:34
Jiangsu still on a slide
Although Jiangsu province's major shipbuilding-related indexes are in decrease, during the first four months, it recorded China's first in delivery, new order and orderbook. During January-April 2012, shipyards in Jiangsu's overall newbuilding del...
2012-05-30 07:02:05
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