Excessive orderbook: Real serious [Shipping]
The world’s bloated bulk carrier orderbook “spells disaster” for shipping markets and could produce “a wave of destruction for banks to rival the sub-prime crisis”, one of London’s most respected shipbrokers forecast on Wednesday. Howe Ro...
2009-03-05 06:59:50
“Let’s weather the crisis in harmony” [General]
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) labor and management on March 4th held a grand meeting at its main office in Ulsan City, South Korea for a determination to cooperate to overcome global economic crisis. At the event participated some 5,000 staffs an...
2009-03-04 15:23:56
GIA tackles ballast water problems [General]
A Global Industry Alliance (GIA) that includes four major maritime companies --APL, BP Shipping, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, and Vela Marine International --hopes to come up with solutions to tackle the problems caused by the transfer...
2009-03-04 13:55:11
Jobs safeguarded by aircraft carrier contract [General]
Thousands of Scottish jobs have been safeguarded after Clyde shipyards were handed a much larger slice of a £4 billion contract for two aircraft carriers. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) welcomed the announcement that the Govan and Scotstoun w...
2009-03-04 13:49:15
Japanese shipyard merger postponed [Shipbuilding]
JFE Holdings Inc. and IHI Corp. will postpone a merger of shipbuilding operations until after autumn, the Yomiuri newspaper reported, citing an unidentified person familiar with the plan. The companies have decided to delay the merger, which was t...
2009-03-04 13:40:05
Global economy will soon recover [General]
The global economy will turn around by the second half of the year, according to a financial expert. Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Stocks for the Long Run, said financial...
2009-03-04 13:26:41
Vantage scores contracts for newbuild drillships [Offshore]
Oil and Natural Gas Co. (ONGC) has awarded Vantage Drilling a five-year contract for the ultra deepwater drillship Platinum Explorer. Vantage has also received an eight-year contract from a subsidiary of Petrobras for the ultra deepwater drillship Ti...
2009-03-04 13:22:19
Korean yards’ imports of Japanese plates to fall [Equipment]
Japan’s local media reported that there are signs that Japanese export deals of ship plates for South Korea are falling into chaos concerning shipments in the first half of fiscal 2009 as South Korea's major shipbuilding companies profess to slash ...
2009-03-04 13:17:08
Shipbuilders target new orders after slump [Shipbuilding]
The global tanker market, which has significantly slumped due to the global financial meltdown, is expected to recover in the second half of the year. A new report indicates that orders to shipbuilders would resume immediately the financial diffic...
2009-03-04 13:13:37
Hanjin denies report of capes delay [General]
South Korea’s Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction (HHIC) Wednesday strongly denied the foreign media report that Turkey’s Eregli Shipping had secured a delay of several months on the delivery of two 175,000-dwt bulkers at HHIC’s Subic Bay fa...
2009-03-04 11:37:28
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