Equipment
Shipyards eye steel price uptrend
Among considerable increases in the international raw material prices, such as crude oil and coal, rising are strong concerns about inflation of basic materials of steel and iron. In particular, those which have high demand for steel-products, su...
2011-01-27 08:11:37
Rolls-Royce wins PSV package
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, announced an order from Singapore-based offshore company, PaxOcean, to provide the ship design, propulsion systems and deck machinery for two platform supply vessels. The order is worth over £1...
2011-01-26 08:53:38
Eniram & ABB join forces
Eniram Ltd. has announced an agreement with ABB to integrate Eniram pod optimization technology into the ABB Azipod podded propulsion system for newbuild vessels as well as retrofit projects. The dynamic pod optimization, based on Eniram's Vessel ...
2011-01-26 08:49:25
Shortage of small & mid.
Many raise an analysis that short is the supply of replacement ships for aged small- and medium-size vessels. According to Lee Suk-jae, researcher at Seoul-based Mirae Assets, shipbuilding industry's restructuring would first appear in the small-...
2011-01-26 07:01:01
Dongyang to engage in LNG carrier
Korea's steel supplier, Dongyang Gangchul, seems to roll out LNG- and LNG-FPSO-related projects in a full scale from next year. Lee Won-jae, researcher at Seoul-based SK Securities, says that the steel maker is currently progressing R&D on LNG ca...
2011-01-25 12:39:42
Techcross first lays BWTS on VLCC
Korea's Techcross has become the first ballast water treatment system (BWTS) manufacturer in the shipbuilding industry to supply BWTS called ECS (Electro-Cleen™ System, ECS), for a VLCC. The ECS was supplied and laid on the Hyundai Heavy Indust...
2011-01-25 12:01:52
Petrobras may cut local content
Petrobras wants to reduce its equipment purchases from local companies because of uncompetitive prices. According to local reports, the Brazilian state-controlled oil company wants to slash the share of locally-produced content it uses in its sup...
2011-01-25 08:29:34
Twin engines for 18,000TEUs
Giant 18,000-teu containerships that AP Moller-Maersk is soon to order at a Korean yard are expected to be twin-engined and oil-powered, rather than going for alternative fuels such as LNG. Industry sources say the Danish line will install convent...
2011-01-25 07:59:03
Rolls-Royce to power U.S. LCS
London-based Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, will supply gas turbines and waterjets for 10 of the U.S. Navy's LCSs (Littoral Combat Ship). This is the group's largest ever marine naval surface ship contract. Two of the world's lar...
2011-01-24 12:40:26
Krasnoyarsk wins bunkering ship
OJSC Krasnoyarsk Shipyard was awarded a RUB 400m order (USD 13.3m) for a fuel bunkering vessel from MMC Norilsk Nickel. On January 20, 2011 the shipbuilder started the construction of the vessel of capacity of 1,110 tons. This class of marine ves...
2011-01-24 08:29:42
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