Equipment
Japan's rolled steel exports uptick
Japan's rolled steel shipments to the rest of Asia, the biggest single cargo item for coastal vessels, are on a clear-cut recovery track. According to the Japan Iron & Steel Federation, its member steelmakers exported 2,792,000 tons of rolled steel t...
2009-09-08 07:34:05
Shipbuilding steel output down 40%
Production of steel products for shipbuilding for the first half of 2009 has decreased 40.7% from a year earlier to 6,085,600 tons, according to China’s local media report. Output for the corresponding period in 2008 was at 10.26 million tons. P...
2009-09-04 07:31:36
Equipment makers sensing crisis
Japanese marine equipment manufacturers are increasingly concerned over the protracted slump in shipbuilding market. Their anxiety stems from the possibility that their businesses will suffer in the next 2-3 years if the current halt in new orders...
2009-09-04 07:23:51
Shin Kurushima applies SmartMarine 3D
Shin Kurushima Dockyard (SKDY), recognized as one of the most productive shipyards in Japan, has standardized on Intergraph(R) SmartMarine(R) 3D design and engineering software after an intensive two-year benchmark study. Based on the productivity...
2009-09-04 07:18:52
Hitachi develops welding-predicting software
Japanese shipbuilder Hitachi Zosen has developed a software which predicts heat transformation during steel plate welding. Repeated deformation could lead to breakdown, and so the variation should be minimized by partial heating after welding. It ...
2009-08-27 13:47:35
Mitsui kicks off new engine parts plant
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) of Japan will kick off operation at its plant, which was expanded for the production of fuel valves and fuel pumps for use in marine diesel engines, in November this year. Following the assembly plant that was ...
2009-08-27 07:15:27
Imabari, NSC develop safety bow
Imabari Shipbuilding and Nippon Steel Corp. (NSC) announced on August 25th that they have developed a new ship bow shape that can reduce the compression pressure toward other ships in collision by as much as half of the usual pressure. They develo...
2009-08-27 07:04:09
Mitsui develops 30% cheaper BWTS
Japan’s Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) has developed a ballast water treatment system (BWTS) of which installation price is up to 30% lower than other products. The new BWTS does not need additional power generation facilities as it uses u...
2009-08-25 13:32:34
Steel plate prices making rally
The prices of thick steel plates for shipbuilding are showing a mixed trend of late. They started to make a rally after hitting the bottom as China’s largest steel maker Baosteel Group has raised September prices for its major products by as muc...
2009-08-25 13:01:24
Techcross develops anti-explosion BWMS
South Korea’s ballast water management system (BWMS) supplier Techcross has developed an anti-explosion-type ballast water treatment system for the first time in the world. It also signed a supply contract of the anti-explosion BWMS with Shitano...
2009-08-24 14:19:14
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