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Sembawang signs shiprepair JV
Kakinada Sea Ports Ltd (KSPL) has signed a joint venture project with Singapore's Sembawang to set up a shiprepair facility at Kakinada port, on the Andhra Pradesh coast. The repair yard, to be built at a cost of $375 million, will cater to mer...
2010-04-26 07:02:59
Asians take the lead at Posidonia 2010
The organisers of this year's Posidonia taking place June 7-11 at the Hellenikon Exhibition Centre expect a record Asian contingent to take attendance to a new height, with a sold-out floor space of more than 30,000 square metres and nearly 1,800 exh...
2010-04-26 07:01:31
SPP acquires SHMS & EMS
SPP Shipbuilding's Gosung yard in Korea acquired KOSHA 18001 (SHMS: safety & health management system) from Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency, and OHSAS18001 (SHMS) and ISO14001 (EMS: environmental management system) from a Norwegian internat...
2010-04-26 06:41:46
Hyundai donates for sunk Cheonan
South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Group donated KRW 400m ($360,848) on Friday to the country's public broadcaster Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) to express condolences to the family of the soldiers killed in the sunk Navy patrol combat corvett...
2010-04-23 14:18:37
Search ongoing for rig blaze crew
Efforts continued yesterday to search for 11 missing oil workers from the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon off Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, and to extinguish the massive fire that has raged since Tuesday night. The Deepwater Horizo...
2010-04-23 08:30:07
Nigeria considers incentives for yards
A major move in Nigeria towards reducing expenditure in foreign exchange for the repair of ships, which is exclusively being done at shipyards overseas, is currently in the works. The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has en...
2010-04-23 08:21:14
Nigeria urged to develop local yards
AS the 132 vessels belonging to the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG) are said to be due for dry docking, stakeholders have started asking for a measure of political will that would enable Nigeria to establish high capacity shiprepair yar...
2010-04-22 12:03:29
STX shows at 'LNG 16'
STX Group of Korea announced on Apr. 22nd that it conducted various kinds of promotions at 'The 16th Liquified Natural Gas International Conference and Exhibition' (LNG16) held in Oran, Algeria from Apr. 18th to Apr. 21st. More than 200 companie...
2010-04-22 11:20:58
Bender assets onto auction block
Assets from Bender Shipbuilding's bankrupt Alabama shipyard will be auctioned off during a sale held at the company's former Mobile facility. A hopper barge, cranes and equipment will be sold by an Ohio-based auction house next month, according t...
2010-04-22 08:34:03
GWS meets Q1 delivery target
Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard (GWS), an 80%-owned affiliate of state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corp, has achieved its production target for the first quarter 2010 to hand over Yuan900m ($132m) worth of new tonnage. The shipyard successfully de...
2010-04-22 08:31:06
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