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India embarks on New yards
Tebma, Dolphin, Afcons, Bharati, Assam aim to drop anchor on Gujarat shores. With Indian companies planning to drop anchors on Gujarat’s shores, the state is likely to harbor investments to the tune of Rs 10,000 crore in shipyards. Among the pla...
2009-01-02 09:32:29
Anti-pirate : STX
Korean naval architects have come up with a new concept that promises to beat shipping’s growing problem with pirates. STX Shipbuilding has applied for a patent for its latest design which involves special features to prevent pirates gaining acc...
2009-01-02 07:41:29
ClassNK, ‘Top Class’
ClassNK’s registered fleet has hit an all time high and the Japanese classification society is promising to beat the recession with further growth. Tokyo based ClassNK said it now registers 7,017 ships amounting to 160.5m gross tons. The latest fig...
2009-01-02 07:32:15
Good news for USA
In a sea of depressing economic news it was a joy last week to print the headline: "More work for shipyard." The U.S. Navy has awarded a $14 billion contract to General Dynamics to build eight new attack submarines between 2010 and 2013. These ...
2008-12-31 11:45:05
So Hot! : Restructuring
A side effect of the credit crunch is that governments are being forced to make life and death decisions about the future of commercial enterprises. Pumping capital into banks was not a difficult choice for governments: no country can risk its fin...
2008-12-31 08:10:56
Layoffs at Erie Shipbuilding
According to local media reports, Great Lakes shipyard Erie Shipbuilding is laying off employees. The Erie Times-News says that the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has contacted the Erie, Pa., yard and confirmed the layoffs, though a sp...
2008-12-31 07:29:26
Jindal replaces Regents chairman
The state’s top higher education management board is losing its chairman and bringing in a prominent member of the Bollinger shipbuilding family. Pat Strong of Franklin, who has chaired the Louisiana Board of Regents for two years, was replaced Mon...
2008-12-31 07:23:46
The end of the Gdynia?
President Lech Kaczyński on Wednesday signed the special shipyards bill, legislation that provides for an unconditional sale of the assets of the Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards. The bill was enacted at the behest of the European Commission, wh...
2008-12-30 08:42:12
Rongsheng applied AVENA system
The signing ceremony of ‘AVENA MARINE & AVENA NET system’ was held at Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries (JRHI) on December 24, 2008. Qiang Chen, president of JRHI, Wenjun Chen, vice president of JRHI, leading researcher Jingen Gong, Huaping Song...
2008-12-30 07:31:59
DSME union accuses delaying sale
The labor union of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Monday that state-run Korea Development Bank's delay of a formal deal to sell the world's No. 3 shipyard to Hanwha Group was "special treatment." Hanwha, the nation's 10th-largest b...
2008-12-30 06:59:42
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