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Urgent conference for stumbling shipbuilers
An emergency informal gathering for discussion will be held to help struggling shipbuilding enterprises in the Honam district (Jeolla Provinces), the southwestern part of South Korea, amid financial crisis. The National Assembly Knowledge Economy Co...
2008-10-10 06:56:50
DryShips to largely increase its fleet
NASDAQ-listed DryShips of Greece recently announced that it has decided to purchase nine capesize bulkers and two drillships. DryShips will buy the special-purpose company which owns the vessels. The price for the nine capesize bulkers is said...
2008-10-09 12:14:23
Gdansk may win part of Gdynia
ISD-Polsk, a subsidiary company of Ukrainian steel company Donbas, which owns Gdansk shipyard in Poland, is said to be devising a scheme to utilize the dock of the neighboring Gdynia shipyard. An agency in charge of Poland’s domestic security is...
2008-10-09 09:43:41
Marine and defence exhibition opens
Korea International Trade Association (KITA) and Republic of Korea Navy confirmed ‘MADEX 2008 (Korea Maritime & Defence Exhibition)’ will be held for four days from Oct 7 at BEXCO in Busan, South Korea. High-tech defence industry products from al...
2008-10-08 11:59:42
Fund-raising project for shipbuilding to progress rapidly
‘Future Shipbuilding Fund (FSF)’, the fund-raising for the research in shipbuilding industry, seems to be accelerating. The Society of Naval Architects of Korea (SNAK) formed a preparatory committee for the organization of FSF, as a succursal ...
2008-10-06 17:57:42
Japanese shipbuilders want more foreigners
Japanese large shipbuilding companies are increasingly hiring university graduates from foreign countries this year. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) plans to increase foreign university graduates from usual 1-2 to 18. IHI Corporation first he...
2008-10-03 18:14:29
HHI received a big order for power/desalination plant
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) received a $1.7bn order for the construction of Bahrain’s largest private-capital power/desalination plant. HHI announced October 1 that it has received an order from a consortium Al Dur Power and Water Company BSC...
2008-10-03 01:01:14
NYK actively invests in environmentally clean ships
Japanese largest shipping company NYK (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) has announced its ‘Environment Special Mission Project’ to build environmentally friendly ships which emit minimized amount of CO2, investing about JPY 70bn for the next six years. NY...
2008-10-02 17:46:01
Only qualified ship operators are entitled to a trial run
South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM) revealed that partially amended legislative bill of piloting rule was voted for in a Cabinet council September 30. The new piloting rule stipulates that only qualified ship opera...
2008-10-02 17:02:57
CESA blames South Korean government
Corrado Antonini, the honorary chairman of Community of European Shipyards Associations (CESA) is said to have blamed South Korean government for its attitude on bidding of DSME sale, during an opening speech in SMM 2008 (Shipbuilding, Machinery & Ma...
2008-09-29 14:19:50
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