Shipbuilding
Large ship orders diminish
Shipyards focussing on conventional-design larger vessels have been hit hardest this year as new orders for such ships plummet. Clarkson Hellas said, "With shipyards in the major exporting regions all reporting and exhibiting significant year on y...
2012-10-25 07:00:47
Clarkson Data 'Gap'
Statistical data reported by Clarkson Research turn out to be somewhat different from official data collected by each major shipbuilding country. According to Clarkson, a total of 763 vessels of a cumulative 31.1m dwt, 14.3m cgt and 22.8m gt were ...
2012-10-25 06:52:14
NASSCO wins PC duo?
American Petroleum Tankers, the Jones Act shipping company under an umbrella of Blackstone Group, has announced a provisional newbuilding order for two products tankers at National Steel & Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) in San Diego, the United States...
2012-10-24 10:26:02
Seaspan Yard Upgrade
METRO VANCOUVER - Seaspan kicked off a $200-million upgrade to its North Vancouver shipyard Friday, saying that the redevelopment will launch the rebirth of the West Coast shipbuilding industry. The shipyard infrastructure investment marks the fir...
2012-10-24 06:23:19
CSIC wins VLCCs
A Singapore-based tanker company, a joint venture between China's CNPC and Venezuela's PDVSA, has inked a VLCC order last week at China's Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Company (BSIC). China Venezuela Shipping Co (CVSC), or Zhongwei Shipping, h...
2012-10-24 06:15:30
Chinese Down in All
Chinese shipbuilding industry saw three shipbuilding indexes for the first three quarters of 2012 all declined, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT) on October 22. Also, industry player suggested that Chinese sh...
2012-10-24 05:58:34
Longxue wins VLCCs
CSSC Guangzhou Longxue Shipbuilding is said to have won an order for very large crude carriers (VLCC) from COSCO Dalian Ocean Shipping Company (DOSCO). An official from the yard said, “In cooperation with Guangzhou Shipyard International we got ...
2012-10-23 01:50:02
Koreans widen product mix
Korean medium-sized shipyards attempt to diversify product mix amid depressed newbuilding investment in commercial ship. Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering recently booked several orders for tuna purse seiners. In 2011, it inked its first ...
2012-10-23 01:37:28
Chinese Diversify
Chinese shipbuilding industries' proportion of bulker order has not reached half of overall new order for the first time since 2006. According to Clarkson, proportion of bulker order of all newbuildings contracted by Chinese shipyards year to date...
2012-10-23 01:35:44
Yangfan pens handy BCs
China’s Zhejiang Yangfan Group has secured an order for four 39,000DWT handysize bulkers. France's Unishipping has booked the newbuildings for delivery in 2014 and 2015. Newbuilding price is reportedly around $24m per vessel. Yangfan has b...
2012-10-22 10:21:54
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