Shipbuilding
ACL to order giant Ro-Ro
Atlantic Container Line expects to seal a contract for five giant multipurpose ro-ro ships in May. The US owner has held talks with shipyards for many months and made no secret of its plan to take full advantage of softening prices. Chief execu...
2012-04-12 07:16:29
China ship trade edges up
China's ship trading maintains increase, despite a slowly recovering global economy and troubled shipping and shipbuilding markets. In the first two months of this year, China's ship export stood at $6.94bn, up by 6.8% year-on-year, while ship imp...
2012-04-12 07:03:13
Taizhou Sanfu inks four BCs
Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering of China has recently booked four 51,000-dwt newbuilding bulkers from Chinese owner. These vessels are scheduled to be delivered from the end of 2013 by early 2014 and operate in Chinese waters. While Taizhou Sanf...
2012-04-12 06:54:00
Rongsheng cleans cancel worries
China's Rongsheng Heavy Industries moves to calm fears about the cancellation of a capesize bulker order. In a statement Rongsheng explains the original owner pulled out of the contract last November having paid a 45% deposit. It adds the newb...
2012-04-11 07:53:35
Hyundai inks LNGC for Tsakos
Athens, Greece - April 10, 2012 - Tsakos Energy Navigation announced the order of one plus one state-of-the-art LNG carrier for delivery in Q1 2015 at a major South Korean yard. While the owner does not reveal the yard involved in the deal, it wa...
2012-04-11 07:17:19
Newbuilding keeps "clouded": Q2
The first week of April has been lackluster for newbuilding market, on the back of holidays in China and Easter in Europe. Clarkson Hellas mentioned in its latest report that while the second quarter of newbuilding market has commenced "particular...
2012-04-11 06:45:07
Daewoo to build Peru Navy vessels
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea signs a memorandum of understanding for cooperation on modernization plan of Peruvian Navy on April 10. Daewoo and Peru's defense ministry (Ministerio de Defensa, MINDEF) will cooperate in pr...
2012-04-10 14:15:03
Tsuneishi pens three 45Ks
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding contracted three 45,000-dwt 'TESS45BOX' bulkers with overseas owner due delivery for 2014, announced on April 9. Tsuneishi Group Zhoushan Shipbuilding in China is scheduled to construct the newbuildings. The Japanese shipbui...
2012-04-10 09:58:35
Rongsheng floats Oman 400K
Oman Shipping Company's 400,000 DWT Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC), the VALE SOHAR, was floated out of the construction docks and transferred to the final outfitting berth at Rongsheng Heavy Industries in China. VALE SOHAR joins VALE LIWA, floated...
2012-04-10 07:49:12
Evergreen order state aided?
Evergreen is nearing a deal for 14,000-teu ships that could give the Taiwanese line a huge competitive advantage over rivals. Evergreen is hammering out the final terms with a South Korean shipyard and investor from which it will charter the 10 gi...
2012-04-10 07:30:58
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