Shipbuilding
Shipbuilders' shipowning rises
Shipbuilders are inclined to build their own newbuildings to secure works, recently. Amidst new order depression worldwide, there appears builders who construct 'Stock Boat' on the premise of future resale or own the newbuildings and charter out ...
2012-03-05 06:46:58
STX inks 155K shuttle tanker
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding has reportedly booked a 155,000-dwt shuttle tanker from the greek owner European Navigation (Elka Shipping), bringing its suezmax tally from Elka to three. The two earlier vessels were inked last year on the back of a l...
2012-03-02 11:53:28
Hyundai denies 13,000TEU delay
Hyundai Heavy Industries said today morning that it has already delivered the 13,000-teu MSC Altair. The ship was to be delivered to Norwegian boxship owner SinOceanic (Sino) backed by a 15-year charter to MSC. It was earlier reported that the ...
2012-03-02 09:45:57
Hyundai inks 82K VLGC
Hyundai Heavy Industries has booked an 82,000-cbm very large gas carrier (VLGC) for delivery at the end of 2013 from SK Shipping. The South Korean shipbuilder has upped its tally of VLGCon order to three from the Korean shipping company, among whi...
2012-03-02 09:21:19
Meyer Werft wins cruiseship
Royal Caribbean has exercised its option to build a second Sunshine-class cruiseship at Meyer Werft at a price of around €700m ($940.9m). Miami-based Royal Caribbean ordered the first Project Sunshine ship of 158,000 gt and 4,100 berths in Febru...
2012-03-02 07:50:35
Delivery delays hit JES Int'l
Singapore-listed Chinese shipbuilder JES International has asked the Singapore Exchange (SGX) for more time to release its annual results as delivery delays bite. JES said it had applied for extension to issuing its 2011 financial results due to ...
2012-03-02 07:32:00
Hyundai Mipo pens four PCs
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard announced on Febuary 29 that it contracted four 46,500-dwt product chemical tankers, valued at overall $250m, from state-owned Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC). There was a contract signing ceremony in Kuwait, on Feb 28. ...
2012-02-29 10:00:22
Cosco wins seven BCs
Cosco Corp (Singapore) has won seven bulker orders worth over $190m. The Chinese-owned company said its Cosco Guangdong Shipyard in China will build a 35,000-dwt ship for an unnamed European customer for delivery in the first quarter of 2013. ...
2012-02-29 08:12:19
Sinopacific delivers 1st CROWN63
On February 27, nearly 200 shipping professionals including ship owners, bankers, ship brokers, governmental officers, suppliers and media staff attended the press conference for the lead ship of CROWN63 series of Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group in Ya...
2012-02-29 07:22:31
All eyes to Seadrill's next drillships
A leading offshore drilling company Seadrill has revealed that it is under negotiation before finalizing new orders for additional drillships with several shipyards, just after it recently placed 2+1 drillships at Samsung Heavy Industries of South Ko...
2012-02-29 07:07:41
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