Shipbuilding
Ordering to pick up in H2
Orders for newbuilding commercial ship would pick up from the second half this year, as the ratio of orderbook to current fleet of small-and-medium size product carrier and small size containership just remains at 5%. Analyst Jun Yong-Bum, Solomon...
2012-02-24 07:25:13
Ship price falls 7-month straight
Decrease in newbuilding prices, having started from the second half last year, turns out to have lasted until January 2012, for seven consecutive months. Clarksons newbuilding price index, as of February 1st, has dropped for seven months straight ...
2012-02-23 10:38:36
Imabari lands kamsarmax
Japan's Imabari Shipbuilding announced Wednesday that it has won an order for two energy-efficient bulkers from its unnamed "friendly" customer. The 80,000-dwt newly developed BC design has reduced daily fuel consumption to around 28 tons at a cru...
2012-02-23 08:16:30
Daewoo pens UK tankers
South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has won the bid to build four new tankers for the UK Ministry of Defence. Known as the Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability tankers, the contract is worth £452m ($708.2m). The fou...
2012-02-23 07:37:26
Hyundai Mipo inks 52K PC
Scorpio Tankers confirmed Tuesday that it is adding an extra newbuilding and two chartered in ships as well as selling three ships. Scorpio said it had added a seventh newbuilding to its series of MR product tankers at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in So...
2012-02-23 07:32:55
Yards fill half their capacity
Shipyards around the world have managed to fill only half of their available capacity in 2011, RS Platou says. It counts new contracts for 25 million compensated gross tons last year, down by 30% on the previous 12 months. Jorn Bakkelund of RS Pl...
2012-02-22 07:48:52
Korean eye domestic BC order
South Korean shipbuilders are expecting to win large-sized newbuilding bulkers, while Korea East-West Power Co. (EWP) is now inviting bidders for chartering two newbuildings. It seems that Korean-invested overseas yard has secured for one newbuil...
2012-02-22 07:07:08
CMES to order 10 VLCCs
It is known that China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) plans to place an order for 10 newbuilding VLCCs, amid recently depressed shipping market. CMES made an official announcement on February 17th that it would arrange about CNY 2.893bn ($460m) ...
2012-02-22 06:59:35
SPP pens five PCs
South Korea's SPP Shipbuilding announced on February 21st that it recently booked for two 52,000-dwt newbuilding products carriers with delivery in H1 2014, valued at overall $73m, from the US-based shipowner, after having successfully inked new orde...
2012-02-21 16:09:18
Yangzijiang inks 7 BCs
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) Ltd has secured shipbuilding contracts for seven vessels with an aggregate contract value of USD 206.2 million since the beginning of the year 2012. The new contracts secured comprise four (4) units of 82,000 DW...
2012-02-21 07:41:03
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