Shipbuilding
HMD pens 52K PC
Samos Steamship of Greece signs up for a 52,000-dwt products tanker at South Korea's Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. Delivery is reportedly for 2012 but other sources put the delivery date as March 2013. The order is Samos’s first with a Korean shipb...
2011-08-12 07:58:53
Hyundai wins 5,000TEUs
Container Carriers Corp, the recently-launched boxship offshoot of shipowner Evangelos Marinakis’ Capital Maritime group, has firmed up a fifth containership newbuilding at South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries and is looking at further expansion ...
2011-08-12 07:14:36
Daewoo eyes LNG-RV
South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering is revealed most likely to win order of around $270m LNG-RV from Petrobras, a state-owned oil company in Brazil. Petrobras proceeds with a "Petrobras Project" to build Brazil of the largest en...
2011-08-12 06:35:22
USUKI pens ferry
Japan's Usuki Shipyard recently won newbuilding order for one 1,200-gt ferry from Kume Line. The Oita-based shipbuilder made another newbuilding contract with Kume after 24 years. The ferry, replacing a vessel in commission, will be delivered in J...
2011-08-11 12:46:33
USC cutting inefficient yards
Russia's state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate United Shipbuilding Corp is to close a number of inefficient Soviet-era Far East yards and refocus on a series of joint ventures with technically advanced Asian shipbuilders. Vice-president Dmitriy Mi...
2011-08-11 07:15:26
India new "Int'l Size Shipyards"
During the year 2011-12, 23 Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects have been identified for award with an estimated investment of INR 16,744 crore and the corresponding capacity addition of 231.63 MMTPA. The National Maritime Development Progra...
2011-08-11 06:38:25
Hyundai-Vinashin eyes earnings jump
Hyundai-Vinashin Shipyard (HVS) recently held a keel-laying ceremony in central Khanh Hoa province for the construction of three large ships for its foreign partners. The cargo ship coded S059 was ordered by the Huyndai Merchant Marine of South Ko...
2011-08-11 06:33:49
Chengxi wins 64K BCs
China's CSSC Chengxi Shipyard inked order for three 64,000-dwt bulkers from Jinwei of Hong Kong on Aug 3. CSSC Chengxi, cooperated with Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute, built brand new sized bulkers which were designed on the b...
2011-08-10 16:19:17
CATIC pens 3,820TEU boxships
China's Taizhou CATIC Shipbuilding Heavy Industry has recently won two 3,820 TEU containerships from unnamed German shipowner. These newbuildings will be classed by GL and will have a length of 228m, a breadth of 37.3m and a height of 19.85m. T...
2011-08-10 15:40:08
Daewoo inks HMM 13,100TEU's
South Korea's Hyundai Merchant Marine announced Wednesday that it has placed a newbuilding order for five 13,100-teu ultra large containerships at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. The newbuildings worth around KRW 695bn ($643m) in total a...
2011-08-10 12:06:39
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