Shipbuilding
Newbuilding orders continue
Attractive prices, coupled with long-term prospects in freight markets usher ship owners to continue investing in newbuildings. According to the latest report from Golden Destiny, “in the newbuilding market, more business came to light this week...
2011-08-10 07:34:54
Fincantieri delivers Megayacht
The first Megayacht was recently delivered by Fincantieri's Muggiano (La Spezia) shipyard in Italy. The 134-meter-long Serene is the first megayacht built by Fincantieri, marking the Italian shipbuilder's entry into the upscale luxury yacht sector...
2011-08-10 06:50:17
Sanoyas inks 83K BCs
Japan's Sanoyas Hishino Meisho announced that it has won orders of three 83,000-DWT bulker newbuildings during the three months to June, 2011. And Sanoyas' newbuilding orderbook went up to 31 vessels worth JPY 124.3bn ($1.6bn). During 2011 A...
2011-08-10 06:21:43
Rongsheng scores 6,600TEUs
China Rongsheng Heavy Industries announced a new order for two 6,600-teu boxships. It said only that the contract was signed by a European owner, but it was not clear whether this was a new deal. The contract with unnamed European shipowner i...
2011-08-09 06:58:22
Russian wins tankers
Moscow River Shipping Company (MRSC) and “Lotus” Shipyard on July 26, 2011 signed a contract worth over RUB 1 billion ($35.1m) for two river-sea going tankers of Project RST 25, the shipping company said. The vessels were ordered by Gaztekhlea...
2011-08-09 06:53:10
Japanese to order 25 ships
Anchor Ship Investment, Japan’s largest ship-fund manager, may more than double its fleet to 50 vessels amid rising imports of coal and iron ore in China and India. “Our customers are asking for more bulk carriers to feed that demand and we ar...
2011-08-09 06:49:49
Kawasaki pens 5 ships
Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced to ink one small-sized LNG carrier and four Handymax bulkers during April - June, 2011. Kawasaki recorded JPY 17bn ($218m) of order in Q2, increased JPY 15.3bn from the same period last year, in which ha...
2011-08-08 11:26:14
Carnival pens 3 cruiseships
Carnival Corporation has ordered three cruiseship newbuildings in Japan and Italy. It has booked a single vessel at Fincantieri and a couple at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Carnival says the 132,500-gt ship penned at the Italian yard is for i...
2011-08-08 06:55:00
SPP inks 20 MR tankers
South Korea's SPP Shipbuilding has won massive orders of 20 MR tankers. Sources say that SPP won orders of two ships from Ireland's Ardmore Shipping, another two vessels from Socatra Shipping in France, six ships from shipowner in Central and Sout...
2011-08-08 06:34:20
Big 3 Triple 1Trn
South Korea's Big 3, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Samsung Heavy Industries, are all expected to reach KRW 1trn ($9.35bn) of operating profit each. Hyundai has already exceeded 1trn in the first half of thi...
2011-08-08 06:27:06
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