Shipbuilding
Boxship orders continue
With global trade now on a solid recovery path, containership owners have been investing heavily in new vessels. Latest weekly report from Clarksons says, “In a move away from recent patterns the containership orders placed this week have been ...
2011-05-18 07:58:58
Croatian plans yard buys
Croatian businessman Danko Koncar is still committed to buying domestic shipyards, but says he might shift some operations to China. The London-based tycoon told Croatian national TV that he is still interested in buying the 3. Maj, Kraljevica an...
2011-05-18 06:48:31
Japanese win 22-ship orders
Japanese shipbuilders won a total of 22 ship export orders in April but the new flow of orders may not be enough to reverse the decline in the country’s export ship orderbook. According to statistics from the Japan Ship Exporters’ Association,...
2011-05-18 06:43:03
Samjin signs 14-ships
South Korean shipbuilder Samjin Shipbuilding Industries Co., Ltd. (Chairman & CEO: Young Il Kang) located in Weihai China has accomplished splendid feat by winning 10 newbuilding contracts solely in April including 6 units of DWT 36K Bulk Carriers an...
2011-05-17 13:07:58
Hyundai inks 6 shuttle tankers
Hyundai Heavy Industries has won an additional shuttle tanker newbuilding order from Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers, where Japan's Nippon Yusen Kabushiki (NYK) took stakes last year. The owner booked one firm and two optional aframax class 123,000 d...
2011-05-17 12:58:52
Russia backs shipbuilding in Far East
Russia will prepare a law to support shipbuilding industry in Far East by this week, Vice Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov said Sunday while inspecting the construction of maritime terminal on Kunashir Island. According to the RIA Novosti report, the...
2011-05-17 07:26:03
Korean beef up cost-cutting
South Korean shipbuilders employ various measures to deal with recent sharp increase in thick steel plate prices. Hyundai Heavy Industries put raw materials procurement and production process information into two-dimensional bar codes to sha...
2011-05-17 06:20:37
Korean-Danish cooperation
South Korean president Lee Myung-bak, on a state visit to Denmark, met with Nils Andersen, CEO of AP Moller Maersk, the world largest shipping company, in Copenhagen on May 12 and exchanged opinions on ways to strengthening bilateral cooperation betw...
2011-05-17 06:12:15
Hyundai leads VLGC tender
South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries is the favourite to win a Pertamina VLGC newbuilding tender. Hyundai Heavy Industries is expected to be the frontrunner in a tender issued by Pertamina for an 84,000-cbm gas carrier. It would ...
2011-05-16 07:21:53
Atlantico Sul faces delays
Brazil’s Estaleiro Atlantico Sul (EAS) has seen its president replaced amid delays to the first vessels to be delivered in the government’s $5bn tanker programme. President Angelo Bellelis was removed from his post because of dissatisfaction ...
2011-05-16 07:15:16
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