Shipbuilding
STX tanker orders change to bulkers
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding has boosted its orderbook by $46m as a result of a customer changing an order for two tankers into bulk carriers. STX does not identify the shipowner revising his ordering plans but says the original deal was done in M...
2011-04-11 06:01:03
SHI inspector names Peter Doehle ship
Samsung Heavy Industries held a naming ceremony at its Geoje shipyard today for a 12,600-teu boxship for German owner Peter Doehle. Interestingly, Samsung employee Choi Ah-reum (24) was the sponsor for the newbuilding. She christened the vessel...
2011-04-08 15:21:26
Qatar eyes six LNG carriers
Qatar Gas Transport Company (QGTC / NAKILAT) is having initial talks with shipbuilders about up to six conventional-size LNG-carrier newbuildings. Informed sources indicate the preference is for ships of around 170,000 cbm up to Q-flex capacity o...
2011-04-08 15:10:40
Tsuji inks six handysize BCs
Tsuji Heavy Industries (Jiangsu) has won an order for six handysize bulk carriers. Fengli Group Shanghai Logistics has booked the vessels for delivery in the second half of next year. The newbuilding price is yet to be revealed. Tsuji Heavy In...
2011-04-08 07:38:48
SPP pens kamsarmax & handysizes
South Korea's SPP Shipbuilding won a 82,000-dwt kamsarmax bulker and four 35,000-dwt handysize bulkers from Turkey's Beks and Ciner respectively last month. The newbuildings are clinched for delivery from the end of 2012 by 2013. The latest co...
2011-04-08 06:30:54
Korea regains No. 1
Korean shipbuilders have returned to the world number one position in terms of new orders for the first quarter in a year, beating its biggest rivals, Chinese by a wide margin. According to Clarkson Research Services and industry sources today, th...
2011-04-08 06:29:01
Mitsui's Eco-ship in full swing
Japan's Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding is going to expand the ship types of eco-ships emitting 30% less CO2. The most demanded type of bulkers, 56,000 DWT, will be put into the market as an eco-bulker from this summer, and the yard will also pr...
2011-04-07 10:55:45
Japan to order cargo carriers
Regarding the treatment of radioactive-contaminated water caused by the bomb of the Fukusima nuclear power plant of The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Japan's shipbuilding players are raising an idea, as a countermeasure, to build contaminated-water s...
2011-04-07 10:10:20
DSIC sets delivery record
China's Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (DSIC) delivered four tankers of 300,000 DWT, two bulkers of 180,000 DWT and one tanker of 76,000 DWT for a full-month March. With this, the yard's total deliveries for the month surpassed 1.6m DWT...
2011-04-06 22:25:29
Positive outlook on Hanjin & STX
Seoul-based LIG Investment and Securities reveals that Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding are the two shipbuilders, which will create the biggest profit when all troubles facing them are settled. Choi Kwang...
2011-04-06 11:02:36
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