Shipbuilding
Samsung wins Evergreen's 30 ships?
Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries is expected to win new orders for another 10 8,000-teu boxships in ealry next year following having received new orders for 20 8,000-teu boxships from Evergreen this year. If so, Samsung will build all of the 30 8,...
2010-12-28 13:07:23
S&M: Not easy for export orders
In recent years, with high speed growth of domestic shipbuilding industry, more and more foreign shipowners came to China to order ships. As a result, many of Chinese small and medium shipyards participated in ship export as well. However, some of...
2010-12-28 11:45:01
Korea, Japan clash for high-end ships
Japan's shipbuilders seem to be focusing on taking fresh orders for newbuilds supposed to be delivered after the second half of 2013 next year. With this, it looks unavoidable that they have to compete with Korean yards, most of which achieved the...
2010-12-28 11:05:35
Taizhou: Calm down!
In 2007, when global financial crisis was about to launch, ‘enclosure movement’ was carried out in Taizhou Zhejiang Province of China. ‘enclosure movement’ meant that local private entrepreneurs purchased lands along the coast line for shipbu...
2010-12-28 11:00:36
Sumitomo delivers seven aframaxes
Japan's Sumitomo Heavy Industries announced on Monday that it has delivered a total of seven newbuildings this year totaling 390,000 gt. The number is down by one ship against last year and down by 13% in gt terms. The ships built by the yard t...
2010-12-28 08:54:41
Bohai pens VLCC pair
China's state-owned shipbuilder Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry has inked two 320,000-dwt VLCCs with Russia's Novoship. Delivery is due for early 2013 and newbuilding price is said to be around $100m per vessel. The newbuildings will be chartere...
2010-12-28 08:48:50
Bulker orderbook volume unchanged
Despite 2010 being a record year in terms of bulker deliveries, as of the end of the year, the orderbook has remained at the same amazing level of a year ago. According to a report from BIMCO’s shipping analyst Peter Sand, the current orderbook...
2010-12-28 08:29:24
Shipbuilders upgrade PLM system
Korea's large shipbuilders are actively engaging into establishing the next generation PLM system (Product Lifecycle Management) to improve their global competitiveness. The system aims not only to shorten the time spent on ship designing but als...
2010-12-28 07:07:38
Mitsubishi delivered 20% more
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries revealed last Monday that its newbuilding deliveries (except for naval vessels) of the year reached 24 ships totaling 1,397,766 GT by increasing 20.9% in GT terms and six ships in vessel terms as compared with las...
2010-12-27 12:34:35
Daewoo targets $11bn in 2011
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the world's 3rd-largest shipbuilder, aims to secure $11bn in new orders next year, a spokesperson said on Monday. Nam Sang-tae, chief executive of the South Korean shipbuilder, also told reporters on last ...
2010-12-27 08:53:38
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