Shipbuilding
20% more orders to materialize: 2011
Newbuilding orders are being projected to increase by at least 20% next year than this year. Korea's Daishin Securities held the investment suggestion 'overweight' in the shipbuilding industry sector on December 2nd, expecting a big jump in new o...
2010-12-06 08:35:52
Yangfan firms up 35K BC option
Germany’s John T Essberger has ordered a third 35,000-dwt bulker at China’s Zhejiang Yangfan Group. The Hamburg-based owner confirms that it has exercised an option for one more of the handysizes for delivery at the end of 2012. Its dry-bulk ...
2010-12-06 08:24:03
Hyundai-Vinashin & Onomichi win handies
Norden has ordered four handysize bulkers only a few months after boss Carsten Mortensen ripped into rivals about adding to the sector’s crowded orderbook. Two of the new Norden quartet have been booked to fill a long-term contract of affreight...
2010-12-06 07:02:55
CSBC to win 8 boxships
Industry sources showed CSBC was negotiating with OOCL on ship specifications and equipments. As is revealed, as long as ship price fixed, CSBC was expected to win eight 1,800TEU boxships. Currently the price of a 1,800TEU boxship was hanging arou...
2010-12-03 10:42:33
STX in talks for gas carriers
Rotterdam-based Unigas gas-carrier pool is said to be close to ordering up to six ethylene carriers of 6,500-cbm class at Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding. The contract will be signed for three firm and three optional units, sources say. New...
2010-12-03 09:47:18
Sinopacific pens 16 63K BC's
Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group has developed the world's largest handymax bulker type, namely 63,000-dwt bulk carrier and, with this new ship type, it has won 16-ship new orders, of which the first ship is scheduled to be delivered in 2012. The ne...
2010-12-03 09:13:50
Jiangsu Hantong wins 82K BC's
Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry has bagged a contract with Germany's MPC Steamship to build two 82,000-dwt kamsarmax bulk carriers. Delivery is set for 2012-13. Newbuilding price is yet to be revealed. The Chinese shipbuilding company first...
2010-12-03 09:04:14
STX on the verge of big orders
For the contracts of long-term affreightment recently signed, Korea's STX Pan Ocean is set to clinch a contract with its group affiliated shipbuilder, STX Offshore & Shipbuilding to build 23 bulk carriers to transport pulp and coal, etc. This is d...
2010-12-02 08:41:21
SPP merger around the corner
Korea's SPP Group is said to be planning to have a public announcement of a merger between SPP Shipbuilding and SPP Plant & Shipbuilding on January 1st next year. In terms of the way of the merger, SPP Plant & Shipbuilding and a ship-block suppl...
2010-12-02 08:33:39
COSCO inks 82K BC's
China's Cosco Dalian Shipyard has inked orders for three more kamsarmax bulkers. It will build the 82,000-dwt trio for unnamed European and Chinese owners. In a statement Cosco said this latest deal is worth upwards of $110m. For all of t...
2010-12-02 07:16:49
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