Shipbuilding
COSCO Shipyard: From repair to newbuilding
Recently a naming ceremony of a 30,000dwt heavy lifter built by COSCO Dalian Shipyard was held. The ship was ordered by Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company (Chipolbrok). COSCO, with ex-name of global king of shiprepairing, delivered 26 sh...
2010-11-16 10:10:54
China to face technical obstacle
‘So far, China has surpassed Korea in terms of output, order intakes and orderbook,’ said Chinese analyst Liang Zhiyong. Frankly China became the world No.1. However, he also indicated that in next five year China would face serial challenges fro...
2010-11-16 10:10:19
Japanese eye Ecoship & New Panama
Japan's shipbuilders revealed their next-generation, new-type ships that feature Eco-ship to save energy and reduce CO2 emission and wide-breadth type ships which are wider than the breadth of the existing Panama Canal. Japan's shipbuilding comp...
2010-11-16 08:36:42
India boosts shipbuilding & coastal shipping
The Indian government has made moves to promote the country’s shipbuilding industry as well as attract more investment to expand coastal shipping. The shipping ministry will now allow Indian-built foreign-flag vessels to trade along the coast a...
2010-11-16 07:45:54
Hudong-Zhonghua wins MPP quartet
Bremen-based Beluga Shipping has ordered the first in a new series of 20,000-dwt multipurpose (MPP) heavylift ships in China where it is also pondering high-value wind-farm-installation vessel order. Boss Niels Stolberg says Beluga has returned t...
2010-11-16 07:41:32
Yangfan pens handysize BCs
China's Yangfan Group is said to have secured a pair of 35,000-dwt bulkers from Belgian ferry and bulker operator Cobelfret. Sources say that Cobelfret is paying around $26m per vessel for delivery in 2013. It is the third shipping company to hav...
2010-11-16 07:34:48
ABG Q2 net rises 22.7%
India's largest private shipbuilding company, ABG Shipyard, Monday said that it has clocked a 38.32 per cent increase in its net sales to Rs 555.48-crore as against Rs 401.58-crore in the year-ago period. Its net profit rose 22.70 per cent from R...
2010-11-16 07:16:36
Chinese duo win 10 BC orders
Pacific Basin Shipping Limited, one of the world’s leading dry bulk shipping companies, announced Monday that it has contracted or acquired US$284.4 million contracts to build ten dry bulk vessels as follows: 1) six 35,000 dwt handysize bulk car...
2010-11-16 07:12:34
Rongsheng: To keep forward
The shipping and shipbuilding industries were thought to be the barometer of global economy. During global financial crisis, they were hit by severe blow. In the context of economic recovery, the shipping market turned around first. Analysts said the...
2010-11-15 10:18:54
Shanghai Shipyard books four boxships
West Africa liner specialist NileDutch has ordered its first newbuilding orders. Rotterdam-based NileDutch has inked a $200m deal for four boxships, which it will use in the growing Asia-to-Africa liner shipping services. NileDutch managing dir...
2010-11-15 08:17:16
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