Shipbuilding
Retreating storm is coming
Overall recovery occurred in China this year. According to Clarkson Research Services statistics, the amount of global new orders in April hit 114 ships of 2.06m CGT, increasing by 22.1% against a month earlier. China occupied 45 ships of 787,857 ...
2010-05-26 01:03:03
DSIC wins kamsarmaxes
Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co has signed a contract to build six 81,200-dwt bulk carriers for International Far Eastern Leasing. Newbuilding price and delivery dates are yet to be disclosed. The same client ordered four 24,000-dwt multi-purp...
2010-05-25 07:33:39
Hantong inks seven supramaxes
China’s private sector shipyard Jiangsu Hantong Ship Heavy Industry has won an order for seven 57,000-dwt bulkers from a US shipowner. The order brings the number of handymax vessels on order at the shipyard to 16 vessels. The value of the ne...
2010-05-25 07:31:29
Shin Kurushima grabs bulker orders
More signs are emerging of an order revival at Japanese shipyards that were left out of the market for the past two years. Shin Kurushima Dockyard’s Toyohashi Shipbuilding has won an order for four 78,000-dwt bulkers from NYK with delivery in 2...
2010-05-24 07:42:45
Rongsheng wins 5 tankers
Greek shipowner George Economou has progressed a stage further than brokers have suggested with a quintet of big tanker orders in China, it has emerged. His Cardiff Marine management company has now signed letters of intent with Jiangsu Rongsheng...
2010-05-24 07:38:59
DSME signs kamsarmax duo
Hong Kong-based dry-bulk owner KC Maritime has booked two 82,000-dwt kamsarmaxes at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Korea for delivery in 2011 and 2012. “This is the first time KC Maritime has ordered ships at Daewoo,” said a sour...
2010-05-24 06:48:19
Hyundai wins 6 VLOC's
In an unusual deal, shipping financier Fortis Bank Nederland is understood to have acted as main contractor in a capesize series order at Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea under a charter agreement with BHP Billiton. The order involves six ore-st...
2010-05-24 06:44:00
HMD orders reach $1.25bn
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has inked $1.25bn worth of new ship orders so far this year. The Korean shipbuilder said on Thursday it has won orders for a total of 40 ships since the turn of this year including 29 bulkers and six product/chemical carriers...
2010-05-20 10:24:27
HMD bulker switch continues
Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard said European owners have converted more chemical carrier contracts into bulker newbuildings. The shipyard said the unnamed players will now take delivery of eight dry bulk carriers instead of 16 product carriers b...
2010-05-20 08:20:09
Japan Top 10 won 39 ships
Japanese 10 major shipbuilders secured new orders of 39 ships totaling 672,000 gt during the fiscal year ending March 31st 2010. Kaiji Press said four yards among them grabbed no commercial ship orders at all in the year and the new orders signed ...
2010-05-20 07:02:46
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