Shipbuilding
Japanese wins 95K BC pair
Greece’s Safe Bulkers has splashed out on another two units at an unidentified Japanese shipyard, according to overseas media report. The Polys Hajioannou-led company has taken a pair of 95,000-dwt post-panamaxes, it said in an announcement to ...
2009-12-17 07:29:17
Chinese orders drop 61%
China's shipbuilders' new orders in the first 11 months of the year fell 61 percent to 22.94 million dwt, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement on its Web site Wednesday. The country finished building 36.54 millio...
2009-12-17 06:57:05
Daewoo inks $300m ro-ro/boxships
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said Thursday that it has signed a $300m contract on December 16th with Italy’s Ignazio Messina & C. S.p.A. to construct four ro-ro/containerships for delivery between October 2011 and February 2013. The...
2009-12-17 06:53:41
China excels Japan
Chinese shipbuilders could surpass Japanese rivals in terms of newbuilding completion volume in 2009 for the first time. According to statistics, China's completion volume was above that of Japan as of autumn, and should this pace continue, it wi...
2009-12-16 07:05:17
CSBC to win VLCC
CSBC, Taiwan’s largest shipbuilder, is set to be among the shipyard beneficiaries of a plan by U-Ming Marine Transport, Chinese Maritime Transport and state-owned oil company CPC to build a fleet of up to 35 very large crude carriers of 300,000 dwt...
2009-12-16 06:51:28
CSSC Guangzhou wins kamsarmax
China Qinfa Group ordered a second kamsarmax bulker at CSSC Guangzhou in China. The Hong Kong-listed coal player said the 82,000-dwt ship would cost $35.2m. It is scheduled for delivery in July 2011. It had ordered the first ship in Octobe...
2009-12-16 06:43:20
14% of greenfield collapse
Recent figures reveal a one-third drop in the tally of greenfield yards but a UK broker says the statistics mask a less dramatic situation, foreign media reports. The number of greenfield shipyards has fallen by almost one third. Figures from C...
2009-12-15 13:46:26
Greenfield vie for Transpetro tender
A greenfield yard planned by some of the same players behind Brazil's Atlantico Sul Shipyard is competing for an eight-ship newbuilding tender for Transpetro, foreign media reports. Promar Ceara Shipyard, which is negotiating technology backing from...
2009-12-15 07:51:53
Brazilian inflate gas carrier prices
Brazilian shipbuilders have charged about 20% more than South Korean shipyards to build gas carriers, latest contract prices indicate. Foreign media reported that Estaleiro Itajai, a shipyard in the southern state of Itajai has been contracted at ...
2009-12-15 07:29:35
Hyundai Mipo wins LPG carriers
Latvian Shipping has ordered two liquefied petroleum gas carriers from South Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, European brokers say. About two months ago, the shipowner announced its strategy to focus on owning oil product tankers by selling of its...
2009-12-15 07:14:06
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