Shipbuilding
Samsung confirms suezmaxes
Samsung Heavy Industries confirmed that it has signed a contract last week with Centrofin of Greece to build three suezmax tankers. However, the South Korean shipbuilder told Asiasis that the ship prices are about $65m each, not $62m as reported e...
2009-12-15 06:59:19
Norwegian cancels handymax order
Norway’s Seven Seas Carriers has cancelled a handymax bulker order after reaching an agreement with Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding in China. The shipowner will not take delivery of the first of two 58,000-dwt bulkers it had on order at the yard fo...
2009-12-14 11:59:21
TKMS Nordseewerke launches last ship
On December 11th, the last newbuilding of a series of 3,400-teu containerships entered the waters at the Emden-based TKMS Blohm + Voss Nordseewerke - a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. This technical launch took place nine months after the la...
2009-12-14 07:39:24
Downsizing looms ahead
Shipbuilding experts are expecting that the slump in newbuilding market would continue in 2010 and a large-scale restructuring is looming ahead in the industry. At a Korea Maritime Institute-organized seminar held on December 7th, a researcher fro...
2009-12-14 06:45:42
Samsung inks suezmaxes
Centrofin of Greece has reportedly signed a contract to build three suezmax tankers at Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea, according to foreign media. The ships are due for delivery in 2011 at a price of $62m each. Separately, Sonangol of...
2009-12-11 14:16:04
Hyundai Mipo may win bitumen tankers
Vroon BV is said to be expanding its bitumen-tanker newbuilding orderbook with two more units. The Dutch owner is reportedly looking at two 6,000-dwt units at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard of South Korea with delivery slated for 2011. Brokers report the p...
2009-12-11 14:03:24
Tsuneishi wins handymax order
Norwegian shipowner JJ Ugland has ordered another 58,000-dwt bulker from Tsuneishi Group (Zhoushan) Shipbuilding in China for delivery in the summer of 2011. The owner has now bought four new supramaxes this year at a total investment of around $1...
2009-12-11 11:19:48
Bangladesh wins $14m ship export order
Bangladesh has bagged export order of oceangoing ships and two tankers worth $14 million in the shipbuilding fair held in India recently. Each vessel has the capacity of 5000-deadweight tonnage (DWT) and each tanker 1500 cubic meter, highest capa...
2009-12-11 08:16:05
Rongsheng output to double
China’s largest private shipbuilder Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries said it expects its newbuilding output to increase from 16 this year to 30 ships in 2010. The shipbuilder has delivered 13 vessels comprising 11 156,000-dwt suezmax tankers a...
2009-12-11 08:12:44
Argentina yard wins $500m orders
An emerging South American shipowner controlled by Petroleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) is ordering 66 vessels at a shipyard run by Argentina's government. The Venezuelan oil company and Argentina's Defence Ministry said Thursday that the vessels will b...
2009-12-11 07:38:50
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