Shipbuilding
Troubled SLS tankers set for 'adoption'
South Korea’s SLS Shipbuilding may “pass on” a sextet of cancelled newbuildings to a sister company. Singapore-based KCL Marine is poised to take over six cancelled handymax-tanker newbuildings left at the shipyard. Industry sources say K...
2009-08-28 18:19:29
Rongsheng’s cancelled ships into Roxen
A new shipowning company has been established to trade cancelled newbuildings left on the hands of Rongsheng Heavy Industries, a Chinese shipbuilder. Roxen Shipping will specialize in the suezmax arena and is already trading one suezmax tanker. ...
2009-08-28 18:07:38
Newbuilding price war worried
Shipbuilders may be drawn into a global price war next year triggered by South Korean discounting, an executive at Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES), Japan’s second-largest shipbuilder, said. “A risk of some new Korean yards setting very...
2009-08-28 16:51:29
P&O ferry keel laid at Rauma
The keel of a ferry to be built for P&O Ferries was laid at STX Europe’s Rauma Shipyard in Finland on August 25th. The vessel is the first of the two ferries scheduled for delivery from the yard in 2010 and 2011. Following a traditional cerem...
2009-08-28 11:33:52
Hudong 8,600-teu pair delivery delayed
Orient Overseas (International) Limited (OOIL) has pushed back the delivery of two newbuildings and backloaded payments for the ships. Hong Kong listed OOIL says the first of the 8,600-teu containerships on order at China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbui...
2009-08-28 07:45:23
Aker Phil negotiating uncertain waters
With the global recession crimping demand for petroleum products, offshore drilling, and new ship orders, Aker Philadelphia Shipyard is feeling the pinch. The nine-year-old shipyard delivered its seventh product tanker in June and has orders for ...
2009-08-28 07:23:37
STX may win Russian naval vessel
The Russian military high-command has raised hopes of much-needed fresh work at STX Europe’s Saint-Nazaire shipyard after announcing that it is mulling placing an order for a command and projection vessel in France. General Nikolaï Makarov...
2009-08-28 07:19:11
New Century delivers 21 tankers by July
An official from New Century Shipbuilding of China said the company has delivered 21 ships totaling 1.86m dwt in the first seven months of this year, and of them, 13 ships were 73,000-dwt class oil tankers with the rest eight being 114,000-dwt tanker...
2009-08-28 06:41:33
Chinese lose 172 ship orders
The China Association of National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI) said in an official report released on August 20th that Chinese shipbuilders suffered order cancellations of 172 ships totaling 5.95m dwt in the period between October last year and July...
2009-08-28 06:34:40
Shipbuilding up, Risks up too
According to statistics released by Guangzhou Customs District of People's Republic of China on August 25th, ship export volume of Guangdong province stood at 175,000 ships in total in the first seven months of this year, which jumped 1.4 times from ...
2009-08-27 06:28:36
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