Shipbuilding
Chinese deliver 16m dwt newbuilds in H1
According to the China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI) statistics, Chinese shipbuilders have built newbuildings totaling 15.87m dwt in the first half of this year, up 60% year-on-year. Of them, newbuilding output in June ...
2009-07-29 06:42:37
Daehan inks capesize pair
Daehan Shipbuilding of South Korea is about to end order drought. The shipbuilder said Tuesday that it had signed a letter of intent with a shipowner of Marshall Islands on July 24th to build two 180,000-dwt bulk carriers. Ship prices are over ...
2009-07-29 06:35:13
Sungdong to win 10 more orders
South Korea’s emerging shipbuilder Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering started to show its reserved strength. It has succeeded in receiving an order from a European owner for two 158K crude oil tankers again last weekend, following an ord...
2009-07-28 11:56:32
Wadan hopeful on buyer hunt
There are fresh hopes for insolvent Wadan Yards in Rostock-Warnemünde and Wismar, Germany. The search for a potential investor is progressing better than initially thought, said Rüdiger Klein of metal workers’ union IG Metall Küst...
2009-07-28 06:49:59
SAL behind Sietas €120m order
German shipbuilder Sietas Werft has confirmed that the order intake it announced last week is an €120m ($171m) order for two heavylift vessels for Schiffahrtskontor Altes Land (SAL). The vessels will have a carrying capacity of 12,500 tons and a...
2009-07-28 06:43:47
Hyundai order-intakes plunge 83%
Despite global economic downturn, Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea reported second quarter results which are in line with market expectations. The world’s largest shipbuilder’s Q2 revenue stood at KRW 5.331trn ($4.287bn), up by 13.2% f...
2009-07-28 06:16:10
Boxship deliveries slower than expected
An analysis of scheduled versus actual deliveries of containership newbuildings shows that far fewer than anticipated have entered the fleet. So far, 145 boxships with a combined capacity of just over 600,000 teu have entered the market, Clarkson ...
2009-07-27 14:26:34
Bangladesh yards win $355m orders
Bangladesh's leading shipbuilders have won deals worth $355m to supply over 30 smaller ocean-going ships to shipping firms in Germany by next year end, officials said on Sunday. "German shipowners have already ordered Bangladeshi shipbuilders to s...
2009-07-27 13:19:22
Cancelled Sasaki newbuilds get charters
Stolt-Nielsen has chartered three out of five chemical-tanker newbuildings from Sasaki Shipbuilding of Japan that are part of an order originally cancelled by Eitzen Chemical. The deal marks the start of a rescue plan for Sasaki after it ran into ...
2009-07-27 06:38:11
China faces 16m-ton overcapacity
After the announcement of China's shipbuilding industry development scheme, most of the plans of each province has focused on how to expand shipbuilding industry. On July 22nd Zhu Hongren, a director of Monitoring and Coordination Bureau in Minist...
2009-07-27 06:13:21
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