Shipbuilding
CGG seismic newbuilding award goes to Grandweld shipyard
United Arab Emirates shipyard Grandweld has won a deal to build a new workboat for seismic survey player CGGVeritas of France. The 25.9-metre aluminium vessel will have two Scania diesel engines driving folding hydraulic thrusters to allow for sha...
2009-02-05 07:51:44
Russian shipbuilding expected to rise
Russia's shipbuilding industry will see a 20% rise in sales this year to 180 billion rubles ($5 billion) compared with 150 billion rubles in 2008, the industry and energy minister said on Wednesday. Viktor Khristenko said warships and related militar...
2009-02-05 07:26:52
China stimulus: Scrap old ships and build new ones at local
The soon-to-be-launched stimulus package for shipbuilders in China will include a reduction in the ship age limit and tax exemptions to encourage breaking of old ships and building new vessels at local instead of foreign yards. Hebei Ocean Shipping C...
2009-02-05 07:21:52
Ways to maintain top
South Korea, the world’s No. 1 shipbuilding nation, must find measures to keep leading the global shipbuilding industry in the next decade, including developing high-value vessels, a domestic institute said. In a report titled ‘Check of the Co...
2009-02-05 06:45:06
HOSCO requests retrieval scheme for marine industry
China’s biggest private shipping company and the third biggest shipping company, HOSCO Group CEO Gao Yanming has recently submitted a proposal for marine industry revitalization plan to the Ministry of Transport (MOT) of the People’s Republic of ...
2009-02-04 18:27:55
World’s Top 5 Shipbuilders: New Ranking
South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and STX Shipbuilding are now the world's second and fourth largest shipyards each in terms of order backlog, a London-based market researcher said Tuesday. STX Shipbuilding had an order backlog o...
2009-02-04 16:14:00
Turkish shipbuilders to see stimulus in 2 weeks
Turkey's shipbuilding industry, which has grown exponentially in the last six years with orders coming in from around the world, has sustained heavy damage from a drop in global demand, but a new stimulus package that aims to turn things around will ...
2009-02-04 15:37:09
CSSC plans 9.6Mil dwt Newbuilding: Shanghai
The shipbuilding volume of Shanghai-based shipbuilders under China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) is expected to record at 9.6 million dwt this year. According to the report, CSSC’s general manager, Tan Zuojun has recently revealed 2009 ship...
2009-02-04 12:17:45
Chinese get stimulus package
Chinese shipbuilders are set to receive a boost from a financial stimulus package being put together by the government. The stimulus package, hammered out by the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and...
2009-02-04 11:40:50
Battle for territory: European yards fight their corner
Specialist European facilities are preparing to face increased risks as bigger players move into their sectors. Niche shipyards building offshore vessels, dredgers and other high-value ships could face further challenges as mainstream yards look t...
2009-02-04 11:32:02
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