Shipbuilding
South Korea wins triple crown
South Korea continued to get a triple crown for the sixth consecutive year in terms of newbuilding contracts, deliveries and orderbook, fortifying its status as the world’s No. 1 shipbuilding country. According to Clarkson Research Services data re...
2009-01-29 11:42:44
Malaysia takes delivery of its first submarine
Malaysia has taken delivery of its first submarine -- a Scorpene built by French military shipyard DCNS in partnership with Spanish shipyard Navantia. A Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) statement said Wednesday Nazri Siron, secretary of the Defence Mini...
2009-01-29 07:47:12
Atlantico, the lowest bidder for Transpetro's tanker ne...
Atlantico Sul shipyard has emerged as the lowest bidder for nine tankers for Brazil's Transpetro, which has rejected another yard's bid for three products tankers. The compatriot yard submitted lower bids than rival Estaleiro Ilha SA (Eisa Shipyar...
2009-01-29 07:31:37
Newbuilding deliveries up 11% in 2008
In 2008, 2,336 deliveries of 89.1m dwt and 40.5m CGT were reported, according to the monthly report released by Clarkson Research Services early this week. This is 6% more vessels and 11% more dwt than in the previous year. In terms of vessels delive...
2009-01-29 06:25:12
Newbuilding contracts down 55% in 2008
In 2008, a total of 2,174 vessels of 42.6m CGT and 153.9m dwt were contracted, according to ‘World Shipyard Monitor’, the monthly report released by Clarkson Research Services early this week. This is the lowest number of contracts in a year s...
2009-01-29 06:19:01
Scotland: Recruitment push for shipbuilders
Business development agency Scottish Enterprise said recruits were needed to complete a £4bn ($5.695bn) contract to build two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers. The £525,000 marketing campaign aims to boost the existing workforce and t...
2009-01-28 15:13:25
Three years: Newbuilding Market to recover
Amid global economic recession, newbuilding ordering activity has in effect stopped and it would take more than three years for the newbuilding market to recover. Nihon Geizai Shimbun recently interviewed Osaka-listed Namura Shipbuilding President...
2009-01-28 14:45:49
Survival strategy: STX Europe
STX Europe boss Torstein Dale Sjotveit says he would rather lay off workers and close yards than take loss-making orders. “Otherwise we will not survive,” he told a foreign media. STX Europe has been loss-making for the last couple of years...
2009-01-28 07:59:30
STX Europe delivers car passenger ferry
Delivered from STX Europe's Helsinki yard to Brittany Ferries on Jan. 26, the Armorique is a new type of car passenger ferry developed by the shipbuilder in close cooperation with the owner. It is designed to be particularly fuel efficient as well as...
2009-01-28 07:31:25
Erie Shipbuilding closes doors
Erie Shipbuilding LLC has closed its doors and laid off its work force, estimated at more than 100 people. On January 21 the company informed the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority, from which it leases the yard, that the plant would be clos...
2009-01-28 07:29:31
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