Shipbuilding
Japanese shipbuilders’ order-intakes trend down
Japanese 10 listed-shipbuilding companies have received newbuilding orders for 81 ships worth 749.5bn yen ($7.7bn) during the first half of fiscal year 2008 (April to September), down 18% against the same period of last year. They kept securing bulke...
2008-11-18 07:11:12
Jinse launches a new handysize bulker
South Korea’s Jinse Shipbuilding holds a launching ceremony today for ‘JS 2050’, a handysize bulk carrier. The ship is the first unit of the three newbuildings ordered last March by Unifast, a Hong Kong shipping company, and it is for the fi...
2008-11-18 07:08:17
Cape orders from Greeks holding firm
Orders for more than 100 capesize bulkers worth close to $10bn were placed by Greek shipowners from the beginning of 2007 to date and despite the dire market conditions and cancellations seen elsewhere, a large majority of them are still looking soli...
2008-11-17 15:10:37
SWS boosts shipbuilding capacity to 6m dwt next year
Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding(SWS) has decided to establish the annual shipbuilding capacity of 5m~6m dwt by next year to be the China’s No.1 shipbuilder. It has decided to rapidly boost its shipbuilding capacity by Jiangnan Changxing Shipbui...
2008-11-17 12:06:00
Hartmann dumps boxship orders for tanker newbuildings
Private German shipowner Hartmann has replaced six box ship newbuilding orders with tanker newbuildings instead. Several ship brokers told Tankerworld that the move is an indication of the health of the tanker markets compared to other sectors. One d...
2008-11-17 10:45:22
DSIC developed 13,000TEU vessel
According to overseas media report, China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co.,Ltd.(DSIC) developed 13,000TEU container ship. Development of 156,800 m³ container ship is also in processing at the same time, reportedly. After the completion of ...
2008-11-17 10:10:15
Chinese shipbuilders’ order backlog exceeds 200m dwt
Chinese shipbuilding industry’s newbuilding order backlog exceeded a total of 200m dwt. According to the data released by CANSI (China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry) last week, the volume of newbuildings on order at 1,183 shi...
2008-11-17 08:47:47
Jinse faces risk of order cancellations
Jinse Shipbuilding of South Korea is reportedly having difficulties in providing R/G (refund guarantee) for some ships on its orderbook. According to sources, some 20 handysize bulkers booked at Jinse by Greece’s Metrostar and Turkey’s Aktif D...
2008-11-17 06:16:42
Chinese shipbuilding industry imminently needs strategic cha...
Recently, deputy director of COSTIND (Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense), Zhuanglong Jin pointed out that although Chinese shipbuilding industry shows rapid development, there still exists problems including irratio...
2008-11-14 23:15:27
China will focus on building three modern shipbuilding bases
To narrow down the gap between the international shipbuilding powers, China's shipbuilding industry will step up restructuring such as improving industrial clusters’ degree by the construction of three modern shipbuilding bases. At World shipping (...
2008-11-14 15:22:27
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