Offshore
COSCO wins livestock carriers
COSCO Guangdong Shipyard has contracted 3 plus 1 optional 15,000-dwt Livestock Carriers with unnamed European shipowner. The mystery owner stumped up the deposits for the “special purpose carriers” last month, making the order effective. Th...
2011-03-07 08:18:00
Hyundai wins fifth drillship
Noble Corp has exercised the first of two options with Hyundai Heavy Industries for the construction of another ultra-deepwater drillship. New York-listed Noble says it expects the floater, which has not been chartered, to hit the waters off Ulsa...
2011-03-07 06:45:02
Chinese push for offshore business
The China Association of National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI) says that China's shipbuilding industry has shown a stable growth in every shipbuilding index, such as deliveries and new orders, recently releasing a report of '2010 China's shipbuildin...
2011-03-06 23:42:15
Qingdao Hyundai builds MPP series
Keel-laying of a dry cargo ship ordered by VBTH was held on Feb. 28 at Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding in China. The newbuilding is the tenth multipurpose dry cargo vessel of project DCV36. The DCV36 project vessels are designed for marine transp...
2011-03-04 08:13:52
Offshore wind to outweigh shipbuilding
Britain, which leads the world's offshore wind market, currently produces 1.3GW of power through the offshore wind, but aims to reach 14GW by 2015 and 48GW by 2020. Chu Gyu-ho, the Korean Ambassador to Great Britain, recommends that Korea's shipb...
2011-03-03 23:01:10
Hyundai enters sub-sea business
Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries is pushing for a deep-sea oil drilling and production facility business. Lee Jae-sung, president of HHI says, "Besides our existing floating plant business, such as an FPSO, we will promote a still unknown 'sub-sea...
2011-03-03 22:59:29
Keppel buys into FPSO topside player
Keppel Offshore & Marine has bought a 27.7% stake in Singapore-listed topside module fabricator Dyna-Mac for S$87.5m ($68.8m). Keppel O&M managing director Nelson Yeo said the deal would allow the company to strengthen its capabilities in floating...
2011-03-03 08:12:09
Alliance btwn IHI & Jurong
Japan's IHI has entered into an alliance with Singapore's Jurong Shipyard to rebuild its competitiveness in the rig-building business. That is, IHI is responsible for designing rigs and building some basic parts, and its partner, Jurong, is in ...
2011-03-03 00:10:37
Daewoo grabs $1bn two drillships
Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has signed another newbuilding contract to build two dirllships for Norway's Aker Drilling after winning a drillship in January. Daewoo announced today that it has been awarded two drillships worth...
2011-03-02 09:35:33
DNV new guidelines for FLNG
Norwegian class society DNV is to release new design and construction guidelines for the rapidly evolving FLNG vessels. The guidance has been updated by DNV with special attention to new technologies and specialized ship-shaped units being develo...
2011-03-02 07:17:55
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