Offshore
SWS joins top 3 club
China’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS), one of the leading Chinese shipyards, has entered global top 3 shipbuilders with newbuilding output of 6.05m dwt in 2009. On February 26th 2010, a six-generation of 3000-meter deepwater semi-submer...
2010-03-02 10:12:38
Russian yards’ concern over Shtokman
The three-year postponement of the Shtokman project causes concern in the Northwest Russian shipbuilding industry, leader of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Roman Trotsenko told PM Vladimir Putin in a meeting last week. Mr. Trotsenko maintain...
2010-03-02 08:15:12
TMT mulls LNG-FSRU conversion
Nobu Su-controlled Bluesky LNG, Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT)'s LNG-shipping arm, is considering conversion offers on its two upcoming LNG-carrier newbuildings prior to their delivery later this year. Company officials say they are talking to "a num...
2010-02-26 15:41:00
CESA seeks aid for offshore wind farm planter
The Community of European Shipyards' Association (CESA) and the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) are calling on the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support the building of new ships to serve the offshore wind ener...
2010-02-26 09:18:29
STX reserves icebreaker order
STX Finland has urged the Finnish government to make a quick decision on a vital icebreaker order. The shipbuilder’s boss Martin Landtman told the Kauppalehti daily that he hopes a deal will be struck soon. The contract could save its Helsi...
2010-02-26 08:33:40
DSME opens wind turbine plant in Canada
South Korean shipbuilding giant Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering is on the verge of resurrecting the mothballed TrentonWorks plant in Nova Scotia, according to Canadian press. An executive from Daewoo said in an interview with The Canadian...
2010-02-26 08:24:27
Saving Hyundai-Qingdao !!
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) threw itself to save Qingdao Hyundai Shipbuilding (QHS), a Chinese shipbuilding subsidiary of Hyundai Corporation (HC). According to an industry source, HHI is reportedly pushing management normalization by sending e...
2010-02-25 07:34:59
Slim chance of improvement
Both ship prices and freight rates, which are criteria to project the future situation of shipping and shipbuilding industries, are on the rise. Therefore, whether the situation of the industries will improve is drawing much attention. Accordin...
2010-02-25 07:28:11
‘SEVAN DRILLER’ arrived in Cape Town
‘SEVAN DRILLER’, the world’s first cylindrical ultra-deepwater drilling platform built by China’s COSCO Nantong Shipyard, arrived in Cape Town, South Africa. The voyage began from November 23th 2009 in Qidong, China. The platform passed E...
2010-02-24 09:50:20
Aker-Phil eyes wind turbine installation vessels
Could Aker Philadelphia Shipyard soon find itself building wind turbine installation vessels? The good news in the just released fourth quarter 2009 report from Aker Philadelphia is that it continues to get better and better at building tankers....
2010-02-24 09:18:10
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