Finnish Government has announced a $680 million aid package
The Finnish Government has announced a US$680 million aid package to boost the country’s flailing shipbuilding industry.
The Turkish Transportation Minister has announced that Tukey rose from the 23rd to 5th place in the global shipbuilding orderbook in 2009.
Latest figures from the Beijing Research Centre showed that China’s total newbuilding output increased by 47 percent in 2009, to reach 4.2 million DWT.
Mitsubishi Chemicals and Nisshin Steel sign a ten year coking coal shipping contract.
MOL will make ten round-trips between Australia and Japan’s Sakaide harbour in the Kagawa Prefecture. The vessel will be a 100,000-tonne bulk freighter.
Navios Maritime Holdings, Greece, has recently taken delivery of a newbuild Capesize vessel.The ‘Navios Antares’, a 169,059DWT vessel, was delivered to Navios on January 20, 2010 from a South Korean shipyard.
The Guinea Shipping Corporation (GSC) announced the launch of operations on February 3 when it secured a major contract to transport raw materials from the West African nation.GSC is a joint-venture company between Hong Kong-based Corporate Capital Consultants and Société Navale Guinéenne (SNG), the state-owned shipping company of the Republic of Guinea.
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With 110 million tons of sea-borne cargo handled in 2009, a year impacted by the global economic and financial markets crisis, Germany’s biggest universal port fell short of the previous year’s result by around 30 million tons.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will receive a stronger surge in imports than previously expected in the first half of 2010.
The port sector in Gujarat which handles more than one-fifth of India’s total cargo, will attract an investment of Rs50,000 crore by 2015, according to the Gujarat Maritime Board .
France to sell amphibious ship to Russia
Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, reportedly balked at France’s plans to sell a Mistral-class amphibious ship to Russia, according to the New York Times.
General Dynamics Electric Boat has been awarded a US$23.7 million contract modification by the US Navy to prepare for the post-shakedown availability (PSA) on the nuclear submarine, ‘New Hampshire’ (SSN-778).
Australian submarine and shipbuilder ASC (formerly Australian Submarine Corporation) has welcomed the official opening of the US$5.7 million floating dock at the Australian Marine Complex (AMC) in Henderson, Western Australia.
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China and Vietnam have reached agreement to form a new trade zone that will increase the chances for greater cross-border trade and perhaps reduce the scope for maritime traffic.
South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corporation has clinched a deal to build Singapore’s first LNG terminal, the city-state’s Straits Times has reported.
Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea, has been awarded the tender to build a floating, production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) for Norway-based Eni Norge’s Goliat Project.
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‘Bob Barker’ collided with ‘Yushin Maru 3’ on the weekend, 180 miles off Cape Darnley in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
Dong Nai province opens its first port, The US$4 million port is the province’s first container port and boasts a 5,000-tonne wharf, two fixed container cranes with handling capacity of 40 tonnes, and a three-hectare container yard.
The American Chamber of Commerce in Hanoi has said that it is prepared to impose monetary penalties on US bound cargo if Vietnamese shippers fail to notify US Customs 24 hours before loading the cargo onboard the vessel.
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Italian shipowner Ciane has purchased a second double-hull bunker tanker from Turkish shipbuilder, Çiçek Shipyard.The vessel is due to be handed over at the beginning of February and will start bunkering operations immediately.
Hanjin Heavy Industries has recently completed the ‘APL Bahrain’ at its facility at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Zambales.
Croatia’s Uljanik Shipyard launched hull number 481 ‘Zheng He’ on January 30 from slipway number 2. The vessel is the second of four self-propelled cutter suction dredgers under construction at the Uljanik Shipyard for Luxumbug-based company, Dredging and Maritime Management, a member of the Jan de Nul Group.
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The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority is talking to large cruise companies to make the free port one of its major destinations in the region for next tour season.
Holland America Line highlights warm tropical destinations from October 2010 through April 2011 with an exceptional variety of Caribbean, Panama Canal, Mexico and Hawaii cruises.
American Cruise Lines is pleased to announce its newest ship, Independence, passed its first underway trials with flying colors and is now three months ahead of schedule.
Daewoo Shipbuilding delivers ‘Al Samriya’
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering delivered the ‘Al Samriya’ to the Qatar Gas Transportation Company on January 27. The vessel was build in survey to Lloyd’s Register and can transport 263,000 cubic metres of LNG.
Bollinger Shipyards, USA, has delivered the ‘M 6000’, a 55,000-barrel Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA’90) compliant tank barge, to Midstream Fuel Service. The ‘M 6000’ is a clean oil barge that is classed and certified ABS + A1 Oil Tank Barge, Manned Ocean Services.
The Shipping corporation of India last week signed a deal for the construction and delivery of two product tankers. In a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange, SCI revealed that the builder would be China Changjiang National Shipping Group Corporation’s Jinling Shipyard.
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Dubai World’s investment arm Istithmar has put port and shipping agent Inchcape Shipping Services up for sale for USD 600 million to USD 700 million.
Keppel FELS is on track to deliver ‘Floatel Superior’, the first of two newbuild accommodation semi-submersibles (floatels) to Floatel International.
One of the leading ship owning and maritime service companies in the region has recently published an analytical study about the shipping and maritime industry.
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