Ship Finance International Limited (Ship Finance) today announced that the company has agreed to build four 8,700 TEU newbuilding container vessels at a major shipyard in Korea. The contract price is attractive and the vessels are scheduled to be delivered to us in 4Q 2014 and 1Q 2015. Ole B. Hjertaker, CEO of Ship Finance [...]
Last Wednesday (May 22), Petrobras’ subsidiary Transpetro signed the addenda for the resumption of the Purchase and Sale agreement for 12 vessels commissioned from the Atlântico Sul Shipyard (EAS), which had been suspended since May 2012. The shipyard has met all of Transpetro’s requirements in order to continue building the vessels, which are part of the [...]
Central Industry Group (CIG) is a group of 10 companies, all providing industrial goods and services to the international shipbuilding market and to complex architectural projects. Shipkits and Vuyk Engineering Groningen, both subsidiaries of CIG, working together under the name CIG Shipbuilders, herewith proudly present the VG 6000-E, a unique ‘proven design’ solution for multipurpose [...]
SinOceanic Shipping ASA has entered into a contract with Jinhai Heavy Industries, China, to build 10 x 8800 TEU state-of-the art super eco containerships for delivery from mid 2015. Upon delivery, all vessels will enter into long term, fixed charter parties. The vessels will be built to meet the latest IMO CSS Code for container [...]
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Chinese-based Yangzhou Guoyu Shipbuilding Co., Ltd (YGS) has secured an order from Norwegian shipowner Axel C. Eitzen for the construction of up to nine handysize dry bulk carriers. These 38,000 dwt ships cost $21m each and are based on the Green Dolphin design created by the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI), reports [...]
LEEVAC Shipyards Jennings LLC, of Jennings, LA, a subsidiary of LEEVAC Shipyards, LLC has signed contracts with Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC, an affiliate of Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. of Covington, LA for the construction of two STX Marine SV 310 Multi-Purpose Supply Vessels; 302’ x 76’ x 26’, 12,070 BHP diesel electric powered MPSV’s. “These [...]
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South Korea-based Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co (HMD), two days ago, signed a contract to build four products carriers for an unnamed European owner. The contract, announced yesterday in a regulatory filing, is estimated to be worth around $126.2 million. The announcement did not disclose any particulars of the ships or equipment to be used onboard [...]
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A symbolic keel-laying ceremony on the 17th of April 2013 in Gorinchem, The Netherlands, officially launched the construction phase of 14 Damen ASD Tugs for Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). The series consist of two types, being 9 tugs of Damen’s recently launched 3212 model and 5 units of the well-known 2810 design, with 80 and [...]
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Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC) was awarded options to build two additional Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). These are the fifth and sixth LCS ships that MMC has been contracted to build under the 2010 block buy contract. The award of LCSs 13 and 15 increases MMC’s backlog through 2016 and assures the company’s ability to maintain [...]
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Iran Shipbuilding and Offshore Industries Complex Co. (ISOICO), an Iranian shipyard active in shipbuilding and ship repairs of different types of vessels and offshore structures, has won an order to construct six container ships and fifteen bulk carriers IRISL. An official of IRISL (Islamic Republic of Iran shipping Line) said, in a press conference that the [...]
