The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited today announced that COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard C o., Ltd. (a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned subsidiary, COSCO Shipyard Group Co. Ltd.), has signed and made effective a contract with a Malaysian shipowner to build a floatover launch barge at a contract value over $23 million. [...]
The keel-laying ceremony of the 2nd 51,000 DWT bulk carrier, built for a domestic owner, was held inside the Dry Dock at Taizhou CATIC on April 27th. The vessel adopts start-of-art optimized design of flap rudder ball to improve the convolution function and MAN B&W 6S46ME-B8.2-TII type main engine characterized with low fuel oil consumption [...]
Caterpillar Global Petroleum announced today that the Cat® 3516C (HD) and 3512B generator sets have been selected to power a jackup and a tender barge newbuild for COSCO Shipyard Group in China. Six Cat 3516C (HD) generator sets, each with rated power of 1603 bkw @ 1200 rpm, will be used as the prime power [...]
The vessel Oriental Vega arrived at CIC Lixin Shipyard in late April, 2013 for repair. The subject vessel is a bulk carrier with LOA 134.9m and moulded breadth of 23m. Her main work scope included damage repair and steel renewal of the hull amounting to about 30tons. Although her work scope was not so large, [...]
In 2011 Eimskip and the shipyard Rongcheng Shenfei in China made an agreement on building two container vessels. The vessels’ size is 875 TEU, each containing plugs for 230 reefer containers. Deadweight of the each vessel is approximately 12 thousand tons. The vessels are 140.7 meter- long and 23.2 meter- wide. Originally the vessels were [...]
China Shipping Industry (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd., on April 28th, began construction on the 10,000TEU container ship whose ship owner is China Shipping Container Lines Co., Ltd. (CSCL). The vessel, classed by GL and CCS, will be the largest and the most advanced 10,000TEU container ship which was built in China. The construction represents one of [...]
Afai Southern and Rescue & Salvage Bureau of Ministry of Transport signed, on April 25th, the design and construction contracts for four coastal fast rescue vessels. Afai has already delivered three coastal fast rescue vessels in 2006, at present the shipyard is building three more vessels. These vessels are full aluminum wave-piercing catamarans, with the [...]
GE has signed an agreement with Shanghai Maritime University (SMU). GE helps improve the capabilities of the shipping engineering community in China by providing laboratory facilities and cooperating on research and innovation projects. SMU is a multidisciplinary university that encompasses such areas as engineering, management, economics, law, liberal arts and science, with a special emphasis [...]
On April 22, the vessel named “BEI HAI JIU 203”, built by Afai Southern Shipyard (Panyu Guangzhou) Ltd for China Rescue and Salvage Bureau of Ministry of Transport, carried out yard trials. All the technical indexes of the main equipment reached the design requirements, and the technical performance of the vessel has proven to be [...]
On 19th of April 2013, after a week of sea trials, Chinese shipbuilder Jiangsu Hantong completed various testing programs on 57, 000-dead-weight-tonne (DWT) Bulk Carrier (HT096). The results of the sea trials indicate that during all the inspections the bulk carrier met the requirements of her owners and the class. The vessel is built for US [...]
