Almi Tankers S.A. announced that on June 14th, 2013, the first VLCC of its newbuilding project, the M/T Hydra Voyager, was delivered to her owners at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s (DSME) Okpo Shipyard. The vessel was designed in accordance to the latest regulations and industry requirements in order to satisfy customer needs, therefore special emphasis [...]
Maersk Line’s newest vessel, the first of the Triple-E series, was named today in a ceremony at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo, South Korea. It bears the name of the late Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, who passed away in April 2012 at the age of 98. Maersk Line CEO, Søren Skou, [...]
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After receiving its first order to build jack-up rigs for Norwegian Statoil ASA, Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd.(SHI) today revealed that it has scored another major order. This time the order relates to the construction of a multi-billion floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit that, according to SHI, will be the world’s largest. The FPSO will [...]
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One of the world’s top five shipbuilders Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd.(SHI) has won a major order from Norwegian Statoil ASA to build two large-scale jack-up rigs. The contract, announced today on KRX, is said to be worth 1.46 trillion won (approx. $1.3 billion). Delivery deadline for the rigs is October 2016. Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, [...]
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Bestobell Valves recently supplied the Globe and Check valves to South Korean shipbuilding company DSME. DSME is building the FSRU in South Korea on behalf of US-firm Excelerate. The FSRU is destined for the VT3 Guananbara Bay Project operated by Brazilian oil major, Petrobras, and will deliver 22.5 million cbm of gas per year. It [...]
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ALE has successfully completed the jack up of the Arkutun Dagi Topside for Exxon Neftegaz Limited at the shipyard of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd in Korea. At 42,780te the topside is the heaviest load ever jacked. The piece will eventually be located in the Arkutun Dagi field off the east coast of [...]
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One of South Korea’s top five shipbuilders, SPP Shipbuilding Co., announced on Wednesday that it has secured a $120 million contract for the construction of two mid-sized anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels. As Yonhap News Agency reports, SPP Shipbuilding said that the 90-meter vessels will be equipped with the so-called dynamic positioning system, a computer-controlled system [...]
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A major milestone was reached on 23 February with the semi-launch of the first Triple-E at the shipyard in Okpo, Korea. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s Okpo Shipyard, South Korea is building the world’s largest ships – Maersk Line’s 400m long Triple-E container vessels. In order to make room for completing the next ships, the [...]
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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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SEACOR Holdings Inc. (SEACOR) has executed an agreement with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI), through a subsidiary of SEACOR Ocean Transport Inc., for the construction of two Liquefied Petroleum Gas tankers (Very Large Gas Carriers, otherwise known as VLGCs) with expected deliveries in 2014 with an option to purchase up to three additional VLGCs [...]
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