September 18, 2006. Transas Denmark, Copenhagen
First order contracted for the new slipway of IHC Holland Merwede Superior Offshore International orders new diving support/deepwater construction vessel with IHC Holland Merwede BV. IHC Holland Merwede BV is proud to announce that its subsidiary Merwede Shipyard has received the contract for the de
Dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster nv hereby announces that it has won a major dredging contract for the construction of a steel plant in Sepetiba, Brazil. The contract was awarded by CSA Companhia Sider
The production of Viking XPRS, a new type of fast car passenger ferry, was started in Aker Yards, Turku on the 3rd of October by Kaj Jansson, Project Director Viking Line pushing the button of the cutting machine with Yrj
At least five Nigerian soldiers have been killed in a massive raid on a convoy of barges carrying fuel in the oil-producing Niger Delta. Some 25 workers for the oil firm Shell were taken hostage, while nine more soldiers are missing, sources say. About 70 armed men staged the attack in five speedboa
The first giant tanker Viktor Titov of the Primorsky shipping company (PSC) has tied up at the port of De-Kastri on Tuesday for loading with Sakhalin-produced oil. For a week, the tanker and the oil terminal, built by the US Exxon Neftegas Ltd company, will be checking up the functioning of the load
Nicaragua on Monday lobbied for international support to build an ambitious US$18 billion (
About 20 Nigerians working for a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell were abducted during a Monday attack on a convoy of boats supplying oilfields, Shell sources said on Tuesday. At least five soldiers protecting the convoy were killed when about 70 gunmen in speed boats attacked the barges carrying fue
On Monday 2 October 2006 Odense Steel Shipyard presented its latest newbuilding, an 11,000 TEU container vessel, for the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group. Mrs Birgit Schultz Hansen, accompanied by her husband, Minister for Transport and Energy, Mr Flemming Hansen, honoured A.P. Moller – Maersk and the Yar
The Indian shipping industry will be required to spend about $4 billion on fleet renewal, as 56 per cent of the ships owned by Indian companies will have to be scrapped in five years, according to the Indian National Shipowners
Eidesvik Offshore ASA group has ordered a LNG-fuelled Platform Supply Vessel, make VS493 GASS AVANT. Using LNG as fuel, the vessel is developed to meet the highest environmental standards. The vessel will be delivered from West Contractors yard in
Italy’s state-owned Fincantieri SpA, the Italian shipbuilder that is expecting to sell shares to the public next year, Monday said its profitability and sales rose in double-digit rates in the first half of the year. Fincantieri said it had consolidated net profit of EUR26.4 million in the first six
The Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Company has signed with American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) a contract under which the US firm will supervise the shipyard’s building process of three oil tankers. Under the 400,000 USD contract, ABS, one of the world’s leading ship classification societies, in coll
The U. S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $22.7 million modification to a previously awarded contract to manage and support nuclear-maintenance work for submarines home-ported at Submarine Base New London, Conn. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics.
