Shipbuilding
Readers’ Picks of the Week (26-30 of Jan)
Maersk Giant Breaks 18,000 TEU Ceiling Maersk Line’s Triple E container ship behemoth Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller left the Spain’s Port of Algeciras yesterday loaded with 18,168 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), beating the previous world record held by another Maersk’s Trip…Read more Another Car Car
Contracting Activity Slashed in 2014
Weaker ordering in the bulk carrier sector contributed to around half of the y-o-y decline in total contracting activity in 2014, according to London-based research firm Clarksons. Clarksons data shows that 677 bulkers have been ordered in 2014, cut by almost a half from very strong activity in 2013
VIDEO: Preps for Höegh Osaka’s Repair Underway
Preparation of a repair plan for the car carrier Höegh Osaka is underway, according to the vessel’s owner Höegh Autoliners. The majority of the repair activities will relate to cleaning of compartments which have had water ingress and repair of smaller structural damages sustained due to movement of
HSH Nordbank Looking to Offload Bad Shipping Loans
Hamburg-headquartered HSH Nordbank is ramping up the efforts to shed EUR 1.5 billion (USD 1.7bn) of bad shipping loans accumulated over a seven-year slump in the industry by finding shipping companies that would take over ships from defaulting debtors, German business and finance newspaper Handelsbl
Image of the Day: Splashed
The image shows KOTUG Offshore’s tugs tow FPSO ‘PetroJarl 1’ to Damen Shiprepair Schiedam located in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The FPSO was assisted by the Rotortugs RT Magic, RT Spirit, RT Evolution and SD Salvor, KOTUG said. The FPSO reached Damen on Sunday, the 18th of January, 2015
South Asia Still Preferred Dumping Ground
Out of a total of 1026 ships dismantled globally in 2014, 641, representing 74% of the total gross tonnage (GT) scrapped, were sold to substandard facilities in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh where ships are dismantled directly on tidal beaches, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform’s demolition stats show.
Readers’ Picks of the Week (18-22 of Jan)
VIDEO: Fincantieri Starts Building Seven Seas Explorer Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has laid keel for the Seven Seas Explorer, the first super luxury cruise ship that the company is building for Regent Seven Seas Cruises, brand of the Prestige Cruise Holdings group.…Read more Four South Korean Ya
Cruiseship Scrapes Hoegh Gallant
A cruise ship has scratched Hoegh LNG’s FSRU, the Höegh Gallant, at a Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding’s yard. The Höegh Gallant was moored to a jetty on Wednesday, January 21st at the yard when a Carnival Cruises’ cruise ship, Costa Atlantica, on its way out, lightly touched her in the front, on the bu
COSCO Zhoushan Delivers Two Bulkers
COSCO Zhoushan Shipyard said that it has delivered two newbuild 64,000 DWT bulk carriers to their customers. Bulk carrier named Komi has been delivered to a European customer Lomar Shipping. In February 2012 Lomar signed an order with COSCO Group for up to six ‘Ultramax’ bulk carriers, scheduled for
VIDEO: Fincantieri Starts Building Seven Seas Explorer
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has laid keel for the Seven Seas Explorer, the first super luxury cruise ship that the company is building for Regent Seven Seas Cruises, brand of the Prestige Cruise Holdings group. The keel laying ceremony was held at the Sestri Ponente (Genoa) shipyard on Wednesday
Image of the Day: SCF Melampus Sets Sail for Nigeria
LNG carrier SCF Melampus, which just joined the fleet of Russian shipping company Sovcomflot (SCF Group), has set sail for Bonny Island, Nigeria. The vessel has embarked on her maiden voyage having passed the inspection of the chartering company Shell with flying colors. SCF Melampus should make one
Five Newbuild Tankers Join Scorpio
Tanker owner and operator Scorpio Tankers has taken delivery of five newbuilding vessels. An LR2 product tanker STI Rose was delivered from Daehan Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, which, upon delivery, began a voyage for 14 days at approximately USD 30,000 per day. The newbuild deliveries include two MR produc
Sembcorp Marine, Partners Target Innovative Hull Designs
A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Sembcorp Marine Ltd, University of Glasgow and University of Glasgow Singapore (UGS) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate and develop new hull designs for large ocean-going vessels. Under the three-year MoU, IHPC, Se
Construction on BC Ferries’ First LNG Ferry Kicks Off
The first steel has been cut for the first of three BC Ferries’ new intermediate class ferries (ICF) at a ceremony hosted by the Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. Following an extensive competitive bid process, BC Ferries awarded the USD 165 million contract in July of 2014 to