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Hyundai Heavy Industries contracted five Bulk Carriers with Golden Union (Greece) and Safmarine (South African) at worth US$180 mill.
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Sincere Industrial (Taiwan) ordered two 32000dwt Handy size Bulk carriers from Kanda Shipyard (Japan) at worth US$ 13.5mill./ship.
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Hakodate Shipyard (Japan) is negotiating
to build two 32000dwt Bulk carriers with Pacific Basin Corp.
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STX Shipyard (Korea) has informally arranged to contract a 73000dwt Tanker with Byzantine Maritime.
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JJ Sietas Shipyard (Germany)
contracted to build two 96000dwt Multi-purpose carriers from Hans and Klaus Heinrich (Germany).
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The Coast guard of Singapore has ordered twelve high-speed patrol ships from Asia-Pac Geraldton Pte (APG) at worth US$6.6mill.
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New Century Shipyard (China) contracted two 73000dwt Tankers with Ceiulemar Compagnia di Navigazione
Co.(Italy)
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Sanoyas Hoshino Meisho Shipyard (Japan) contracted a 114000dwt Tanker with European Ship owner.
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Hakodate Shipyard has informally arranged to contract two 32000dwt Bulk carriers with Lasco Shipping.
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Imabari Shipyard (Japan) contracted three 1600TEU and two 5500TEU Container
vessels with Shoei Kisen Kaisha.
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MOL (Japan) plans to contract a 81000dwt Ore carrier with Oshima Shipbuilding (Japan).
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Diamantis Lemos ordered two 72000dwt Tankers from Hudong Shipyard (China) at approx. US$30mill/ship.
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Conoco (USA) is promoting to contract a
Shuttle Tanker with an American Shipyard.
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Keppel FELS Limited (KFELS) has
earned a cash bonus and another
contract from Diamond Offshore
Drilling Inc. to upgrade the
sister Rig, Ocean Rover, at
worth US$60mill.
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Norfolk Shipbuilding &
Drydock Corp., Norfolk, Va., is
being awarded a $5,737,080
firm-fixed-price contract for a
drydocking selected restricted
availability on USS Nicholas
(FFG-47).
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Northrop Grumman Corporation's Sperry Marine unit has won a U.S. Navy contract
worth up to $27.2 million to provide engineering and technical support for
integrated ship navigation and control systems.
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NYK Line to Join GT Nexus
NYK Line announced that it has signed an agreement to join the GT Nexus Network. GT Nexus provides the Internet-based technology behind the GT Nexus Network, an industry web portal that allows global businesses to perform freight shipping transactions with multiple ocean carriers on a single platform.
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KR calls for more flag state checks on its ships
The Korean Register of Shipping has repeated an earlier call for the South Korean government to increase the number of inspection it makes of Korean-flag ships. The move comes as new Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control figures show that Japan and Hong Kong detained 29 South Korean ships last year while Russia stoped two ships and Chine one. KR says, however, that KR ships now have a good reputation in the US where only one South Korean ship was detained last year, compeared to three in each of the preceding two years.
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Shipping productivity rises
The productivity of the world fleet is continuing to increase and hit a new record high in 2000, according to the
UNCTAD.
Operational productivity terms of tons of cargo carried per dwt of the world fleet increased from 7.12 in 1999 to 7.19 in 2000, a record high. Efficiency measured in terms of ton-miles per dwt also rose substantially, to 28,380, surpassing the previous high of 1997.
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SHI on
a member of ISES
SHI (Samsung Heavy
Industries Co.,Ltd) is
appointed as an affiliate-I
member of ISES (International Ship Electric and Engineering Service Association).
The SHI's appointment will be effective from 1st March 2002.
The Association is now in its 38th year and is a worldwide organization of companies specializing
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