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Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (Korea) contracted four Product Oil Carrers(1x306,000 DWT, 3x159,000 DWT) with
Angelicoussis Group, Navigazione Montanari and Naviera F. Tapias, at worth of US$210 mill. |
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Diana Shipping Agencies ordered four(2+2) Panamax Bulk carriers from Jiangnan Shipyard (China).
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Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding contracted a 14,500 GT Techno Super Liner with Techno-Seaways (Japan). |
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3Maj Shipyard (Ukraine) contracted two 47,300 DWT Product Oil carriers with Uljanik Plovidb Co.
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Kongsberg Maritime Ship Systems (KMSS, Norway) contracted to provide its AutoChief Propulsion Control system for 22 ships currently under construction in China and Korea. |
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SHINA Shipbuilding contracted six(4+2) 37,000 DWT Product Oil carriers with Ancora Investment (Greece) and Unicorn Tankers (S. Africa), at worth of US$ 25.5mill./ship.
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China Shipping Passenger Liner Co.(China) ordered two 16,000 DWT Ro-Ro Ships from Jiangnan Shipyard (China). |
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Sanoyas Shipbuilding contracted four 75,500 DWT Panamax Bulk carriers with a Japanese ship-owner.
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Universal Shipbuilding (Japan) contracted two 300,000 DWT VLCCs with Ming Wah (Hong Kong). |
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STX Shipbuilding (Korea) contracted seven(5+2) Product Oil carriers with Safmarine, Target Marine SA and
Byzantine Maritime SA, at worth of approx. US$ 220mill.
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Hanjin Heavy Industries (Korea) contracted six(4+2) 5,000 TEU Container carreirs with Rickmers Reederei Co., at worth of approx. US$ 50mill./ship.
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Sumimoto Heavy Industries (Japan) contracted two(1+1) 76,500 DWT Panamax Bulk carriers with Nissho Iwai Co. |
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CSBC (Taiwan) contracted Six(3+3) 5,500 TEU & Six(2+4) 4,050 TEU Container carriers with Peter Dohle (Germany).
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Yang Ming (Taiwan) ordered a 5,500 TEU Post-Panamax Container carrier and two 77,000 DWT Ultra-Panamax Bulk carreirs from CSBC (Taiwan). |
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Szczecin Shipyard (Poland) contracted five(4+1) 21,250 DWT General Cargo ships with Spliethoff Co. (Netherlands).
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China continues to rank third in the world
China built and completed various vessels of 4.46m dwt in 2002 and continue to occupy the world third place following Korea and Japan in terms of completion tonnage in the past eight years. CSSC and CSIC total complete vessels of 2.6m
dwt, accounting for 60% of completion tonnage and the remaining 40% is completed by local shipyards. |
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Ship-owner
interest in Double-hull Bulkers
Enquiries are coming in for what would be the first double hull panamax
bulkers, in response to the IMO's moves to tighten up on bulk carrier safety, but shipyards are keener to fill the scant remaining berth space with higher value tanker orders.
Brokers have interest in double hull bulker both capesize and panamax
size, and say discussions are in progress with Korean and Chinese shipyards.
But yards' attention is firmly focused on netting more lucrative tanker orders, while owners remain bullish in the current climate of sky-high rates.
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