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September 03, 2010Sep. 2, 2010 - The North German city of Hamburg has been awarded the title "European Green Capital 2011" by the European Commission. Currently this port city is giving an insight of how to combine sustainability with successful trading: at the global maritime environmental congress (gmec), taking place on the 7th and 8th of September 2010.
In the maritime sector, environmental and climate protection is currently the dominant topic. Hence the Congress Center Hamburg will be hosting the first international, industry-wide congress on maritime environmental protection. Many of the technologies needed already exist, and this will be shown during the simultaneous SMM 2010 (shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology, international trade fair Hamburg), the world's leading shipbuilding fair.
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CleanBallast received the Type Apporval. Just in time for the exhibition SMM.
Get to know more about RWO's ballast water treatment system as well as about the sewage treatment plant series WWT-LC at our press conference: Thursday, 09 September 2010, 9.45 - 10.30am, booth 340 in hall A1
September 02, 2010The SCF Group's fleet has increased further with the delivery of a supply vessel for the offshore oil producing platforms, named SCF Sakhalin.
The SCF Sakhalin is a supply vessel of the enhanced ice class and is on a long-term charter by Exxon Neftegas Ltd. to meet the demands of the producing platform for the Sakhalin-1 Project.
Referring to the SCF Sakhalin delivery, Aleksandr Kurtynin, Sovcomflot Vice-President, commented: "Expanding our fleet of supply vessels to meet the needs of producing platforms is an important element of the Sovcomflot investment programme.
The Sovcomflot Development Strategy for 2010-2015, approved by the Board of Directors, envisages "the creation of a national integrated offshore upstream services provider, centered on Sovcomflot, with a specific focus on operating in the harsh environment and ice conditions".
Sep. 2, 2010 - Cargotec has signed a contract to deliver MacGregor hatch covers for six 48,700 dwt open-hatch cargo ships ordered by Norwegian shipowner Grieg Shipping. The ships will be built at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea. The order is booked into the third quarter 2010 order intake.
Hatch covers will be fabricated at Cargotec's partner plant in China and they are planned for delivery 2012 until 2013.
This order is an addition to the earlier announced contract for a total of 24 environmentally-friendly variable frequency drive (VFD) MacGregor cargo cranes for the same newbuildings.
Polarcus Limited has announced that Polarcus Asima AS, a member of the Polarcus Group, today took delivery of POLARCUS ASIMA, the third and most sophisticated 3D seismic vessel to date to join the Polarcus fleet. The vessel was built at Drydocks World - Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and is transiting directly to the Black Sea to commence a charter for Rosneft.
From September, 7 to September, 10 Navis Engineering will, for the third time in a row, take part in SMM 2010, which is, undoubtedly, the world's most important maritime exhibition hosting under one roof all the leading maritime industry suppliers.
At SMM our company will be showing its latest developments: the new NavDP4000 Series integrated DP control chair, the new generation autopilot AP4000, and the new generation JP4000 joystick control system for mega-yachts.
All the visitors are invited to visit our booth B6.232 located in the Navigation and Communication pavilion.
On 25 August 2010, the final ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certificates were handed over to the President of Novoship Igor Tonkovidov. The Norwegian classification society Det Norske Veritas (‘DNV') was represented by Nils Andreas Masvie, Regional Director for DNV Energy, who brought the certificates to the Novoship office in Novorossiysk (Russia).
The tenth Veteran Class MT-46 Product Tanker is the fourteenth vessel built by the shipyard
Sep. 1, 2010 - Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, a leading U.S. commercial shipyard, delivered to American Shipping Company (Oslo: AMSC) its tenth Veteran Class MT-46 product tanker. The 46,000 dwt vessel, named the Overseas Anacortes, will leave the shipyard in the coming days under the operation of OSG America to transport petroleum products for Tesoro. This vessel is the fourth vessel planned to be utilized by Tesoro.
Sophisticated systems for oceanographic research in the Alaska Region
Sep. 2, 2010 - Kongsberg Maritime will supply a sophisticated suite of acoustic systems, including multibeam and scientific echosounders for the Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV), R/V Sikuliaq, which has been commisioned by owner, the National Science Foundation and will be operated by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
On September 1, at Fincantieri's shipyard in Muggiano (La Spezia), work commenced on the construction of the mega yacht ordered from Fincantieri at the end of last year.
At 140 metres long, Hull No. 6218, the project "Victory", to the best of our knowledge, is the first mega yacht over 100 metres ordered since the onset of the financial crisis in October 2008.
Introduced by Camper & Nicholsons International, one of the world's leading brokerage companies in the mega-yacht market, who will represent the Client throughout the construction.
Out-of-the-box 3D pipe support functionality enables process, power and marine designers to increase productivity and accelerate projects
Sep. 2, 2010 - Intergraph® and Bergen-Power Pipe Supports Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of pipe supports, have entered an agreement to supply the Bergen-Power hanger and support parts catalog with Intergraph SmartPlant® 3D and SmartMarine® 3D (collectively known as Smart 3D) engineering and design software solutions.
StreamXcel Plus Optimizes Bandwidth Utilization, Provides Integrated Shipboard Platform for VSAT and Inmarsat Connectivity
Sep. 2, 2010 - MTN Satellite Communications (MTN), the global provider of communications, connectivity, and content services to remote locations around the world, today announced StreamXcel Plus, a powerful new integrated hardware and software solution for managing shipboard satellite communications.
StreamXcel Plus is designed to provide a suite of tools permitting vessel owners to optimize their ship's satellite voice and data traffic while minimizing costs.
MAN Diesel & Turbo showcases innovations for cutting marine emissions
At SMM (shipbuilding, machinery and marine technology) in Hamburg, the world's most important shipping trade fair being held from the 7th to the 10th of September 2010, MAN Diesel & Turbo will be unveiling technical innovations aimed at reducing the emissions and improving the efficiency of marine engines.
Sep. 1, 2010 - Allseas' Solitaire, the world's largest pipelay vessel, has started to lay the Gulf of Finland section of the 1,224 kilometre Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea.
Nord Stream's Deputy Director Construction Ruurd Hoekstra and Leo D. Varkevisser, Allseas' Vice President Projects and Operations, arrived on board the Solitaire to confirm that everything is on schedule and "all systems go" for the start of construction. Before starting its journey to Russian waters, the Solitaire was adapted to Nord Stream's requirements in Rotterdam, where each piece of equipment was thoroughly tested in port.
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September 02, 2010Sep. 2, 2010 - China plans to spend 250 billion to 300 billion yuan ($36.71 billion-$44.05 billion) under its new five-year development plan to boost offshore oil production, the official China Securities Journal reported on Thursday.
The investment aims to increase China's offshore oil production capacity by 50 million metric tonnes by 2015, the newspaper reported, citing Jin Xiaojian, general manager at CNOOC's engineering department. CNOOC is China's top oil and gas producer.
In today's market there are serious projections that China's economy will replace United States after 10 to 15 years. How strong these projections are with China being the world's second largest trading nation, but still facing great economic development challenges. If China rules the world of economy, what is its impact in the international shipping market? Does China's economic growth is enough to rule the world of shipping.
Our analysis below describes the economic environment of China and its role in the shipping industry and gives some answers on the above raised questions.
September 01, 2010Aug. 31, 2010 - For 500 years, commodity traders have been trying to conquer the treacherous waters of the Russian Arctic passage - aware of its potential as a lucrative short-cut shipping route.
The path is blocked all winter and only smaller cargo vessels manage to navigate through the icebergs for two to three months each summer.
But this week, the first commercial supertanker has succeeded in traversing the strait. Carrying 70,000 tonnes of gas from Murmansk in Russia destined for Ningbo in China, the feat has moved the difficult Northern Sea Route a step closer to rivalling the dominant Suez Canal in the south.
Aug. 31, 2010 - Sri Lanka has signed a $450 million deal with China Merchants Holdings and local conglomerate Aitken Spence SPEN.CM to boost the Colombo port's cargo-handling capacity, a official said on Tuesday.
The joint venture will build the first of three planned terminals in the Colombo port. Each is expected to add the capability to handle an additional 2.5 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEU). The port now handles 4.5 million TEU.
Hamworthy, the marine and offshore fluid handling systems specialist, has secured a key reference in Brazil's growing offshore market, following the award of the contract to supply pumps and pump systems for the Papa Terra FPSO by BW Offshore.
August 30, 2010Shipping operator China Cosco has earmarked US$3.2 billion for capital spending between 2010 and 2013 to pay for new ships it ordered earlier, amid a rebound in the global shipping market.
China Cosco, the listed flagship of state-owned China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co, said it plans to take delivery of 43 container ships with a total capacity of 345,000 TEUs, as well as 22 dry bulk vessels with a total capacity of 3.42 million deadweight tonnes. The company said it has no plans to make new ship orders this year.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), the world's second largest shipbuilder, said on August 27 it won a $320 million order to build eight ethylene carriers from Singapore.
DSME said in a statement it would deliver the ships to Singapore's Woodside Holding International Shipping by the third quarter of 2013.
Jadaf Dubai and Goltens signed the second long-term ground development lease agreement (Musataha). The agreement was entered into with Goltens, global ship repair and maintenance specialist, for a ship building and ship repair facility at the Industrial Precinct of Dubai Maritime City.
Under the Musataha lease agreement, DMC - Industrial Precinct plots 6 and 7 measuring about 23,000 square metres will be leased to Golten Co- Dubai Branch for a period of 25 years. During the past five years, Goltens has established seven new global repair centres, lifting its annual ship repair revenue from $90 million in 2005 to approximately $200 million in 2010.
The new agreement will strengthen Jadaf Dubai's stronghold in the ship building and ship repair market. The Industrial Precinct is a part of Maritime City that is dedicated to ship repair facilities, yacht repair and manufacturing, as well as workshop units that service the needs of the maritime industry as a whole.
Oman Drydock Company ship repair yard under construction at the Port of Duqm on the Wusta coast will provide more than just vessel maintenance and repair services.
The world class facility, scheduled to come into operation next March will also be fully equipped to deliver a broad array of specialist heavy engineering services covering, among other things, the fabrication of offshore structures and the conversion of mammoth ships into floating storage vessels.
Additionally, as a fully integrated ship repair services hub with ambitions to emerge as the dry dock of choice in the Middle East ODC will also be equipped for bunkering, refueling, slops and sludge treatment, major steel outfitting, machinery overhaul and upgrade and all kinds of blasting and painting works.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering is ODC's strategic partner in the development and operation of the yard. Oman's Ministry of Transport and Communications is also playing a pivotal role in the establishment of the facility.
Shipping trade volumes returned to growth in the first half of 2010, according to new figures from the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO). The data show a continued strong performance of export volumes which have risen 5 per cent year-on-year.
August 29, 2010On August 29 Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took part in the opening ceremony of the Russian section in the Russia-China oil pipeline, which took place in Russia's Far Eastern Amur region.
"The implementation of this project is a crucial task for Russia and our Chinese friends. It means stabilization of supplies and energy balance for China, and for us it creates entry to new challenging markets, in this particular case, to the growing market of China," Putin said at the ceremony.
The project is part of the East Siberia - Pacific oil pipeline, which was launched into operation in December 2009 and is designed to pump up to 1.6 million barrels (220,000 tons) of crude per day from Siberia to the Far East and then on to China and the Asia-Pacific region.
Russia's largest oil company Rosneft, oil pipeline monopoly Transneft and China's state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) are partners in the project. In line with the contract, the Chinese side provided the Russian companies with a $25-billion loan to construct the pipeline. In exchange, the Russian side agreed to pump 15 million tons of oil per year via the pipeline in 2011-2030.
August 27, 2010Aug. 25, 2010 - A Russian gas tanker is this month making a historic voyage across the famed Northeast passage as receding ice opens up an elusive trade route from Asia to the West sought for centuries by explorers.
The 114,564-tonne tanker Baltica, escorted by the world's two most powerful nuclear ice breakers, sailed from Russia's northernmost port of Murmansk on August 14. The largest vessel to ever navigate once-impassable route, the Baltica is due to deliver its cargo of gas condensate to China in the first weeks of September.
Russia hopes to make the Arctic route a competitor to the Suez Canal and increase cargo traffic along its Siberian coast from two millions tonne a year now to 30 million tonnes profiting off taxes and the lease of its unique fleet of nuclear ice breakers.
For the first time ever, a bulk carrier with non-Russian flag is using the Northern Sea Route as a transit trade lane, when transporting iron ore from the Northern Norway to China via Arctic and Russian waters. The historic transit is about one third shorter than traditional shipping routes. A strong Nordic-Russian partnership is behind this business adventure.
The company Alltech intends to construct a LNG plant for its gas fields in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and a terminal in Indiga on the Barents Sea coast. Production is projected to start in 2015. As previously reported, the Pechora LNG-plant project was presented at the 10th World LNG Summit in Barcelona, Spain in December last year.
Aug. 26, 2010 - Will the heat-wave and drought that created so much havoc in Russia this summer cause the leadership in that country to take climate change seriously? The answer is important: Russia is the third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases globally, behind only China and the US. Yet Russia's attitude to climate change to date has been cavalier, at best.
Indeed, until recently its leaders seemed to believe climate change would be beneficial. Warmer weather would open up the Arctic's mineral wealth, create new shipping routes along its northern coasts, and extend agriculture into infertile areas.
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September, 2010Sep. 7-10, 2010 • Hamburg, Germany
Sep. 7-8, 2010 • Hamburg, Germany
Sep. 9-10, 2010 • St.Petersburg, Russia
Sep. 9-10, 2010 • Shanghai, China
October, 2010Oct. 2, 2010 • Murmansk, Russia
Oct. 5-7, 2010 • St.Petersburg, Russia
Oct. 6, 2010 • St.Petersburg, Russia
Oct. 20-22, 2010 • Tuscany, Italy
Oct. 25-27, 2010 • Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Oct. 27-28, 2010 • London, UK
November, 2010Nov. 25-27, 2010 • Shanghai, China
December, 2010Dec. 8-10, 2010 • Guangzhou, China
January, 2011Jan. 26-28, 2011 • Istanbul, Turkey
March, 2011March 9-11, 2011 • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
March 23-26, 2011 • Istanbul, Turkey
April, 2011Apr. 7-9, 2011 • Mumbai, India
May, 2011May 24-27, 2011 • Oslo, Norway
June, 2011June 15-17, 2011 • Hamburg, Germany
June 29-July 3, 2011 • St.Petersburg, Russia
September, 2011Sep. 20-23, 2011 • St.Petersburg, Russia
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