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Jan 12, 2006
Bermuda-based Ship Finance International Ltd. agreed to buy an oil rig for $185 million from Sweden-based Consafe Offshore AB and lease it back to the offshore oil and gas company for 30 years.
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Jan 12, 2006
Petrobras plans to announce oil and natural gas exploration and production plans for the Santos Basin today in Santos, Brazil, home to Latin America's largest port.
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Jan 12, 2006
Salvage crews from Florida-based Titan Maritime LLC launched their greatest effort yet to float the 880-foot APL Panama, taking advantage of lunar high tides, a
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Jan 12, 2006
Delta Scientific announced that its anti-terrorist barriers are now protecting the international cruise ship terminal at the Port of Sydney Harbor in Australia.
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Jan 12, 2006
Dubai Drydocks will launch its $60 million new building panel line and steel structure assembly facility in July. The yard, whose current shipbuilding facility has a monthly turnover of 2,
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Jan 12, 2006
The Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) generated a turnover of $493 million last year, marking a 41 percent jump over 2004 revenue.
Last year
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Jan 12, 2006
China’s shipbuilding capacities have reached 12 million dead weight tonnages (DWT) in 2005, up 36 percent year-on-year, to be ranked third largest worldwide, according
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Jan 12, 2006
Rotterdam based Fairmount Heavy Transport (FHT) NV has been awarded the contract by Saibos Akogep SNC to transport and install the AMP2 Topside for Total. Due to contractual requirements,
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Jan 12, 2006
C&S Services Inc., Waipahu, Hawaii; Marisco, Ltd., Kapolei, Hawaii; Pacific Shipyard International, LLC, Honolulu, Hawaii; Propulsion Controls Engineering Hawaii, Aiea, Hawaii; Q.
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Jan 12, 2006
A draft of the Navy's five-year construction program calls for the continued building of one Virginia-class submarine a year, despite pressure from Connecticut's
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Jan 12, 2006
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Adm. Mike Mullen, addressed members of the Surface Navy Association (SNA) Jan. 10 at their 18th Annual National Symposium held at the Hyatt Regency in Arlington, Va.
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Jan 12, 2006
The Supreme Court of the State of Alaska ruled that the state has jurisdiction over crimes committed on board an Alaska state ferry, even though the ferry was located
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Jan 12, 2006
The Panama Canal Authority issued an Advisory summarizing its operations for December 2005. Among other things, it reports that a new tie-up station
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Jan 12, 2006
The China Shipbuilding Industry Corp.(CSIC) built 3.17 million tons of new ships in 2005, up 47 percent.
In 2005, the CSIC received 3.73 million tons of new orders and 2.
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Jan 12, 2006
Wärtsilä said in a statement Wednesday it had signed a marine engine license manufacturing deal with Brazil's Nuclebrás Equipamentos Pesados (Nuclep).
Nuclep is to make six to ten common-rail,
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Jan 12, 2006
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a cost plus award fee/award term contract with a potential dollar value of $159 million to integrate mission packages
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Jan 12, 2006
Rotterdam based Fairmount Heavy Transport NV has been awarded the contract by Saibos Akogep SNC to transport and install the AMP2 Topside for Total.
The
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Jan 12, 2006
According to reports, SembCorp Marine will invest $27.8M over two years to grow its ship repair and ship conversion business in China.
It is investing that money into Cosco Shipyard Group.
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Jan 12, 2006
Reports indicate that the Adani Group is to announce a joint venture agreement for shipbuilding soon. It is said the group will invest in the new business
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Jan 12, 2006
From the Navy News Service
1813 - U.S. frigate Chesapeake captures the British warship Volunteer.
1848 - Sloop Lexington attacked in San Blas, Mexico.
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