Category archives for: Asia Pacific

Terex Port Solutions Supplies Two Mobile Harbour Cranes to New Zealand

Terex Port Solutions Supplies Two Mobile Harbour Cranes to New Zealand

Terex Port Solutions has received an order for two Terex® Gottwald Model 6 mobile harbour cranes, of the new G HMK 6408 variant, from its long-standing customer Port of Napier Ltd. The two cranes, each with lifting capacities of up to 100 t and radii up to 51 m, are to be modified by Terex [...]

Genscape Buys Vesseltracker.com

Genscape Buys Vesseltracker.com

Genscape, the company that pioneered the placement of thousands of patented, in-the-field energy monitors to measure market fundamentals in real-time, today announced the acquisition of Vesseltracker.com GmbH. This acquisition significantly expands Genscape’s network of proprietary real-time energy monitors to deliver the next era in oceangoing fleet analytics and customized reporting. Vesseltracker uses sophisticated algorithms to [...]

Strategic Marine Delivers Two Windfarm Service Vessels to Njord Offshore

Strategic Marine Delivers Two Windfarm Service Vessels to Njord Offshore

Specialist boatbuilder Strategic Marine has delivered the Njord Puffin to offshore windfarm service fleet operator Njord Offshore for deployment in Northern Europe. “The Puffin is the sixth in a series of eight vessels ordered, a strong signal of our commitment to the global windfarm industry,” said Rodney Davies, Operations Manager at Strategic Marine. “Last week [...]

YGS Secures Big Order of Handysize Carriers from Eitzen

YGS Secures Big Order of Handysize Carriers from Eitzen

Norway-based company Eitzen Eco Bulk has ordered nine handysize dry bulk carriers from Chinese Yangzhou Guoyu Shipbuilding, Sea Trade Global reports. The significant order is worth around $21m per carrier. The 38,000 dwt carriers, will be based on DNV and China’s Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute’s (SDARI) co-developed ‘Green Dolphin’ design. In addition, [...]

Japan: Eco Marine, KEI to Release Aquarius MAS

Japan: Eco Marine, KEI to Release Aquarius MAS

Eco Marine Power (EMP) and KEI System Ltd (KEI) of Osaka, Japan, announced today that they will release later this year, the Aquarius Monitoring and Automation System or Aquarius MAS – a marine computer system capable of monitoring and/or controlling equipment on ships including wind and solar power devices plus being able to monitor fuel [...]

Diana Shipping Orders Two Newcastlemax Dry Bulk Carriers from China

Diana Shipping Orders Two Newcastlemax Dry Bulk Carriers from China

Diana Shipping Inc. announced that on May 17, 2013, the company has signed, through separate wholly-owned subsidiaries, two shipbuilding contracts with China Shipbuilding Trading Company (CSTC), Limited and Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co., Ltd., for the construction of two Newcastlemax dry bulk carriers of approximately 208,500 dwt each for a contract price of US$48.7 million per [...]

The Philippine Navy’s New Warship Starts Sea Trials

The Philippine Navy’s New Warship Starts Sea Trials

The Philippine Navy’s new warship, the BRP Ramon Alcaraz, began sea trials on Monday, according to GMA News. The ship set sail from North Charleston, South Carolina at 8:30 a.m. Monday (US time). BRP Ramon Alcaraz was subjected to  refurbishment and refitting which cost $15.15 million. The maintenance started last year. The Philippine Navy’s Capt. [...]

China: COSCO Wins Deal to Build CBM LNG Vessel

China: COSCO Wins Deal to Build CBM LNG Vessel

The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited announced that COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned subsidiary, COSCO Shipyard Group Co. Ltd., has secured a contract valued over USD 81,5 million from a Chinese ship owner to build one (1) 28,000 CBM LNG Vessel. The vessel is scheduled [...]

Greek Shipowners Place Orders for 142 Newbuildings at Chinese Shipyards

Greek Shipowners Place Orders for 142 Newbuildings at Chinese Shipyards

Greek Shipping Minister, Kostis Moussouroulis revealed in his recent official visit to China that the Greek shipowners had placed an order for 142 newbuildings at Chinese shipyards. According to Official Chinese news agency Xinhua, the Minister said that, the order, which was signed last month, represents 60% of all Greek newbuilding orders placed worldwide. Greek [...]

Hoegh LNG Receives Commitment Letters for Lampung FSRU Financing (Indonesia)

Hoegh LNG Receives Commitment Letters for Lampung FSRU Financing (Indonesia)

Höegh LNG announced that it has received commitment letters from five international banks for a USD 299 million limited recourse facility for the financing of the Lampung FSRU  project. The facility includes USD 237 million in long term financing for the FSRU, and USD 62 million in construction financing for the Mooring System. The FSRU [...]

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