On the 29th of April 2013, Western Baltija Shipbuilding delivered a 2500 m3 TSHD turn-key dredger “Macuti“ to Johs. Gram-Hanssen A/S after a building period of 20 months. Extensive tests and trials of all systems kept Western Baltija Shipbuilding specialists busy in the last weeks. One week before the delivery, dredger “Macuti” was named at [...]
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NIB and the Klaipeda State Seaport Authority have signed a EUR 44 million loan agreement for investment projects in Klaipeda Seaport, lifting a major bottleneck to trade and expansion in the region. The scope of the investment includes the reconstruction of quays, construction of a pier for passenger and cargo ferries as well as dredging [...]
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A consortium between Lemminkäinen and YIT has signed a contract for the construction of an extension to a container terminal in Klaipeda, a Lithuanian seaport. Lemminkäinen will be the main contractor for the consortium. Work at the construction site will begin in March, with the construction being carried out in three phases. The last [...]
On 1th February Western Baltija Shipbuilding delivered new fishing trawler hull (NB58) for the Danish client “Karstensens Skibsværft AS”. Fishing trawler hull “ASBJORN SELSBANE” is 55,0 m length and 12,80 m width. Refrigerated sea water tanks (RSW) with the 500m3 capacity, have been mounted onboard. Hull weight is 880 tons (950 tons with pipes and [...]
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Klaipeda University and “Western Baltija Shipbuilding” signed an agreement on the design and construction of a new research vessel. “Today is a historic day. A process, which started about four years ago, became a reality today. There are no higher level schools in Lithuania which have constructed a new ship. The University wishes to create [...]
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In the afternoon of the 8th of October 2012 the first experimental vessel “Tanais Leader” was berthed at the newly constructed quay No. 67A, operated by Klaipėda Stevedoring Company “Bega”. Klaipėda State Seaport Authority was the contracting party of this object. Back in the history – on the 2nd of September 2010 the Port Authority [...]
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Hoegh LNG has received commitment letters from four banks for a USD 250 million corporate facility for the financing of the floating LNG storage and regasification unit (FSRU), being built at Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. shipyard in South Korea. The Facility is subject to credit guarantees by the Norwegian credit agency GIEK and the Korean [...]
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It was established on the 8th of June 2012 that the company „Van Oord Dredging and Marine Contractors BV“ has already excavated 1 027 354 cubic meters of soil pursuant to the contract agreement on Klaipeda Port channel dredging and widening. These dredging works were launched on the 22 nd of April. „What‘s worth noting, [...]
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OW Bunker, one of the world’s leading suppliers and traders of marine fuel, has expanded its bunker supply operations in Lithuania. The company has relocated a 2,800dwt double-hulled bunker barge, Oxana, to the Port of Klaipeda to meet the requirements of its expanding customer base in the region. Oxana, built in 2004 has a [...]
Lithuanian ship repair company Western Shiprepair and the Dutch dredging company Van Oord continue their co-operation in ships´ repair and modernisation. This week SC Western Shipyard daughter company JSC Western Shiprepair is planning to finish upgrading work of the backhoe dredger Goliath and repair work on the split hopper barge Jan Leeghwater. In total, during [...]
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