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South Koreas Daewoo is set to build a 400-meter container ship for Danish shipper Maersk. The vessel is the first of 20 such container ships that Daewoo will build by 2015 under a $3.6 billion order from Maersk. South Korean shipbuilder has started work on the worlds largest container vessel, with a deck big enough to accommodate four football pitches. Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering said the 400-meter-long ship will carry up to 18,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers. It would be delivered to Danish shipper A.P. Moeller-Maersk in the second half of 2013. The vessel is the first of 20 such container ships that Daewoo, one of South Koreas three largest shipbuilders, will build by 2015 under a $3.6 billion order from the Danish company. Denmarks Crown Prince Frederik on April 12 attended a ceremony marking the start of the vessels construction at Daewoos shipyard at Okpo on the south coast.
After delivery, the platforms will operate in the Franco and Nordeste de Tupi prospects, located in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin, off the coast of south east So Paulo, Brazil. Work on the project is expected to commence in June this year, with conversion of the hull of the first vessel, P-74 scheduled to be concluded in March 2014. The conversion of the P-75 hull is scheduled to be completed in October 2014 while the P-76 and P-77 hulls are expected to be completed in 2015. After the conversion of the hull, the vessels will be installed with oil and gas processing and production plant modules, and the units will be fully integrated, which involves their installation in the hulls. This work will be carried out at a different location and agreement in this regard is expected to be signed by April 2013.
Petrleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has signed a $1.7bn deal with a consortium of Brazilian industrial construction companies Odebrecht, OAS and UTC Engenharia for the hull conversion of a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC). It is part of the plan to convert four Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) vessels into four oil platforms; P-74, P-75, P-76 and P-77. The vessel conversion work will be carried out in the Inhama shipyard in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The shipyard has already been leased by Petrobras and is being remodeled to meet the company's demands. Each of the platform vessels planned for conversion will have the capacity to produce up to 150,000 oil barrels per day and compress 7 million m of natural gas per day.
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Union shipping ministry nod for building an exclusive jetty for receiving LPG. The permission was granted after a meeting recently convened by the Union shipping secretary, sources here said. The proposal for a dedicated facility for receiving shipment of cooking gas was proposed in 2009 by Indian Oil Corporation. The project was meant to solve the problem of the perennial shortage of LPG in the State. A State government review of the project in the second half of 2011 had found out that the proposal for the LPG jetty was almost in an abandoned stage. Subsequently, State government engaged Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation as the nodal agency for overseeing the project implementation. Sources here said that the Cochin Port Trust would build the LPG receiving jetty with financial backing from Indian Oil Corporation. The new jetty is being built after IOC abandoned the idea of using Cochin Oil Terminal for receiving shipments of LPG. It was earlier proposed that the LPG jetty could be built along the multi-user liquid terminal (MULT), proposed by the Cochin Port Trust. However, the MULT project has been held up for various reasons.
The vessel, a 31m catamaran named MS 'Tranor PlanetSolar', is equipped with 537 square meters of solar panels used to recharge 6 blocks of lithiumion batteries with every sunrise. Rated to 93 kW, the propulsion package and efficient hull design generates enough power for the vessel to reach speeds of up to fourteen knots. The 'Tranor PlanetSolar' is the brainchild of Raphael Domjan of Switzerland, who in the Spring of 2004 first envisioned the expedition based on his love of Jules Vernes novels. Years later, construction began at the Knierim Yachtbau shipyard in Germany and she was eventually launched in March 2010. Finally, in September 2010, the MS 'Tranor PlanetSolar' left Monaco with a four-man crew in hopes of sailing around the world strictly on solar power. Nineteen months later; after crossing the Atlantic and Pacific, passing through both Panama and Suez canals, and navigating the treacherous waters of the Gulf of Aden, 'Tranor PlanetSolar' completed its journey, breaking records for fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by solar boat and longest distance ever covered by a solar electric vehicle along the way. Now, the journey will be put together into a book and documentary film scheduled to be released in September. The vessel itself will undergo a retrofitting to allow for more passengers and will be available for charter to adventurers looking for a bit of green history. Life @ Aries
Congratulations!!!
Last week the worlds largest ship running solely on the power of the sun cruised into Hercule Harbor in Monaco, officially completing the worlds first circumnavigation for a 100% solar powered ship.
Mr. Sohan Roy Chief Editor
Congratulations to Mr. Vijesh Vijayan of UT division on his marriage with Ms. Litty
Mr. Gireesh Menon Editor Email: ariesnews@ariesgroup.ae
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