Top shipbuilder mulls mega container ships
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Reuters-Global Times | 2014-2-27 23:58:03
A Yangzijiang shipyard Photo: CFP
Top Chinese shipbuilder Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings plans to build more mega container ships for shipowners eager to cut operating costs, Reuters reported Thursday.
Yangzijiang is China's third-largest listed shipbuilder by market capitalization and has boasted profit margins that dwarf those of domestic and overseas peers.
Yangzijiang is ready to hand over its first mega container ship in March, which can move about 10,000 standard twenty-foot (TEU) containers, and is planning to build vessels that can handle up to 18,000 containers.
"We want to make container ships our signature product," said Ren Yuanlin, Yangzijiang's chairman.
On the company's outstanding order book of $4.6 billion, which rose from $3.9 billion at the end of September last year,
La auxiliar con más trabajadores en Navantia presenta ERE para 99 operarios
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La empresa Alcomar, en Ferrol y Fene, plantea también despedir a 18 personas
europa press | ferrol 26.03.2014 | 01:25
Los trabajadores de la empresa auxiliar Alcomar, encargada de la limpieza en Navantia Ferrol, han protagonizado una concentración ante las puertas del astillero en protesta por el expediente de regulación temporal que afectaría a la totalidad de la plantilla en Ferrol, de 99 personas, y podría suponer el despido de 18 de los 36 operarios vinculados a Navantia Fene.
El ERE se plantearía durante un año y supondría también una reducción de la jornada laboral. Los representantes sindicales aseguran que no aceptarán las condiciones planteadas, según explicó Vicente Castro, delegado de CC.OO. en el comité. La posibilidad de que la regulación de la plantilla se
ASTILLEROS.- Gondán firma el contrato del buque para Noruega por 53,3 millones
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El astillero de Figueras construirá un barco oceanográfico de 74 metros de eslora para el Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas escandinavo
Shipbuilding features strongly in Russia’s plans for Crimea
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Russia's plans for Crimea include development of shipbuilding
Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s first deputy prime-minister, has said that Russia is considering the establishment of large commercial shipbuilding along the Crimean coastline, writes Eugene Gerden.
"Crimea currently has several large ship repair and shipbuilding plants, which are located in Feodosia, Kerch and Sevastopol and which were among the largest during the Soviet times. We have already evaluated their potential and decided to establish production of some vessels and marine equipment at their capacities already this year”, said Mr Rogozin.
It is planned that initially the Crimean plants will focus on the implementation of government orders, moving at a later date, following