Marine Log - October 2008 - (Page 34)

CHINA’S GREAT AMBITIONS tonne lifting capacity. Deliveries in this series are planned for December 2009, July 2010, November 2010 and April 2011. MAKING INROADS: FIRST LNG SHIP Orders such as these show the extent to which Chinese yards have succeeded into making inroads not only into the market for relatively basic ship types, but also into more specialized areas that, not so long ago, European and Japanese competitors might have considered safe. As well as booking breakthrough orders, Chinese yards have also been making some milestone deliveries. Two of these occurred on Apr. 3 of this year. DON’T TAKE A RISK insure with FISK! • Commercial Watercraft • Workers Compensation: USL&H and MEL/Jones Act • Worldwide Package Policies • Excess Liability/Umbrellas • General Liability/Ship Repair • Contractor’s Equipment Coverage: Waterborne & Submerged • Full Range of Employee Benefits: Life, Health, Disability, Dental, Vision & More John W. Fisk Company Insurance 4833 Conti Street New Orleans, LA 70119 Toll free: 888.486.5411 Phone: 504.486.5411 Fax: 504.482.1475 Since 1952 Shanghai-based Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard delivered China’s first LNG ship, the 147,000 m 3 LNG carrier Dapeng Sun to China LNG Shipping (International) Ltd for service between Australia’s North West Shelf and China’s first LNG receiving terminal in Guangdong Province. It is the first of a five-ship series that are being dual classed by ABS and China Classification Society (CCS). “LNG carriers are one of the most sophisticated vessel types for a shipyard to produce,” noted ABS’s James Liebertz at the delivery. “This is a really remarkable achievement for a relatively new shipbuilder to take on such a project and develop the infrastructure and skills to deliver this ship in such a short time frame.” To assist the yard, ABS assigned a team of surveyors to the project with many years of experience in LNG construction and in particular with the GTT No. 96 membrane containment system. “An LNG project is quite different from standard tanker and bulk carrier construction,” Liebertz added. “This was a high profile project that entailed technical and cultural challenges for all of the parties concerned. It is a real credit to everyone that has been involved in this project that it has gone as smoothly as it has and we are very proud of the finished product.” The second Apr. 3 milestone came at the Nantong COSCO KHI Shipyard (NACKS) with the delivery of the 10,000 TEU COSCO Oceania to COSCO Container Lines. This is the largest containership to have been built in China and is the first of a four-ship series from the yard. “COSCO is a long standing client and we are honored to have been selected to class this historic series of ultra large containerships for them,” said ABS Senior VP Kingsley Koo. The COSCO project was tightly planned and coordinated with the keel laying taking place in early September 2007. “A schedule that took less than seven months from keel laying to delivery for a ship of this size and complexity is a real testament to the capabilities of the large, experienced Chinese shipyards,” Koo added. “ABS was proud to be part of the team that helped make this happen.” CHINA: WORKSHOP TO THE WORLD Deliveries such as these and new contracts like the giant Vale order underscore one of the key factors behind the explosive growth in Chinese shipbuilding: globalization. The emergence of www.marinelog.com www.jwfisk.com 34 MARINE LOG OCTOBER 2008 http://www.jwfisk.com http://www.jwfisk.com http://www.marinelog.com

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