Marine Log - November 2007 - (Page 8) Update Danaos orders 12,600 TEU boxships Athens-headquartered Danaos Corp. has ordered five Post-Panamax 12,600 TEU containerships from Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries at a cot of $830 million. The ships will be delivered to Danaos from January to August of 2011. Danaos has also arranged for an undisclosed “large international liner company” to charter all the vessels for 12 years each, at accretive rates. INLAND • COASTAL • OFFSHORE • DEEPSEA Bay Area ferry shake up ast month, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that consolidate all current and future San Francisco Bay Area ferries under the newly established San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA). The only Bay Area ferry service not impacted by the legislation was the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District. The legislation, SB 976, was sponsored by Senator Tom Torlakson (D-Antioch) and was strongly supported by the Bay Area Council, a businesssponsored, public-policy advocacy organization supported by more than 275 of the largest employers in the region. The bill had its origins in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when the Bay Area Council was requested by state Senator L Don Perata to evaluate and make recommendations to better prepare the region for a disaster. The Bay Area Council immediately assembled a Blue Ribbon Task Force whose championed the idea of creating a Bay Area Water Transit agency for years and in my State of the State Address this year I committed to work with him to make it a reality,” SembCorp takes stake in Indian yard Singapore’s SembCorp Marine (SCM) will invest S$29.12 million (about $20 million)to acquire a 3.31% stake in India’s Pipavav Shipyard Limited (PSL) following a deal signed last month with the yard and its promoters, SKIL Infrastructure Limited (SKIL). Located within the vicinity of Pipavav Port, Gujarat in India, PSL has secured contracts worth a total of $1 billion to build 22 Panamax-sized ships with options for an additional 4 vessels. “Water transit is vital so that the Bay Area will be better prepared for an emergency and its people will be safer.” Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Aker to build LNG ferries for Oslo Aker Yards has signed a EURO 45 million contract with Norway’s Tide Sjo AS for three LNG-fueled ferries dedicated to operate the link between Oslo and the peninsula of Nesodden, Norway. Designed by Multi Maritime in Forde, Norway, the ferries will be built in France at Aker Yards, Lorient. Construction will start in March next year and all three 49.9m x 12.2m ferries are scheduled to be delivered in the first half of 2009 and to start operating in July 2009. The ferries will each have a capacity of 600 passengers, a speed of 12 knots and will be use environmental friendly LNG propulsion, a technology where Aker Yards has a strong track record. Recently, five LNG-fuelled ferries were delivered for operation on the west coast of Norway. recommendations and analysis were summarized in the report The Bay-The Transportation Spine for Disaster, delivered to Senator Perata on April 12, 2006. WETA will take over city-owned ferries in Alameda and Vallejo and operate future start-up ferry operations. And under SB 976, the agency will receive $250 million in state bond money to help fund ferry expansion. “Senator Perata has said Gov. Schwarzenegger. “By encouraging the expansion and consolidation of Bay Area ferry lines, this bill fills in a big piece of the region’s emergency preparedness capability. We all know how quickly ground transportation can break down in an earthquake or serious disaster, so water transit is vital so that the Bay Area will be better prepared for an emergency and its people will be safer.” Bourbon to build two MPSV’s at French yard F ollowing a European bid tender, France’s Bourbon has announced an order for two Multi Purpose Supply Vessels (MPSV) from French shipyard Socarenam of Boulogne-surMer. The vessels are based on a conceptual design by Marine Assistance, Bordeaux, that will be developed by Marseilles naval architectural consultancy Bureau Mauric. Bourbon executive vice president and COO Christian Lefevre, says: “This contract is proof that French and European naval shipyards can be competitive and offer a solid performance. The choice of the Socarenam shipyard also reflects our desire to make investments and remain a major socio-economic player in France. Bourbon is pleased to be able to build vessels at controlled costs in France.” The two MPSV’s to be built by Socarenam will be used to provide support in such offshore operations as the maintenance of oil facilities, production maintenance work and subsea inspections. The MPSV’s will each accommodate 103 persons, and will have dieselelectric propulsion and a DP2 dynamic positioning system. Each vessel will have eight anchors as compared with four normally found on this type of vessel. The additional anchors combined with the DP technology will offer greater flexibility in operational positioning. The two vessels will be delivered in the second half of 2009. www.marinelog.com 8 MARINE LOG NOVEMBER 2007 http://www.marinelog.com
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