Maritime Reporter, July 1980

<BODY> <div> Recent Orders For British Shipbuilders Total $125 Million Orders for six ships won by British Shipbuilders make it cer- tain that the company's sales tar- get for the current period will be achieved well ahead of schedule. The recent orders are worth a total of $125 million, and include two ships for the People's Repub- lic of China. These are SD 14s, the most successful series-built merchant vessel in British ship- building history. Ordered by China Merchants Steam Navigation for delivery in the first quarter of next year, 15,000-dwt ships will be built by Austin and Pickersgill at Sunder- land in Northeast England. They will be operated by the Canton Branch of the China Ocean Ship- ping Company. Two 66,200-dwt Panamax bulk carriers are to be built by Govan Shipbuilders on the River Clyde in Scotland for an unnamed Far East owner. They will be the larg- est vessels ever built by the yard, and are scheduled for delivery in January and May 1982. Austin and Pickersgill will also construct the remaining two ves- sels— B26—26,000-dwt bulk car- riers, also for an undisclosed Far East owner. Delivery is scheduled for February and March 1982. Two British Shipbuilders sub- sidiaries — Clark Hawthorn in Northeast England and John G. Kincaid in Scotland — will manu- facture the engines for all six ships. Britain's state shipbuilding con- cern now needs orders for only three more merchant vessels to meet a sales target of 45 for the period September 1979 to July 1981. As it will now clearly achieve its objective much earlier than expected, the group plans to set a more ambitious target. The 42 merchant ships ordered from British Shipbuilders since September 1979 are worth about $787 million, and have a total deadweight of more than a mil- lion tons. In the same period, the group has won orders for naval vessels worth $225 million. Derek Kimber, chairman and chief executive of Austin and Pickersgill, said the Chinese or- ders followed four years' endeavor to get to know that country's shipping. The 118th SD 14 was completed recently for a Panamanian ship- ping line, and Austin and Pickers- gill is currently building vessels of this type for Greek and Pan- amanian owners. SD 14s have also been built under license in Argen- tina, Brazil, and Greece. $11-Million Contract For IGS Retrofits Signed By Esso Tankers Esso has decided to install inert- gas systems in a number of its large crude oil carriers. Based on competitive bids from Norwegian shipyards, Esso Tankers Inc. — a subsidiary of Exxon Corporation in New York — has signed a con- tract for such equipment to be installed aboard crude oil tankers by the Moss Rosenberg Shipyard in Moss, Norway. The order is for a total of ap- proximately $11 million (55 mil- lion NOK). This amount includes the manufacturing of the equip- ment as well as supervision of the installation. This comprehensive work will be started this year and is expected to be completed on the 12th ship by July 1983. Together with a previous con- tract for two inert-gas systems from other Exxon affiliates, total IGS orders from Esso to Moss Rosenberg will be about $12 mil- lion (60 million NOK). The latest contract also includes a separate deal between Esso and Moss Rosenberg to develop a sim- ilar inert-gas system for possible installation aboard clean product tankers owned by the Esso or- ganization. Negotiations leading to this award were conducted in the United States by Exxon Interna- tional Company's Tanker Depart- ment located in Florham Park, N.J., and Kvaerner-Moss, Inc., New York City. J.W. Whitehouse Will Oversee All Marine Functions At Belcher James W. 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