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Great Britain - F-35B Lightning

Great Britain - F-35B Lightning

Posted by | 16 Sep 2021 | , , | 0

In early June, the first F-35B Lightning Joint Strike Fighter landed on the Prince Of Wales, the second Queen Elizabeth-class carrier. Even though the pilot had a deck the size of three football pitches on 65,000 tonnes of steel at his disposal, this moment was a special one for the resurgence of the Royal Navy's traditional carrier groups in their fifth generation, as Defence Secretary Ben Wallace commented. With their short take-off and vertical landing capabilities, up to 36 of the F-35Bs flown jointly by the Navy and Air Force can be taken on board. And the Army is also allowed to play along, if it chooses to fly alongside...

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Suez Canal - Surprising additional revenue

Suez Canal - Surprising additional revenue

Posted by | 14 Sep 2021 | , | 0

Despite the days-long closure at the end of March due to the accident involving the large container ship EVER GIVEN (20,124 TEU), Egypt achieved record revenues with the Suez Canal in the first half of 2021. According to the canal authority SCA, more than 9,700 ships travelled through the waterway in the first six months, around 200 more than in the same period last year. The fees collected for this amounted to around three billion dollars, an increase of 8.6 per cent. In the 2020/2021 financial year as a whole, which ended on 30 June, around 19,000 ships generated revenue of USD 5.84 billion. The EVER GIVEN has now returned to service after more than 100 days of...

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Ship scrapping on the rise  

Ship scrapping on the rise  

Posted by | 14 Sep 2021 | , | 0

Due to the rise in steel prices, more and more ships are being given up for demolition worldwide. Over the course of a year, the price of light displacement tonnes (ldt), i.e. empty ships without supplies, fuel, etc., has almost doubled. Pakistani demolishers are said to have paid 580 dollars per container ship ldt. The previous high of 600 dollars per ldt is expected to be broken very soon. According to Lloyd's List Intelligence, 134 ships with a deadweight tonnage of over 10,000 tdw went to demolishers in the first half of 2021, primarily in Southeast Asia. This is 15 per cent more than in the first six months of the previous year. To the subscriptions...

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Zvezda shipyard - launch of LNG tanker series

Zvezda shipyard - launch of LNG tanker series

Posted by | 14 Sep 2021 | , , , | 0

The keel of the first large LNG tanker of a 15-ship series for the Russian state shipping company Sovkomflot has been laid at the Zvezda shipyard in Bolshoi Kamen in the Far East, after the first steel cut was made in November 2020. It is "the first ship of this size, loading and icebreaking capacity" to be built at a Russian shipyard, according to the keel-laying ceremony. The newbuildings are intended for transporting natural gas from the Arctic LNG 2 project on the Gydan Peninsula. The first tanker of this Arc7 series will go directly to Sovkomflot, while the other 14 will be owned by Smart LNG, a joint venture between Sovkomflot and the Russian Novatec Group,...

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MV Werften delivers - future open

MV Werften delivers - future open

Posted by | 14 Sep 2021 | , | 0

The Stralsund shipyard of the pandemic-ridden MV Werften group has delivered the CRYSTAL ENDEAVOUR, the first of originally three expedition cruise ships, to Crystal Expedition Cruises from Los Angeles. The ship has a long construction period behind it, which not only reflects the development of MV Werften GmbH, but also of the German shipbuilding industry. Commissioned in 2016, the ship was initially planned for delivery in August 2018 at the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven. This was taken over in 2015 by the Malaysian conglomerate Genting, which also owns the shipping company Crystal Cruises. After Genting also took over the three large shipyards in Wismar, Rostock and...

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