South America

  • Wales-based, high-tech boat building company, Steel-Kit (U.K.) Ltd. is working with South American prawn fishing companies and repairers to provide "state-of-the-art" computer generated steel and aluminium building kits for on board processing, prawn fishing vessels.

    A recent project has been the development of prototype kits, hulls and finished vessels for two 75 ft. (23-m) factory deck shrimp trawlers with sophisticated onboard sorting, cooking and freezing facilities. As a development of this project Steel-Kit has designed, and is organizing on behalf of the owner, a dedicated shipbuilding and repair facility in South America that will produce up to 10 boats a year initially with additional capacity as required. Commenting on the project, managing director Don Fuller-Love said, "This is an exciting opportunity for us. We are looking forward to expanding our activities to South America." The company intends to use the new facility to supply Kits, hulls and finished vessels in South America, North America and Mexico.

    Steel-Kit has also supplied kits and hulls for the general fishing, shellfish and fish farming industries as well as a number of private yachts, tugs, passenger vessels and inland waterway vessels.

    Another very different project currently being handled by the company is the first of 12 American-style. 48 ft. (14.6 m) aluminium lake cruisers.

    Currently the company is providing quotations, prices and technical support to yards, fishing vessel owners and operators who wish to apply for the grants now available for new vessel building. Steel-Kit is working with leading fishing vessel designers S. C. McAllister & Co. along with other respected ship designers to supply detailed drawings.

    specifications, kits and hulls for a range of safe, comfortable and modern vessels capable of revitalizing the fishing.

    passenger and workboat fleets of the world.

    The kits have been developed by Steel-Kit over a period of 25 years of boatbuilding. All parts are interlocking and self jigging and require the minimum of shaping in order to produce sophisticated hull shapes. Steel-Kit's boat yard customers have been shown to be able to save up to 75 percent of manhours over conventional fabrication methods.

    The working environment is far cleaner and quieter as all the cutting and preparation of plates has been carried out by N/C controlled water-cooled plasma cutters at the Steel-Kit works.

    The company provides full telephone.

    E-mail and on-site backup as well as training.

    In addition to providing a service developing new designs, the company has a range of over 200 vessels in kit form covering the entire spectrum of boat types in steel and aluminium that can be delivered ready for assembly within three weeks.

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  • The Texaco South America, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) of 270,000 deadweight tons built for Texaco's international fleets by Astilleros y Talleres del Noroeste S.A. (ASTANO), was christened recently in ceremonies at the ASTANO shipyard in El Ferrol del Caudillo, Spain. Sponsor of the Texaco

  • A tentative agreement to sell all of its South American shipping operations for about $75 million was announced by Prudential Lines, Inc., a U.S.-flag ocean carrier. The purchaser would be Delta Steamship Lines, Inc., a subsidiary of Holiday Inns, Inc. "The proposed sale of the South American

  • General Agents for Hapag- Lloyd's North Atlantic container s e r v i c e for Northern Europe; Ivaran's new container service to the east coast of South America; Scindia Line from the United States to the Far East, Indonesian, and Indian ports; Mamenic Line in Nicaragua and Central America; and Transnave's

  • ports. The Pacific Division operates four cruiseliners and two cargo vessels from U.S. Pacific and Canadian ports to Mexico, Central and South America

  • traffic manager. Mr. Born will exercise responsibility for all inward traffic matters of the company's services from the east coast of South America, South and East Africa, and the Malagasy Republic to the U.S. Atlantic Coast ports. Mr. Hidalgo, a veteran of nearly 40 years in the maritime

  • . He will have responsibility for the Morgan City Structural Group, the Shipyard Group, and the Harvey Group, including projects in Central and South America. After joining the company in 1954, Mr. Earles served in several administrative posts. In 1972, he became general manager of both the fabrication a

  • , manager, military movements in New Orleans. Lykes provides three separate container services between the U.S. and the North and West Coasts of South America, the East and West Mediterranean, and the United Kingdom and Northern Europe. Lykes's 18 multipurpose vessels serve trade routes between U

  • provider (tied to one of the world’s leading commodity trading houses) in Colombia.   The boats, designed by CT Marine, are purpose-built for the South American trades and feature triple screw propulsion, and retractable pilothouses. The first of these hulls, the Impala Soledad was launched in June. According

  • The Republic of Paraguay is a landlocked country in South America bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. The Paraguay River runs through the center of the country from north to south. Due to its central location in South America

  • pleased with the overwhelming success of the YoYo winch in North America, but he is setting his sights higher for the business in the future. “As the South American market continues to modernize and mature, we envision an influx of YoYos onto both Hidrovia and Amazon barges,” he says. “The Hidrovia Waterway

  • South American river tugboats need robust rudder bushings: some 20 tug boats on the Parana River, running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, have been equipped with Vesconite rudder bushings.   In the challenging waters of South American rivers, tugboat owners began ordering Vesconite’s proprietary

  • MR Feb-24#20  are being developed in South Korea 
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    for over 35% of global power electrolyzers and other production, storage and of? oad- installations. ing systems. Concepts are being developed in South Korea The third most active ? oating production region from 2024- and Europe. 2030 is forecast to be Asia Paci? c. Over 60% of the activity • Finally

  • MR Feb-24#18  segment will move from  in South and Central American countries)
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    of new ? oating pro- ments. duction units installed between 2024 and 2030 will be located At the same time, the ? oating wind segment will move from in South and Central American countries, of which Brazil and demonstration and pilot scale projects to pre-commercial and Guyana will account for around 90%

  • MR Feb-24#13  the US and China in the South China 
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    companies are facing something of a per- fect storm in 2024 with the Red Sea attacks, potential escala- tion of tensions between the US and China in the South China Sea (which could impact trade routes further) and even some signs of piracy returning around Somalia. Business Interruption Rounding out the

  • MN Feb-24#42 People &
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    People & Companies Rella Hired as Wiltshire Leading Port Everglades St. Johns President Glenn A. Wiltshire has taken over as Joe Rella has been appointed as presi- acting director of Broward County’s Port Rella Barton dent of St. Johns Ship Building. Everglades Department. Barton Named Vineyard CEO New

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  • MT Jan-24#35 JIM MCNEILL:
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    are known to have such combat AUVs under develop- we are witnessing the real-time evolution of offensive mine ment, including Russia, China, North and South Korea, In- warfare via the deployment of hybrid weapons leveraging dia, Taiwan, Israel, France, the UK, Australia, and the United the stealth and

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  • MR Jan-24#14  mod- tween Europe and South America.
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    advance- life on a ? xed trans-Atlantic route be- meters tall with a projected area of 363 ments, encompassing the detailed mod- tween Europe and South America. square meters. Steel ships are of course elling of the intricate interaction among Modelling, and data from Energy much heavier than a state-of-the-

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    wingsail design since 2018 by French where apparent wind takes precedence under engines alone. Critically, despite tech startup AYRO has the potential to over true wind. AYRO’s wingsails gen- originally being developed to be handled leave a much larger legacy; by provid- erate propulsive force even

  • MR Jan-24#12 The Path to Zero
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    ceremony with local dignitaries, Cordage Park is on Plymouth’s picturesque waterfront, provid- friends of Greensea, and maritime professionals from South ing a perfect backdrop for this innovative demonstration event. New England in attendance. – by Rhonda Moniz 28 November/December 2023 MTR #8

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    Vellore was named at a ceremony at the MMHE Pasir Gudang yard. Built by Hanwha Ocean (for- merly Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine En- gineering) in Geoje, South Korea, the ship is classi? ed by Lloyd’s Register. Eagle Vellore’s two sister vessels are cur- rently under construction by Hanwha Ocean and due

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  • MN Nov-23#44 Length: 525 ft.
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