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...In September 2017, Italian shipbuilder ISA announced it had sold a new-build yacht codenamed Project Rocco, a 65m vessel scheduled for delivery in the spring of 2021....
...Some analysts argue that the wave of ordering threatens to tip the industry back into a glut, if shipbuilders ramp up capacity and deliver most of those vessels around 2023 or 2024....
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...round-up DD scoop: KKR takes stake in Nordic region’s biggest insurance broker (FT) FT Views: The EU is leading the way in antitrust policy (FT) US and China’s tech fight set to come to a head (FT) Korea shipbuilders...
...The technology has attracted overseas interest with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri partnering with Titomic this week to explore using its “kinetic fusion” 3D printing technology at its shipyards....
...South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries was among the region’s biggest losers, dropping as much as 27 per cent to a one-year low, after the shipbuilder flagged continued operating losses in 2018 and announced...
...Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s largest shipbuilder by sales, jumped as much as 10 per cent on Wednesday after the group announced its sales outlook for 2018....
...Another turbulent time came around 2009, when the company took over a private shipbuilder in Zhoushan, an eastern archipelago, whose owner was caught up in a corruption probe....
...Ironically, such appointments had worked well in the 1970s, at the British Shipbuilders Corporation and later Harland & Wolff. Just ask their chief executive: Sir John Parker....
...None of the kit, provided by Privinvest, a Middle East-based shipbuilder, has been made fully operational by the Mozambican authorities, Kroll said....
...How Seoul ultimately handles Hanjin Shipping’s collapse will set the tone for future restructuring of Korea Inc....
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...There are some signs Korea Inc is responding. Samsung sold its chemical and defence units to Lotte and Hanwha to focus on more competitive areas, and Posco is offloading non-core businesses....
...Most analysts predict even worse to come from Korea Inc in the second half, barring a sharp recovery in the global economy....
...Carnival, the world’s largest cruise operator, has signed a deal with Meyer Werft, the 221-year-old German shipbuilder, for four of the largest ships ever built, with 6,600 berths each....
...Arms of Keppel and Sembcorp, both shipbuilders, have received massive orders for rigs from Latin America in recent years....
...Among these affiliates are Samsung Electronics — the world's biggest technology company by sales — Samsung Heavy Industries, which is the world's second-biggest shipbuilder, and South Korea's largest life...
...(FT) Petrobras scandal spreads overseas Two major Singaporean shipbuilders and three Brazilian companies with Japanese shareholders have been accused of paying bribes to Petrobras officials....
...Hyundai Motor has rolled out hundreds of robots at its factories in South Korea, mostly procured from Hyundai Heavy, a shipbuilder that is also South Korea’s biggest producer of industrial robots....
...Spirits were particularly buoyant among machinery makers, shipbuilders and electric utilities, which have recently returned to profit for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear crisis by hiking consumer...
...While that is comparable to rates in India and Thailand, China Inc tops the tables with business borrowings equivalent to 125 per cent of gross domestic product....
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