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Bulk Carrier’s arrival emphasises port’s role as nation’s fertiliser handling hub.
The arrival at Napier in August of the bulk carrier Mollie Manx emphasises the port’s role as New Zealand’s fertiliser hub.
The 60,000 tonne vessel was built six years ago and calls into Napier before resuming its outward voyage to Laayoune the capital of Western Sahara.
The vessel is registered in the Isle of Man and is owned by LT Ugland Shipping which specialises in owning large-capacity bulk carriers. It was built at the Tsuneishi Phillipine Shipyard.
Vessels in the Ugland fleet are all named after family members or something close to the family, in the case of Molly Manx, the family pet dog.
Port of Napier’s deep-water handling, especially in rapid turnaround, of this type of large scale bulk carrier, ensures that Hawkes Bay remains the centre of the fertiliser sector.
Meanwhile, the family ship owning company is run from the Isle of Man by founder Lars Ugland (pictured) and the Isle of Man flagged vessels are operated by specialist time and voyage charterers.In the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is a British self governing Crown Dependency and makes its own laws and sets its own taxes. The Isle of Man is a full Maritime Convention nation.
From The MSCNewsWire reporters' desk Sunday 31 July 2016
South Korea’s largest and financially-troubled shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. obtained an order for a combat support ship from the navy of New Zealand - the first order in the kind in 30 years.
The Korean shipbuilder announced that it Monday signed a contract for the construction of a combat logistics ship of 23,000 tons at full load designed mainly to carry oil for battleships. The final agreement was signed in Wellington, New Zealand by Kim Jung-hwan, an executive in charge of shipbuilding business of the Korean company, and Helene Quilter, Secretary of Defense of New Zealand.
The Korean shipbuilder was selected as a preferred bidder in December last year upon beating bidders from Germany and Spain. Negotiations panned out for seven months. The contract is estimated to be worth $350 million.
The support ship would replace Endeavor, a 12,000 ton naval tanker delivered to the navy of New Zealand in 1987. The shipyard will begin the construction in February 2018 and deliver the vessel by December 2019.
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