A worker at Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC Corporation died today (19 May), after falling into a 5-metre deep cargo hold in a products tanker that was being repaired in the shipbuilder’s Keelung yard.
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Management at Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC Corp said that the normalisation of the container freight market means there is now more business for maintenance and repair work.
Previously, when the freight levels were high, liner operators were reluctant to allow off-hire days in order to maximise earnings.
Now that the situation has reversed, liner operators are more willing to resume maintenance.
At the christening of Wan Hai 331 on 29 March, maintenance work on ships owned by Taiwan’s two largest...
Taiwan’s premier shipbuilding company, CSBC Corp., recently completed modifications to a massive container ship owned by Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL).
The modification contract included the installation of a flue gas desulfurization system on the massive 13,000-TEU ship and took about a month and a half to complete, reports the Liberty Times. The ship docked on May 22, and the work was completed on Tuesday (July 9).
This was the first time CSBC Corp. has carried out this...
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