http://www.navalia.es/EN/Suscripcion Noticias Navalia 2010. http://navalia.es/extranet/images/favicon.gif en-us Copyright 2009 navalia http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The oil company communicates to its board of directors that will buy the 51% of the capital from the Vigo’s brand – García Costas will continue as president – Te board of directors welcome the company

]]> Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 The naval Group delivers the first of the fourteen tugboats for the Panama Canal

]]> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 TUBE-MAC PIPING TECHNOLOGIES (TM) has started the installation of the hydraulic piping for the different dredging systems on board of a new 2.600 m3 dredger that Astilleros de Murueta is currently building for the French governmental organism “Dragages Port”.

]]> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 Navalia come back from the Sinaval – Eurofishing trade fair held last week in Bilbao. Eith a moderate optimism and good prospects faced to the celebration of the fifth edition of the Vigo’s exhibition.

]]> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 The port Authority of Vigo will be the venue next July of the Green Energy Ports Conference, an initiative that will gather in the city representatives of the most important ports in Europe. The meeting will serve for ports managers explain its experiences in the energy efficiency field and share impressions about the intelligence use of green energy.

]]> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 The Chamber of Commerce from Vigo’s president, José García Costas and president od Navalia met a Colombia’s delegation that includes representatives of the Chamber of Commerce from Cartagena de Indias and the Technological University of Bolivar. The visit, in the context of a study mission of the chamber of Cartagena de Indias wants to have an effect on its shipbuilding sector and was used to meet some brands from Vigo.

]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 The Basque shipyard Zamakona have just attribute the contract for a new vessel of alive fish transport for Norway of 250 Million Noks (around 22 Millions Euros), according the ship-owner, the consortium Sølvtrans Holdings ASA. This 75.8 meters long ship will be similar than the Roina Polarias constructed by the Basque company, that has a preliminary agreement to attribute two new units by the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015.

]]> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 Auxiliar Naval del Principado, property of Armon Group, will built a patrol boat for the maritime service of the Guardia Civil by 2.6 millions Euros

]]> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 The country offers great possibilities for the Galician auxiliary industry

]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 The exhibition from Vigo will visit Expopesca 2013La feria viguesa acudirá a Expopesca 2013

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]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 The Vigo’s shipyard Cardama has just attribute the tender to build a ferry of the Cape Verde Government. The signature of the contract guarantees workload for 200 people during at leas one year an a half.

]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 The shipyard will bring forward the end of the month the launch of the second AHTS to clear the slipway

]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 Ibercisa proceeded on Saturday to install the first from two giant coils of 90 tones built for the Dutch ship-owner Heerema Marine Contractors.

]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 After its participation in the ONS from Stavanger and in the SMM from Hamburg, and continuing with its promotional calendar, NAVALIA’s organizer team will visit within next weeks Colombiamar 2013, 3rd International Ship Design & Naval Engineering Congress.

]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 One more time Schottel Wiresa shows its unconditional support and commitment to the international shipbuilding exhibition NAVALIA, signing an agreement that turn it into one of its main sponsors.

]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 Ascensores Enor has just signed a contract with the Italian ship-owner Pincatieri to built and install six lifts and a hydraulic forklift in a ferry of the Canadian company Steamship Line. It will be machines not only designed to meet the European rules but also the American ones, which is much more restrictive in the components certification.

]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 The Galician shipyards Freire and Valiña and the Mexican SENI, located in Mazatlán (Sinaloa), and TNG, from Serport (Baja California), will form the hard core for the construction of the Pemex fleet that could reach 25 units according Xunta’s sources during last weeks.

]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 The shipyard from Vigo Metalships&Docks launched last Monday the “Deep Orient”, an offshore vessel hired by the multinational Technip, which will give support to oil platforms. Its first destination is Norway.

]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 Factoria Naval will reach next week a new turning point in its re-established business project with the arrival of the 105 meters long vessel “Izar Argia”, which repair will inaugurate the own costumer of the shipyard from Marín.

]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 The current president of the Chamber of Commerce of Vigo and of Barreras shipyard has been named as the new Navalia’s president.

]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 Daniel Dopico and Enrique Lago, general managers of Nodosa and Factoría Naval, respectively, signed this morning a collaboration agreement that allow them to recover the naval industry as well as search new markets.

]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 The shipyard reaches a beginning of agreement to finish the Sevilla’s ferry

]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 Navalia’s 5th edition that will be held from the 20th to the 22nd of May 2014 in Vigo already has confirmed exhibitors. The good expectative of Vigo’s naval industry, regarding the recovery of its main shipyards, as well as the exporter roll of its auxiliary industry have encouraged the fair trade market within the maritime industry.

]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 The oil company has chosen the project that the shipyard from Vigo had developed for a French ship-owner

]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 The gas and oil search in the sea shoot up orders as the Pemex ones

]]> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 The oil Mexican company awards the other unit, twin of the first one, to Navantia

]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 NAVALIA’s organizer team participates since yesterday in the SMM of Hamburg, an important date for the biggest companies in the world because of its relevance in the naval sector. Features can not be better: more than 2.000 exhibitors from 50 countries and the forecast of 50.0000 visitors.

]]> Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 The participation as exhibitor in the ONS (Offshore Northern Seas) exhibition of Stavanger, is being useful also to meet Hispanic Norway Chamber of Commerce, organizer of the conference Offshore Shipping Opportunities

]]> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 The new order costs 100 millions Euros andi t is for the shipyards from Vigo.

]]> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 It will participate as exhibitor in the ONS fair trade (Offshore Northern Seas) of Stavanger from the 28th to the 31st of August, and in the SMM of Hamburg, from the 4th to the 7th of September.

]]> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 The new order is an off-shore Pipelay Construction Vessel ordered by the North American shipping company MCDermottt, the shipyard from Vigo had already built other two similar vessels.

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 After its participation in Navalia, shipyards and naval companies from Sinaloa in Mexico receive the visit of a Galician commercial mission leader by the regional Minister of Industry, Javier Guerra.

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 The International Trade Fair of the Naval Industry in Vigo has been presently consolidated in its sector as the first trade fair in Spain and Southern Europe. Its more than satisfactory result at the recently held fourth edition makes it the essential meeting place at a time when the sector is undergoing change.

]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 The Ansys software allow to reduce periods of develop of the machines that will be used for the oil platforms anchorage

]]> Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 The Mexican oil company promises to entrust the Xunta with orders for the community naval sector

]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 The president of the Vigo’s Port Authority, Ignacio López-Chaves, met with his equivalent of the Morocco’s Chamber of Fishing, Kamal Sabri, who is in the Galician city because of his participation in the fourth edition of the International Shipbuilding Exhibition (Navalia)

]]> Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 The exhibition that has consolidated as the first top in Spain and South Europe, has coincide with good news for the sector

]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 First proposal was presented last Tuesday in Brussels and also depict part of the French system

]]> Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 This event will serve to introduce growing opportunities for the shipbuilding sector, such as the market in Panama and the impact of the enlarged Canal, the improvement of the maritime safety or the off-shore renewable energy production

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 Sinaloa (Mexico) and Uruguay delegations find in Galicia big possibilities to carry on strategic alliances

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 Alberto Núñez promised to continue fighting to achieve an “equitable and fair system” for naval industry

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 El objetivo de este cambio es facilitar al visitante un recorrido ordenado y sin aglomeraciones

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 In the exhibition assembly that is being advanced so quickly, participate around 350 people that is working since Wednesday.

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 Several delegations have confirmed their presence in Vigo from the 22nd to the 24th of May, as managers from Pemex and Sinaval

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 Germany, Brazil, USA, Morocco, Mexico, Panama or Rumania are the countries of the visitor companies, that will carry on more than 500 meetings on the 22nd and 23rd of May with shipyards and brands of the ancillary Galician industry

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 The conference is aimed at ancillary industry will count on the presence of people from Sinaval and Pemex

]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 Armon has just appropriate a new contract for the construction of two ferries for the Portuguese ship owner Atlanticoline that operate in Azores

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 El Gobierno del país africano The African country government will support the renewal of its fleet financing up to 30% of the construction of new fishing vessels, an excellent opportunity to our shipyardsapoyará la renovación de su flota financiando hasta el 30% de la construcción de nuevos buques pesqueros, una excelente oportunidad para nuestros astilleros

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 In the course of the week they will meet nearly 20 companies to promote the exhibition. The commercial mission in Casablanca and Agadir will be the last promotional action before the opening of this fourth edition.

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 Santiago de Compostela will host MIBE 2012 (the Maritime Transport and Innovation Brokerage Event) next 20th-21st June. It is a forum where experiences come together, projects facing new challenges are promoted, collaboration opportunities are created and innovative solutions are developed, thus contributing to improve the business performance of the European maritime industry.

]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 The president of the Galician Governemt, ALBERTO Núñez Feijoo, have announce a “possible agreement” with the Mexican company Pemex, in order to Galician naval sector builds vessels for the oil fleet and also auxiliary companies partipate “in another vessel series in Mexico to provide directly” to this company.

]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 The four editions of the International Shipbuilding Exhibition of Vigo will leave in the region more than 50 millions Euros. The event, that expects a turnover of 5.000 millions Euros, will gather 25.000 professional visitors from the 22nd to the 24th of May.

]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 The "North Ocean" carry out sea trial before begin to work

]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 After today’s launch, the definitive deadline for NERC, entity equivalent to the Spanish Scientific Investigation Centre (CSIC), is June 2013

]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 FRIZONIA REFRIGERACIÓN CLIMATIZACIÓN S.L., through its subsidiary CF HVAC, has secured its first contract in Brazil, for the design, supply, supervision of installation and commissioning of the Air Conditioning and Ventilation System for the accommodation of 5 Patrol Boats for the Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil).

]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 The company, specializing in energy audits, uses the "Doctor" system to optimize the operation of ship diesel engines

]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 Spanish company Ghenova has acquired another Spanish enterprise, Ingeniería y Servicios Tecnor, to strengthen its naval area in Galicia (northern Spain), where it has had a work facility in Ferrol since 2003.

]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 The LISNAVE Mitrena shipyard, ideally located for vessels trading in or passing through Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, is located near Setúbal, just 60 kilometres south of Lisbon international airport. With six drydocks having a capacity up to 700,000dwt, all necessary workshops, seven jetties with a total length of 1,400 metres, 20 travelling cranes up to 100 tons and one gantry crane (over DD20) of 500 tons, LISNAVE offers first-class facilities for any kind of ship repairs and conversions. A major advantage of the yard’s location is the year-round excellent weather that Portugal enjoys. It is normally fair and mild, ideal for outside works and hull treatment. More than 70 percent of LISNAVE clients are repeat customers.

]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 La empresa viguesa de maquinaria para buques consolida su expansión internacional con su entrada en Noruega, China, Japón y EE UU

]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 Vigo’s Zona Franca delegate, Teresa Pedrosa, takes offices as a member of the Executive Committee of the Exhibition. The Vigo organization will travel to Morocco from 23 to 27 April to meet with shipyards and ship-owners in the country.

]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 This product is a biotechnology which active principles are based upon natural enzymes extracted from tree leaves. Xbee bio-additive has a strong commercial experience in the marine industry for more than 10 years. Its ratio is at 1 to 4,000 _ 1 liter of Xbee for each 4,000 liters of every fuel: Diesel, MDO, HFO from range 30 to 380/700. That makes it in compatible with all ships: cable layers, tug boats, fishing vessels (trawlers and tuna seiners), dredgers, container ships, ferries . . .

]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 Astilleros de Mazatlán, in Sinaloa state (Mexico) showed their interest in visit Navalia after their meeting in Metalmec installations, during the visit of the team of Navalia to the Aztec country.

]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 Technical publication Infomarine reinforces its leadership with Infobusiness, a new business area to be presented within the framework of Navalia

]]> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 Armon will recover shipbuilding in Gijón with the construction of, at least, one tuna boat for the Mexican company Grupo Maritimo Industrial. The project that the company from Navia considered since some years ago, before the acquisition of Juliana, has just realized. Armon and the company presided by Antonio Suárez have signed the first contract for the new stage of the shipyard.

]]> Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 Managers from Vigo travel to the Andalusian capital to agree on the terms of the operation. To begin to work on it the following day and to try to sign the first contract in less than two or three months. This was the challenge for Vulcano last 10th, after know the Pymar decision of joining to the agreement, essential step to finish with the creditors meeting.

]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 The Mexican government elaborates a plan to reactivate the fishing fleet; they will need to build more than 200 new vessels.

]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 Its responsible in Vigo, María José Bravo Bosch, wants the exhibition coincide with the sector relaunch and she hopes that the new Tax Lease system would be authorized in May.

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 The entity has approved a discount of the 80% of the shipyard debt, that appreciate companies, administrations and workers their implication.

]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 The Norwegian ship owner United European Car Carriers (UECC) has decided to repair for the first time their vessels in Vigo. The car carrier "Autorunner" is already in Metalships (exhibitor in Navalia 2012) to be cleaned and painted and to repair its main motor.

]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 The shipyard from Vigo take over an international contract for two 72 meters long anchor vessels. The shipyard from Vigo Armon, from the group of Asturias with the same name, has begun the construction of the first of the two anchor vessels hired by the Dutch company Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC), specialized in maritime service for oil industry. Vessels will be 72 meters long, 12 more than Husky and Retriever, according to the ship owner.

]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 Czech Republic, through its National Agency of Promotion and Commerce from the Industry and Commerce Secretary have confirmed to Navalia organizer their participation in the exhibition with an International pavilion, as they have announced on their official web http://www.czechtrade.org.es/eventos/

]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 4 months befote the exhibition open its doors, the organizers have published an advance of the confirmed exhibitors and co exhibitors for the 2012 edition. More than 250 brands have already confirmed their presence in May. The can be consulted in: http://www.navalia.es/EN/15/Expositores/Listado-de-Expositores

]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 Navalia 2012 will receive the visit of companies from more than 25 countries with the aim of meet the auxiliary industry and shipyards exhibiting in it. Between others there are companies from Russia, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Italy or Poland.

]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 SPASCIANI proposes to the market a wide range of products for the protection of the respiratory tract: FFP, Half mask, full face mask, filters, EEBD, air line respirators, sandblasting respirators, self contained breathing APP and EEBD equipment.

]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 Navalia managers will visit Mexico next month to gain exhibitors and to inform to the big ship owners about the naval sector

]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 Navalia will be next March in the Seatrade Exhibition in Miami, the most important event in the world in the Cruise sector.

]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 The Ministry of Industry grants this category after analyzes the documentation presented by the organization. The choice by the Government of a trade exhibition as International entails important benefits. Between others is an indispensable requirement to receive subsidiaries charged to the State National Budget. Likewise, the international category of trade fairs grants custom facilities to products shown in it.

]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 The experimental station in the Cantabrian that the University of Oviedo will build, which equipment will be the first one of this type in the coast of Asturias for the marine energy research and creation, will have an investment of 11.5 millions Euros and a project deadline of three years.

]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 Astilleros Cardama set three new constructions in motion this week. There are three multipurpose vessels that the Angola’s Ministry of Transports put out to tender and that was awarded by the company from Vigo in 2008. Nevertheless, they came into effect last Wednesday.

]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 Engineers from the University of Vigo participate in a European Project for designing the first system totally automated of welding hulls that will allow the sector to reduce costs, to speed up process and to improve the final quality and the workers conditions. The final aim is the technological confidence to increase the competitiveness face to countries as Japan, China or South Korea.

]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 Navalia come back from the Marintec exhibition with several draft agreements with Asian companies to participate in the Spanish exhibition in 2012

]]> Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 The International Shipbuilding Exhibition Navalia 2012 organizes the OFF SHORE DAY.

]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 Navalia open representative offices in two European countries Poland and Italy, that joined to their offices in China and Brazil.

]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 The Board of Director of Hijos de J. Barreras is toying with the possibility of hire two big tuna fishing boats for a Vasque ship owner. It is Albacora Group, an important Spanish brand in the tuna market. The construction of the order valued in 60 millions Euros, would be the first of the year 2012.

]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 The 289 offshore for McDermott will work as support vessel for the oil platforms under rent contract. The boat has closed work campaigns just when it left the Metalship dock. The McDermott offshore is 133 meters long and is one of the two boats in which Metalships is working nowadays. The other one is also an offshore for the French ship owner Tecnip, which is 135 meters long and that has a budget of 107 millions.

]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 The Navalia’s board of directors net this month with ambassador and attaches of different countries from the American continent with the aim of promoting the naval sector and attract international visitors.

]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 The entity presided by Ignacio López-Chaves reinforces its presence at Navalia through a stand that also will receive the main technical conferences of the exhibition. Likewise he showed his total disposition to collaborate to turn Navalia into the shipping companies and ship owners meeting point that use the port of Vigo for its different activities.

]]> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 The Spanish ambassador in Holand , Javier Vallaure, encouraged NAVALIA to continue with the spread of the shipbuilding industry in the world

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 The average age becomes 12.6 years, compared to the world of 18.7.

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 Although the sector in Spain is facing an extremely delicate moment, this fact confirms the bet that the companies are doing using the exhibition as an internationalization tool. The organization hopes to cover the total of the exhibition space with the promotional actions that will be done until the end of 2011.

]]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 The distribution of the units will be based on the workload of its shipyards of Vigo, Burela, Gijón and Navia

]]> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 This energy has, according to experts, a promising future especially in countries with high population density. Galician shipyards and ancillary industry has shown great leadership in this type of boats.

]]> Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 The "holding" Pacific Andes, which is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, diverted to the port of Vigo six vessels operating in Mauritania to make repairs on board and supplied

]]> Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:00 In an unfavorable time for the Galician naval sector, with a daily shipyard closures interspersed with employers and unions protest to stay afloat, Narwhal company, located in Mos (Pontevedra) gets out and puts it first step in the American market. The aim is on one hand, promote and sell their semi rigid boats on an international stage, and secondly, to achieve certification of the U.S. Coast Guard.

]]> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 The vessel was ordered by the ship-owners McDermott and Oceanteam one year ago

]]> Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:00:00 The boats, 30 meters length and 101 Rodman series, will provide them 45.000 hours of work

]]> Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 The new IEO vessel, built in Vigo, completed successfully its first nautical day

]]> Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 Researching how can be used in vessels and they will develop a fishing boat prototype commissioned by the Xunta

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 The portfolio directed by Rosa Quintana will strengthen its presence at the exhibition with more initiatives, on a big bet by the sector The management team of this international exhibition has closed almost 60% of the “Instituto Ferial de Vigo” occupancy

]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 Supondría nuevas oportunidades de carga de trabajo para los astilleros vigueses

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]]> Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 Papers could be sent to participate in this International symposium from July 17th to November 1st. The congress will be held from the 22nd to the 24th of May 2012 coinciding with the International Shipbuilding Exhibition of Vigo.

]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 The CRN shareholders decide to continue with the project and look for some lands in Rías Baixas and in Ferrol

]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 It will operate the installations from Andalucía, in creditor’s meeting, to repair and build catamarans

]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 The company needs Financing to buy a dry dock able to careen vessels up to 230 meters

]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 The catamaran contract, 24 meters long, is 3.5 millions

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 The vessel, 45 meters long, has 15 cabins to house seventeen people

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 It has workload until the end of 2012 with four vessels in its order list

]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:00 It will make two 5 MW hydraulic turbines for a hydroelectric power station of 4 millions Euros.

]]> Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 Navalia’s organizer will also visits Norshipping in Oslo next week, one of the most important meetings of the world maritime industry

]]> Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 To give a boost to the deep-sea fleet renovation project, Aclunaga and Acemix will meet today the regional ministries of Industry and Sea

]]> Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 The naval and fishing Galician industry reached an agreement yesterday in Vigo to renew trawlers, with the construction of seven vessels valued each one between 15 and 20 millions Euros

]]> Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 Each company is ready to build a new unit in which design Acemix and Aclunaga are working together

]]> Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 The organizers, who are visiting Sinaval (Bilbao), have met Innovamar foundation to begin to elaborate the proposal

]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 The shipyard from Moaña will have capacity for pleasure boats bigger than 75 meters

]]> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 Works will begin in a couple of weeks after receiving financing from the Spanish company of export credit

]]> Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 Galicia wins in hiring, but the Basque Country is the leader in shipbuilding.

]]> Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 Both organizations join together to promote our industry in a market characterized by the strong expansion

]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 The company Xbee has been operating in the European maritime sector for several years: in Spain Xbee is selling a bio additive for fuels based on enzymes to fishing vessels owners and to passengers transport companies.

]]> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 In the “North Sea Giant”, of 153.6 meters long 140 millions have been invested in,

]]> Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 The first floating electric power station built in Spain has the brand of Vigo. Freire sends today to Luanda (Angola’s capital) one of the most ambitious and innovated infrastructure made by the shipyard. It is about a 1.206 meters long steel vessel which is 4 meters high in which there are established a electric power station with enough power to supply energy to a 70.000 inhabitants town.

]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 The Spanish Ocean Graphic Institute (IEO) reached yesterday one of its most pursued aims with the launching of the ocean graphic vessel “Ramón Margalef” in the shipyard Armón – Vigo, which construction begun in the shipyard MCIES and it was delayed because of the bankruptcy of this shipbuilder. In four months the IEO will incorporate to its fleet this new unit that carries one of the most advanced lab of the world, in which systems to observe the bottom of the sea in three dimensions are included. The vessel cost was 18 millions Euros.

]]> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 The shipyard from Vigo MetalShips & Docks, from Rodman’s Group, has closed the contract of a new off-shore vessel for the support to oil platforms for 107 millions Euros. The ship, 135 meters long, has been ordered by the French multinational Technip, a world reference in the off-shore business, with a big fleet and more than 20.000 workers. With this vessel, MetalShips assures its workload until the end of 2012. The vessel is the sixth of a series built in the shipyard. The other vessels were delivered to the companies Bourbon (2) , MacDermott (1), and Technip (1). And recently the construction of a second unit for MacDermott has begun.

]]> Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 The working plan will made their organisers to travel as they go all around the world 3 times. The event is thinking in creating the brand “Galician Naval Sector”, with the aim of being recognized by its own all over the world, and not only through companies that, in a individual way, already has prestige in the market.

]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 The shipyard from Vigo has four displace naval engineers in Houston working in developing the project

]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 The marine investigation vessel is 73 meters long and it has a submarine and a helicopter on board.

]]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 Pescapuerta group’s, company dedicated to fishing, transformation and marketing of frozen sea products which head office is in Vigo, has reached an agreement with VICUS dt for the establishment of iprovement measuremets of the energy efficiency in two of the fishing boats that they have in the South West Atlantic fishing grounds.

]]> Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 The company from Vigo, will deliver in February three launch models to Russian military men establish the instructions

]]> Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 The shipyard confirm that it is about two 205 meters “ferries” for the Armas ship owner and support vessel for the oil platforms for the Mexican multinational Pemex.

]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 The commercial team has sold yet the 34% of the exhibition space more than one year and a half far from the event celebration in Vigo. The most exhibitors that have renovated its presence increase the size of their stands in a 15% to show their products and to meet people.

]]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 The new off-shore vessel will cost araound 100 millions euros and will employ the shipyard during 2012

]]> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 The “Volcán del Teide” which is 178 meters long and 24 meter wide joined the Armas’s fleet

]]> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 The exhibition’s commercial department has met the representatives of the Business Group E.RE.NAV

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 The new vessels will belong to the Joint ventures that already operate in Namibia, the Falkland Islands or Argentina. The total cost financed by the European Investment Bank will be around 120 millions Euros.

]]> Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 The International Shipbuilding Exhibition of Vigo visit this week France and China to participate in two important events. Navalia’s team will visit the MARITIMA exhibition at Paris and the Inmex at Guangzhou.

]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 The Brazilian oil industry size up shipyards from Vigo managers to convince them to participate in the construction of the new Transpetro fleet, which is a maritime transport subsidiary of Petrobras. During the meeting, organized by the Vigo’s Port Authority president, Corina Porro, different lines of collaboration were explained that nowadays are far from the situation of everyone.

]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 Four naval companies from Naron (Indasa, Gabadi, Tecnymo and Electrorayma), jointed in Galictio society, finalize the procedures to make an investment of almost 300 millions Euros to build a new shipyard in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, where the government from Rio de Janeiro is betting for the construction industry recovery.

]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 The shipyard of pneumatic semi rigid vessels Narwhal, which venue is in Mos, have just closed a contract with the Moroccan government to provide them 130 vessels for a total amount of 3 millions Euros. The launches will be destined to the civil protection service of the country and more than the 50% have been already delivered.

]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 The shipyard from Vigo has nowadays in its order list four vessels. First an ocean graphic of 39 meters long for Qatar that was signed in September of last year and that must been delivered in July 2011.

]]> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 Two energy and naval sector managements will promote the Galician companies entrance into the South American country market thanks to the agreements signed with the Chamber of Commerce of Pontevedra Turing the trade mission held this week with the participation of more than 40 Galician brands.

]]> Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 The Asime’s subsidiary negotiates order to carry out through “joint ventures”

]]> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 Navalia’s organizer team, moved this week to Dubai to visit the Seatrade Middle East Maritime exhibition, is back in Vigo with some important news. After check the establishment and business opportunities offered by the Arabian Emirates, responsible people for the International Naval Industry Exhibition from Vigo prepare the visit of a shipyards delegation from this country to our city to know the auxiliary industry.

]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 The first Project stage would mean a 2.000 millions investment

]]> Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 A seismic vessel built in Vigo have been chosen as the most distinguished one in the voting organized by the Asociación y Colegio de Ingenieros Navales y Oceánicos webpage. The WG Columbus was the one with the most of votes between the January the 31st and June the 30th of this year in www.ingenierosnavales.com

]]> Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 The event represents the main entrance platform of Middle East for naval products and services. Navalia’s management team will meet the responsibles of different exhibiting brands as shipyards, ship owners and Offshore Services from Arabian Emirates.

]]> Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 The “Polar Queen”, as the vessel has been named is the second of a series of two units.

]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 Shipyards from Vigo has achieved four of the eleven vessels hired in Spain during the first six months of the year, which means a little improvement with regard the last year numbers, regarding last information of the Naval Sector Management, organism dependent on the Ministry of Industry.

]]> Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 The Spanish Oceanography Institute (IEO) and the shipyard Armón cherish an agreement in order to the company builds in Vigo an ocean graphic vessel of 20 million Euros during next months. In the beginning the ship are going to be built by M. Cies, which situation (bankruptcy proceeding) made unviable to carry out the contract.

]]> Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 Negotiations for this visit were begun the last year with the person responsible for the investments from the Korean Embassy of Spain. South Korea is the country the biggest number of shipyards in the world and they consider Galician industry “Reddy, with a big potential and with capacity to. Negotiations for this visit were begun last year with the person responsible for the investments of the Korean Embassy in Spain. South Korea is the country with the largest number of shipyards in the world and it considers the Galician industry as “ready, with big potential and with a capacity of generate new agreements in other sectors”.

]]> Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 José Francisco González Viñas will visit the event because “Vigo should keep as a reference in the naval sector”. The German appointment is the most important in the world for the sector from its creation in the 60’s, what increase the possibilities of getting more exhibitors and visitors in the event of Vigo in 2012.

]]> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 New 600 millions orders give work to the factories to last themselves until 2012. During last quarter, the Galician private sector has incorporated 6 vessels to its order book which is valued in 1.500 millions.

]]> Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 A company from Vigo heads a pioneering initiative to reduce the sea pollution. The project will have a total cost of 4 millions Euros; the European Union will contribute 2.6 millions to finance it, 1 million of which will fully stay in Galicia, just as it was approved in the announcement of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme.

]]> Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 An report from the classification society DNV emphasizes that this fuel help the disposal of sulphide emissions, reduce a 25% the ones of carbon dioxide and a 90% the ones of nitrous oxide

]]> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 The Pymar’s Interim Committee approves the guarantee charged to the Xunta

]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 During next weeks another one will be signed and all they have to do is to negotiate a financing system

]]> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 It is about a pioneering certificate in Spain to whom around one thousand companies can access

]]> Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 Next Thursday, 15th of July, the launching of the new ferry of the shipping company Armas will carried out, built by Barreras Shipyard and named as “Volcán de Tenerife”, which delivery will be at the end of the year.

]]> Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 The ships will be chartered throughout 20 years to the oil state owned company from Brazil.

]]> Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 Factorías Vulcano presented yesterday in the commercial court number 1 of Oviedo the buying offer of its subsidiary company assets from the group Armón from Navia. The transaction, that will allows to recover shipbuilding in Gijon´s bay, must be authorized first of all by the judge and then by the creditors meeting.

]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 The commercial court gives green Light to the transaction that relies on the approval of the trustee in bankruptcy.

]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 Orders were realized by shipbuilders from Río, Pernambuco and Santa Catarina

]]> Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 The «Marchao 39» is made in aluminium, has electric auxiliary motor and is totally automatic.

]]> Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 APV president, Corina Porro, has received a NAVALIA´s mention for her work leading this institution. The economy and industry Counsellor, Javier Guerra, will close at 18:30 the third edition of this international exhibition.

]]> Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 More than 4.000 visitor companies have been represented during the event looking for new commercial agreements. The exhibition president, José Francisco González Viñas, ensures that before the 1st of august of this year, the Ria´s Shipyards will have new orders.

]]> Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 Caixanova signs an agreement with the Vigo’s University Turing the exhibition in order to give a boost to this initiative.

]]> Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 La organización del evento espera alcanzar en la jornada de mañana las cifras previstas para esta tercera edición. El stand de la Autoridad Portuaria acoge la presentación del proyecto del Puerto de Suape (Brasil) ante la atenta mirada de un nutrido grupo de empresarios del sector.

]]> Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 El titular del Ejecutivo autonómico recorrió las instalaciones del IFEVI para comprobar de primera mano las novedades que presenta en esta edición el sector naval. Alberto Nuñez Feijóo destaca el papel de Vigo como “la proa de Galicia” y recuerda que la ciudad es el primer puerto europeo en toneladas construidas.

]]> Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 La conselleria do Mar, Rosa Quintana, apuesta por “la especialización, la investigación, el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías y la innovación” para tomar “ventaja sobre nuestros competidores”. El embajador de Holanda en España, Jan Alderliesten, se reúne con diversas personalidades del mundo empresarial gallego y afirma que en la construcción de buques “siempre hay espacio para la colaboración”.

]]> Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 The biggest country shipyard is looking for suppliers to build 20 support platforms for Petrobras Oil Company

]]> Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 Vigo’s Mayor and the Exhibition Executive Committee have visited the event assemble, that will open its doors the next Tuesday 18th of May. Mr. Viñas bets on Vigo’s “Image and credentials” as quality guarantee facing future business with national and international companies.

]]> Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 The Vigo and Pontevedra Chambers of Commerce are organising an event that has multiplied number of participants four-fold with respect to the earlier edition

]]> Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 More than 2000 participants will be attending the parallel symposiums that will be organised within the framework of Navalia.

]]> Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 Asime, the Galician Employer's Organisation for the metal sector, will be opening a branch office in Río de Janeiro.

]]> Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 NAVALIA 2010 will be hosting the first edition of this biannual symposium, with 32 well known speakers from 16 countries. The symposium will also be used to officially present the European Fisheries Technology Platform (EFTP).

]]> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 The Rodman Group acquires 100% of Varaderos Pérez Méndez, providing it with an additional 15,000 metres.

]]> Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 The seventh Framework Programme will finance two plans covering noise and vibrations that will include local shipyards. Oceanographic vessels made in the harbour have become an example of the cutting edge in this community sector.

]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 Asime, Galicia’s metal industries association, this week began a trade mission to Russia, where its members will meet with entrepreneurs and representatives from business organisations and institutions. The mission will visit the cities of Saint Petersburg and Moscow. The former holds enormous potential mainly for naval activity but also for car manufacturing and other metal sector activities. This, together with the increasingly open Russian market, makes the city a business opportunity that many companies should bear in mind

]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 The company will take advantage of reduced activity due to a fall in orders to adapt its facilities to larger ships.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 INTERVIEW: Mr. José Francisco González Viñas – President of the Spanish Ship Builders’ Association (Unión Española de Constructores Navales). After the annus horribilis of last year, which saw shipyards sign just five contracts in Galicia, José Francisco González Viñas, President of Barreras and of the Spanish Ship Builders’ Association, faces 2010 in “moderately optimistic” mood. He assures that commercial activity in shipbuilding has slowly been reactivated and trusts that shipyards will begin to clinch the first contracts between now and the summer. “The worst is over,” he says.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 The Astilleros Lagos shipyard is constructing a small, 5.5-metre long, low-consumption wooden craft whose design has been published in the prestigious North American magazine WoodenBoat. Astilleros Lagos, founded in 1915, is devoted to restoration and maintenance of wooden pleasure craft in amongst the large Vigo shipyards.

]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 The National Environment Research Council (NERC) will substitute the current “RSS Discovery” with this ship. The scientific vessel will be the largest ever made in the harbour, at 98m in length and capable of carrying 52 researchers.

]]> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 The firm tries to bring together the various links in the chain (extractive fishing, processing and commercialisation technologies for fishing products) to tackle RTDI areas in fishing. The EFTP has so far been made up of a preliminary Task Force consisting of firms from the sector.

]]> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 The firm works in vessel design improvement and uses I.T. simulation tools. VICUS Desarrollos Tecnológicos (VICUSdt) states that it has achieved positive results in a project it is participating, to find energy savings in surface longlining vessels.

]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 INTERVIEW- Antonio del Corro, Managing Director of the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Spain. Antonio del Corro, was born in Madrid 61 years ago is a lawyer gained a master at the Instituto de Empresa of Madrid (Spain). During 20 years he has managed the Banco Exterior de España y Banesto. He has been administering their subsidiaries in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and United States. He is the current Managing Director of the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Spain.

]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 The director of the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Spain, Antonio del Corro, has explained yesterday to an hundred of businessmen from Pontevedra the industrial and services needs of the South American country.

]]> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 Shottel’s Group (Germany), DNV Global Managing Risk (Norway), Artai and the Instituto Ferial de Vigo (IFEVI) have joined. That’s the first time that this kind of exhibition will count with international companies members, that will reinforce our industry image.

]]> Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 These companies have signed agreements with Rio de Janeiro shipbuilders to supply specialized labor and ship parts.

]]> Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 El oceanográfico, de 73 metros de eslora, lleva a bordo un submarino con capacidad para 6 personas y que puede alcanzar una profundidad de 165 metros. El astillero vigués Paulino Freire ha marcado con su construcción número 700 un hito en la historia naval de la Ría.

]]> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 After two contracting black years Vigo’s shipyards starts being optimistic. Business done by shipbuilding companies from la Ría de Vigo starts to work, according to the sector source.

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 From 25 years ago The Seatrade Cruise Shipping event get together in the American city members of auxiliary industry, ship agents, ship owners and international tourist sector suppliers.

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 During this week NAVALIA management members will travel to Miami to participate in Seatrade Cruise Shipping Exhibition, from 25 years ago this event get together in the American city members of auxiliary industry, ship agents, ship owners and international tourist sector suppliers.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 “It’s been 6 years now of the birth of NAVALIA, and it seems that was yesterday when some businessmen from Vigo thought in organize the exhibition. And how the things have been changed!”. The president of the exhibition Mr. José Francisco González Viñas, who went with Mr. Javier Guerra, Regional Minister of Economy and Industry, Mr. Abel Caballero, Mayor of Vigo, and Mr. José Luis Pego, General Manager of Caixanova, begun with these words the presentation of NAVALIA 2010. Mr. Viñas went over the last 2 editions, that have been increased till achieve very positive numbers.

]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 Next 4th of March the Centro Social Caixanova will receive the presentation of Navalia 2010. The International Exhibition of the naval industry will celebrate this year its third Edition with excellent participation rates, overall if the delicate moment of the world economy is taken into account.

]]> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 Simmepe, Fiepe and Sinaval try to know first hand information about Galician companies. Organizers of the exhibition will prepare also al parallel program that allows these institutions to visit the Port of Vigo installations and the city shipyards.

]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 State of Pernambuco Industrial Federation and the National Shipbuilding and Repair Industry and Offshore of Brazil Association want to collaborate with Galician companies. Exhibition organizers participate in the commercial mission run by the Port Authority of Vigo.

]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 The naval sector from Vigo has embarked on the search and seizure of international Business. Sector businessmen can not resign themselves to not react in view of the fall of orders of the local shipyards. Both shipbuilders and auxiliary industry have focused themselves on Brazil, a country that in 70’s was the second shipbuilder in the world and now is the 7th and that continue rising.

]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 The Danish company Maersk – one of the biggest ship-owners in the world- reopens route with Vigo. Almost four years after having excluded the port of Vigo of an oceanic route with Namibia that ends in Algeciras, the company just announces the re-establishment of the stopover of Vigo in the transcontinental service of frozen fish.

]]> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 The First international Conference on Fishing Vessel Energy Efficiency “E-fishing" on energy efficiency in the fisheries sector, will be held on 18th, 19th and 20th of May in Vigo. This symposium is one of the activities in the framework of the activities of the International Exhibition on Shipbuilding Industry, NAVALIA which in its third edition has ranked among the top five position on the ranking of world exhibitions. It will be the first in a series of biennial meetings conferences where experts from around the world will report on recent advances in research and development in the field of energy conservation in fishing vessels.

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 Galician shipyards just have workload for one year. Assembly dry docks will begin to become empty during 2011, with the progressive deliver of 30 ships that still remain in the order book in which, in the last 12 months, only 7 new contracts have been registered.

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 The company presided by the young businessman José Antonio Silva, participates in a 5.8 million investment in a factory in Dubai that employs 670 people.

]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 Next week NAVALIA organizers will participate in a commercial mission organized by the Authority of the Port of Vigo to Pernambuco (Brazil), a mission in which wind energy, fishing and granite sectors will also participate. The aim of the trip is to present the Port of Vigo as the big entrance door to Europe in the Atlantic coast. The visit apart from being an important promotion platform of the exhibition will be used for Galician companies to reach bilateral agreements with other firms of the country.

]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 The President of the government, Mr. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, will take part in the Honour Committee in the third edition of the International Exhibition of the naval sector, NVALIA 2010. The Presidency Office had confirmed it last week trough a letter sent to the exhibition organizers.

]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 The aim of the meeting, financed by Feder inside Aux-Navalia project, was to promote innovation in Galician naval companies. Distinguished researchers from universities and technological centres from Portugal, United Kingdom and Galicia participated last 26th of January, in Santiago de Compostela, in an international conference organized by ACLUNAGA.

]]> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 Apart from present last technological innovations of the naval sector, the most international exhibition of Vigo will be also a reference for others in order to professionals of the sector exchange knowledge and interest coinciding with NAVALIA. Training is a fundamental pillar for the Galician naval sector, because it is an indispensable tool to guarantee and support the present and future development of the sector.

]]> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 We are getting closer to the opening of NAVALIA 2010 and there are a lot of companies that confirm its presence. On this way, during last days, two very interesting countries for the naval Spanish industry as Cape Town and Brazil, have confirmed its presence in Vigo. Cape Town, a country that since 2008 maintain different agreements with Galician naval companies of the sector, will visit Vigo with a delegation of 10 brands interested in obtain new collaboration agreements. Brazil, is a market with an enormous potential for the Galician metallurgical industry, specially for the metal mechanics and the naval.

]]> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 Distinguished investigators from universities and technological centres from Portugal, United Kingdom and Galicia will participate next 26th of January, in Santiago de Compostela in an international conference organized by the Galician naval cluster (Aclunaga) which aim is to promote innovation in Galician naval companies, and fundamentally in the ones belonged from the auxiliary sector.

]]> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 The container carrier ship registered in Vanuatu ‘Mol Valparaíso’ inaugurates today in the Port of Vigo an new bimonthly regular line, with this line from now on, the consignee Noreste Shipping plans to speed up the connection between South African ports and the port of Vigo.

]]> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 The Galician Shipyard Navantia closed last year turned into the world leader in gas ships repair. During 2009, shipping lines with LNG Carriers fleets decided to carry out maintenance and update tasks in 89 ships, 23 of them made landfall in the piers of the old companies Astano y Bazán. Or that which is the same, one of every 4 GNL carrier ships that had been repaired last year made it in Ferrol.

]]> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 The hundred year old shipyard from Vigo Paulino Freire has opened its frontiers to open an order book that allows them to dodge the sector crisis. During last months managers of the shipyard have been maintaining negotiations with some governments and ship owners from Arab countries, Occidental Africa, and Venezuela. Its offer is focused mainly on oil and oceanographic ships.

]]> Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 The shipyard from Vigo Barreras expects to close “in spring” at least one of the eight negotiations they maintained opened in order to solve “the problem of the order book” suffered by the Galician naval sector nowadays. The president of the company, Mr. José Francisco González Viñas, revealed that negotiations are “very advanced” and they are about “high level negotiations” which are about one hundred million euro.

]]> Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 Armón will study the purchase of Juliana when the voluntary creditor’s meeting of the company from Gijón has been settled, according to sources close to Navia’s shipyard. This company that also has installations in Burela and Vigo, is the favourite one of the Regional Government to avoid the disappearance of the Naval sector of the Gijon’s bay after more than one hundred years of continuous activity.

]]> Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 Navalia had turn into one of the most important International exhibitions of the naval sector, furthermore Navalia organization had established between its aims to work as a lobby in some companies. Because of this, the company just opens a new office in Brazil, country that captures the attention of businessmen because of the important economic potential it houses. This office comes on top of the office Navalia has already in China, which main work is focused in make known the Spanish Naval Sector and to defend its interests out of our frontiers.

]]> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 This is one of the most eagerly awaited data by the organization because it confirms the consolidation of Navalia as an international reference. In a context of economic crisis the exhibition from Vigo will receive the participation of new companies, because to date, 20% of confirmed exhibitors will participate in Navalia for the first time.

]]> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 Factoría Naval de Marin is turning into a world reference in building of classic sailing ships. In August this year delivered to a Scottish ship owner the ship “Elena” of 42 meters long and 1,120 squared meters of sails, designed by the engineer from Vigo, Mr. Iñigo Echenique that based his design on plans of 1911 of the North American architect Mr. Nathanael Harreshoff. .

]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 The three politic groups of the Galician Parliament agree, last December the 28th, to admit to procedure a popular legislative initiative, promoted with the support of 18,600 signs, to promote the naval sector in Galicia and to give back to the shipyard Navantia-Fene the capacity of built civil ships of big size, capacity that the old Astano lost in the 80’s restructuring after Spanish admission in the EU.

]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 Vigo will receive the most important fishing summit during the Spanish presidency of the UE (that will begin on January the 1st), that will gather ministers from the 27 countries of the European Union in the city from 5th to 6th of May 2010. This appointment will be held the previous week of NAVALIA´s celebration, therefore the foresee May agenda proves the International importance of Vigo on subjects related with sea.

]]> Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 The Navalia’s Executive Committee just celebrate the last meeting of the year with very positive results, due to organizers has achieved to sell the 70% of the floor plan within five months before its celebration. The promotion activity of the event had been very intense during the last three months. The 90% of the hiring spaces belong to foreign countries, being Holland and Norway the ones with more squared meters. The manager of Navalia, Mr. Javier Arnau, said that forecast which they are working with “are very ambitious and we expect increase the number of exhibitors in a 40%, at least, with regard Navalia’s last edition” that will mean the presence of 500 companies.

]]> Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 Spanish Fishing Confederation (Cepesca) and the insurance company ARTAI had signed this morning a collaboration agreement in which ARTAI has turn into the insure adviser of Cepesca in subjects as hulls, RC, P&I, accidents and crews, and will create specific products for each subject in very competitive conditions.

]]> Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 The Port of Vigo will cede to the shipyard 200 meters docking on the repair pier of to finnish the ship, which construction begun in Portugal.

]]> Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 This is the last promotion activity of the year, but also one of the most important because of its aim. The Navalia’s technical team will arrive this night, Spanish time, in Shanghai to participate in Marintec, the biggest and most important exhibition of the naval industry in China, because of its dimensions and its represented sectors extent; it had been celebrated since 1981.

]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Barreras and Cardama joins with Factorías Vulcano, Metalships, Polyships, Armón y Freire to be part of the delegation that will go to Moscow in November

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Researchers from the campus and the Wireless Galicia and Quobis companies apply the WiMAX broadband technology to the coastal environment.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 During this visit a collaboration agreement will be signed with Holland Marine Equipment association.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Next week the manager of the Vigo’s contest will meet with the seven main Korean auxiliary industry suppliers and with the Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA)

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Factoría Naval de Marín tries out in the ría (of Vigo) a "supply" that will work in platforms of the Sea of the north.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 The slow exit of the crisis of Factorias Juliana, a legendary shipyard from Gijón.

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]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 Navalia 2010 will take place from 18th al 20 th of May and hopes to beat all the registries of a naval exhibition celebrated in Spain, with more than 25,000 professional visitors and 35,000 square meters of exhibition. After the success of the second edition celebrated form 20th to 22nd of May of the present year and taking into account the great repercussion at international level of the Galician naval industry (lider in productive capacity in Europe), the organizers of Navalia already works in the their third edition with the objective to position the exhibition between the 3 first fairs of the world. With 20,000 expository visitors and 400 companies in 2008 all together with a shipyards with orders until the 2013, Navalia will become his third edition in the world-wide meeting point for the naval industry.

]]> Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 A ship of 160 meters long and 30 meters beam which will search industrial application metals as copper, titanium, iridium or silver. Up to now transformed crafts have been used for prospecting, but never a specific project for the finding of this metals had been developed. Barreras obtained the construction after submit an offer competing against the best shipyards in the world. The shipping company “Un sea Shipping”, consortium composed of American, Autralian and Norwegian companies, chose the project presented by the president of the Vigo’s shipyard, José Francisco González Viñas. The investment of the search of metals ship, which construction begun the last month of October and which will be delivered at the end of 2011, is of 280 million euro, that turn this ship into the most expensive ship built in the Vigo’s ria in the last years. Further more it cost twice the one with the record, a hotel ship to support oil rig that is buiding in Barreras and valued at 150 million euro.

]]> Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 The company Ronáutica Yacht & Renovables has built a ship propel by renewable energy. The ECO 340 has an electric motor which works with battery and three generators. The batteries are supported by the wind, the solar and the oil generator. The last one would be used only in emergencies. Furthermore the ship can refill the batteries at the harbour. The RO 340 ECO is the first sail boat propel by an electric motor which works basically with renewable energies. The ship had been successfully presented in the Naval Exhibition of Barcelona. Hundreds of schoolchild had visited the vessel in order to learn how it works. The craft, which is being built in the shipyard that the company has in Tui ( Pontevedra), is developed by the Ronáutica R+D department that achieve a high technological ship that cause the lowest possible aggression to the environment. It seems externally like a similar boat in terms of seaworthiness, but it works with renewable energies which reduces the consumption and the maintenance costs. The ship is more safety because the new electric motor can stop immediately in case of man overboard.

]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 The Regional Fishing Ministry confirms that 151 vessels of the Galician fishing fleet have asked for incentives for break up or for the definitively stop. There will be the first subsidies that will be charged against the European Fund of Fishing 2008 – 2013, which is the substitute of the previous IFOP. The Regional Fishing Ministry has this year a credit of more than fourteen million euro. In order to get the granting of these subsidies, the government demands to the ships to be on active service, to have at least 10 years of seniority, to be up to date with the fiscal payments and to be included in national plans of dismantle or in recovery plans of certain resorts such as hake form north and south, crawfish or fletan. Furthermore they must confirm an activity of at least 90 days of fishing in every two previous periods of twelve months before they ask for the subsidies. The amount of the incentive are 11.500 euro for each GT (tonnage) plus a fixed amount of 2.600 euro for the ships of less than 100 GTs, and 1.250 euro per GT plus a fixed amount of 926.000 euro for ships of more than 500 GTs (Source: Faro de Vigo).

]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 Navalia went as an exhibitor to one of the most important exhibitions of the naval sector worldwide, held in the German city of Hamburg. Meetings with the international delegations of Croatia, USA or Russia and collaboration agreements with brokers all over the world are some of the success of the participation of Navalia in SMM Hamburg, the biggest meeting point of the naval sector in the world. In a changing environment, the Galician naval sector image turned out better from an event in which the professionals from all over the world are looking for shipyards and high quality auxiliary industry, two features that our companies had been demonstrated during the last years.

]]> Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 Naviera de Galicia S.A. (Navifasa) negotiate with a shipyard the construction of 4 freight ships. Its market value would be of 62 million euro and they are expected to be finished at 2012. The president of the company, Dario Amor, make this expectation public in the launching of the multi purpose ship Finita R, built by the shipyard Armon in Vigo for Navigasa, it costs 23 million euro. “The ships that will be joined Navigasa fleet will be multi purpose freighters which will be dedicated to the transport of strong goods, with a planner cargo capacity of 1,000 tons. Amor declared that the decision of purchase four new ships belong to the forecast of the expanding plan of the company, that includes trade diversification and the increase of the fleet.

]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 Miguel Pardo Bustillo had been elected as the president of the Clúster Marítimo Espàñol (CME), an association that, in its second year of life, has 43 members from naval industry, shipyards, engineering, auxiliary industry and institutions related with the sea from a technological, scientific or financial point of view. Between this companies is Navalia. International Shipbulilding Exhibition which will be held from the 18th to the 20th of may 2010 in Vigo.

]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 The order is for a North American Norwegian company and it is anticipated that it will be ready in 2010. This unit its the first world-wide prototype of this class and has a budget of about 250 million euros

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 The shipyard MCíes will construct a ferry for the municipal government of Landskrona, in Sweden, the one that will suppose for the company to introduce it in a new industrial segment. The ferry will have capacity for 394 passengers, 13 cars, 2 trucks of 26 tons and other articulated.

]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 The oil industry monopolizes more of a third of the orders at the sector. The awardings of new contracts that continue arriving at the Galician shipyards guarantee service load and stability in the sector until at least the 2016. For that year it is giving to time Barreras, who of to end of year will add here to their portfolio four new seismic vessels for the amount of 400 million euros. Without including this amount, in negotiation process, the investment contracted in the factories of Vigo and Ferrol until that date add the number record of 7,030 million euros.

]]> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 The production and work in the Galician naval sector are guaranteed for next the eight years and now it demands skilled labor

]]> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 The Venezuelan Navy adjudges to Vulcano three oceanographic and two seismic ones to look for petroleum: five boats, to construct in two years, that could surpass the 200 million euros.

]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 In total it will construct four similar boats by a value of to 400 million

]]> Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 Vulcano factories negotiate at this moment the possibility of obtaining up to 11 contracts of different ships with shipping companies, the one that would allow Vulcano and to its branch of Gijón, Factories Juliana, of maintaining its work until 2014.

]]> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 The shipyard has orders in its books for 17 vessels worth some 1,800 million euros. In the three days from 3 to 5 June, Astillero Barreras launched two very different ships: a seismic vessel to be used for petrol exploration and a ferry.

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]]> Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 A couple months before its opening on the 20th of May, Navalia already has filled up the space of the on the Pavilion 1 and 2 and part f the third pavilion of the Ifevi, Vigo’s Fairground Institute

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]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 The second edition of NAVALIA, INTERNATIONAL SHIPBUILDING AND MARITIME INDUSTRY EXHIBITION, will take place between the 20th and the 22nd of May. Vigo will be the venue for the International Shipbuilding and Maritime Exhibition, in which companies from 50 countries will take part

]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 The Fishing and Maritime Affairs Office congratulates the organisation for carrying out a project with a great significance for the Galician shipbuilding and fishing sectors

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]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 The official presentation of Navalia International Shipbuilding and Maritime Industry Exhibition II Second Edition will be held next Monday, the 25th of February

]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 Carmen Gallego will chair the Navalia Executive Committee Meeting showing by this their support to Navalia´s Second Edition

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]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 A wide range of publicity and sponsorship options are available at the fair

]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 Navantia puts the losses registered in 2007 behind it, posting record levels of productivity and shipyard occupancy

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]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 Factorias Vulcano have finally decided to build the new tanker at their Vigo shipyards and no, as expected, at Gijón (Factorias Juliana). The vessel in question is a seismic survey boat designed to detect pockets of oil beneath the ocean floor.

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]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 Navalia five months before its opening

]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008!

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 The shipbuilding industry at the seven shipyards of the Vigo Ría and Factoría Naval Marín is living the best moment of its history, as it can be demonstrated by the fact that these workplaces, gather in the Galician Naval Cluster Association (Aclunaga, Spanish acronym), currently have an order book signed for a total of 78 ships, of all types, which will be built by 2012, and that will cost more than 3.500 million euros.

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]]> Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 Abel Caballero and Santiago Domínguez Had a Meeting with the Board of Directors of Navalia

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]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 The Board of Directors of Navalia, the II International Shipbuilding and Maritime Industry Exhibition of Vigo has a meeting with Helena Veiguela

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]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 Plans by Acciona Transmediterránea for the seaway project to run seven routes weekly from Vigo harbour were announced by the company’s president, Juan Sáez to the Regional Minister for Territorial Policy, María José Caride, at an interview held to analyse the Atlantic project to connect Spain and France by waterway.

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]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 Dragados Offshore has been awarded a 220 million euro contract –the largest in the company’s history- which will provide jobs to roughly one thousand people at the shipbuilding site located in Puerto Real (Cádiz) until the end of 2009. This subsidiary of ACS will construct the first oil drilling, processing and storage ship in the world.

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]]> Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 At the end of the first quarter of 2007 the order book of Spanish small and medium-sized shipbuilders stood at 129 orders for vessels, totalling 783.272 CGT, data which makes it possible to forecast a continued growth in activity in the sector in the medium term, as reported yesterday by Pymar.

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]]> Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:00:00 The Fair organisers will visit the Ship Repair and Conversion Fair 2007 in London, Europort Maritime in Rotterdam and Marintec in Shangai

]]> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 The Regional Ministry for Innovation and Industry will sign a collaboration agreement with Pymar (Small and Medium-sized Shipbuilders undergoing Restructuring)

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]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 This month, 24 passenger ships with more than 40,000 holidaymakers and 15,000 crew visited the city.

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]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 China is now the greatest world ship manufacturer per number of orders, taking over from South Korea according to figures for the first half of the year 2007, in which its orders increased by 165%, as quoted in the Chinese press.

]]> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 The shipping company Navigasa is to order two more multi-use cargo ships from the Armón shipyard in Vigo, to be ready in 2010 and which will be similar to the “Manuela E”, handed over yesterday during an act attended by some 150 people, including the businessman Fernando Fernández Tapias, who has been a shareholder in the company since last November, in the Beiramar installations.

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]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The sector manufactures alone more than France, Finland, and Denmark together The contracts with Norway launch Spain to the third position in the European ranking on number of ships ordered

]]> Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The high demand from most of the main shipping lines worldwide (Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping, Kline, and Nippon Yusen, in container ships; National Iranian Tankers, in oil tankers, and Royal Caribbean, in ocean liners) is causing a marked upward trend on the prices of new works.

]]> Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The University of Vigo, Anfaco, and Company Baliño are part of a Technological Consortium coordinated by the Innovamar Foundation.

]]> Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The Vigo shipyard has already contracts with a French firm for building four tugs.

]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The Ministry of Industry gave a step forward to get involved in the reindustrialization of the city of Ferrol area, after announcing that a representative of the central government will join officially the Comprehensive Plan designed by Xunta of Galicia for relaunching the economy from Ferrol, Eume, and Ortegal during the four-year period, 2007-2011.

]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The presence of foreigners in naval subcontracting companies of the Ria de Vigo already reaches a 5% of the employment.

]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The Xunta abstains from the agreement, because is waiting until the affected groups that were not represented at the Madrid meeting make their statement.

]]> Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The pilot project sponsored by Galician Ports will mean an investment of 2.1 million euros and 100 berths.

]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The Norwegian shipping line Esvagt, from the Maersk group, signed a contract for building platform standby ships.

]]> Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 According to experts from the sector, the Galician naval industry is living the sweetest moment of the last 20 years. The most optimistic assure that this type of stage can not be remembered since 30 years ago. The work overload of the large Asian shipyards and the large demand of ships for travelling on the sea expressways have brought in the Vigo and Ferrol rias a number of orders that already surpasses fifty, until 2012, and with a cost of 5,945 million euros.

]]> Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 The order book of the shipyard is already complete until 2012 with contacts for building 12 new ships

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]]> Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 Navalia promoted itself at the Burela exhibition in May, presenting its internationalization project for the 2008 edition, at which the attendance of more than 200 exhibitors is expected.

]]> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 Factoría Naval Marín (FMN) will enter this year on the select list of the five mayor manufactures of luxury ships worldwide, this sophisticated machines, own by millionaires and strong industrial groups, have a length always larger than 35 meters long.

]]> Sun, 27 May 2007 00:00:00 A year before the exhibition Natalia almost has 120 exhibitors

]]> Fri, 25 May 2007 00:00:00 The Roald Amundsen – named so in memory of the first Norwegian explorer who stepped on the South Pole- has available the combat system Aegis, carried by a small group of navies of the world, among them the Spanish.

]]> Tue, 22 May 2007 00:00:00 The Puerto de Vigo continues attracting supporters to fulfil its objective of becoming the first sea highway between Spain and France.

]]> Tue, 22 May 2007 00:00:00 José Ramón Fuertes, Managing Director of the ARVI (Vigo Ship Owners Association) has confirmed said promotion yesterday and underlined that “is important and interesting for the sector to invest on R+D+I, the Vigo Ship Owners Association is committed to do so since a few years ago.”

]]> Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 The company located in Vigo is now an officially approved NATO provider and, is manufacturing machinery for the new Spanish aircraft carrier, the “Juan Carlos I”.

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 The Commissioner responsible for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Joe Borg, says so in a parliamentary answer after the complaints regarding the fleets that do not fulfil the rules and have access to the Community market in the same conditions as European companies.

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 The businesses belonging to the naval repair centre situated in Vigo continue being interested in using the installations of the ship-builder, Metalships

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 M - Cies will deliver in May a luxury 43 metre yacht built from steel and aluminium. The Vigo ship-builder M – Cies will finalise in a little more than a month the construction of the first mega-yacht designed and built entirely in Spain.

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 Metalships launches the first one of 122 metres, the largest in the history of the shipbuilder

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 Coinciding with the International Institute of Welding, a technical-scientific meeting, at which the major experts in this field are attending, will be held in Vigo in the middle of April

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 The Galician Metallurgical Association will support Navalia in its diffusion amongst its associates

]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 A tremendous advantage as it gives contact with the National Association of Turkish Naval Constructors, the main association of ship owners in the Eastern Mediterranean

]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 Galician Shipments have established a transport service between China and Spain.

]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 Amongst the various activities provided by Aclunaga, the “Second International Conference” will be taking place in Vigo, with the aim of establishing a focal point for debate about the sectors’ position

]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 The organization from the Vigo International Shipbuilding Exhibition expects to keep in contact with the main European shipyards and vessel owners

]]> Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 The Rodas Beach has reached the top out of the ten selected by the English newspaper The Guardian

]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 The ship has capacity for 1,350 containers, is the third one of a four series for Grupo Odiel

]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 Navalia will be introduced to the Basque Country naval sector in Sinaval-Eurofishing 2007

]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 The construction, which is on the project stage, will start at the beginning of next summer

]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 We are talking about a submarine mountain known as “Banco de Galicia”, which is located 120 miles away from the Atlantic coast, in front of the Corrubedo coast more or less

]]> Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 The organization of Navalia, the international shipbuilding and maritime industry exhibition, continues with their international promotion plan, attending with their own stand to the Sinnaval show to be held in Bilbao from the 24th until the 27th of January

]]> Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 Navigasa ordered two new vessels which mean a 23 million euros investment

]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 Freire Shipyard subcontracted 280 workers to meet their activity until the end of 2008

]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 The Portuguese ship, consigned by Pérez y Cía, will return to Vigo the upcoming 1st of February and two more times during the year.

]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 Fundivisa starts the furnace ignition and 90% of the production will be exported.

]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 The oceanographic vessel, which is 70,50 meters long and hasa15,50 meters beam, is one of the most advanced ones at its level in the marine research area

]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 Navalia and Aclunaga will promote themselves together through their internet webs

]]> Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:00:00 Daimon Naval, directed by Spanish industrial Pablo Comesaña, bought the Shipyard Factoría Naval Marín and Shipyard Marín

]]> Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 The administration committee displayed the new society to the Autonomy Council of Innovation

]]> Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 Vigo’s International Naval Fair has already confirmed the assistance of 100 brands that will be present in the show, which guaranties the success of the event in 2008.

]]> Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:00:00 Vicalsa will readapt Piñeiros installations in order to start to work in 2007

]]> Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 The sector will create a new infrastructure involving 4 floating dry docks in Bouzas. It will be managed by a privately owned society involving 45 shipyards and auxiliary companies

]]> Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 Representatives of the Navalia exhibition, the most important naval show in Spain, began in Hamburg a world tour to attract investors and observers of the sector to Galicia for the next edition of the exhibition

]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 After the success reached during our debut, in 2006; with more than 200 exhibitors coming from more than 30 countries, displayed over more than 25.000 m² of exhibition floor, and with the presence of more than 8.000 professionals of the sector, we look forward to face up the challenge of improving these results.

]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 The maritime conference system, which organizes since more than a century ago the sea cargo transportation worldwide, is living on borrowed time in Europe. The EU plans so, determined to cut the privileges that some shipping companies have for setting prices, limit the offer, and operate on the fringes of the free market criteria that the Union Treaty enforces.

]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 This month the 1.653 structure build by the shipyard was launched, the ferry Volcán Tamadaba built for Naviera Armas, which meant an investment of 90 million euros. This is the fifth unit out of a series of eight ordered by the Canary Islands ship-owner, so three more must be built to finish the contract. The keel of the next ferry-the six one- would be placed on next week.

]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 During the forthcoming weeks the purchase of the shipyard Factoría Naval de Marín, in the Pontevedra Ria, will be close. Said shipyard will be used for the production of steel hull luxury yachts

]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 Spain will have, in a period no longer that two years and a half, the first school-vessel for teaching international fishing studies. The main goal of this vessel is to teach technical education wherever the central Government has firm intention of opening a channel to negotiate a catching quota in third country waters, sharing in exchange their technology and knowledge about fishing and naval science

]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 The Sea Technological Center [Cetmar (Spanish abbreviation)] concludes in a preliminary report sent to the Xunta of Galicia (Autonomous Government of Galicia) and to the Ministry of Education and Science, that the key elements of the Sea City must be committed to Research Development and Innovation [I+D+i (Spanish abbreviation)] projects and to configure definitively the naval base for Spanish oceanographic vessels.

]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 The Vigo Ria held during the past days an economic symposium organized by the Financial Club Vigo, which highlighted the importance of the fishing sector and its subsidiary sectors to yield wealth. The person responsible of the fishing port O Berbés and executive of the Port Authority of Vigo, Carlos Losada, remarked that in addition to the 11.000 direct jobs there are almost 60.00 people who have a job indirectly connected with the sector; they live on an income generated from this primary activity working on trading, transportation, or repairs

]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 Few days after the Xunta of Galicia opened the registration, about fifty companies have already book a space in the future dry port of Salvaterra, where a logistic and industrial platform would be built on a space near four thousand square meters.

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