General News 13-18 – Page 626
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ShipServ and Seavantage join forces
ShipServ and Seavantage say that by joining forces they have created a $250 million ship supply market with a 250,000 purchase order potential in the ship supply management sector. The new company will keep the ShipServ name. ShipServ is active in Scandinavia and the UK, while Seavantage has its customer ...
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Northrop Grumman to supply new US Navy destroyers
Northrop Grumman has won a contract from Bath Iron Works to supply commercial-off-the-shelf surface search radars for new Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) Class destroyers. It will supply the Decca BridgeMaster E naval radars for the next 19 ships in the class, replacing the SPS-64 radars installed on the earlier DDG ...
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Saville Marine goes on-line
Saville Marine, suppliers of marine equipment, diesel engine spare parts and marine services has launched a new web site at www.savillemarine.co.uk. The company?s products include air compressors, deck machinery, steering gear, valves, eductors, incinerators and generators. The site gives details of the company?s major franchises such as Hatlapa, Atlas, Bolaco, ...
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Stena Line fleet gets satellite systems
Stena Line has entered a five-year deal with Telenor for satellite communication for around 30 vessels in the company?s fleet. Stena Line says the deal will allow it to provide improved service for passengers including e-mail, Internet and telephony services as well as gaining access to the company?s booking system. ...
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Strategic launches new vessel operations system
Shipbroking systems supplier, Strategic Software, has launched VesselOps 1.0, an integrated vessel operations and voyage management system. The system was developed in co-operation with the Armada Group, the panamax bulk carrier owner and operator, who developed the Armada Shipping System in the 1980s. An integration module to standard finance and ...
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Second Taiwanese port order for Transas
Transas Marine Pacific, in co-operation with its Taiwanese agent, Seven Seas Electronic, has received an order for another vessel traffic service (VTS) system in Taiwan, following the company?s installation of a Navi-Traffic system in the Port of Keelung in 1997. The system is for Ho-Ping, a private port on the ...
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On-line exchange up and running
LevelSeas has announced that shipping services group Clarksons has joined its on-line trading exchange LSX following the launch of version 2.0 of the exchange. The new site allows charterers, owners or brokers to negotiate and fix vessels online. LevelSeas has also announced the launch of LSOps 1.0, a new ship ...
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KMSS wins Canadian Navy contract
The Canadian Navy has awarded Kongsberg Maritime Ship Systems (KMSS) a $1.75m contract to supply 63 navigational part task trainers to Naval Reserve and regular force units across Canada. The contract will provide field deployable simulators to give ship officers the ability to undertake self study in ship handling and ...
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Dredging packages from De Groot Nijkerk
IHC Holland may be the Netherlands? best known dredger builder, but several other smaller concerns - such as De Groot Nijkerk, part of the Damen group of companies - are also highly successful, and innovative in their own right. Among De Groot Nijkerk?s latest projects is a bucket dredger that ...
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The incredible bulk
Bulk carrier design rarely warrants more than a passing mention. The ships are often seen as little more than strengthened barges with engines. And clichés like "sausage factory", are commonly used to describe the production line of yards building them. But nobody could level such accusations at Gypsum Transportation?s new ...
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The incredible bulk
Bulk carrier design rarely warrants more than a passing mention. The ships are often seen as little more than strengthened barges with engines. And clichés such as "sausage factory" are commonly used to describe the production line of yards building them. But nobody could level such accusations at Gypsum Transportation?s ...
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Europort time again
Europort ? to be held at Amsterdam?s RAI centre from November 13 to 17 ? will this year feature more than 550 exhibitors representing just about every aspect of sea transport and technology. A dozen national pavilions ? from Belgium, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom, Austria, the United States, South ...
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Speed to the front line
With a draught of under 4m and ramping facilities for discharging armoured wheeled and tracked vehicles at virtually any cove or inlet, high speed catamarans can claim a logistical advantage that is not available to conventional amphibious craft. Military personnel are projected closer to the combat theatre and much-needed supplies ...
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Transas to upgrade US Coast Guard PISCES
Transas is to co-operate with Precision Planning and Simulation of the United States, on the enhancement of the US Coast Guard Potential Incident Simulation and Control Evaluation System (PISCES). PISCES was developed and commissioned by Transas for the US Coast Guard in 1998 and is currently used for exercises at ...
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German M?ller yard delivers its largest boxes
A.P. M?ller-owned shipyard Volkswerft Stralsund is building a series of four 2,833 TEU container vessels for operation by sister company Maersk Sealand. The second unit of the VWS 2900 design was christened Jens Maersk on August 14. Maersk Sealand has employed the first unit Jeppesen Maersk on its northern Europe ...
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Good structure
Will doubling up prevail on future tanker designs? The situation already exists where new tankers require a double hull in order to improve their safety margins. But the majority of tankers still only have a single propulsion system. In the event of a failure anywhere in the propulsion train, they ...
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Internet class verification
Bureau Veritas has launched an extension to its Veristar system allowing clients to track classification of their newbuilding projects in real time using the Internet. Brittany Ferries is using a pilot version of the system on Mont St Michel, now being built at van der Giessen- de Noord shipyard in ...
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MAN-branded Pielstick models
Technology is leaping across the divide between MAN B&W Diesel?s various operating subsidiaries. The most recent example is the SEMT Pielstick developed PC2.6B, which MAN B&W is now selling as its own-branded V40/50 engine. Jean-Fran?ois Chapuy, sales manager for SEMT Pielstick at its Paris office, says the V40/50 combines the ...
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Viking interest in more HAM
Viking Line, whose ferry Mariella now has a Munters/SEMT Pielstick humid air motor on each of its four main engines, has expressed interest in humid air motors for another of its ferries according to Pielstick. Pielstick adds that the sums add up in favour of the humid air motor if ...
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Shaft alignment science
Bureau Veritas is drawing on past experience to offer a shaft alignment service to large-vessel owners. The service comes outside the normal scope of class. It has already been utilised on newbuildings for Hellespont, Hapag Lloyd, CMA CGM, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company and Kristen Navigation. The service has been re-launched ...
