General News 13-18 – Page 634
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American Eagle takes satellite update service
American Eagle Tankers, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, has signed up with ChartCo?s ChartManager satellite chart update service. Trials began last summer on the Eagle Corona following which the company decided to fit out the rest of its fleet and ordered a further 19 installations. The ships are ...
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QM 2 gets Kelvin Hughes system
Cunard is to install a Kelvin Hughes fully integrated bridge system onboard Queen Mary 2. The company will supply a flat screen bridge system comprising eight screens from which the vessel?s navigation systems, radars, dynamic positioning system and engine monitoring can be controlled. Contact: Ron Nailer Fax: +44 20 8500 ...
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E-mail via Inmarsat-C
Thrane & Thrane has introduced a Windows based application providing e-mail functionality for maritime and land mobile products via Inmarsat-C. Called eCMail, the company says it will work with its existing TT-3022C land mobile transceivers, TT-3022D fishery transceivers as well as its future non-Solas Inmarsat-C Capsat products. The new software ...
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Litton wins major orders
Litton Marine Systems is to supply integrated bridge systems for seven 27,000g bulk/container carriers under construction at Gdynia Shipyard for Westwood Shipping Company. Deliveries are set for 2002-2003. There is also an option for one additional ship. Each vessel will receive a complete Litton Pilot Series integrated bridge with DNV ...
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Growing order book for Marine Software
Marine Software has supplied Marine Planned Maintenance for Windows to Byron Marine for MV Dorada, the Falkland Islands Fishery Protection vessel. Marine Software carried out a skeleton setup of the planned maintenance database creating a planned maintenance (PM) JobCard for each item on the master survey list. Byron?s own staff ...
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MCA launches NAVTEX service
The Maritime Coastguard Agency has announced a new NAVTEX service for broadcasting safety information, which will initially provide inshore waters weather forecasts. These will cover 16 stretches of coastline around the UK up to 12 miles out and be broadcast twice a day. The forecasts will also give a three-day ...
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Video-based first aid course
The Maritime Medical Emergencies Joint Venture has released a video-based first aid training course called Onboard First Aid: Immediate Actions. Parts one and two of the three-tape set feature medical professionals portraying shipboard personnel as they demonstrate the immediate actions required for stabilising the condition of an ill or injured ...
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A day in the life of a surveyor
The whole system of class surveys has in recent years come under scrutiny as a result of a number of high profile incidents. This has fuelled controversy about the role and responsibilities of class societies. In particular, attention has focused on the quality and comprehensiveness of surveys carried out by ...
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Volvo?s Cushyfloat
Volvo Penta has specified Trelleborg?s high-thrust (FIT) Cushyfloat engine mounts as standard fittings for its D12 range of diesel engines. Trelleborg has developed a high thrust version of its Cushyfloat mount and four will be fitted per engine.
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Schottel celebrates
Schottel has received a repeat order from Swedish shipowner Rederi AB Donsotank to supply a second unit of its Siemens Schottel Propulsor (SSP) podded propulsion system. The order is worth around $5m and the twin propeller SSP 7 (5.1MW) will be fitted to a new chemical products tanker being built ...
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MHI starts UEC-LSE
Mitsubishi Heavy Engineering (MHI) recently delivered the first marine version of its UEC-LSE series two-stroke diesel engine. It was manufactured at the Nagasaki factory of Kobe Diesel. The delivery was the first of four 10,230 kW 6UEC52LSE engines ordered for installation in a four-ship series of 1,100 TEU boxships being ...
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Superconductor wiring
American Superconductor has built and demonstrated its first 3,680kW (5,000hp) high temperature superconductor (HTS) electric motor. The HTS motor is designed to reduce manufacturing costs by up to 40% and is as little as half the size and weight of a conventional electric motor, says American Superconductor. The HTS wiring ...
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Namura develops NCF
Namura Shipbuilding in Japan recently unveiled its new energy saving development in ship propulsion, the Namura flow control fin (NCF). It claims this can save between 2-5% of energy. The company has developed NCF devices for five of its standardised ship designs. The device consists of a slender pair of ...
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Croatians rebuild Onassis? Christina
Croatian-shipyard Viktor Lenac has completed a virtual rebuild of Aristotle Onassis? former private yacht Christina O. It has replaced 600t of steel and 12t of aluminium on the 1943-built vessel. It has also carried out 140t of pipe replacement and 85km of electrical cable laying in a contract placed with ...
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Incat converts 050 for US Army
Incat Australia?s newly commissioned dry dock has made its debut with groundbreaking work to refit Incat 050 as a Theatre Logistics Vessel for the US Military. Formerly known as Top Cat, the November 1998-launched vessel has already proven itself at sea with a 100% reliability rating for the three times ...
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Oil price prompts FPSO rise
The sustained high price of oil has prompted upbeat attitudes from oil companies towards offshore oil production, as marginal fields become more viable. In response to this, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has predicted a boom in oil construction facilities in the next five years. This could, in turn, trigger a ...
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New Panamax tanker design from HZC
Hitachi Zosen (HZC) has unveiled a new Panamax tanker design. It enables a cargo of 510,000 bbls to be crammed into 12 tanks. The 70,000 dwt double hull tanker is 219m long and has a maximum Panamax beam of 32.2m. The new design achieves flexible cargo handling through double valve ...
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MES e-intelligent water tank
The Japanese shipbuilder Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding (MES) has delivered an unusual ?newbuilding? in the shape of an environment-intelligent water test tank. This state-of-the-art tank was delivered to Japan?s Port and Airport Research Institute (PARI). The tank recreates a virtual reality scenario involving the three elements of wave, current and ...
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Rolling from the Stones
JJ Sietas Schiffswerft has delivered its first self-discharging bulk carriers. The 28,000 dwt Stones and Kvitnes were handed over to German company Mibau, which extracts and transports aggregate for building purposes. The flexibility of the newbuildings, which can operate independently from port handling equipment, is achieved by use of a ...
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Double joy for Izar
Izar has won two newbuilding contracts. One, from Belgian company Exmar Offshore, calls for the construction of a 900,000 bbls FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading) unit. The other, from Chilean company Ultragas Internacional, involves building a double hulled 22,700m3 oil product chemical tanker. The FPSO has a huge storage ...
