General News 13-18 – Page 635
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United States looks to gas power
Natural gas propulsion could soon take-off in the US. The San Francisco Bay Water Transit Authority has launched an environmental impact study into the operation of fast ferries on the bay, which includes evaluation of alternative fuels and alternative propulsion. And next month, the US Maritime Administration will commence a ...
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Solar Sailor close to HK contract
Solar energy ship designer Advanced Technology Watercraft (ATW) is close to signing a contract with a Hong Kong ferry operator for two of its innovative solar and wind powered ferries.
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Berge Danuta takes new heat exchangers to sea
Bergesen has taken delivery of the first of a pair of gas carriers fitted with a reliquefaction plant utilising plate-type heat exchangers. With an established reputation for a high quality, well-maintained fleet of vessels, and experienced sea-going and shore-based staff, Bergesen is well known for `quality tonnage`, and for technical ...
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Striving for higher separation efficiency
The main aim of centrifugal separators is to remove fuel contaminants - notably water, catalyst fines, abrasive grit and sodium from seawater - which can cause excessive wear when burned in the engine. Judgements on the suitability of a fuel treatment system should not therefore be based on the amount ...
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Bibby Line orders first LGP ship from Korea
Bibby Line`s latest fully refrigerated LPG tanker features technically advanced cargo refrigeration plant, and is to be built in Korea. Having been involved in LPG shipping since the late 60`s, and in that time having owned just about every size and type of gas ship, Bibby Line`s fleet is now ...
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Keeping in touch
P&O Cruises` passengers need no longer abandon their mobile phones on the quayside. A new ship-borne mobile phone system, Cruise Connect, from British Telecom Aeronautical and Maritime (BT A&M) - recently acquired by Stratos Global - will allow P&O Cruise passengers to use their mobile phones on board ship exactly ...
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Certificates for sale
A set of four basic STCW certificates and a seaman`s book for can be bought for $75 on the streets of a major seafarer supplying country. A researcher for Cardiff University`s Seafarers International Research Centre actually purchased the items. What is even more shocking says the centre`s director, Professor Tony ...
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Spain bets on rise in tanker demand
Spain`s state-owned shipbuilder is staking its future on rising world demand for modern gas and oil tankers and its ability to find benefits in marrying naval and civil shipbuilding technologies. Izar - pronounced "ithar" and meaning "to hoist" in Spanish - was created late last year with the acquisition by ...
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Countering the piracy threat
Four Australian ex-Special Air Services officers have combined their experience to combat rising piracy attacks in Asian waters. Osprey and Asset Management (OAM) partners David Harper, Peter Towndrow, Bob Hunter and John Gartner have devised an anti-piracy battle plan that draws on 90 years of collective experience in military and ...
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Incat into the US
Incat`s recently sealed joint venture with Bollinger Shipyards is primarily focused on the US military market, but the company sees strong commercial potential too. "As the military craft design is based on its commercial counterpart it is reasonable to expect added interest from the commercial market," explains Robert Clifford, chairman ...
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EPA to regulate emissions
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to introduce ship emission regulations by 2003. The regulations will seek to impose limits on nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from large marine engines, and are the result of the recent settlement of a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund on behalf ...
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Millennium gremlins strike again
An electric motor operating a Mermaid pod on Celebrity Cruises` Millennium has suffered a breakage in a pole connection. Repairs were affected as soon as the rupture was discovered meaning no voyages were cancelled. However the work hasn`t fully cured the problem leaving Celebrity with an under-performing ship whose attainable ...
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Cyber-Erection at Daewoo
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co has initiated use of Cyber-Erection, its new 3D digital measuring and simulation program. It says the technology enabled greater precision when it was used for the first time last November to help join the heavy fore and aft sections of a 75,000 dwt bulk ...
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Second apartment ship ordered
ResidenSea has placed a NOK2.5 billion ($287 million) order with Norway`s Fosen Mek Verksteder for a second apartment cruise ship. Delivery is planned for the end of 2003. At 50,000GT it is slightly larger than the first ship, The World, which is scheduled for delivery at the end of the ...
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Kvaerner to upgrade Petrojarl I
Kvaerner, the Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction group, has signed a Letter of Intent with PGS Production AS to undertake modification and upgrade work on the production ship, Petrojarl I. The value of the work will amount to approximately NOK300 million ($34.44 million). The letter of intent came at a convenient ...
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Malta Dry Docks wins first FPSO
Malta Dry Docks (MDD) has been awarded a contract by Brovig-RDS of the UK, for the conversion of the tanker Northia into a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Isis field off the coast of Tunisia. The contract is the first major oil and gas industry project ...
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Two more ferries to get SPS
Intelligent Engineering (IE) in the UK says two more ferries are to be refitted with the Sandwich Plate Systems (SPS) that was first tested aboard P&O`s ferry Pride of Cherbourg in 1999. The company has declined to identify the ships or the shipowner in question, but says that work will ...
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ASRYMAR signs deal with China Shipping
ASRYMAR has been appointed exclusive UK agents for the China Shipping (Europe) Holding Company, representing its six yards in China. China Shipping (Europe) Holding is part of China Industries Company (CIC) which forms part of the China Shipping Group, the second largest ship owner in China. Peter Thornton, Sales & ...
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AHI completes dry-dock
Arab Heavy Industries (AHI) says its new dry-dock was completed and became operational in November. Measuring 175m by 32m, the dry-dock has an extra wide enabling it to accommodate a wide range of vessels of up to 30,000dwt. AHI says the new dry-dock will be complemented by two dock cranes ...
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Brazilian yard wins FPSO conversion
The Brazilian subsidiary of Keppel FELS Limited, FELS Setal SA, has signed a Letter of Intent with Halliburton Productos Ltd for the conversion of the tanker Stena Concordia into a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility. Mr Tong Chong Heong, managing director of Keppel FELS said winning the contract ...
