General News 13-18 – Page 653
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Three vie for DMR
Three potential buyers are in negotiations to buy the bankrupt German engine builder DMR. The Polish engine builder H Cegielski is known to be interested, and another potential buyer is an unnamed German company which produces four-stroke engines. DMR delivered its last engine to Volkswerft in August and ...
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FastShip places gearbox order
Philadelphia Gear has landed its largest contract to date in the form of $35 million order for transmissions from FastShip. The company will supply 21 gearboxes, ,five per ship, plus one spare, to reduce the 3,600 rev/min output from the Rolls Royce gas turbines to the 200 rev/min required by ...
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Cable Penetration Sealer
3M has introduced a fire protection material for cable penetrations in bulkheads and decks that it says maintains the integrity of fire-rated structures for up to an A60 (IMO) and H60 (UL) rating, and has been classified by the US Coast Guard for watertight integrity. Called 3M Marine ...
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FPSO uses deep DP
Seillean FPSO, operating at 1,853m on the Roncador field, Brazil, uses an Alstom triple voting dynamic positioning system and is the first continuous dynamically positioned FPSO to operate in waters of this depth, says the company. The vessel, built at Harland & Wolff in Belfast in 1989, was fitted with ...
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CRT extends training
Cambridge Refrigeration Technology has opened a new training facility at its UK HQ. Two rooms are available, both with audio visual facilities. New courses on offer from the company are: ATP- Introduction/Requirements/ATP for Experts; Integral Familiarisation; Controlled Atmosphere; Managing Reefers; Specialised Refrigerated Ships; Surveyors; Legislation for the Refrigeration ...
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Motion monitor for helidecks
A deck motion monitor is available from TSS (UK) which it says enables offshore operators to comply with the Health and Safety Executive CAP 437 guidelines for the safe operation of helidecks. CAP 437 guidelines require helideck operators to provide approaching pilots with pitch and poll reports, in ...
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Software includes distance tables
BP Marine has launched the latest version of its Port to Port voyage planning program based on the company`s own marine distance tables. The company says that Port to Port makes voyage planning more accurate and economical. Users enter departure and destination ports from over 1,700 waypoints, canals ...
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ClassNK on CD-ROM
Tokyo-based classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) is to make its database of information about ships` hulls, including examples of damage and casualties, available to the maritime industry. It has brought the data together in a series of 10 CD-ROMs under the name of HullExpert as part of its ...
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Cable layer gets acoustic system
A Sonardyne USBL (Ultra-Short Base Line) acoustic positioning system has been chosen by submarine cable company Global Marine for installation aboard its new cable layer Bold Endeavour. The 5,500t vessel is designed to lay up to 8,820km of continuous cable with repeaters at 40km intervals. The ship is required to ...
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Ship engine simulators
The new STN Atlas SES 4000 series of engine room simulators are based on real-time physical mathematical models instead of traditional look-up tables, says the company. The simulators cover all aspects of engine operation from planning schedules and operational procedures to analysis of engine performance, monitoring, control functions and fault ...
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B+V`s high profile repairs
Repairs to the 15 x 6m hole in the port side of container vessel Ever Decent were carried out afloat at Blohm+Voss Repair. The yard also repaired a smaller penetration higher in the ship`s side and an 8m crack in the superstructure. A total of 40 tonnes of steel were ...
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Major engine repair
Repairs to the four Pielstick 12PC3V-480 main engines on DFDS passenger ferry Princess of Scandinavia are underway at MAN B&W`s Servicecenter Frederikshavn. The engines, which have logged about 160,000 running hours over the last 23 years, have developed cracks in the A frames. Servicecenter Frederikshavn is acting as ...
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Costa Classica goes to Birkenhead
Cammell Laird`s Birkenhead yard has won the hotly contested contract to convert the 52,926g Italian cruise ship Costa Classica. Valued at £51 million ($84.15 million) to the yard, this is said to be the world`s largest cruise ship conversion to date. The cost to owner Costa Crociere is put at ...
