General News – Page 201
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NewsGreen feeder ship concept from Denmark
As container ships get generally larger, Danish Naval Design and Marine Consultancy Knud E Hansen reports that, in cooperation with ABB, it has developed a design for a fuel efficient 2,000TEU container feeder vessel.
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NewsMeyer news lifts poor year for Germans
German newbuilding yards in general can look back on a depressing production year in 2011, but leading facility Meyer Werft reports good business and work in hand on 20 ships up to 2014, writes Tom Todd.
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Marine software partnership established between developer and shipowner
Miami-based maritime technology company Intellocorp has partnered with Sea-Flex, a Danish ship owner, to launch a new software and management package in January 2012.
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NewsClassNK issues Tier III NOx certification
ClassNK has awarded its first Statement of Fact for Tier III nitrogen oxide (NOx) reductions to a marine diesel engine incorporating a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) system.
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Keppel announces new contracts to wrap up a good 2011
Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiaries Keppel Singmarine and Keppel Verolme have announced newbuilding and upgrade contracts worth a total of S$150 million.
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NewsIndian yard benefits from Japanese support
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has agreed with L&T Shipbuilding Limited (LTSB), the shipbuilding arm of India''s Larsen & Toubro Ltd to provide a range of technological support for construction of commercial vessels.
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NewsCruise demo for new BWM system
Japanese companies Sumitomo Electric Industries and NYK Cruises have agreed to install a Sumitomo ‘Ecomarine’ ultraviolet ballast water management (BWM) system on one of NYK’s cruise ships.
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NewsEvergreen to strengthen Asia-European offering
The Evergreen Line has announced today that it will be cooperating with CKYH-the Green Alliance in 2012 to provide more sailings between Asia, Northern Europe and the Mediterranean each week.
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NewsIPS power for Russian pilot boats
Volvo Penta´s Inboard Performace System (IPS) drives, claimed to increase performance and reduce fuel consumption, have been chosen to power six 14m pilot vessels ordered by Russian state owned company Rosmorport.
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NewsBig new Chinese-built series for Germans
The first of a series of 14 new Chinese multi-purpose heavy-lifters for Emden shipping group Bockstiegel has gone into local charter service, demonstrating the cost advantage for Asian builders over German yards.
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NewsSupport contract for GE gas turbines
GE Marine’s three-year contract to provide maintenance and logistics support services for the Royal Canadian Navy’s fleet of LM2500 aero-derivative gas turbines that power Halifax-class patrol frigates has been renewed.
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Steamships Shipping installs planned maintenance and stock systems on fleet
UK-based Marine Software Ltd has recently supplied Steamships Shipping with MPM - Marine Planned Maintenance and MSK - Marine Storekeeper software for the control and management of 13 vessels.
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NewsDSME’s Brazilian PLVs to Wärtsilä design
Wärtsilä says it has been contracted to supply ship design and propulsors/positioning system for a series of two new flexible pipe laying vessels to be built at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea.
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NewsImtech gets CalMac ferry hybrid contract
Imtech Marine has been awarded a contract to supply the hybrid propulsion system, based on a diesel electric plant in combination with battery technology, to the first diesel electric, hybrid seagoing ferries.
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Another deepwater semi-submersible rig order for Keppel
Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary Fernvale has secured a contract worth about $809 million from Urca Drilling, a subsidiary of Sete Brasil, for the design and construction of a semisubmersible drilling rig based on Keppel''s proprietary DSSTM 38E design.
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NewsMAIB reports on QM2 explosion
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released the result of its investigations into a failure of a capacitor, part of the diesel-electric propulsion system of the cruise ship ‘Queen Mary 2’.
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Flag state accepts digital documentation
UK-based digital documentation company Regs4ships says that its digital maritime regulations service has been officially recognised as an electronic equivalent to the Antigua & Barbuda Carriage of Nautical Publications requirements.
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BV completes first energy management systems audit for Stena’s shipmanager
Classification society Bureau Veritas reports that it has completed the first certification audit of any shipping company to the new standard ISO 50001- 2011 - Energy Management Systems.
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NewsWorld’s first ISO 50001 certification for shipping
Bureau Veritas has completed the world''s first shipping company certification audit to the new standard ISO 50001 – 2011 Energy Management Systems.
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Regs4ships surveyors approved to represent Flag State of Malta
Digital ship documentation company Regs4ships has announced that its senior surveyor Mark Robinson and surveyor Robert Aldous have been appointed as government ship surveyors for Transport Malta (Maritime).
