General News – Page 236
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NewsManufacturer proposes centrifugal pumps for low-sulphur fuel
According to pump manufacturer Grundfos, its centrifugal pumps are able to perform better with low sulphur fuels than the more usual gear and screw pumps, as they cope well with low-viscosity fluids.
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NewsGL bolsters green ship recycling in Asia
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) says it has recently intensified its efforts to help yards, owners, suppliers and recycling facilities in Asia to comply with the forthcoming Hong Kong Convention on ship recycling.
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New onboard training module for ECDIS
Consilium has joined forces with training specialist Seagull with the aim of developing an ECDIS product-specific computer-based training package that can be used onboard ship.
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NewsWind farm ships get smaller again
Ijmuiden, The Netherlands-based Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) has been contracted to design a new compact but powerful AHT offshore support vessel for Dutch company Neptune Marine Service.
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Sheet material for marine ceiling panels
Steel sheet specialist Metalcolour has launched Dobel Ocean Sky, a fire classified, decorative and film laminated sheet steel especially developed for ceiling panels.
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NewsDesign and D-E system for support ship
Wärtsilä reports that it has received orders for the vessel design and complete diesel electric drive installation for a new field support vessel, for Norwegian owner and operator Sartor Shipping.
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NewsRWS switches to oil-lubricated stern seal
Dutch public water authority Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) has recently converted its multifunctional ship Kennemer from an open water lubricated to a closed oil-lubricated stern tube system supplied by IHC Lagersmit.
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Class NK establishes gas FPSO standards
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) has published new Guidelines for Floating Offshore Facilities for LNG/LPG Production, Storage and Offloading, to address the variety of construction and survey requirements for floating gas facilities.
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NewsMore contracts for Ulstein in Brazil
Ulstein has signed two ship design contracts with Brazilian Shipyard Alianca to build two PX105 platform supply vessels for Brazilian owner CBO. Like four previously-ordered CBO PSVs, they will feature the X-bow design.
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NewsChinese group names first high-end OSV
The Chinese private shipbuilder Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group’s Zhejiang yard has named its first high-end offshore support vessels, being built for the French Bourbon group.
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NewsUlstein grows its Dutch business
The Norwegian Ulstein Group and Netherlands based IDEA Heavy Equipment have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), which outlines the proposed cooperation between the two companies.
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Hempel to produce paint in Russia
Danish coatings supplier Hempel has signed an agreement to establish a paint production facility in Russia.
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NewsOSV installs MPM package
UK-based Marine Software has supplied Dubai based Seacor Offshore with its Marine Planned Maintenance (MPM) package for Seacor’s diesel-electric DP2 anchor handler John Coghill.
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NewsOffshore orders for Australian builder
Western Australian company Strategic Marine has signed another repeat order with Western Australian company Bhagwan Marine, also of Western Australia, to deliver two offshore landing craft vessels.
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NewsGermans complete second big conversion
The €50 million conversion of Mein Schiff 2 – the second big cruise ship for the new TUI Kreuzfahrten venture in Germany - was completed in Bremerhaven on schedule just before the Bank Holiday weekend.
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DNV offers full ship certification in USA
Det Norske Veritas’ US office says that, following an extension of DNV’s authorisation from the US Coast Guard, it is now the only class society that can issue the full suite of statutory certificates for all ship types.
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NewsCombined coupling and composite shaft
German company Vulkan Couplings has introduced a new version of its Rato DS coupling which is directly connected to a composite shaft.
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First approval issued for corrosion resistant steel for crude oil cargo tanks
Japanese classification society ClassNK says that it has issued the first type approval for corrosion resistant steel to the new NSGP-1 steel manufactured by Nippon Steel Corporation’s Oita Works.
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NewsNavigation upgrades for Star cruise ships
SAM Electronics reports that its L-3 subsidiary Lyngsø Marine is completing upgrades of existing integrated navigation facilities aboard three Star Cruises’ vessels, Star Pisces, SuperStar Aquarius and SuperStar Libra.
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NewsLong service from water-lubricated bearings
Thordon Bearings of Canada reports that the seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearings fitted to the cruise ship Grand Princess have now achieved 13 years of pollution-free performance with no shaft withdrawals.
