General News – Page 558
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ORPHEUS steers ships away from danger
QinetiQ scientists in the UK have developed a unique onboard decision aid computer software tool to help Royal Navy bridge officers operate their ships safely in extreme weather conditions. ORPHEUS (Onboard Risk Performance Hazard Evaluation System) is a dedicated and flexible operator guidance system providing clear and concise information on ...
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Aker to build PSVs for India
The Norwegian shipyard of Aker Brattvaag, a company in the Aker Yards Group, has signed a contract with The Great Eastern Shipping Co, Mumbai, India, for the construction of two Platform Supply Vessels (PSV). The contract is worth approximately $34.2 million and delivery is scheduled in June/July 2006 and August/September ...
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US to build Taiwan subs
The US plans to build eight diesel-electric submarines for Taiwan as part of an $18 billion arms package, a decision likely to irritate China, which has opposed the sale of weapons to Taipei. This decision ends years of speculation about who would build the submarines. Although the USA no ...
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Extended power range for Scania engines
Scania, the Swedish engine manufacturer, recently introduced a 12-litre marine engine equipped with Scania's unique electronic engine management system, Scania EMS. Now the power range is extended to meet customer and environmental demands. The new power range starts at 221 kW at 1800 r/min and goes all the way up ...
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GL introduces shipboard routing assistance system
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has introduced its Shipboard Routing Assistance System (SRA) to help ship officers react promptly to heavy weather and, when necessary, sail round it.With SRA, the seaway data measured onboard are combined with the present loading information to permit the continuous recalculation of ship reactions in the waves. ...
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Hyundai wins massive LNG order
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has won an order to build eight LNG carriers for BP Shipping of the United Kingdom. The gas carriers will be in the 155,000 cubic meter class and will cost a total of $1.5 billion. Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, formerly Halla Heavy Industries and now a ...
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Meeting today?s need
To meet the future legislative emission limits with today?s medium and high-speed diesel engines, all engine manufacturers have to consider electronic controlled injection systems, which allow optimised combustion and engine control close to the limits with best possible efficiency.In Germany there are two independent specialists developing standard and advanced injection ...
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Maintenance goes digital
Regulatory responses to marine casualties, which have dictated age limits for ships, have provoked vigorous debate about the issues of age and ship maintenance. While it has been argued that a well maintained ship of age, will often be superior to a poorly maintained younger ship, there has been little ...
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Better by design
A DOR (Design, Operation, and Regulation) for Safety ? or in short SAFEDOR ? is the name of an ambitious initiative towards an integrated project within the 6th Framework Program (FP6) of the European Commission. The aim is to enhance safety through innovation and to strengthen the competitiveness of the ...
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From science fiction to science fact
As one of five strategic programmes in DNV Research, nanotechnology is a new area of high interest and relevance for the classification society. "We?ve been aware of this for at least two or three years but we started looking at it in earnest this year due to some internal reorganisation," ...
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Getting the best from companies
Best4 is a new quality, environment, safety and social accountability integrated certification scheme being offered by RINA. "It is a measure of the business excellence of a company and its capacity to carry out sustainable tasks in terms of management of the company for safety at sea, safety of life ...
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Rules that need tweaking
While most participants in the single-hull versus double-hull debate accept that a second hull is not a panacea, it is acknowledged that it is an acceptable and cost effective way of preventing oil spills in certain types of tanker incidents, such as low energy groundings or collisions. Lloyd?s Register says, ...
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A question of rules
By now, most are aware of what exactly the new generation of classification rules for oil tankers are. The new Common Rules for Tankers are aimed at establishing a global standard, increased structural durability, longer asset life and the elimination of competition on minimum structural scantlings. The intention is also ...
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Jones act 2
Following on from the delivery of the 2,6000TEU boxship MV Manukai from Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard (KPSI) to the San Francisco-based Matson Navigation Company, as reported in The Motor Ship in October 2003, a second vessel has now been delivered. The MV Maunawili ? a CV2600 Philadelphia Class containership is the ...
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Taking action against poor copies
In recent years there have been a growing number of reports emerging from all sections of the maritime community about damage or accidents caused by the inadvertent use of imitation ship machinery parts.Because imitation parts are manufactured illegally without due respect for patent rights and other intellectual property laws, they ...
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Optimum and innovative propulsion
Expert knowledge is said to be responsible for the increasing popularity of Bakker Sliedrecht?s diesel-electric propulsion systems. The company is acutely aware of the sharp increase in the application of electric drive systems for main and auxiliary propulsion systems, and for bow- and sternthrusters, particularly with the advance of low ...
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The shaft alignment problem
Proper operation of marine propulsion machinery requires the shafting to be correctly aligned in all ship operating conditions. Modern propulsion technology has raised the demands made on analysis of the ship?s shaft alignment. The various bearings are displaced by carefully controlled amounts (offsets) to achieve a favourable balancing of bearing ...
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River cruise innovation
The first of six innovative river cruise vessels is currently under construction at Neptun Stahlbau GmbH in Rostock-Warnemuende, a subsidiary of Meyer Werft Papenburg, and scheduled for delivery end of May 2005. The shipowner is Premicon AG, Munich, founded in 1998 and focused on operation of river cruise vessels and ...
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Smooth Swath ferries
Two SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) vessels, designed by BMT Nigel Gee and Associates, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology (BMT), and built in Holland at the Vlissingen yard of the Damen Shipyards Group for the Province of Zeeland, entered service in April this year. Designed to offer a ...
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Innovation and invention
On 12 September 2004, ESAB celebrated its centenary. "The world is now a vastly different place than the one Oscar Kjellberg, ESAB?s founder, knew at the start of the last century," says Jon Templeman, the company?s CEO.He explains that at that time heavy steel manufacturing was centred on Europe and ...
