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New bulb at Dorbyl
Container vessel MSC Giovanna went into Dorbyl?s Durban yard for damage repairs following a collision with bulk carrier Decurion off Cape Town in January.The container vessel suffered severe damage to the bulbous bow. A significant section of the bulb has been cropped almost all the way back to the collision ...
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Big, and getting bigger
A procession of increasingly larger post panamax newbuildings enter liner service, with more on order.The first of five 5,500 TEU post-panamax container ships, all with completion dates this year, has been delivered by Kvaerner Warnow Werft (KWW), Germany, to P&O Nedlloyd.These ships are the largest ever built in Germany in ...
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Baby smooth
The polymer commonly used in the making of teats for baby bottles lies at the heart of Jotun?s latest launch.As environmental awareness has grown, so have restrictions on a number of different substances. One compound that is on the way out is the use of TBT in hull coatings. Should ...
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Shipowners set steady course
Japanese shipowners are finding the strong yen is preventing them gaining from the recovery in trade.Figures just released from the Japanese Ministry of Transport do not paint too glowing a picture of the country?s shipping activities. Having hit 100 million deadweight in 1997, by mid-1988 the Japanese fleet had lost ...
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Amsterdam bound
This year?s Motor Ship Marine Propulsion Conference takes place in Amsterdam on March 29 and 30.This year?s Marine Propulsion Conference will examine the key issues affecting marine propulsion today, with presentations from all sides of the industry, ensuring that the two-day meeting will be of great value to anyone involved ...
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The world?s largest trailing suction hopper dredger, Jan de Nul?s Vasco da Gama, built at German shipyard Thyssen Nordseewerke, and is about to start work.With a capacity of 33,000m3; - equivalent to 58,000 dwt ? Vasco da Gama has a hopper approximately 40 per cent larger and carrying capacity approximately ...
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Satellite mobile phone service on countdown
Following a period of financial uncertainty, ICO Global Communications is back on track and poised to launch the first of its 12 satellites.ICO Global Communications, the UK company set up in 1995 to develop a global mobile satellite communications system (previously known as Inmarsat P), has been bailed out of ...
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ABS calls for tougher standards
Following the preliminary report about the loss of Erika, ABS has proposed a range of measures to tighten scrutiny of ageing vessels. "It is quite clear that Erikasank as a result of structural failure," says ABS chairman and CEO, Frank Iarossi.He comments: "Substandard ships continue in service because there are ...
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Shipbuilding talks deadlocked
Negotiations over the actions of Korea?s shipbuilders entered into by the EU and the OECD are both deadlocked. Representatives of the EU and the Korean government met in Seoul to discuss what the Europeans see as anti-competitive practices, but the Korean delegation says the low prices in its yards are ...
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Equasis agreement signed
A database called Equasis that contains safety-related information on the world?s merchant fleet will be accessible on the Internet from May. So far and the European Commission, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Singapore are signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding, while the US Coast Guard and Japan have expressed ...
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Lifejacket approval withdrawn
There has been a wholesale withdrawl of type-approval for the Italian-made Canepa & Campi Artica lifejackets used during the sinking of the fast ferry Sleipner, which resulted in the loss of 19 lives. The lifejackets, which were originally tested and type-approved by RINA in 1997, failed in operation.Based on the ...
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BV joins pursuit of old tankers
BV has issued its own set of proposals to improve safety of old tankers. It echoes ABS?s call for computerised records, and adds that it wants computerised evaluation of the ship?s structure to identify critical areas at each Special Survey.The computerised database would contain thickness measurements, details of coating condition, ...
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More progress on yard sales
Kvaerner has agreed the sale of the Norwegian Fjellstrand shipyards, to an MBO and other local investors for NKr100 million ($12 million) but is still looking for a buyer for the Singaporean yard. Fjellstrand?s two Norwegian yards employ 250 staff, build small car/passenger catamaran ferries, and have revenues of NKr400 ...
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Carnival exercises Spirit option
Carnival Corporation has taken up its option to have a third Spirit-class cruise liner built at Kvaerner Masa-Yards (KMY). The 84,000 gross, 2,100 passenger vessel will be constructed at the Helsinki New Shipyard, and will be delivered in the summer of 2002. The value of the contract is around FMk2 ...
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Fincantieri to build ferry pair
Evidence that the market for fast conventional ferries continues to grow is provided by an order placed with Fincantieri?s Castellamare di Stabia shipyard to build a pair of ships for Tirrenia di Navigazione.The 35,500 gross vessels will be employed on the route between Sardinia and Genoa. Although Tirrenia had been ...
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More success for Chinese yards
Shanghai Edward Shipyard in China has been awarded a contract to build two geared container ships for Tropical Shipping & Construction. The order for the feeder ship size vessels also includes an option for two more ships.The first of the newbuildings is slated for delivery in September 2001 and the ...
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More tankers for Hyundai
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Korea has been awarded a contract to build four suezmax tankers for Athenian Sea Carriers in Greece.The order also includes an option for four more ships. The first of the newbuildings will be delivered in 2002.Also ordered from Hyundai in recent weeks are a number ...
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Aker Finnyards to build ferry
Aker Finnyards and the G A Ferries in Greece have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the construction of a ropax ferry which is intended for use on shorter international routes and Greek domestic routes.The new vessel, to be delivered in spring 2001, will be 150m in length with ...
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Container ship orders for Gydnia?
Poland?s shipbuilding industry, which has tended to specialise in building smaller container ships in recent years, received an order boost in January in the form of a glut of contracts for Gydnia Shipyard.Among the orders is a pair of 2,078 TEU vessels for Rederei Herm Dauelsberg in Germany. These newbuildings ...
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?and for Daewoo
Much larger tonnage has been ordered from Daewoo in Korea in the form of a quintet of post-panamax ships for Gebab of Dusseldorf in Germany. The order could be of considerable value to the Korean yard because it also includes an option for five more ships of the same type.Daewoo ...
