Industry News – Page 601
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Wärtsilä's "Supplier of the Year"
Providing almost half of all bearings used in Wärtsilä machinery, Austrian company Miba AG has been chosen as the engine manufacturer?s Supplier of the Year for 2003.The reasons underlying Miba's choice are the company's strong technical expertise, its commitment to continuous development and testing of bearing materials, the ability to ...
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NewsMOL excels in sustainability and safety
The 4,500TEU Panamax containership MOL Excellence was launched last month and will officially join the MOL fleet in early June.Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd (MOL) has been selected as one of Japan?s leading companies in environmental management. The company was chosen as one of the "Green Top Runner 68" companies in ...
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New dry bulk designs extend Craig?s cooperation with Vinashin
By developing series production of a full range of modern-design bulk carriers - ranging from handysize up to capsize - at Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) yards, UK-based Graig Group will build on its recent fifteen-ship order in Vietnam. Following an announcement of the Strategic Alliance formed with Vinashin last ...
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NewsKeppel divests fleet of feeder vessels
The sale of Keppel's entire fleet of 10 vessels for more than S$150 million constitutes another major divestment of the GroupThe latest major development in the Keppel Group?s divestment plans is the sale of its, entire fleet of ten feeder ships for a total cash consideration of US$90.9 million. About ...
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GSI targets handysize bulker market
Guangzhou Shipyard International in China has set its sights on the handysize bulk carrier newbuilding market. The shipbuilder plans to build 11 handysize bulk carriers and three 5,000DWT bulk carriers each year until 2007 with a profit target of eight percent.
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NewsGWS delivers 1,400TEU box ship
Named Maersk Ventspils, a 1,400TEU container ship has been delivered to L&B Shipping in Germany from Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard in China. The vessel is 175m long, 27.4m wide and 14.3m deep with a draft of 9.5m and can sail at a speed of 19.5 knots. The Chinese shipbuilder has so ...
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Former IMO General Secretary becomes President
Former General Secretary of the IMO, Bill O'Neil, is to be the new President of UK-based maritime training company Videotel Marine International. "Bill O'Neil has done a great deal to promote the safety culture in the maritime industry, and training is an inherent part of that culture,"says Stephen Bond, managing ...
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Bow Mariner explosion kills more than twenty
An explosion on board the Singapore-flagged products tanker Bow Mariner on Sunday resulted in three crew dead and a further eighteen missing. While carrying a cargo of 11,000 tonnes of ethanol, the 39,821 dwt vessel suffered an explosion and subsequently sank about 50 nautical miles off the coast of Virginia, ...
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NewsISU warns of Spain?s ?self-defeating? place of refuge decree
The ISU says that the Spanish decree makes a repeat of the Prestige disaster more likelyAccording to the International Salvage Union (ISU), the Spanish Government?s decision to put a half billion dollar price-tag on a place of refuge for ships in distress is counter-productive and could actually increase the threat ...
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Looking toward Mecca ? Japan?s largest ever built dredger
Holland may be the obvious country for dredger newbuildings but there are a number of other shipbuilding nations where this expertise is available . Japan which is about to deliver its largest ever dredger to date. The trailer suction hopper dredger, named Mecca, is nearing completion at the Kobe shipyard ...
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The first jumbo heavy duty cutter dredgers
In December 2003, IHC Holland, the Dutch shipbuilder specialising in dredgers, officially delivered the self-propelled cutter suction dredger (SCSD) JFJ de Nul to the Belgium-based Jan de Nul Group. With a total installed power of 27,190kW, it is the most powerful of its kind in the world, exceeding by 35% ...
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Building toward even bigger success
Royal Caribbean?s fifth in series Post-Panamax precedes larger Ultra Voyager class cruise shipMariner of the Seas, the fifth cruise ship in the Voyager-class for Royal Caribbean Cruises, was delivered in October of last year. Even before then, such was the operational success of the first four ships in the series ...
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Conoship ? flying the flag for Dutch shipbuilders
New designs reaffirm the Netherlands? strong position in short-sea shippingTraditionally, the Dutch have always been strong in the short-sea shipping market and this still holds true today, as evidenced by the continuous stream of new designs emanating from the various yards and design houses. One such source is Groningen-based Conoship ...
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New technology at Big Sight
Sea Japan 2004, which takes place between the 14-16 April, is again being held at the Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre. The exhibition will run over three days and there will be a conference on the first day. Both the event as a whole and the one-day conference is organised ...
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The paperless dream becomes reality
The paperless office has always been a bit of a dream. Computer technologies in the early days were never that reliable and office managers found that instead of reducing the paper mountain, the computer often added to it.However, it would seem that the age of crew wandering around the ship ...
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Training for expanding roles
Nobody wants their ship to be used as part of a conduit for the activities of terrorists. With this in mind, ship managers and ship owners are beginning to explore what they need to do to apply the new International Ship and Port Facilities Security (ISPS) Code. They are discovering ...
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Integrating the laser - Docking made easier with advanced systems engineering
With containerships getting ever bigger, ports should perhaps be looking to improve docking systems in much the same way as oil and gas terminals have. "You damage a fender and it?s OK, but damage two fenders and that?s the cost of paying for the [docking] system. If you end up ...
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Active cargo damage
Active cargoes can influence coating breakdown inflicting damage, accelerating corrosion and causing premature coating failureIt?s a bulk carrier; of course the paint came off the cargo holds, what did you expect?" Everyone who works with bulk carriers knows that there is no paint capable of withstanding the type of physical ...
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?INTEGRATION? ? the answer to road transport congestion in Europe
The Integration of transportation is considered the solution to the expected increase in freight traffic.In its ongoing attempt to manage predicted increases in freight transport, the European Commission is taking steps to encourage the use of intermodal systems and containerisation. Integration of the different modes within the transport chain will ...
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Call for action on effects of PVC
A leading supplier of halogen-free ship interiors has called for the use of PVC to be outlawed. Danish-based Inexa Panel believes that: "it is difficult to understand why there are still some shipowners that continue to use PVC for interior accommodation when the noxious gases it produces in a fire ...
