Industry News – Page 181
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NewsCruise lines receive Wilhelmsen training
Holland America Line (HAL) and Seabourn Cruise Line are benefitting from specialist in-house training from Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS) and sister company Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS).
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ClassNK begins joint design research project with shipyards
ClassNK says it has started full scale ship tests to develop a feedback scheme on design for ship performance in actual seas in collaboration with Japanese companies Imabari Shipbuilding and Sayonas Shipbuilding.
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NewsDual-fuel ferry floated out in Finland
STX Finland says that ''Viking Grace'', an environmentally friendly new-generation cruise ferry, being built for Viking Line, was floated out at its Turku shipyard on 10 August.
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NewsCruise contract for Bollfilter UK
Bollfilter UK has been awarded a three year service contract to maintain the Boll & Kirch filtration systems on Carnival’s fleet of 10 UK-based cruise ships, including those from the P&O and Cunard brands.
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NewsNew marketing coordinator for Bollfilter UK
Specialist supplier of filters for the water process and petro-chem industries, Bollfilter UK has appointed Laurence Dunn as its new marketing coordinator as part of the company’s expansion.
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NewsVeem wins export award
Australian propeller company Veem recently won ‘Exporter of the Year 2012’ at the 2012 Club Marine Australian Marine Export & Superyacht Industry Awards.
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NewsFlashlight launched by Tracer Products
Tracer Products has introduced a new tool for leak detection, the Tracerline Optimax 365 – described as a cordless, powerful, rechargeable enhanced UV leak detection flashlight.
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NewsClean Cargo’s carbon emissions
BSR’s Clean Cargo Working Group has published its third annual release paper revealing average carbon emissions by trade lane for the ocean shipping industry.
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NewsInmarsat wins MISC Berhad contract
Inmarsat, the supplier of global satellite communications services, has won a contract to provide up to 46 MISC Berhad vessels – including chemical and LNG tankers – with its XpressLink service.
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NewsLNG tanker propulsion order for GE
GE’s France-based power conversion division has received a series of new orders from South Korean companies DSME and Hyundai Heavy Industries, for GE equipment to be installed on 23 new LNG carriers.
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NewsNew high speed Yanmar diesel for offshore
Yanmar Europe has announced the launch of a new 12-cylinder V-format high speed diesel, the 12AY, which is targeted at offshore support vessels, ferries, tugs, and commercial fishing craft.
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NewsChina orders polar icebreaker design
Aker Arctic has been contracted to carry out a conceptual and basic design exercise for a new icebreaking research vessel to be used by various Chinese bodies for the purpose of polar scientific research.
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NewsFuchs moves from Sietas to take on P+S Werften CEO position
Rüdiger Fuchs, formerly with the Sietas group, is to become CEO of P+S Werften on EC approval of the State of Mecklenburg-Pomerania rescue package, taking over from Dr Dieter Brammertz, who is leaving P+S as planned.
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NewsSpanish yard delivers Ulstein-design OSV
Astilleros Zamakona has delivered the ‘Esvagt Aurora’ to Esvagt, a company in the Danish multinational A.P. Møller-Mærsk group. This is the third vessel the Bilbao based shipyard has built for this client.
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TurboNed opens new Japanese office
Netherland''s based TurboNed Group B.V. opened a new office in Tokyo on 1 August 2012 - with Dutchman, Mr Justus Schoemaker, as TurboNed Japan’s new representative.
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NewsNorth American ECA comes into effect
IMO has reminded shipowners that the North American Emission Control Area (ECA), under the MARPOL Convention, comes into effect from 1 August 2012, bringing in stricter controls on SOx, NOx and particulate matter.
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NewsFirst Chinese order for GL HullManager
GL Maritime Software has received its first order from a client in China for the GL HullManager hull integrity management software. Shanghai COSCO will install the system on seven vessels of its containership fleet.
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NewsInnovative new SENER virtual reality tool
SENER, the Spanish engineering and technology group, has revealed an innovative new virtual reality (VR) tool for the shipbuilding industry, which works with the FORAN FVIEWER VR.
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NewsICS wants changes to ballast water convention
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), has called on the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to address some critical issues concerning the imminent implementation of the IMO Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention.
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NewsGL installs new monitoring prototype
GL Maritime Software, part of Germanischer Lloyd (GL), has installed the first prototype of its GL MachineryManager software to ''CSAV Rio Blanco'', a car carrier owned and managed by German shipping company F. Laeisz.
