Industry News – Page 264

  • Artist impression of the STX 09 offshore support vessel
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    STX OSV secures contract for PSV

    2010-12-15T14:41:00Z

    STX OSV Holdings Limited recently secured a new contract for the design and construction of a platform supply vessel of PSV 09 design for an undisclosed international customer.

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    Scana awarded Ulstein contract

    2010-12-15T13:21:00Z

    Scana Industrier ASA in Norway has through its subsidiary Scana Volda AS been awarded contract with Ulstein Verft AS for delivery of propulsion system and controls for two seismic research vessels.

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    Industry elite join global SSI taskforce

    2010-12-15T13:18:00Z

    An ambitious global taskforce charting a course to a sustainable future for the shipping industry received a major boost today with the announcement of six elite new members.

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    Samsung clinches CSAV boxships

    2010-12-15T13:16:00Z

    Chilean liner operator CSAV has taken a two plus two option deal at Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries for 8,000 TEU ships at a cost of $90 million each.

  • Pride has ordered a sister ship to the ‘Deep Ocean Clarion’
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    Pride orders fifth Samsung deepwater drillship

    2010-12-15T13:14:00Z

    The Texas-based Pride International has reached agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for the construction of a fifth ultra-deepwater drillship.

  • Hempel’s new factory in China
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    New coatings factory in China

    2010-12-15T13:09:00Z

    With 56,000m2 of space, Hempel’s newest and largest factory, located in Guangzhou, China, is expected to produce more than 42 million litres of coatings per year, with a maximum production capacity of 55 million litres.

  • Successful test for sustainable dredging were carried out using an IHC Beaver 40 dredger
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    Sustainable dredging test a success

    2010-12-15T13:05:00Z

    IHC Merwede recently ran a pilot test in which energy derived from hydrogen was the sole source used to power the electrical equipment on board a dredger for the first time.

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    Colfax expands pump monitoring range

    2010-12-15T13:02:00Z

    Colfax Corporation has expanded its SmartSense intelligent pump monitoring line to include the new SmartSense pulse.

  • Converteam's C-series control system
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    Survey ships opt for Converteam systems

    2010-12-15T12:10:00Z

    Converteam has been awarded a contract worth about €6 million for electrical equipment and control systems for two geotechnical vessels currently under construction in India.

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    Brazilian FPSO power orders for ABB

    2010-12-15T10:44:00Z

    ABB has won several orders collectively worth $42 million to provide power supply infrastructure and equipment for several FPSOs for use in various Petrobras projects off the Brazilian coast.

  • Rendering of the MT30-powered Zumwalt class destroyer for the US Navy
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    MT30 gets up to speed

    2010-12-14T06:03:00Z

    Rolls-Royce reports that it has achieved full power operation of the first production MT30 gas turbine powered main generator set delivered to the US Navy.

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    Fleet support - a growth market for Hatlapa

    2010-12-13T18:25:00Z

    Hatlapa, the German manufacturer of steering gear, deck machinery and compressors, claims that one in every five enquiries nowadays is service related, and the number of repair, spares and maintenance orders is increasing steadily.

  • SUSY could help in rescuing capsized or listing ships
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    Will SUSY rescue sinking vessels?

    2010-12-13T18:02:00Z

    Damaged vessels at risk of sinking could soon benefit from a system being developed by a consortium led by BMT Group, the international design, engineering and risk management consultancy.

  • Kittiwake director Chris Leigh-Jones, speaking at the 2010 Motorship Propulsion & Emissions conference
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    Kittiwake acquires emissions monitoring company

    2010-12-13T18:00:00Z

    Kittiwake Developments has announced that it has acquired UK company Procal, a manufacturer of in-situ, multi component continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS).

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    Italian bulkers to get Northrop Grumman IBSs

    2010-12-13T17:40:00Z

    Northrop Grumman Corporation has received orders to supply advanced electronic navigation systems for two new 37,000 dwt bulk carriers to be built in Korea for Italian shipowner d’Amico Dry Limited.

  • Pilgrim International’s radial fit bolt
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    20-ship order for radial bolts

    2010-12-13T17:19:00Z

    Pilgrim International of Oldham, UK, has won a contract to supply its hydraulically installed radial fit bolts for 20 new 8,000 TEU containers ships for Evergreen Marine in Taiwan.

  • Berg Propulsion azimuth thruster
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    Berg thrusters upgrade cable layer

    2010-12-13T17:13:00Z

    Continuing rising demand for sustainable wind-based energy plants in the North Sea has led Nostag GmbH to contract Berg Propulsion to upgrade its cable layer, Nostag 10, by equipping the vessel with two azimuthing thrusters.

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    ClassNK sets up office in Kolkata

    2010-12-13T13:19:00Z

    ClassNK officially announced the opening of a new exclusive surveyor office in Kolkata, India. The new office is the seventh new office to be opened by the society in 2010, and becomes its sixth surveyor office in India.

  • Wärtsilä will supply the propulsion solution for the UK's new research vessel to be operated by the NERC
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    Wärtsilä powers UK research vessel

    2010-12-13T13:11:00Z

    Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the propulsion equipment for a new research vessel under construction at the C.N.P. Freire shipyard in Spain for the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

  • The UT 755CDL PSVs ordered by Tidewater
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    Tidewater orders four UT PSVs

    2010-12-10T16:40:00Z

    Rolls-Royce has won a $32 million order to provide the design, propulsion systems and deck machinery for four deep water platform supply vessels ordered by Tidewater.