Industry News – Page 611
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NewsBritish seaman working 85-hour week
UK seafarers working 'dangerously' long hours: A new study, which surveyed Numast members, and assessed seafarers working on a high-speed ferry, a traditional passenger ferry, a freight ferry and coastal tankers, reveals that many seafarers are working excessive hours. Many are not given the opportunity for six hours of uninterrupted ...
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NewsUnlisted cargo causes fire
Salvage vessel John Ross attending stricken vesselThe fire on board the container ship Sea Elegance, lying off Durban, was probably caused by an explosion in a container of undeclared hazardous cargo said the South African Maritime Safety Authority.It appears that the crew of the Singapore-based container ship had been unaware ...
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Mixed fortunes for Russian yards
St Petersburg shipbuilders have abandoned any hope of being given state assistance. The hopes of winning multiple orders for large ships have not materialised either for commercial or naval ships. This is as a result of a moratorium on fleet replacement programmes. However, the oil and gas sector is the ...
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Samsung set to build largest ever boxships
The South Korean shipbuilder Samsung has exchanged letters of intent (LOI) with Seaspan Shipping of Canada on the construction of eight 9,500 TEU boxships. The contract includes four on option.The two companies had agreed on the newbuilding project earlier this month and are expected to sign a formal contract by ...
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The Queen to name QM2
Cunard Line is pleased to confirm that Her Majesty The Queen will name the company?s new flagship, Queen Mary 2, at a ceremony to take place in Southampton on Thursday 8 January 2004. His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh will accompany her Majesty. The naming will be a milestone ...
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$80 million fine for overcharging
The Northrop Grumman Corporation has agreed to pay the United States government $80 million to resolve allegations of overcharging and selling the Navy defective military equipment. The government alleged that from 1994 to 1999, Northrop Grumman?s subsidiary Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), charged costs to the state for Independent Research and ...
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NewsLargest heavy lift ship
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard started the conversion work on the Blue Marlin on October 6. It will be reborn as the largest heavylift in the world. Dockwise of the Netherlands ordered the conversion work at the price of $26 million on September last year. The shipbuilder will extend the length of ...
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NewsAppledore faces closure
Receivers have ben appointed to the last commercial shipbuilder in England, threatening up to 1,000 jobs. Workers at the Appledore shipyard, North Devon are protesting at impending redundancies. Many are still hopeful that a buyer will be found for the UK?s oldest yard. Receivers from the accounting firm Tenon Recovery ...
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NewsFresia set for delivery
STX Shipbuilding names a 37,000DWT product carrier ordered from Minos Societe Di Navigazione in Italy on October 8. She is named as Fresia. Ship particulars are 180m long, 32m wide and 16.2m deep with a a speed of 14.5 knots. She will be delivered on October 15.Minos together with Motia ...
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NewsPremuda achieves certification
Premuda, the first Italian shipping company to be publicly listed on the stock exchange, has achieved certification to the quality and environmental standards of ISO 9001-2000 and ISO 14001-1996. The Genoa based operator of tankers, bulk carriers and an offshore production unit has also achieved certification to the voluntary Safety, ...
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ABS and NAVSEA sign naval vessel rules agreement
ABS has signed a formal co-operative agreement with the US Navy?s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) which calls for joint development of ABS Naval Vessel Rules (NVR) to support the design and acquisition of ?naval combatant ships? and craft. This is similar to the well established agreement between ABS and ...
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New Cunarder passes sea trials in style
Cunard Line?s flagship Queen Mary 2 recently completed her first builder?s sea trials with flying colours. The largest, longest, tallest, widest and, at $780m, the most expensive passenger liner ever built underwent four days of rigorous testing of her power, manoeuvrability and vibration levels off the Brittany coast. The successful ...
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NewsLast ditch attempt to save Appledore Shipbuilders
Around 100 workers recently staged a demonstration in an attempt to save England?s last remaining commercial shipyard. The future of the 148-year old Appledore Shipbuilders? facility in North Devon hangs in the balance as the yard?s owners failed to secure a £40m order from Sea Structures to build a ship ...
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Triple Screw Multi-Cat Zwerver II
A further step in the evolution of multipurpose, shallow draft work-vesselsDuring the last twenty years or so, the ?Multi-purpose work vessel? has enjoyed an evolution that now sees it positioned as an essential item of floating plant in several sectors of the marine industry, from fish farming to port construction. ...
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Grinding and squeezing
Generally we are finding 2003 to be rather difficult," says Magnus Ringner, managing director of Götaverken Cityvarvet. He explains that this is primarily because demand has been slow all year so far (as was also the case for the last few months of 2002) and as a result competition has ...
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Changing defence requirements demand new ship types
Not so long ago, every surface warship was a mono-hull, propellers were the only choice for propulsors and prime movers were diesel or turbine direct drive engines. Now we have a multiplicity of hull form concepts, a wide range of propulsors such as water jets, Voith Schneider and podded ...
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Austal offers IRV vessel
World-wide security concers create niche market for new ship typeThe heightened emphasis on security around the world?s ports and shipping lanes has motivated Austal Ships to design a high-speed Incident Response Vessel (IRV) that can be configured to match a range of patrol, rescue and reconnaissance mission profiles.The platform for ...
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From oars to reactors
Naval warfare has always benefited from advances in technology going right back through history when oars were the prime propulsors, to today?s propulsion plants such as gas turbines and nuclear reactors. Recently, the commercial sector has led the way in technological advances with the application of electric propulsion largely due ...
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German navy launches SWATH research vessel
In August, the German Navy launched its new research and test vessel at the ThyssenKrupp shipyard of Nordseewerke in Emden. Named Planet, the vessel?s hull shape makes use of the SWATH technology (small waterplane area twin hull) developed by the yard. Delivery of the newbuilding is scheduled for the summer ...
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Austal wins Aussie naval patrol boat contract
High speed shipbuilder Austal Ships is basking in the glow of one of Australia?s most sought after defence contracts, the Royal Australian Navy?s (RAN) contract to supply twelve 56 m aluminium patrol boats. Austal will build the aluminium hulled Armidale class patrol boats while its partner in the project, Defence ...
