Industry News – Page 612
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Passenger ship shake-up
There are more rules and regulations governing passenger ships due to come into force during the next three years than ever before. "More importantly, some of these rules are risk-based rules, not prescriptive any more," says Markku Kanerva, marketing manager at Deltamarin. Simulation and optimisation tools have been developed to ...
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Crane swop shop
The demands that deepwater operations place on deck-mounted cranes has forced manufacturers to offer a wider choice of cranes. Arne Riple, vice president of sales and marketing at TTS Marine told The Motor Ship; "The owners that we work with in these instances are quite particular regarding their crane specifications. ...
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Post-Panamax surge
The growth in containership orders and sizes of vessels appears to be relentless. There has been a flood of orders this year for new vessels, including vessels of over 8,000 TEU and Germanischer Lloyd (GL) alone claims to have 44 large container carriers of this size waiting classification. Dr. Hans ...
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Focus on bulkers Legislation points the finger at bulk carriers
Now that all the commotion has died down over tankers the focus is again on bulk carriers. The IMO and IACS are bringing in new regulations for implementation such as water ingress alarms in cargo holds and forward spaces. Later on there are likely to be regulations requiring double side ...
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Sea Transport Solutions wins Tanzanian contract
Queensland based ship design and consulting company, Sea Transport Solutions (STS) will design a ?virtually uncapsizeable? vessel for Tanzanian Shipping company, Speke Shipping. The ro-ro passenger quadruple-screwed catamaran will carry 800 passengers and 400 tonnes of roro cargo from Mwanza to Bukoba on Lake Victoria.The 61 metre long and 19 ...
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A fresh look at ship operation manuals
Ship operating manuals have been around for many years in one form or another and to varying degrees of usefulness to the people on board, whether as a collection of ?crib-notes? at the crew hand-over or as a series of professionally produced manuals.The reasons behind producing such manuals have always ...
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Double the fleet
China Ocean Shipping (Group), the mainland's largest maritime company, plans to more than double its fleet from the current 550 ships by 2020, and has started sounding out the financial market in its first steps to raise cash for new building plans. The firm is trying to decide if it ...
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Star performance
Star Cruises Ltd. has ordered the construction of two cruise ships for a total investment of HK$6.16 billion to boost revenue and operating efficiency. The first ship will be ready for delivery in the third quarter of 2005, and the second will be ready in the second quarter of 2006, ...
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Ship of state
The Indian government has set October 20 as the last date for the submission of financial bids for the privatization of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), said a source close to the process."The government late last week sent letters to all companies participating in the SCI privatization," said the source. ...
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Four container ships
South Korea's Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. said it has received four container ship orders from Germany's Rudolf Schepers Schifffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Co.Hanjin said it will provide four vessels capable of transporting 3,400 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, each to the German firm through March 31, 2007.
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Attractive contract price
Golar LNG Ltd. has confirmed it has signed a newbuilding contract with the Korean shipbuilder DSME for one 145,000 m3 LNG newbuilding for delivery in 2005. Included in the contract is an option for up to two more newbuildings with delivery in 2006/2007.John Fredriksen said: "The strong market recovery in ...
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Go electric
Tsuneishi Corporation in Japan has decided to install electric deck machines on TESS 58 bulk carrier. By doing so, maritime pollution as a result of oil leakage will be sharply diminished and the reduction in maintenance schedules will save running cost. Deck machines such as cranes now used on bulk ...
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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. orders Ultra Voyager
Building on the popularity and success of its Voyager-class ships, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. today ordered an even larger cruise ship - the Ultra Voyager - for delivery in May 2006. Destined for the Royal Caribbean International fleet, the new ship will be built at Kvaerner Masa-Yards in Finland, continuing ...
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New twist in Korea-EU WTO dispute
The long drawn-out dispute between South Korea and the EU has taken an interesting twist with Korea filing a counter complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming that subsidies provided by the European Union (EU) member nations to their shipyards amount to unfair trade practices banned under WTO rules. ...
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NewsPhiladelphia delivers first newbuilding
The MV Manukai made its way down the Delaware River and beneath the Delaware Memorial Bridge on Saturday, July 26th on its way out to the Atlantic Ocean for its sea trials.After an absence from shipbuilding of more than 30 years, Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard (KPSI), in the USA has delivered ...
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K Line?s newbuilding spree
K Line in Japan has ordered four 8,120 teu container ships from Japanese shipbuilder IHI Marine United and five 5,624 teu boxships from Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. The latest newbuildings will replace existing chartered vessels at major routes when they are delivered from mid-2006 to early-2007. The larger ...
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Austal?s financial loss
The release of Austal Ship?s results for the 2002-2003 financial year revealed the tough times endured by the builder during the past year with the company posting a net loss of A$18.7 million.Austal management has vowed the company, which has A$320 million in orders for 2004 and 2005, will return ...
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Universal delivers Energy Star
Universal Shipbuilding in Japan delivered a 75,318DWT panamax bulk carrier, Energy Star, on September 2. The ship was ordered by Sun Lanes Shipping S. A. in Panama. The ship is 225m long, 32.2m wide and 19.15m deep with a draft of 13.841m. The 39,691GT vessel is powered by a MAN ...
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US sends polluted fleet to the UK
A fleet of 13 rusting US ships, heavily polluted with asbestos, oil and deadly PCBs, will embark on the 4,500-mile journey from America's east coast to the UK?s Hartlepool facilities in the next month amid warnings from salvage experts that they risk bringing an environmental disaster in their wake says ...
