Industry News – Page 618
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Hamburg pushes out boat for boxships
The port of Hamburg has reached the halfway mark in its most ambitious development since its post-war reconstruction. The scale of the CTA (Container Terminal Altenwerder) project ? including its 8650 million price tag and 20-year timetable ? is truly immense, and the outcome promises truly exceptional facilities for container ...
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Japanese CRP pod ferry order
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to build two high-speed ropax ferries, featuring CRP Azipod propulsion, for Osaka-based Shin-Nihonkai Ferries. It is the first application of the innovative contra-rotating pod propulsion solution devised by ABB.Both ships will be built at MHI?s Nagasaki yard and are slated for delivery in June 2004. ...
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Ultimate roro newbuilding from Flensburg
Earlier this year the German shipyard of Flensburg laid the keel for the first unit in a new five-ship series of roro ferries ordered by the Danish ferry operator DFDS. The lead ship in this new roro 3900 design, is scheduled for delivery towards the end of September this year ...
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Trimaran design takes to the air
The Dynamic Assisted Trimaran or DAT is a unique combination of super slender monohull, multihull and hydrofoil technology. Originally developed by TechMan, the key features of the design have each been carefully selected to maximize the DAT?s potential as a passenger vessel. Potential applications also exist as a ro-pax vessel, ...
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Norwegian supply ships go gas powered
This year marks a remarkable double event in the Norwegian offshore industry with the delivery of the world?s first two gas-driven cargo carrying ships. These platform supply vessels, ordered by the shipping companies Eidesvik and Simon M?kster Shipping, will operate on a 10 year charter to Norway?s state owned energy ...
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New anchor handler set to take the strain
Like the shipping industry, the offshore industry can be a very conservative business. New concepts and new ideas are not always taken up as quickly as they might be in an industry where the ?bottom line? is so important and margins so slim.If, however, a new idea can save the ...
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Germans build Iranian feeders
Six 2,478 TEU feeder boxships ordered by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) will be equipped with MacGregor hatch covers with a partial box design offering improved construction, maintenance, and operational characteristics. The Tehran-based owner has ordered the MTW 2500 type containerships from Norway?s Aker Kvaerner Yards group, which ...
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Cruise lines analyse pod stress waves
Cruise operators are using stress wave analysis to monitor the condition of azimuthing pod drives and minimise the risk of unscheduled downtime due to bearing degradation. Most installations to date have taken place on ABB Azipods, but the stress wave analysis technology developed by US company Swantech has recently had ...
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Composite prop trials
The world?s largest composite propeller, measuring 2.9m in diameter, has recently completed sea trials. QinetiQ, which undertook the trials on the Royal Naval vessel Triton, describes the outcome of the tests as successful, with a smooth take up of power and reduced vibration achieved.While the tests were undertaken on a ...
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Ice and coatings next
Class societies must become much more involved with coatings within the next 10 years because of their impact on corrosion protection and fatigue according to Wilhelm Magelssen, vice president of DNV Maritime and head of the Norwegian classification society's technical support projects group. He reckons that rules will probably develop ...
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Payback dogs VOC recycling
Oscar Spieler, technical director at Frontline, says that it is not commercially viable for an independent tanker operator to retrofit a VOC vapour recovery system to his ships since the cost is currently unrecoverable. Frontline has tested a prototype VOC recycling system, developed in cooperation with compatriot Norwegian company Venturie, ...
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Japanese CRP pod ferry order
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to build two high-speed ropax ferries, featuring CRP Azipod propulsion, for Osaka-based Shin-Nihonkai Ferries. It is the first application of the innovative contra-rotating pod propulsion solution devised by ABB.Both ships will be built at MHI's Nagasaki yard and are slated for delivery in June 2004. ...
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Cruise lines analyse pod stress waves
Cruise operators are using stress wave analysis to monitor the condition of azimuthing pod drives and minimise the risk of unscheduled downtime due to bearing degradation. Most installations to date have taken place on ABB Azipods, but the stress wave analysis technology developed by US company Swantech has recently had ...
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Whiff of sulphur
Just as the whiff of vapour rising from oiled beaches started to drift away on the wind, or at least showed signs of being contained inside the double-hulls of the next generation of tankers, another bad smell has started to waft over shippers. Sulphur, that devil's fire-and-brimstone favourite, is in ...
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MOL reduces oil spill risk
Mitsui O.S.K. lines (MOL) plans to build car carriers on which the fuel tanks are protected by the double hull. It is incorporating the design feature in 12 new ships, planned for launch between 2004 and 2006, to minimise the risk of a fuel spill in the case of an ...
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Goltens faster grind
Goltens has launched a new range of crankshaft repair tools that it says can slash repair time by 50 per cent. The tools, which can be used for insitu crankshaft repairs on new generation low-speed engines, are the result of a three-year R&D programme. Three designers and one machinist have ...
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International law in jeopardy from EU
There are countless arguments against the EUs unilateral action to bring forward the internationally agreed phase-out dates of single hull tankers. Intertanko, the representative body for independent tanker owners, has heard them all. But one seems to raise its ire more than others."The flouting of international law is a major ...
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Buckling up for more robust ships
Three major incidents in three years have woken the industry up to the fact that post-Marpol, buckling is a far more critical design strength factor than pre-Marpol. Erika, Prestige and to a lesser extent Castor have demonstrated that current minimum buckling criteria for decks, bottoms and girders only take strength ...
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Machinery on tripartite meeting agenda
The second tripartite meeting of Intertanko, Intercargo and the International Chamber of Shipping will have the robustness of machinery on the agenda. The meeting, scheduled for Seoul on September 29-30, will address some of the questions raised by the three organisations' members over the maintenance and reliability of machinery. Questions ...
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VOCstop and low smoking oil barrels
Recent reports from CRUCOSGA and the National Academy of Science estimate that 0.2% of a crude oil tanker's cargo is lost through vapour emissions. Over the course of a year the total loss is estimated at more than 6 million tons. Much of the loss is a result of crew ...
