Industry News – Page 622
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STENA CALYPSO Oil travels fir st class with C-Max
Specialist niche markets often require new designs incorporating innovative solutions to meet the needs of the trade. One such example is Stena Bulk?s recently introduced combined product/ LPG carrier newbuilding. The second in the two-ship C-Max series, the 10,000 dwt Stena Calypso, made the short voyage from the Polish shipbuilder ...
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On the level
The present Dutch government has granted its shipbuilders 860 million ($58.6 million) in subsidies over the next 18 months under the provisions of the European Commission?s Temporary Defensive Mechanism (TDM). National shipbuilders expect the new parliament, which will be elected early next year, to maintain the policy.TDM subsidies have been ...
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Striving for logistics and lines efficiency
Efficiency is a key driver of success. The quality of product from established European shipyards is largely unquestioned so any process that brings efficiency, however small an impact, can improve price competitiveness and make the difference between winning and losing a contract.Krimpen aan den IJssel-based shipyard van der Giessen-de Noord, ...
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VOC plans more
Van Ommeren Clipper Shipping (VOC) is planning more handymax bulk carrier newbuildings and is considering configurations such as double skins and wide hatches. "We are looking at various further options," says the company?s managing director Gary Vogel.The company has already placed orders for three handymax bulk carriers with Japanese shipbuilders ...
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Looking to air
Since William Froude discovered a ship?s resistance could be divided into frictional resistance and residual resistance much research has focused on reducing the impact of these two elements.Dr CH Thill, project manager for ships powering at Marin, the Dutch research institute, says computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools have largely brought ...
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Chilled out gas ca rrier
As part of its fleet renewal policy, Norwegian shipping company I.M. Skaugen (IMS) contracted the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group in Shanghai, China, to build a new generation of six ethylene LPG gas carriers known as ?super coolers?. These state-of-the-art semi-refrigerated gas carriers have been designed, commissioned and built specifically to comply ...
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Power and sales up
There have been a number of additions to the auxiliary engines market of late and, for some manufacturers, increased sales. Volvo Penta says that, despite declining markets, it has managed to increase sales, particularly in the commercial marine market where it saw an increase of 14%. "We have been operating ...
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Rescue always on hand
China?s Yantai Raffles shipyard has delivered an emergency towing vessel to the UK?s Klyne Tugs for operation by the UK?s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). The vessel will provide emergency response cover in the waters surrounding the British Isles. The MCA has four vessels on charter from Klyne Tugs stationed ...
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Specialisation is just part of the story
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has launched a commercial software package for passenger evacuation analysis. Aeneas, as it is called, allows shipyards and owners to plan and process security in the design phase through realistic simulations of evacuation processes. GL says that it not only performs very fast simulations, it also provides ...
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Burundi cargo ship
Burundi, a landlocked central African state, which, naturally, is not normally associated with shipbuilding, has recently hosted the construction of a general cargo vessel with a 1,500t carrying capacity. The newbuilding, Teza, was built entirely in Burundi by the local ship owner Batralac and will operate on the country?s Lake ...
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Swift handling reefers
Earlier this year, the exasperation of Greece?s Restis Group at the inability of Taiwanese shipbuilder CSBC to construct two vessels to the contracted schedule resulted in Seatrade Groningen getting its two largest capacity reefer ships. When Restis?s patience ran out, it cancelled its contract. CSBC put the near-complete ships up ...
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Doubling up proves of benefit beyond safety
Two is sounder than one. That was the philosophy behind the introduction of mandatory requirements for double skins on oil tankers and the same theory underlies arguments for legislation demanding double skins on bulk carriers. Yet the two-for-one call on bulk carriers is not purely one of safety.The only clear ...
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Double hulls ? the way forward for bulkers?
Mention the word ?bulk carrier? and most of us conjure up images of rust-buckets which, all too often, are run by non-compliant owners and operators working on minimalist budgets with little or no regard for the safety of seafarers or the environment. Terminal operators who are motivated by economic greed ...
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Daewoo looks at gas for gas
Korean yard Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has presented an extensive study, in partnership with the influential Gaztransport & Technigaz of France, which concludes that gas turbine propulsion systems for LNG carriers have an advantage over steam turbine based systems in terms of increased cargo volume, which leads to "a ...
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Partial filling of membrane type tanks
Membrane LNG tankers can handle offshore cargo transfers and partial filling operations without any drastic changes to their design, according to a study conducted by Bureau Veritas (BV) and Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT).The findings were disclosed by Wong Kin Hoong, chief executive of Bureau Veritas Singapore, when he spoke at ...
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New gas market
Don?t hold your breath, but? There is a body of opinion within the industry that believes the transportation of carbon dioxide (CO2) represents a growth market. If this view is correct, the CO2 market could provide opportunities for shipowners, shipyards and specialist equipment manufacturers alike."[Because of the]? reduction of CO2 ...
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Hydrate plants for stranded gas fields
Japan?s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has awarded Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) a development grant to assist it in the construction of a 600kg/day output natural gas hydrate continuous production plant.The demonstrator plant is being built to verify the effectiveness of a high-speed natural gas hydrate ...
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Ship-shaped units set to intervene in North Sea
Subsea oil wells need regular maintenance to operate efficiently. In the past, divers carried out much of this work. More recently the task has been performed from semi-submersible platforms. Attention has now turned to the potential use of ship-shaped well intervention vessels, which are self-propelled and able to carry out ...
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First UT 737 enters service
With the recent delivery of the Normand Flower from Norwegian shipyard S?viknes Verft, Rolls-Royce Marine has seen the first example of its completely new UT 737 design enter service. The 4,100 dwt vessel, described as one of the world?s most advanced multipurpose offshore vessels, features a DP-3 classification and includes ...
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High speed sea routes hasten EU transport
Some 18 months after announcing they were collaborating on a significant project, Rolls-Royce and Izar revealed at the SMM exhibition last month the nature of their plans in the shape of a new European high speed cargo vessel (EHSCV). Spurred by the European Union?s Marco Polo programme and its promise ...
