Industry News – Page 636
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Engine room extinguisher from Kashiwa
Kashiwa has launched a fire extinguisher for fighting fires in the engine room. Called Hyper-Mist it uses a high pressure jet nozzle and is suitable for use on ships of all sizes including VLCCs, says Kashiwa. The company says it has received an order from a South Korean shipyard for ...
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Frigate of the future
Karl-Otto Sadler, the former programme manager of the ARGE F124 consortium of German shipyards (Blohm & Voss, HDW and Thyssen Nordseewerke), responsible for building the Sachsen-class air defence frigate published his ideas about advanced corvette and frigate designs in 1999, after his retirement. The publication formed the nucleus for a ...
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Second generation Lindenau tankers
In August this year the third of three sister vessels ordered by German Tanker Shipping, Bremen, from Lindenau Shipyard was launched in Kiel. Delivery of the vessel will take place later this year. These three vessels are the first new buildings of Lindenau?s second generation of tankers with double-skinned hulls. ...
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Lips marks a first in prop and fin combination
Low fuel consumption has always been a high priority for ship owners, but demands for low propeller-induced pressure pulses and noise level may even be more important in many applications. However, maximum propeller efficiency and minimum hull pressure forces and noise level are somewhat conflicting demands. The Finnmarken is a ...
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Keeping hatch covers watertight
Water ingress from whatever cause is one of the main reasons of damage to cargoes onboard ships and occasionally, in extreme cases, can lead to the foundering of a vessel as highlighted in a number of recent bulk carrier casualties. The cause is often seawater entering cargo spaces through leaky ...
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Keeping tabs on battery performance
Merlin?s Expert-501 battery monitor displays voltage, current (+/-), amp hours consumed, per cent remaining and time remaining until flat on its LCD display. The unit also shows historical information such as battery efficiency (to look for battery sulphation or cells going down), number of cycles, average depth of discharge, deepest ...
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Strategic offers free confirmed delivery
Strategic Software has developed a confirmed delivery Internet e-mail service which, its says, allows users to take advantage of cheap e-mail messaging. The company says it is already providing the service, free-of-charge, to over 600 shipping companies. The service is being offered as a free upgrade to all Strategic and ...
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ShipServ and Seavantage join forces
ShipServ and Seavantage say that by joining forces they have created a $250 million ship supply market with a 250,000 purchase order potential in the ship supply management sector. The new company will keep the ShipServ name. ShipServ is active in Scandinavia and the UK, while Seavantage has its customer ...
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Northrop Grumman to supply new US Navy destroyers
Northrop Grumman has won a contract from Bath Iron Works to supply commercial-off-the-shelf surface search radars for new Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) Class destroyers. It will supply the Decca BridgeMaster E naval radars for the next 19 ships in the class, replacing the SPS-64 radars installed on the earlier DDG ...
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Saville Marine goes on-line
Saville Marine, suppliers of marine equipment, diesel engine spare parts and marine services has launched a new web site at www.savillemarine.co.uk. The company?s products include air compressors, deck machinery, steering gear, valves, eductors, incinerators and generators. The site gives details of the company?s major franchises such as Hatlapa, Atlas, Bolaco, ...
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Stena Line fleet gets satellite systems
Stena Line has entered a five-year deal with Telenor for satellite communication for around 30 vessels in the company?s fleet. Stena Line says the deal will allow it to provide improved service for passengers including e-mail, Internet and telephony services as well as gaining access to the company?s booking system. ...
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Strategic launches new vessel operations system
Shipbroking systems supplier, Strategic Software, has launched VesselOps 1.0, an integrated vessel operations and voyage management system. The system was developed in co-operation with the Armada Group, the panamax bulk carrier owner and operator, who developed the Armada Shipping System in the 1980s. An integration module to standard finance and ...
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Second Taiwanese port order for Transas
Transas Marine Pacific, in co-operation with its Taiwanese agent, Seven Seas Electronic, has received an order for another vessel traffic service (VTS) system in Taiwan, following the company?s installation of a Navi-Traffic system in the Port of Keelung in 1997. The system is for Ho-Ping, a private port on the ...
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On-line exchange up and running
LevelSeas has announced that shipping services group Clarksons has joined its on-line trading exchange LSX following the launch of version 2.0 of the exchange. The new site allows charterers, owners or brokers to negotiate and fix vessels online. LevelSeas has also announced the launch of LSOps 1.0, a new ship ...
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KMSS wins Canadian Navy contract
The Canadian Navy has awarded Kongsberg Maritime Ship Systems (KMSS) a $1.75m contract to supply 63 navigational part task trainers to Naval Reserve and regular force units across Canada. The contract will provide field deployable simulators to give ship officers the ability to undertake self study in ship handling and ...
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Dredging packages from De Groot Nijkerk
IHC Holland may be the Netherlands? best known dredger builder, but several other smaller concerns - such as De Groot Nijkerk, part of the Damen group of companies - are also highly successful, and innovative in their own right. Among De Groot Nijkerk?s latest projects is a bucket dredger that ...
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The incredible bulk
Bulk carrier design rarely warrants more than a passing mention. The ships are often seen as little more than strengthened barges with engines. And clichés like "sausage factory", are commonly used to describe the production line of yards building them. But nobody could level such accusations at Gypsum Transportation?s new ...
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The incredible bulk
Bulk carrier design rarely warrants more than a passing mention. The ships are often seen as little more than strengthened barges with engines. And clichés such as "sausage factory" are commonly used to describe the production line of yards building them. But nobody could level such accusations at Gypsum Transportation?s ...
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Europort time again
Europort ? to be held at Amsterdam?s RAI centre from November 13 to 17 ? will this year feature more than 550 exhibitors representing just about every aspect of sea transport and technology. A dozen national pavilions ? from Belgium, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom, Austria, the United States, South ...
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Speed to the front line
With a draught of under 4m and ramping facilities for discharging armoured wheeled and tracked vehicles at virtually any cove or inlet, high speed catamarans can claim a logistical advantage that is not available to conventional amphibious craft. Military personnel are projected closer to the combat theatre and much-needed supplies ...
