Industry News – Page 664
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Cable layer gets acoustic system
A Sonardyne USBL (Ultra-Short Base Line) acoustic positioning system has been chosen by submarine cable company Global Marine for installation aboard its new cable layer Bold Endeavour. The 5,500t vessel is designed to lay up to 8,820km of continuous cable with repeaters at 40km intervals. The ship is required to ...
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Ship engine simulators
The new STN Atlas SES 4000 series of engine room simulators are based on real-time physical mathematical models instead of traditional look-up tables, says the company. The simulators cover all aspects of engine operation from planning schedules and operational procedures to analysis of engine performance, monitoring, control functions and fault ...
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B+V`s high profile repairs
Repairs to the 15 x 6m hole in the port side of container vessel Ever Decent were carried out afloat at Blohm+Voss Repair. The yard also repaired a smaller penetration higher in the ship`s side and an 8m crack in the superstructure. A total of 40 tonnes of steel were ...
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Major engine repair
Repairs to the four Pielstick 12PC3V-480 main engines on DFDS passenger ferry Princess of Scandinavia are underway at MAN B&W`s Servicecenter Frederikshavn. The engines, which have logged about 160,000 running hours over the last 23 years, have developed cracks in the A frames. Servicecenter Frederikshavn is acting as ...
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Costa Classica goes to Birkenhead
Cammell Laird`s Birkenhead yard has won the hotly contested contract to convert the 52,926g Italian cruise ship Costa Classica. Valued at £51 million ($84.15 million) to the yard, this is said to be the world`s largest cruise ship conversion to date. The cost to owner Costa Crociere is put at ...
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HMD conversions
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard is converting the 9,216g roro/lolo ship Astana into a cable layer/repair vessel for Canadian owner Secunda Marine Services. Conversion work involves the fabrication and installation of four cable tanks, including one spare, and installation of four generator sets, four thrusters and a dynamic positioning system. Five deck ...
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New Syncrolift for Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi Ship Building has placed an order with Syncrolift for a 2,100t nominal lift capacity shiplift as part of its yard expansion plan. The additional facility will allow ADSB to compete with Dubai`s Jadaf contractors for regional repair work. The lift platform will measure 77m x 20m ...
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It`s showtime
The 29th International Maritime Exhibition and 11th International Inland Shipping Exhibition will be held at Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands, on 16-20 November. All sectors of the International maritime industry will be represented at the show. Among the many companies exhibiting are: 4Sea Trading will introduce a new safety lifting hook ...
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Sloppy mess faces owners
Ship operators are increasingly seen as a prime target for tough environmental regulations, especially in the USA. One particular challenge is the demand to segregate out hazardous wastes. Unfortunately such actions depend on the definition of hazardous waste, and this is impacting on operations, especially those of cruise ships. While ...
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A year in pancake time
With the market flat in all sectors companies in the tanker trade are looking much further ahead for an upturn. The picture painted by charterers and owners is bleak. There are no bright spots anywhere in the tanker trades, although some companies are slightly more optimistic than others. Although there ...
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UK yard delivers largest Tricat
The UK yard of FBM Marine has delivered its largest ever Tricat fast ferry to Greek owner Agapitos Lines. The 53m Sea Speed 1 is an elongated version of FBM?s well-proven TriCat 45, the first of which was built in 1995. Last year FBM built a TriCat 45, Athina 2004 ...
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Keeping up traditions
Currently around $7 billion of vessels are under construction or on order world-wide for Norwegian interests, including nearly a hundred ships and a number of mobile offshore platforms. The global Norwegian merchant fleet amounts to around 1,600 vessels and 52.5 million dwt, and covers a broad spectrum of ship types. ...
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Freight duo enter North Sea service
The first of a pair of 20,000 gross roro freight ferries was delivered in July to Bore by Aker Finnyard. Both Norsky and sistership Norstream, to be delivered in October, are being chartered from Finnish owner Oy Rettig ab Bore by P&O North Sea Ferries for service on its Zeebrugge ...
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Package gives a good deal
Nine months after the genset engine made its debut, the propulsion version of the L27/38 has been launched by MAN B&W Alpha. At the same time the company has introduced a dedicated range of modular gearboxes and a new engine/gearbox monitoring system. At about 2MW, the 6L27/38 with its gearbox ...
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Japanese yards set to restructure
Japanese shipbuilders say the problems they face because of continuing competition from Korea and China, and premature ordering from many shipowners in the past 12-18 months, are being compounded by the value of the Yen, and that spin-offs and mergers among the major yards are inevitable. Against this backdrop, the ...
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Coatings legislation moves ahead
Although certain interest groups have endeavoured to put a different interpretation on the results of the proceedings, it is clear that the most recent meeting of the IMO`s marine environment protection committee (MEPC) has moved the industry closer towards a global ban on tin-containing antifoulings. Despite claims to the contrary ...
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EU reconsiders yard subsidies
In November EU industry ministers have to decide whether shipyard aid should stop at the end of 2000. The production subsidies will stop unless the current legislation is changed. Ahead of the meeting the EU is gathering information on the funding of shipyards world-wide and especially in Korea. If there ...
