Industry News – Page 666
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Bahamas yard to open January
A new shiprepair yard will commence operations in the Bahamas in January 2000. A 35,000tl, 280 x 35.5m floating dock is already en route to the islands, and a newbuilding order for a second, larger unit will be placed shortly. The new yard, a 60/40 partnership between the Grand Bahamas ...
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Orskov wins cable layer conversion
Orskov Christensens Staalskibvaerft will convert the 9,975g former Scandline roro-passenger ferry Heimdal into a cable layer for new owner Tele Danmark International Marine. The vessel arrives at Orskov?s Frederikshavn yard on September 2 and is due for redelivery on March 1, 2000. On completion the ship will be used for ...
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ISO 9001 for Colombo
Colombo Dockyard has been awarded ISO 9001 certification for ?Design and construction of small and medium crafts, including high speed aluminium crafts, drydocking of ships up to 130,000dwt, and major repair of ships, engineering, engineering project management, manufacture and installation of pressure vessels, piping and heavy engineering structures?. CDL?s QA ...
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Brazilian offshore upgrades
Astromaritima Navegacao, the largest Brazilian offshore vessel owner, is investing $4.5 million in upgrading three of its 55m OSVs. A third engine and second bow thruster unit will be installed on two of the vessels, increasing overall power to 3,205kW (4,300 bhp). The third vessel will be stretched by 9m ...
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KHZ buys from KMI
Keppel Hitachi Zosen (KHZ) has agreed to purchase the shiprepair, shipbuilding and marine related activities of Keppel Marine Industries for S$166.9 million ($98.9 million). The deal covers KMI?s interests in shipbuilder and repairer Keppel Singmarine Dockyard (100 per cent), afloat repairer Eagle Engineering (100 per cent), Keppel UAE-Investment (100 per ...
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Collision ships to Germany
Cruise ship Norwegian Dream and container vessel Ever Decent have both docked in Germany following their widely publicised collision in the English Channel. After emergency repairs were carried out at Dover by A&P, Norwegian Dream proceeded to Lloyd Werft where the damaged bow is being cut away and replaced with ...
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Will Norway win The World?
Having failed to reach an agreement with Nuovi Cantieri Apuania shipyard in Italy, Bahamas-based ResidenSea is believed to be close to concluding a deal with Fosen Mekaniske Verksted shipyard in Norway to build The World, the first of a new type of cruise ship with flats for rent. Fosen is ...
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Check and detect
What is feasible is not necessarily desirable - and monitoring is a case in point. It is possible to monitor almost anything by measuring a combination of factors like vibration, temperatures, pressures, power consumption, resistance, or liquid levels - but do you need to? When does enough information to ensure ...
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Lubrication in cyberspace
The launch of internet services means that Castrol’s marine customers can call up technical and market information from anywhere in the world. Castrol Marine has utilised the internet to upgrade its customer services with the launch of its dedicated website, www.castrolmarine.com. The site provides a raft of on-line services ...
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Two horse chase
Increasingly the future for Spain as an international shipbuilding nation depends on the future of two groups, AESA and Boluda. Although there are shipbuilders in Spain other than AESA and Boluda, either their impact is limited, or they are focused more towards smaller ships and localised industries. Boluda ...
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In-service experience
Lauritzen Kosan Tankers is pleased with the in-service performance of two T-type LPG carriers, delivered by Hyundai in September and October last year. The pair of 5,750m3 capacity LPG carriers, Tessa Kosan and Tenna Kosen, are semi-pressurised and fully refrigerated vessels, with two independent holds. Designed for worldwide trading, they ...
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Deck machinery advances
In addition to improvements to the design existing types of deck gear, there are now alternatives to traditional mooring winch and rope arrangements Modern deck gear is more compact and has improved electric and hydraulic drives. One example of this is the new generation of frequency-controlled electric anchoring and mooring ...
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Hitchhiking organisms
Mandatory regulations are on their way to combat the problem of the transportation of marine organisms in ships’ ballast water. For the past ten years the IMO, via its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), has been working towards a mandatory regulatory framework to resolve the problem of the migration ...
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Small movements - big impact
Royal Caribbean’s engine problems created a major headache for MAN B&W’s medium-speed operation. For the first two or three years all went well. The MAN B&W 12V48/60 engines aboard Grandeur and Enchantment of the Seas performed well - then things started to go wrong. In February The Motor Ship broke ...
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Small draught, large payload
A dredger recently delivered to the Belgian DEME group has some surprising features. The 13,7003 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger, Lange Wapper, which was delivered to its owner, the Belgian DEME group, in May this year, represents a significant step forward in dredger design. The installation of sophisticated shipboard control ...
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Enthusiastic response to UK tonnage tax
Shipping organisations in the UK have responded enthusiastically to proposals outlined in August by UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in his White Paper Charting a New Course to introduce a tonnage tax regime for UK shipping. The decision to accept the recommendations of an independent enquiry on the subject ...
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Daewoo yard set to be spun off
As this issue of The Motor Ship was due to go to press, it became clear that creditors of Daewoo, the debt-laden South Korean chaebol, had agreed a plan for the break-up of the conglomerate. Under the plan, approved in mid-August, large parts of the Korean concern - including ...
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More good news for Kvaerner yards
Hard on the heels of Kvaerner’s announcement that it will sell its Kvaerner Govan shipyard in the UK to Marconi Electronic Systems, there has been more good news for Kvaerner yards in Germany and in the US. The Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction group has welcomed the agreement of the ...
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A P Moller seals Sea-Land deal
A P Moller Group and CSX Corporation have announced that they have reached a much anticipated agreement for A P Moller-Maersk Line to acquire Sea-Land Service Inc’s international liner business, a deal which includes vessels, containers, related container terminals, and certain lease obligations from CSX. The agreed purchase price ...
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Canada seeks to revitalise yards
Key organisations within the shipping and shipbuilding industries in Canada have banded together to produce what they have called a Joint Strategy Paper the aim of which is the revitalisation of the shipbuilding industry in Canada. The alliance of shipyard executives and union leaders also included the Shipbuilding Association ...
