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Better by design
A DOR (Design, Operation, and Regulation) for Safety ? or in short SAFEDOR ? is the name of an ambitious initiative towards an integrated project within the 6th Framework Program (FP6) of the European Commission. The aim is to enhance safety through innovation and to strengthen the competitiveness of the ...
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From science fiction to science fact
As one of five strategic programmes in DNV Research, nanotechnology is a new area of high interest and relevance for the classification society. "We?ve been aware of this for at least two or three years but we started looking at it in earnest this year due to some internal reorganisation," ...
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Getting the best from companies
Best4 is a new quality, environment, safety and social accountability integrated certification scheme being offered by RINA. "It is a measure of the business excellence of a company and its capacity to carry out sustainable tasks in terms of management of the company for safety at sea, safety of life ...
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Rules that need tweaking
While most participants in the single-hull versus double-hull debate accept that a second hull is not a panacea, it is acknowledged that it is an acceptable and cost effective way of preventing oil spills in certain types of tanker incidents, such as low energy groundings or collisions. Lloyd?s Register says, ...
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A question of rules
By now, most are aware of what exactly the new generation of classification rules for oil tankers are. The new Common Rules for Tankers are aimed at establishing a global standard, increased structural durability, longer asset life and the elimination of competition on minimum structural scantlings. The intention is also ...
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Jones act 2
Following on from the delivery of the 2,6000TEU boxship MV Manukai from Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard (KPSI) to the San Francisco-based Matson Navigation Company, as reported in The Motor Ship in October 2003, a second vessel has now been delivered. The MV Maunawili ? a CV2600 Philadelphia Class containership is the ...
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Taking action against poor copies
In recent years there have been a growing number of reports emerging from all sections of the maritime community about damage or accidents caused by the inadvertent use of imitation ship machinery parts.Because imitation parts are manufactured illegally without due respect for patent rights and other intellectual property laws, they ...
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Optimum and innovative propulsion
Expert knowledge is said to be responsible for the increasing popularity of Bakker Sliedrecht?s diesel-electric propulsion systems. The company is acutely aware of the sharp increase in the application of electric drive systems for main and auxiliary propulsion systems, and for bow- and sternthrusters, particularly with the advance of low ...
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The shaft alignment problem
Proper operation of marine propulsion machinery requires the shafting to be correctly aligned in all ship operating conditions. Modern propulsion technology has raised the demands made on analysis of the ship?s shaft alignment. The various bearings are displaced by carefully controlled amounts (offsets) to achieve a favourable balancing of bearing ...
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River cruise innovation
The first of six innovative river cruise vessels is currently under construction at Neptun Stahlbau GmbH in Rostock-Warnemuende, a subsidiary of Meyer Werft Papenburg, and scheduled for delivery end of May 2005. The shipowner is Premicon AG, Munich, founded in 1998 and focused on operation of river cruise vessels and ...
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Smooth Swath ferries
Two SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) vessels, designed by BMT Nigel Gee and Associates, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology (BMT), and built in Holland at the Vlissingen yard of the Damen Shipyards Group for the Province of Zeeland, entered service in April this year. Designed to offer a ...
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Innovation and invention
On 12 September 2004, ESAB celebrated its centenary. "The world is now a vastly different place than the one Oscar Kjellberg, ESAB?s founder, knew at the start of the last century," says Jon Templeman, the company?s CEO.He explains that at that time heavy steel manufacturing was centred on Europe and ...
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Safer high-speed craft on the horizon
Although maligned for its excessive and unnecessary bureaucratic interference, the EU does support worthwhile projects such as the development of safer ?high speed craft? (HSC), i.e. ships with design speeds of well over 30 knots. The need for this project was derived from EU?s attempts to alleviate congestion on the ...
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Norwegian stealth taps the deep
Norway's maritime research and construction sectors are successfully exploiting a paradox ? they are selling silence to niche market on a global scale at healthy profit margins.The vessel design is being pushed forward by Skipteknisk AS, consulting naval architects and marine engineers in Ålesund Norway and the latest research vessel ...
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Germany builds ?Blue Angel? standard research vessel
The Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde, a non-university research institute dedicated to interdisciplinary marine research in coastal and marginal seas, is expanding its capabilities with a new, state-of-the-art, ice-breaking research vessel. The newbuilding, is to be named Maria S Merian, and will operate in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea ...
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Relume expands Arabian Gulf services
In July this year when MENAS showed off its new multipurpose light tender vessel Relume in a naming ceremony at Damen Shipyards? Scheldepoort facility in Vlissingen, The Netherlands, it was apparent that this was no ordinary vessel. "The new Relume marks a major transformation in the character of our organisation," ...
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On the up
The maverick Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who has just received a mandate to continue as president for the next three years, declared at a top-level meeting of Mercosur ministers and leaders that he wanted Venezuela to become a member of the trade bloc within the next year. He then went ...
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Back on course
In June this year the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), Miami, announced that the production of the cruise liner Pride of America shall be continued at Germany?s Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven. The vessel sunk at the fitting out quay during a stormy night in January this year, after listing caused an ...
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The changing face of Naval architecture
In an interview with The Motor Ship, Nigel Gee described naval architecture as the second oldest profession in the world. He said "The modern science of naval architecture was established during the industrial revolution with the basic methodologies established for hull design, resistance prediction, propulsion, stability and structural strength. Little ...
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Austal launches world?s largest aluminium ship
Australian builder of high speed vessels, Austal, has launched what is said to be the largest aluminium ship ever built, the 127m trimaran ferry Benchijigua Express.As well as being a significant ship on the world high-speed vessel scene because of its size, the vessel has a notable ability to give ...
