Latest News – Page 523
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NewsBaseline management of coatings and fuel consumption
Wendy Laursen speaks to Jesse Millar, naval architect at BMT Design and Technology, to see how his company''s Baseline Management System can assist shipowners as they tackle the demands of energy efficiency and hull coating performance.
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NewsThe choreography of ship building
Offshore support vessels are becoming more and more densely engineered, especially in the North Sea where the oil majors play a large part in driving the technology relentlessly upward, says Stevie Knight.
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NewsComplete separator solutions
Dutch company KET Marine International, which specialises in providing complete solutions for separation requirements, says that it is now able to offer ‘plug and play’ solutions for electronic separator control units.
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NewsNew coatings compete on operational benefits
Investment in hull coatings is on the rise, and manufacturers are responding with a range of new performance promises, writes Wendy Laursen
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NewsMaking a good marriage
Stevie Knight says that holding hands with a Brazilian collaborator who knows the water may be the best way to negotiate the ‘local content’ directive and the mire of other regulations that Brazil is known for.
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NewsJapan’s first LNG-fuelled vessel to be built by NYK
Japanese company NYK has revealed plans to build a tug featuring a dual fuel engine that can run on either LNG or HFO.
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NewsRotterdam tug is first to use synthetic diesel
Dutch company Royal Boskalis has announced that the tug ‘Smit Elbe’, which is based in the port of Rotterdam, has become the first tug in the Netherlands to be fuelled with Shell GTL.
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NewsMAN looks at alternative fuels and optimising the existing fleet
MAN Diesel & Turbo was first to the market with an LNG-fuelled two-stroke engine, and is now looking other low flash point fuels, as well as helping existing vessels save fuel and meet emissions limits in order to remain competitive.
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NewsSecond Damen ice-class ro-pax for Canada
Damen Shipyards has been awarded a second contract from the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Government for an 80m ice-class ro-pax ferry.
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Russian billionaire may acquire troubled shipbuilding assets
Mikhail Gutseriev, Russian billionaire owner of the Russneft company, one of the country’s leading oil producers, is reported to be considering purchasing the Red Sormovo shipyard and the Proletarian factory in St. Petersburg, writes Eugene Gerden.
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NewsFerry design competition 2014
The World Ferry Safety Association (WFSA) has announced the coming year’s international student competition for designing a safe ferry.
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‘MOL Comfort’ investigation
ClassNK has set up a special Casualty Investigation Team in order to look in to and determine the cause of casualties, following the loss of the container vessels, ‘MOL Comfort’.
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NewsBuoyant enough for the market
The Deepwater Enabler is the response to a tipping point according to Bob Rietveldt of Ulstein. Cheap is no longer really viable if it limits what you can do, and given this, ‘more is better’ - Stevie Knight explains.
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NewsOdfjell brings new scale to chemical trades
‘Bow Pioneer’, delivered this year to Odfjell Tankers of Norway by DSME in South Korea, is the largest type 2 chemical tanker afloat, and is described here by David Tinsley.
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NewsTying it all together
Although people often seem to be looking for the next novel power source, it’s more likely that the offshore support market will see an increasingly complex set of combinations rather than a ‘one size fits all’ energy generator, says Stevie Knight.
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NewsPosition and economy?
“You can’t assume much about what’s really happening to fuel consumption when a vessel is in Dynamic Position mode,” David Barton of Global Maritime tells Stevie Knight.
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NewsLow-pressure dual-fuel engine technology comes to two-stroke market
Wärtsilä’s long-anticipated dual-fuel two-stroke engine has now been introduced to the market; we saw the first example in operation at the company’s Trieste plant in Italy.
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NewsLargest LNG ferry for France
Reports in French newspaper ‘Ouest France’ say that the STX St Nazaire shipyard and Brittany Ferries are cooperating on a project to build the world’s largest LNG-fuelled ferry, larger even than the ‘Viking Grace’.
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NewsWishing you a Merry Christmas
All the very best wishes for a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year from everyone at The Motorship.
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NewsClass approval for DP simulator
Kongsberg Maritime says that its K-Sim DP manoeuvring simulator, the latest and most advanced in the company’s DP training range, has received Class A Certification from DNV.
