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Carriers to boost UK shipbuilders
The UK shipbuilding industry, or what remains of it, is heavily dependant on defence contracts for its survival. The forthcoming future aircraft carrier (CVF) programme will be crucial in this respect and essential to ensuring the long-term survival of the industry. The projected contract will involve the construction of two ...
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The birth of a transatlantic giant
The keel laying of Cunard Line?s Queen Mary 2 (QM2) at the French shipyard of Chantiers de l?Atlantique on July 4 represented a landmark in the history of passenger-ship building. This newbuilding, costing £540 million ($788 million), will be the largest, longest, tallest, widest, and most expensive passenger ship ever ...
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Ringed propellers set for comeback
For more or less a century the propeller has been a much-studied and highly-developed feature of modern ship design. So while it is perhaps surprising to find attempts to reinvent this particular wheel, there are aspects of performance which still tempt engineers looking to make improvements.One benefit which has lured ...
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Y-shaped support web for unsinkability
Earlier this year the Waterhuizen shipyard in Groningen, the Netherlands, delivered a gas tanker with a collision resistant hull to which the hull designer attaches the bold adjective unsinkable. The ship, for Dutch owner Chemgas, is the first of two vessels built to the concept. It is designed to carry ...
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Noise is next
There are numerous national and international codes that recommend and, in some cases, demand that noise levels are kept below certain limits. This applies not just to noise levels outside a ship but also to the noise levels in various parts of the ship. This has placed greater demands on ...
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CMA CGM bids to join box ship elite
A top five position is sought. The break has been made into the top ten. But Marseilles-based CMA CGM must still increase fleet capacity by more than 50%, without overstretching itself financially, if it is to overtake the strong players ahead of it and achieve an internal aim to be ...
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Thais after Vanessa
In a couple of months, chemical tanker operator Fouquet-Sacop takes delivery of the second of two 15,500 dwt ships from Portuguese shipbuilder Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo (Vianayard). The vessel, called FS Thais, will like its sistership FS Vanessa, delivered earlier this year, transport petroleum-based products (such as crude, ...
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BV looks to FSA
Bureau Veritas is involved in a number of Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) studies that include the EC projects Nereus and Safety First for stability safety and fire safety of passenger roros respectively, a Safety at Speed project for design safety of high speed craft and an IACS PT/SSI assessment of ...
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Hanjin trio for Delmas
Delmas, the Le Havre based shipping line, will this month take delivery of the third in a three ship series of 1,641 TEU container ships. The ships, Elisa Delmas, Flora Delmas and the soon to be delivered Gaby Delmas, have all been built at Korea?s Hanjin Heavy Industries for operation ...
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Izar delivers electric dredger
French owner GIE Dragages Ports has taken delivery of a hopper dredger with electric propulsion. The 5,000m3 trailing suction hopper dredger was built at Spanish shipbuilding group Izar?s yard in Gijon, northern Spain. It is called Daniel Laval.Daniel Laval is intended to operate in water depths ranging from 1 to ...
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Spain secures Faroe ferry order
Spanish shipbuilder Izar has secured another valuable ferry order in the shape of a ropax to be operated by Strandfaraskip Landsins (SSL), the state-owned shipping company of the Faroe Islands. This ferry company currently operates 10 ferries and its activities are concentrated on domestic routes transporting goods and passengers between ...
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Shogun shows the green way
Pioneering spirit transcends through generations. If The Motor Ship owes its existence to any one company, Italian shipping line Mediterranea di Navigazione is a definite contender.In 1910, Giorgio Cagnoni, the great grandfather of the company?s current ceo Paolo Cagnoni, was the first European shipowner to be convinced by the advantages ...
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A fruity car carrier
Great American Lines Inc (GALI), pioneer of the two-way traffic concept on its transpacific service between the US and Japan based on cars and citrus fruit, has, earlier this year, received delivery of a 60,587g vehicles and refrigerated goods carrier. Named Sunbelt Spirit, the design of this newbuilding is based ...
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Ten a pen on cattle ship
Meeting demand to deliver high volumes of livestock in first class condition to long distance markets has been a guiding principle behind the design of Becrux ? one of the largest custom built livestock vessels ever built.The 176.7m Becrux, is operating on the Australia to Middle East trade. It sailed ...
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Hydrodynamics or pod integrity
That pods have suffered teething problems isn?t in dispute. What is causing the problems, though, and how to resolve them are still hotly debated.Juha Hanhinen, a hydrodynamics specialist at Finnish engineering and design consultancy Deltamarin and a participant in Optipod ? the EU backed project aiming to develop design guidelines ...
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Pod mechanics move forward
Like a child growing up, the path to technical maturity isn?t always trouble-free. So in spite of its problems, it should always be remembered that podded propulsion technology remains in its infancy.Computer design and models can take theory so far. But there comes a stage with all new technology where ...
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CODED comes of age
A number of Finnish companies are working together to produce vessel concepts that combine diesel-electric with diesel-mechanical machinery. Wärtsilä, the engine manufacturer, Kvaerner Masa-Yards, the shipbuilder, and ABB, the electrical systems developer, are among those companies studying alternative machinery solutions for fast ropax vessels under the joint Finnish shipbuilding research ...
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Schottel launches compact pod
Responding to a perceived market demand for electric drives with power ratings under 5 MW, the German propulsors manufacturer, Schottel, has launched a small compact pod-type drive. The drive, called the Schottel Electric Propulsor (SEP), has been under development over the past two years. It will be ready for delivery ...
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Keeping it in the country
The growth of Korea into the world?s leading shipbuilding nation has not troubled Europe?s critical equipment manufacturers. Korea?s shipyards have largely bought their steel and other non-critical components locally while relying on the tried and trusted, largely European, base of suppliers for critical components. The Korean yards having derived much ...
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Picking up boxes
The government and the shipyard marketing departments may be anxious to connect the future of Korean shipbuilding with high value ships, but the reality of today is that much of the shipyards? capacity is taken up by fairly standard vessels ? container ships among them. Without these standard ships the ...
