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Mixing cargo and cruise passengers
They carry passengers, but they are much more than mere ferries. Hurtigruten ships provide a lifeline for Norway?s remote northern communities, bringing in essentials while taking local products out to market.A Hurtigruten ship is scheduled to leave Bergen every evening on an 11-day round-trip that can take it as far ...
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Cool and fast
In September 2000, German shipowner ER Schiffahrt/ Nordcapital, better known as Erck Rickmers, contracted compatriot shipbuilder SSW Fähr- und Spezialschiffbau to build up to 10 units of the shipyard?s Super 25-type container vessel. The initial order placed at the Bremerhaven yard called for five firm contracts plus five options, of ...
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New design safety vessel fights on all fronts
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Küstenschutz (coastal protection working group) ? set up by the towing companies Bugsier, Transport & Service, Fairplay and URAG ? has, in cooperation with SSW Fähr- und Spezialschiffbau, developed a new concept in safety vessels. Drawing on the modular design approach of naval warships, the design offers three optional ...
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Enlarged gear programme
Until passengers are prepared to pay very high ticket prices for speed, weight and cost will remain the most important parameters when looking at fast-ferry propulsion systems, with low fuel consumption and low emissions being the deciding design features.Against this background high-speed diesel engines have a strong position in the ...
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Heavy lift pair for Chipolbrok
Chipolbrok, the Sino-Polish shipping company, is upgrading its fleet with the building of two 30,000 dwt newbuildings at Shanghai Shipyard. The contract includes an option for a second pair. The ships will each have a 640t lifting capacity in addition to a container capacity of around 2,000 TEU.As with the ...
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Positively Posidonia
Posidonia 2002 is the 18th biennial International Shipping Exhibition at Piraeus, Athens, and as usual the organisers expect to break all records for attendance. The Motor Ship will be on hand, and visitors can pick up a copy of the magazine at our stand, number 807.Its organisers are probably justified ...
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Seeking global contracts
Among the more amazing and heart-warming stories, in these glum days of global recession and failing businesses, is one of a comprehensive turnaround, scripted by an Indian shipyard.Notorious for cost and time overruns that deterred prospective clients in the past, Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) has started delivering vessels on time ...
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Making up ground
Both Rolls-Royce and GE have taken engines from the wing and adapted them for use in the marine industry. And both companies agree that gas turbines have some ground to make up on diesel engines, with there being a considerable challenge ahead in converting the industry to the idea of ...
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MAN B&W draws up K108 engine
MAN B&W has designs for a 1,080mm bore engine. The company says it has confined the designs to the bottom of a drawer while the containership market, for which the so-called K108 engine is targeted, remains depressed. "[But] if the market necessitates we will be ready," says Gregers Thomsen, a ...
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Biggest Scania
Scania has launched its most powerful marine engine ever. The new DI16M can deliver up to 590kW of power. It is a watercooled, twin turbocharged, direct injection V8 engine. It has a bore of 127mm, a stroke of 154mm and a displacement of about 16 litres. The engine design features ...
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Wärtsilä gets more EnviroEngine orders
Wärtsilä has sold its first EnviroEngines that combine common-rail fuel injection with electronically-controlled direct water injection. P&O Princess Cruises has elected to install 12 EnviroEngines on four of its cruise ships under construction in Japan and France. Wärtsilä says the combination of the two technologies will allow the cruise ships ...
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Holeby first
The first onboard installation of MAN B&W?s L21/31 Holeby genset will not, as expected, be on one of the four DFDS Tor Line roro vessels on order at Flensburg Shipyard. Rather MAN B&W has won a contract to supply a pilot installation of two L21/31 gensets to a ship that ...
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More on UEC60LSE
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has released further details on development of a 600mm bore UEC LSE engine (see The Motor Ship, December 2001). It says it expects to complete design work by this April, with a shop trial planned for the first half of 2003. The engine is targeted as a ...
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Niigata bankruptcy
Niigata Engineering has sort court protection from its creditors. The company, whose business includes the design and manufacture of a range of medium-speed diesel engines and other propulsion machinery, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the face of crippling debts estimated at „227 billion ($1.84 billion). The company has supplied ...
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M.A. system ?reduces fuel consumption and emissions?
M.A. Turbo/Engine Design, based in Vancouver, Canada, has developed a water injection system specifically designed for retrofit to existing diesel engines which, it says, reduces both fuel consumption and emissions. The system has just been installed on two Detroit diesel engines of a ferry in San Francisco Bay?s Blue & ...
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Electricity from waste heat
American-based researchers say they have developed a semiconductor technology that could allow efficient electricity generation without using traditional auxiliary machinery. Associate Professor Peter Hagelstein of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)?s department of electrical engineering and computer science and Dr Yan Kucherov of ENECO say their technology works through thermionics, ...
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More RT-flex orders
Wärtsilä has reported more orders for its RT-flex marine diesel engines. Two orders for the engines, which feature common-rail fuel injection, have been secured for installation in two 30,000 dwt multipurpose dry cargo carriers building at Shanghai Shipyard in China for Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Co (Chipolbrok). Each vessel will ...
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Diesel for another 100 years, says Lausch
That is the verdict of MAN B&W senior vice president Dr Wolfram Lausch, who bases this conclusion on simple fuel efficiency: "A ship is meant to carry cargo, not fuel. So it is my absolutely strong belief that big diesel engines for ship propulsion will last for the next 50 ...
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EIMS to kill waste
Marine Environmental Partners (MEP), the Ft. Lauderdale based water treatment company, has developed two new treatment processes to deal with shipboard generated black (sewage) and grey (laundry, kitchen, and sink/shower) wastewater. It has also produced a simple and effective process for eliminating pollutants and bacteria in ships? ballast water. Designed ...
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Another Chinese dock opens
China?s shipbuilding industry, already a world class player with around 6% of the newbuilding market, has expanded its capacity even further with the recent introduction of its latest newbuilding dock at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard (SWSC). This marks the completion of the first phase of a $387 million joint venture project ...
