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GRP 9.5m-long lifeboat for cruise liners and ferries
Dutch boat builder Mulder & Rijke has launched a 150 seater partially enclosed lifeboat for use onboard cruise liners and ferries. Called the PELB 95/150, it is 9.5m long and has a staggered seating arrangement. The numbered seats are arranged on longitudinal and transverse benches to allow for unobstructed boarding ...
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Anti-vibration mounts
Trelleborg Industrial AVS has launched an anti-vibration mounting for small- and medium-sized engines. The Novibra SIM design features a strong corrosion-protected steel baseplate and a dome-shaped casing designed to shield the captive rubber element against oil contamination. Trelleborg says the combination of robust construction, together with moderate vertical stiffness and ...
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Web-based inspection reports
Classification society ABS has launched a Web-based container information system for tank owners involved in the transportation of dangerous liquids and gases which, it says, provides quick access to inspection reports. Called E-CIS, it is available on the ABS website at www.eagle.org in the products and services category. The Oracle-based ...
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Wave and wind climate on the Web
Global Wave Statistics Online (globalwavestatisticsonline.com), a Website designed to provide information on the wave and wind climate across the world has been launched by BMT Fluid Mechanics. The company says its site gives access to 130 years of recorded observations from ships, which have been enhanced using the NMIMET process. ...
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Inmarsat launches low-powered unit
Mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat has launched a new service. Called mini-C it is a low-powered and compact communications unit for small vessels. Inmarsat says mini-C is an evolution of its -C technology and will support many of that service?s applications, but at a reduced power consumption. The service will ...
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Leica gets cruise ship sea trial
Leica Geosystems has received an order from Princess Cruises to install an automatic identification system (AIS) on the 109,000g luxury cruise ship Grand Princess. The vessel, which carries over 2,600 passengers and 1,200 crew, will be fitted with a Leica MX 420 integrated DGPS/AIS system and if sea trials are ...
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Saab signs Hong Kong deal
Saab TransponderTech has won an order to cover the Hong Kong area with its automatic identification system (AIS). The company has delivered six fully redundant R30 AIS base stations to the Marine Department in Hong Kong. The system will have full AIS coverage of the entire port area, says Saab. ...
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Shell orders Nucleus 3 ship sets
Kelvin Hughes is to supply Shell International Trading and Shipping Company with six ship sets of its new Nucleus 3 radar. Each set consists of two Nucleus 3 6000 radars, a Nucleus 3 6000 ECDIS, Nucleus 3 5000 ATA display and a Radar Interswitch unit. The sets are for a ...
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MeCA releases MTML Version 1.5
The Maritime eCommerce Association has released version 1.5 of the Marine Trading Mark-Up Language (MTML), the electronic data exchange standard for the marine procurement sector. The company says that this release addresses a number of functional issues relating to ease of use of the standard and adds to the existing ...
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Poseidon Simulation AS receives DNV approval
Poseidon Simulation AS has received Det Norske Veritas Product Certificate for GMDSS simulation, Class A. The certificate guarantees that the simulator system gives the capability to simulate a realistic environment. The system consists of 15 PC-based learner stations networked with two real equipment installations simulating Skanti?s GMDSS equipment. The company ...
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Primar signs navy supplier model agreement
The Royal Danish Navy has signed an agreement with Primar ENC covering the delivery of official ENCs. It involves a navy supplier model, designed to allow the download of all charts and updates directly from Primar. The navy supplier office, which is in charge of chart folios for the Danish ...
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Transas wins Far Eastern GMDSS simulators order
Transas Marine Pacific has won an order for a networked GMDSS simulator for the Pertamina Marine Education and Training Centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. In co-operation with its local agent, Panorama Timur Jaya, the company will supply a TGS4000 simulator system comprising 12 PC-based trainee workstations, two mini GMDSS consoles and ...
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Veripos launches West African DGPS service
Veripos has established a new Inmarsat-based Differential GPS service for West Africa, Veripos-I, which, it says, will complement an existing HF area network and provide two independent reference facilities for continuous positioning for offshore applications. Two land-based reference stations have been established at Luanda and Cabinda in Angola while a ...
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Shipbuilding websites to co-operate
ZoHakuWeb.com and Tribon.com are in talks to see how information can be accessed from each other?s websites. ZoHakuWeb?s business-to-business site is mainly focused on the technical information exchange between shipyards and marine equipment suppliers. It covers online catalogues, design support, application service provider functions and digitised purchase orders. Currently about ...
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Compact terminal from Thrane & Thrane
Thrane & Thrane has launched the Capsat Fleet77 satellite communication terminal which uses the new Inmarsat Fleet service. The company says it is smaller and lighter than conventional terminals measuring 85cm high and 84cm in diameter and weighs 25kg. The unit offers both voice and data traffic via either 64 ...
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Guarded optimism
Australia?s shipbuilders hope to chart smoother seas next year after weathering a year of turbulent waters. The past year has been marked by redundancies at major yards and reduced profits, as the global downturn in demand for fast ferries caused big gaps in the order books for builders on both ...
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LSE-powered ship delivered
The first ship with a Mitsubishi UE LSE engine has been delivered to its owner. Pacific International Lines of Singapore took delivery of the 6UEC52LSE-powered 1,098 TEU feeder container ship Kota Hakim from Japanese yard Shin Kochi Jyuko on September 26. The 10,230kW engine, manufactured at the Nagasaki factory of ...
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MAN tests upgrade
MAN B&W is testing an upgraded version of its 480mm bore medium-speed engine. A spokesman for the company confirmed that the prototype model is undergoing long-cycle endurance tests in Augsburg, Germany. He says the improved version includes "decisive design changes". The Motor Ship understands these include strengthened pumps and cam ...
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Queen won?t smoke
All four of the diesel engines on Cunard Line?s Queen Mary 2 will have smokeless common-rail fuel injection technology fitted. With the remainder of the ship?s power coming from two gas turbines, the ship should be able to operate without emitting visible smoke at all times. Wärtsilä plans to ship ...
