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Bollinger upgrades Port Fourchon
Bollinger?s repair and conversion shipyard at Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on the Gulf of Mexico, can now accommodate ships, rigs and boats with drafts to 27ft (8.23m), thanks to completion of dredging from the sea buoys in the Gulf to Bollinger?s Fourchon 350ft (106.68m) slip, which has also been deepened. Walter ...
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Seaworx to convert seismic ships
Seaworx, part of the Wijsmuller group in the Netherlands, has acquired three seismic survey vessels from Western Geco in the US. The vessels in question are the Western Orient, Western Polaris and Western Aleutian. One is to be converted for use in the cable-laying sector, a second vessel will be ...
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Tilbury repair
A&P Shipcare says it has opened a new, 24-hour repair facility at Tilbury in the UK. The new repair facility has a workshop where engine and mechanical overhauls, steelwork, pipework renewals and electrical repairs and installations can be carried out. Riding squads and procurement of spares are also offered by ...
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Safer ships through changing dues
Ernst Vossnack has further developed his design for a chemical tanker (The Motor Ship, April 2001), which may prove cheaper to build than conventional chemical tankers and, he says, will offer operational advantages, a longer life and, last but not least, will enhance safety. However, its increased gross tonnage is ...
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Heerema?s Balder conversion
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is well known for its crane vessels Balder, Hermod and Thialf, the latter having a lifting capacity of 14,000t. However, the market for lifting platforms is becoming smaller while the market for offshore installations in deep water is growing. Therefore, Heerema has decided to convert Balder ...
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The Heerema Group
Heerema Group is the majority shareholder of heavy lift transporter Dockwise, which specialises in the transport of very heavy constructions on submersible vessels. Its record so far is the transport of the 41,106t production platform Petrobras 40 which was carried by Mighty Servant 1 from Singapore to Rio de Janeiro ...
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Dutch expertise raises Kursk
The nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea at a depth of 108m on August 12, 2000 with the loss of 118 lives. President Putin of Russia promised to have the submarine salvaged so that the bodies of the drowned crew could be returned to their families. The salvors ...
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Specialisation pays
Dutch shipbuilders have had a few excellent years with a record intake of orders in 1999 and 2000 with a value of f2.2 million ($920,000) and nearly f4.5m respectively. As expected after last year?s bonanza, new orders are now more difficult to obtain. This is not only due to the ...
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So many wrecks
The Netherlands must provide adequate access to Belgium?s largest port, Antwerp, according to a long-standing arrangement between the two countries. To this end, the Dutch government has undertaken to give larger ships access to the port of Antwerp by deepening the navigation channel on the river Scheldt. By the time ...
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Liquid level gauge for extinguisher systems
An ultrasonic liquid level comparitor for marine fire extinguisher systems, installed in single or two to three skid-mounted rows, is available from Link Instruments. The comparitor compares below-liquid gas level ultrasonic echoes with the surface acoustic wave. This produces an enhanced propagation across the liquid gas to identify the liquid ...
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APC announces further orders
Anticorrosion company Advanced Polymer Coatings says its polymer-based tank protection system MarineLine has been specified for the cargo tanks of 10 chemical tanker new buildings to be constructed or converted in Turkey. These range in size from two 1,450 dwt chemical tankers for Holland?s Unifleet, to be constructed by the ...
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Fire control and safety plans via Autocad
Safety products and signage supplier Maritime Progress is offering to produce fire control and safety plans for its customers. These include mandatory requirements for safety plans, fire control plans and phased evacuation plans. The company uses a copy of the general arrangement plan, inputting it via Autocad and adding the ...
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Avoiding catastrophe
Amot says its bearing temperature monitoring systems reduce the risk of catastrophic financial and safety consequences caused by the failure of big end bearings in large diesel or gas engines. They are designed to detect rapid temperature changes within individual moving bearings and give an early warning of excessive wear ...
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Marcas launches web site
The Marine Contracting Association (Marcas), the marine purchasing association, has launched a web site and extended its membership to BP Shipping, Lasco Shipping and Marenostrum. Marcas says this moves it closer to its target of 500 vessels by the end of 2001. The web site can be found at www.marcas.org. ...
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Flat panel ECDIS gets type approval
Maris says its ECDIS900, based on its SmartLine flat panel computer (FPC), is the first ECDIS to receive a type approval certificate using an FPC. The unit is certified to IEC 61774 ed. 2. Maris says its ECDIS900 has achieved a market-share in Scandinavia of almost 100% for commercial vessels ...
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Bigger and more sophisticated
In the last four or five years the capacity of trailing suction hopper dredgers has increased tremendously, but dredger builders and operators in the Netherlands say that size is not all important, and highlight the need for highly manoeuvrable, accurately controlled vessels. They also highlight the growing demand for sophisticated ...
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Alfa Laval fuel conditioning system
A new fuel conditioning system from Alfa Laval will be available in three sizes, with a modular concept for maximum flexibility to suit the needs of specific installations. Key components are the fully automatic back flush filter, the new M6M plate heat exchanger (using either steam or thermal fluid as ...
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Schottel promises innovation in propulsion and manoeuvring
Schottel?s main exhibits will be its SPJ 57 RD pump-jet and STP 200 twin propeller. The pump-jet can serve as a shallow-water propulsion system and a robust, powerful and reliable manoeuvring system on ships and vessels of all kinds operating under exceptional conditions, says Schottel. From its Rudderpropeller, the company ...
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Furuno looks to navigation and communication
Furuno will feature the world premiere for voyage data recorder model VR-5000 and automatic identification system model AS-100. Also, the satellite compass model SC-60/120, which provides accurate and steady satellite based heading information for shipborne equipment, will be shown. An upgraded Voyager integrated bridge system ? now with engine monitoring ...
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Hyundai HI, heavyweight world champion
As the world?s largest shipbuilder, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) started life building two 260,000 dwt VLCCs back in 1972 along with its dry-dock at Ulsan. In 1984, just ten years after HHI delivered its first VLCC, the company surpassed the 10 million dwt mark in ship production and, ever since ...
