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Transas to upgrade US Coast Guard PISCES
Transas is to co-operate with Precision Planning and Simulation of the United States, on the enhancement of the US Coast Guard Potential Incident Simulation and Control Evaluation System (PISCES). PISCES was developed and commissioned by Transas for the US Coast Guard in 1998 and is currently used for exercises at ...
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German M?ller yard delivers its largest boxes
A.P. M?ller-owned shipyard Volkswerft Stralsund is building a series of four 2,833 TEU container vessels for operation by sister company Maersk Sealand. The second unit of the VWS 2900 design was christened Jens Maersk on August 14. Maersk Sealand has employed the first unit Jeppesen Maersk on its northern Europe ...
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Good structure
Will doubling up prevail on future tanker designs? The situation already exists where new tankers require a double hull in order to improve their safety margins. But the majority of tankers still only have a single propulsion system. In the event of a failure anywhere in the propulsion train, they ...
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Internet class verification
Bureau Veritas has launched an extension to its Veristar system allowing clients to track classification of their newbuilding projects in real time using the Internet. Brittany Ferries is using a pilot version of the system on Mont St Michel, now being built at van der Giessen- de Noord shipyard in ...
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MAN-branded Pielstick models
Technology is leaping across the divide between MAN B&W Diesel?s various operating subsidiaries. The most recent example is the SEMT Pielstick developed PC2.6B, which MAN B&W is now selling as its own-branded V40/50 engine. Jean-Fran?ois Chapuy, sales manager for SEMT Pielstick at its Paris office, says the V40/50 combines the ...
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Viking interest in more HAM
Viking Line, whose ferry Mariella now has a Munters/SEMT Pielstick humid air motor on each of its four main engines, has expressed interest in humid air motors for another of its ferries according to Pielstick. Pielstick adds that the sums add up in favour of the humid air motor if ...
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Shaft alignment science
Bureau Veritas is drawing on past experience to offer a shaft alignment service to large-vessel owners. The service comes outside the normal scope of class. It has already been utilised on newbuildings for Hellespont, Hapag Lloyd, CMA CGM, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company and Kristen Navigation. The service has been re-launched ...
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Throwing out the rubbish
Removing class from a vessel is the final weapon in a class society?s armoury against a substandard owner. Once it is decided a vessel could contravene a society?s conditions of class and action might be needed, it is interesting to note the procedures followed. Lloyd?s Register says it has class ...
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Norwegian?s groundbreaking vapour gas venture
Tanker owner Frontline has joined with fellow Norwegian-company Venturie to develop a low-tech oil vapour recovery system. The system has recently undergone trials on Frontline?s suezmax tanker Front Granite. The companies say the trials have confirmed the system?s promise to offer a practical and cost effective solution to crude oil ...
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NOx buster for MAN
MAN B&W has seen the first installation of a selective catalytic NOx reduction system on one of its 6S35MC diesels. The ship has now passed its test trials and begun reduced-emission operations. The SCR option for cutting NOx output on a two-stroke was achieved aboard the Navion Dania, a 7,500m3 ...
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Diesel fuel cell developed
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania claim to have developed a prototype fuel cell that is powered by diesel. The breakthrough would solve the problem of reforming a commonly available hydrocarbon fuel into hydrogen in order to run fuel cells. The prototype fuel cell runs directly on hydrocarbons. It does ...
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MAN to restructure four-stroke department
The MAN Group has announced it is to restructure the department producing four-stroke engines in its Diesel Engine division. In the Group?s interim results, covering the first six months of 2001, it says the department will not realise the increase in earnings the group had projected. It says earnings in ...
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GE GTs for QM2
The gas turbine power element in the combined diesel and gas plant planned for Cunard?s superliner, Queen Mary 2, will be provided by GE. Two aeroderivative LM2500+ units will run in combination with four Wärtsilä 46 diesels to drive four pods, two fixed and two steerable. The order takes to ...
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UK troops with Wärtsilä power
Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply diesel generating sets for two new Bay class twin-screw diesel electric powered Alternative Landing Ships Logistic (ALSL) being built for the UK Navy. The four main diesel-generating sets in each ship will be powered by Wärtsilä 26s; each ship will have two ...
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Hospital ship enters service
It is rare for any country to build a hospital ship in wartime, let alone peacetime. But Izar?s Gijon Shipyard in northern Spain has handed over just such a ship. The 5,000g hospital cum rescue vessel, Esperanza del Mar, was delivered to the Spanish maritime social institute (Instituto Social de ...
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Hybrid bio-diesel and electric power
Fort Lauderdale-based Canal Boats has recently finished building the world?s first hybrid bio-diesel and electric-powered ferry. The Clay Shaw is the first of eight water buses the yard is building for Broward County Mass Transit in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The electrically-driven boats have a ?green? power system. Each has a ...
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Izar confirms Algerian negotiations
Izar has confirmed it is negotiating with Algerian shipowner ENTMV for a share of a contract to construct two 2,900 dwt roro passenger ferries. The two-ship order is subject to a Development Aid Fund loan from the Spanish government to Algeria. The plan is to build one vessel at Izar?s ...
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DNV and GL extend cooperation
DNV and GL plan to increase the number of survey stations they operate jointly more than four-fold. The class societies will establish a further 22 jointly-operated service stations on top of the six that already exist. Surveyors at these stations will be exclusive to DNV and GL. The decision is ...
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A third of lashing of ?poor to moderate? quality
A recent inspection campaign concentrating on cargo securing has unearthed a disturbing catalogue of safety issues. The campaign, by Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) port state control authorities, found that a third of ships inspected had "poor to moderate quality" lashing material. In the 31% of cases where the lashing ...
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New code of practice for ship recycling
A number of major shipping industry organisations have joined together to launch a new code of practice for ship recycling. The code of practice is a response to concerns about safety and environmental practices in ship breaking yards. Involved in its development were the International Chamber of Shipping, the International ...
