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Croatians rebuild Onassis? Christina
Croatian-shipyard Viktor Lenac has completed a virtual rebuild of Aristotle Onassis? former private yacht Christina O. It has replaced 600t of steel and 12t of aluminium on the 1943-built vessel. It has also carried out 140t of pipe replacement and 85km of electrical cable laying in a contract placed with ...
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Incat converts 050 for US Army
Incat Australia?s newly commissioned dry dock has made its debut with groundbreaking work to refit Incat 050 as a Theatre Logistics Vessel for the US Military. Formerly known as Top Cat, the November 1998-launched vessel has already proven itself at sea with a 100% reliability rating for the three times ...
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Oil price prompts FPSO rise
The sustained high price of oil has prompted upbeat attitudes from oil companies towards offshore oil production, as marginal fields become more viable. In response to this, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has predicted a boom in oil construction facilities in the next five years. This could, in turn, trigger a ...
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New Panamax tanker design from HZC
Hitachi Zosen (HZC) has unveiled a new Panamax tanker design. It enables a cargo of 510,000 bbls to be crammed into 12 tanks. The 70,000 dwt double hull tanker is 219m long and has a maximum Panamax beam of 32.2m. The new design achieves flexible cargo handling through double valve ...
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MES e-intelligent water tank
The Japanese shipbuilder Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding (MES) has delivered an unusual ?newbuilding? in the shape of an environment-intelligent water test tank. This state-of-the-art tank was delivered to Japan?s Port and Airport Research Institute (PARI). The tank recreates a virtual reality scenario involving the three elements of wave, current and ...
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Rolling from the Stones
JJ Sietas Schiffswerft has delivered its first self-discharging bulk carriers. The 28,000 dwt Stones and Kvitnes were handed over to German company Mibau, which extracts and transports aggregate for building purposes. The flexibility of the newbuildings, which can operate independently from port handling equipment, is achieved by use of a ...
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Double joy for Izar
Izar has won two newbuilding contracts. One, from Belgian company Exmar Offshore, calls for the construction of a 900,000 bbls FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading) unit. The other, from Chilean company Ultragas Internacional, involves building a double hulled 22,700m3 oil product chemical tanker. The FPSO has a huge storage ...
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United States looks to gas power
Natural gas propulsion could soon take-off in the US. The San Francisco Bay Water Transit Authority has launched an environmental impact study into the operation of fast ferries on the bay, which includes evaluation of alternative fuels and alternative propulsion. And next month, the US Maritime Administration will commence a ...
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Solar Sailor close to HK contract
Solar energy ship designer Advanced Technology Watercraft (ATW) is close to signing a contract with a Hong Kong ferry operator for two of its innovative solar and wind powered ferries.
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Berge Danuta takes new heat exchangers to sea
Bergesen has taken delivery of the first of a pair of gas carriers fitted with a reliquefaction plant utilising plate-type heat exchangers. With an established reputation for a high quality, well-maintained fleet of vessels, and experienced sea-going and shore-based staff, Bergesen is well known for `quality tonnage`, and for technical ...
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Striving for higher separation efficiency
The main aim of centrifugal separators is to remove fuel contaminants - notably water, catalyst fines, abrasive grit and sodium from seawater - which can cause excessive wear when burned in the engine. Judgements on the suitability of a fuel treatment system should not therefore be based on the amount ...
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Bibby Line orders first LGP ship from Korea
Bibby Line`s latest fully refrigerated LPG tanker features technically advanced cargo refrigeration plant, and is to be built in Korea. Having been involved in LPG shipping since the late 60`s, and in that time having owned just about every size and type of gas ship, Bibby Line`s fleet is now ...
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Keeping in touch
P&O Cruises` passengers need no longer abandon their mobile phones on the quayside. A new ship-borne mobile phone system, Cruise Connect, from British Telecom Aeronautical and Maritime (BT A&M) - recently acquired by Stratos Global - will allow P&O Cruise passengers to use their mobile phones on board ship exactly ...
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Certificates for sale
A set of four basic STCW certificates and a seaman`s book for can be bought for $75 on the streets of a major seafarer supplying country. A researcher for Cardiff University`s Seafarers International Research Centre actually purchased the items. What is even more shocking says the centre`s director, Professor Tony ...
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Spain bets on rise in tanker demand
Spain`s state-owned shipbuilder is staking its future on rising world demand for modern gas and oil tankers and its ability to find benefits in marrying naval and civil shipbuilding technologies. Izar - pronounced "ithar" and meaning "to hoist" in Spanish - was created late last year with the acquisition by ...
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Countering the piracy threat
Four Australian ex-Special Air Services officers have combined their experience to combat rising piracy attacks in Asian waters. Osprey and Asset Management (OAM) partners David Harper, Peter Towndrow, Bob Hunter and John Gartner have devised an anti-piracy battle plan that draws on 90 years of collective experience in military and ...
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Incat into the US
Incat`s recently sealed joint venture with Bollinger Shipyards is primarily focused on the US military market, but the company sees strong commercial potential too. "As the military craft design is based on its commercial counterpart it is reasonable to expect added interest from the commercial market," explains Robert Clifford, chairman ...
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EPA to regulate emissions
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to introduce ship emission regulations by 2003. The regulations will seek to impose limits on nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from large marine engines, and are the result of the recent settlement of a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund on behalf ...
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Millennium gremlins strike again
An electric motor operating a Mermaid pod on Celebrity Cruises` Millennium has suffered a breakage in a pole connection. Repairs were affected as soon as the rupture was discovered meaning no voyages were cancelled. However the work hasn`t fully cured the problem leaving Celebrity with an under-performing ship whose attainable ...
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Cyber-Erection at Daewoo
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co has initiated use of Cyber-Erection, its new 3D digital measuring and simulation program. It says the technology enabled greater precision when it was used for the first time last November to help join the heavy fore and aft sections of a 75,000 dwt bulk ...
