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Second apartment ship ordered
ResidenSea has placed a NOK2.5 billion ($287 million) order with Norway`s Fosen Mek Verksteder for a second apartment cruise ship. Delivery is planned for the end of 2003. At 50,000GT it is slightly larger than the first ship, The World, which is scheduled for delivery at the end of the ...
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Kvaerner to upgrade Petrojarl I
Kvaerner, the Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction group, has signed a Letter of Intent with PGS Production AS to undertake modification and upgrade work on the production ship, Petrojarl I. The value of the work will amount to approximately NOK300 million ($34.44 million). The letter of intent came at a convenient ...
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Malta Dry Docks wins first FPSO
Malta Dry Docks (MDD) has been awarded a contract by Brovig-RDS of the UK, for the conversion of the tanker Northia into a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Isis field off the coast of Tunisia. The contract is the first major oil and gas industry project ...
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Two more ferries to get SPS
Intelligent Engineering (IE) in the UK says two more ferries are to be refitted with the Sandwich Plate Systems (SPS) that was first tested aboard P&O`s ferry Pride of Cherbourg in 1999. The company has declined to identify the ships or the shipowner in question, but says that work will ...
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ASRYMAR signs deal with China Shipping
ASRYMAR has been appointed exclusive UK agents for the China Shipping (Europe) Holding Company, representing its six yards in China. China Shipping (Europe) Holding is part of China Industries Company (CIC) which forms part of the China Shipping Group, the second largest ship owner in China. Peter Thornton, Sales & ...
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AHI completes dry-dock
Arab Heavy Industries (AHI) says its new dry-dock was completed and became operational in November. Measuring 175m by 32m, the dry-dock has an extra wide enabling it to accommodate a wide range of vessels of up to 30,000dwt. AHI says the new dry-dock will be complemented by two dock cranes ...
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Brazilian yard wins FPSO conversion
The Brazilian subsidiary of Keppel FELS Limited, FELS Setal SA, has signed a Letter of Intent with Halliburton Productos Ltd for the conversion of the tanker Stena Concordia into a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility. Mr Tong Chong Heong, managing director of Keppel FELS said winning the contract ...
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Successful debut for `Intelligent Engine`
After ten years of dedicated development Bow Cecil, Odfjell`s 37,500 dwt chemical carrier, has become the first ship to be powered by an `Intelligent Engine`. Converting the MAN B&W 6L60MC main engine was from camshaft operation to fully computerised fuel injection and valve operation. Work took 1½ hours while the ...
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Carnival Spirit has first `smokeless` diesel
When Carnival Spirit emerges from Kvaerner Masa-Yards in late spring 2001it will be powered by the cruise industry`s first "smokeless" diesel engines, says Wrtsil. At first only two of the ship`s six Wartsila 9L46D units will be modified with the new EnviroEngines technology. EnviroEngines use common rail fuel injection, giving ...
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Sulzer secures RTA84T orders
Defects in the bedplates of some Sulzer RTA84 engines has not prevented owners placing new orders for the power unit. Last year 24 orders were placed for the 84T (for installation in VLCCs and ULCCs to be built in China, Japan and Korea) and will bring the total to 78 ...
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MAN B&W receive 500th 32/40 order
Recently MAN B&W has taken the 500th order for a 32/40 engine taking the total output for the range to almost two million kW. The L32/40 was launched in September 1992 with the vee versions added two years later taking the maximum output to 8,640kW (11,580 bhp).
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Cylindrical cooler for high boost
To cope with higher boost pressures on medium-speed engines up to 14.7MW, Honeywell Serck has introduced a cylindrical design of charge air cooler. The cylindrical design gives better mechanical integrity than a box, permits better air manifolding and is easier to package, says the company. It is a shell and ...
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Reefers get intelligent engines
Two Sulzer 7RT-flex60C engines have been ordered as main propulsion for a pair of 13,200 dwt containerised reefer ships being built by Viana do Castelo in Portugal for Agricultural Export Co. The 16,520 kW (22,148 bhp), 114 rev/min engines will use the common rail injection system, and give the vessels ...
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Rolls Royce
A pulling version of the Aquamaster azimuthing thruster is being developed by Rolls-Royce. The unit uses a mechanical drive in a `C` configuration to take the power to the propeller. Units up to 6MW will be available and the pulling design has an efficiency advantage of 4-8% for ships with ...
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Thruster challenge for Portland
The latest addition to United States Lines fleet of cruise ships, the 17-year old Patriot (formerly Nieuw Amsterdam), has completed a major refit at Portland Shipyard, has been re-flagged by the US Coast Guard, and entered service in Hawaii in December. Perhaps the most interesting and technically challenging aspect of ...
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Owner takes diesel-electric option
Rami Jokela, area sales manager of ABB Marine, explains the process behind the selection of diesel-electric propulsion for the chemical tanker Turchese. The 12,000 dwt, 13,800m3 capacity chemical tanker Turchese, delivered to Finbeta Spa from the Ancona yard of Mario Morini earlier this year, has been equipped with a diesel ...
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Seeds of potential in pods
Podded propulsion has proven itself and is winning converts. When the chairman and chief executive officer of the world?s largest cruise operator, Carnival?s Micky Arison, says that all its future newbuildings will have podded propulsion ? that is a big vote of confidence. Festival and Radisson have joined the pod ...
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Bearings in tailspin
Aurora?s untimely return to Southampton put tailshaft bearings in the headlines again. The tailshaft bearing problems causing Aurora to abandon its maiden voyage is the latest in a series of high profile failures. Twin propeller vessels have figured highly in the casualty list, and while Aurora has whitemetal bearings, others ...
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Fast monohulls enter Greek ferry market
With renewal of the Greek domestic ferry fleet gaining momentum, monohull fast ferries join multihulls on the list of newbuilding orders. If anybody in the Greek ferry business has been dozing, they may have got a rude awakening last month when Maritime Company of Lesvos (NEL) put its new Corsaire ...
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Harder competition brings harder times
Two years ago, the Spanish orderbook looked very healthy, but the situation is a lot less rosey today. In early 1998 Spanish shipbuilders were boasting a collective orderbook at a 15-year high, with 147 vessels on order, totalling 1,209,948cgt. Excluding 51 fishing vessels, always the mainstay of the Spanish orderbook, ...
