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Inmarsat-4 approved launched
Inmarsat has decided to proceed with its fourth generation system, at a cost of $1.4 billion. The space segment of the system will consist of two in-orbit satellites plus one ground spare. Inmarsat says it will offer customers a range of personal multi-media communications at between 144 and 432kbps/sec via ...
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Kockumation signs deal with Kockums
Kockumation, maker of the Loadmaster vessel loading system, has signed deal with Kockums to make use of its Tribon shipbuilding design and information system. Kockumation says that the deal means that it can automatically access the details of the majority of the world`s merchant fleets, with calculations produced using a ...
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KPN and Telstra to merge mobile satellite business
KPN, Royal Dutch Telecom of the Netherlands and Telstra of Australia are to merge their global mobile satellite communication businesses. KPN will hold 65 per cent of the shares with Telstra holding the remaining 35 per cent. The new company, headquartered in The Hague, will combine KPN`s satcom business and ...
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Light-weight emergency beacon
Navtec has developed a portable emergency Inmarsat-E beacon that weighs less than 1,200g. Called the navtec epirb global-3 it has an alerting time of approximately three minutes and contains a GPS receiver for position indication via satellite. The unit can be used as stand-alone or can be supplied with a ...
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Poseidon dimensioning tool upgraded
Poseidon, the interactive ship structure dimensioning application from Germanischer Lloyd, has been upgraded. Now called Poseidon ND, it has been given a set of new features and a new user-friendly interface, says the company. The new software gives the results of finite element calculations earlier in the design process, says ...
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US alliance deal
Alaska Tanker Company (ATC) and Cascade General have signed an alliance agreement for the maintenance and repair of ATC?s fleet of Alaska North slope tankers, formalising a longstanding relationship between the two companies. The agreement is non-exclusive, but commits ATC to sending the majority of its ships to Cascade General ...
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Seven ship block booking
Blohm+Voss Repair has won a seven ship block booking from Yangming Marine Transport Corporation. The contract, which is valued at up to DM10 million ($5.3 million), covers routine drydocking, maintenance and repairs to seven of the Taiwanese owner?s container vessels. The ships are scheduled to call at the yard one ...
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Quality certificate
Remontowa, Poland?s leading repair yard, has achieved ISO 9001 quality certification. Certificates were awarded by both Lloyd?s Register and the Polish Register of Shipping in January. Certification covers the design and building of ships, offshore projects, steel structures, and ship conversions and repairs.
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First underwater seal repair
Belgian underwater repair specialist Hydrex has carried out the first underwater repair to a lip-type sterntube seal. Having successfully developed techniques for underwater repairs to face-type seals, the company has been testing a variety of methods for repairing lip seals over the past year. The first order came in November ...
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Dole America moves to Hamburg
Permanent repairs to the 10,584g reefer Dole America are being completed at Hamburg?s Bredo yard following temporary work at Fleet Support (FSL) in the UK. The vessel sustained hull damage in collision with the Nab Tower in the English Channel. FSL used 11t of steel to make watertight a 25m ...
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Viktor Lenac completes Sealand trio
Croatia?s Viktor Lenac has completed repairs to three Sealand D-6 class 1,178 TEU container ships. The block booking involved hull survey work, repairs to all 28 hatch covers on each vessel, cell guide renewal, anticorrosion treatment to cargo hold tanktops and other general repair work. The first of the trio, ...
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Havila converts Reel
Norwegian offshore operator Havila Supply is converting supply vessel Havila Reel into a cable layer for charter to the Alcatel group. The vessel, which was built to the UT705 design and subsequently lengthened to 90.82m loa, docked at Norway?s Myklebust shipyard for classification work. It then moved to the Kleven ...
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Hygood`s FM-200 gets US approval
A Certificate of Inspection and Tests has been issued by the US MCA for Hygood`s FM-200 fixed gaseous fire suppression system for the total flooding protection of machinery spaces and cargo pump rooms. The system is now certified as complying with the Merchant Shipping Regulations for both small and large ...
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Owners Flourish As Yards Suffer
Shipping is now the second largest export earner in Denmark. Generally speaking, the Danish shipowning community is in good shape, says Jan Fritz Hansen, a director at the Danish Shipowners Association with responsibility for trade and shipping policy. Although the final figures are not yet available, the shipowner`s association estimates ...
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All for the sake of efficiency
Establishing agreed performance standards may prevent manufacturers from making misleading claims. Proving that one machine is better than another has often been fraught with difficulties. Yet it has always been important in business to be seen to do precisely that. For some machines this is not a problem. Radars for ...
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All-reefer container vessels enter service
The largest capacity all-reefer container ships in the world have been delivered to Dole Fresh Fruit from HDW, Germany. Two examples of a new class of open top all-reefer container ship with a capacity of about 1,000 FEU containers, or 2,000 TEU, have been handed over to Dole Fresh Fruit ...
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Life after duty-free
Passenger ferry operators in the EU are counting the cost in lost revenue following the demise of duty free sales in the middle of last year. Across the European Union, ferry companies are reporting in some cases dramatically reduced on board spend per passenger since the abolition of the duty ...
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Independents ?outlawed?
The IMO may have handed engine manufacturers a virtual monopoly on spare parts and reconditioning. Shipowners with engines complying to the IMO?s NOx code may find their sources of spare parts and services severely restricted, as the rules may effectively outlaw parts and services from independent suppliers. The legislation requires ...
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Medium-speed slows
Developments on the medium-speed side have concentrated on further emission reductions. The need to modify products to meet the IMO?s NOx limit and the pre-certification process has kept the medium-speed engine manufacturers busy over the last year or so. Emission reduction remains the centrepiece of many R&D efforts, so new ...
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Sale of the Century ? extended
As the year ends, Kvaerner has failed to meet its deadline for disposing of its 13 yards and has only sold three (Leirvik, Kleven and Govan). A spokesman for the company says that negotiations are underway with interested parties for all the remaining yards and that the two Fjellstrans yards ...
