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  • Martin Penney
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    BMT SMART appoints Sales and Marketing Director

    2015-01-07T13:18:00Z

    Specialist fleet and vessel performance company BMT SMART has appointed Martin Penney as sales and marketing director.

  • Keppel Shipyard will be busy over the next few years converting LNG carriers into FLNGV vessels
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    Second FLNG vessel conversion order

    2015-01-07T10:49:00Z

    Keppel Shipyard has secured the contract from Golar Gimi Corporation to perform the US$705m conversion of a second Moss Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier, the ‘GIMI’, into a Floating Liquefaction Vessel (FLNGV).

  • One of the world's largest non self-propelled cutter dredger vessels will be equipped with Wärtsilä engines
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    Wärtsilä power for super dredger

    2015-01-06T13:00:00Z

    One of the world''s largest non self-propelled cutter dredger vessels currently being built in China will be equipped with Wärtsilä engines, both to generate power and to drive the dredging pump.

  • Marin Teknikk DSCV
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    Marin Teknikk wins diving vessel contract

    2015-01-06T11:45:00Z

    Marin Teknikk has entered into a contract for design and delivery of a large multipurpose diving support and construction vessel (DSCV) for Ultra Deep Solutions (UDS) in Singapore.

  • Smit Angola is a Robert Allen-designed RAmpage 5000 class offshore support tug operated by Boskalis.
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    New requirements focus on towing and lifting

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    Bureau Veritas has updated its towing and lifting notations to reflect the wide variety of vessel types now employed in the industry; Wendy Laursen elucidates.

  • Geoff Dean: “if you keep repeating the design process you get good at solving problems”
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    Geoff Dean: A life in design

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    “Nothing stays the same,” Geoff Dean of OSD IMT tells Stevie Knight: “Change is what drives the industry, so there’s no point in wishing it otherwise, you just have to stay ahead.”

  • The Rolls-Royce UT777 is one of the new Well Intervention Vessels that aim to bring down overall costs by adding extras like top-hole drilling: it was also built at KHI in Japan
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    2014 Support Sector Review: A changing game

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    Will people remember 2014 as the year the game changed? If they are in the oil and gas support sector, then that’s quite likely... writes Stevie Knight

  • Emissions – united action needed
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    Shipping still undecided on emissions legislation

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    By the time this issue appears in print, ships in ECAs will be mandated to cut sulphur emissions to 0.1% fuel content, or take equivalent appropriate measures, while the global 0.5% limit edges closer, and attention is turning to carbon emissions. Yet even with such a short time scale, there ...

  • Washington State Ferries (WSF) is introducing a versatile new series of double-enders to its service network
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    Revitalisation of Pacific Northwest ferry fleet

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    David Tinsley describes the first of a new class of double ended vessels for Washington State Ferries, strongly conventional and traditional in concept, but designed with conversion to gas fuel in mind.

  • A GreenOil filter unit
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    Wool lube oil filters claimed to perform better than centrifuges

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    Danish company GreenOil reports on a collaboration with ship operator Torm involving using filtration rather than centrifuges to clean lubricating oil in the auxiliary engines of two ships, by Joel Goodstein.

  • Anthony Veder’s ‘Coral Anthelia’ has been retrofitted for MaK M 46 DF dual fuel power
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    Caterpillar undertakes first in-hull LNG retrofit and reports new orders

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    An LNG tanker has had its engine converted to LNG without modifying the ship structure, while MaK and larger Cat engines continue to rack up orders from the offshore market sector.

  • A full Transas simulator – many of the features can now be made available over the Internet
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    Cloud-based simulation in US

    2014-12-31T22:30:00Z

    Transas is supplying a full-mission classroom and cloud based Transas technical simulation (TechSim) package to the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College.

  • Gavin Lipsith
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    Happy New Year – and changes for 2015

    2014-12-31T10:42:00Z

    The Motorship sends its best wishes for the New Year and we welcome Gavin Lipsith who takes over as editor on 5 January. All the best for 2015 to all our readers, advertisers, conference delegates, supporters and sponsors, and other friends.

  • Icebreaker specialist yard Arctech Helsinki is now 100% Russian owned
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    Arctech Helsinki passes to Russian ownership

    2014-12-31T10:32:00Z

    United Shipbuilding Corporation, the Russian state-controlled shipbuilder, has completed its purchase of the remaining half of Arctech Helsinki Shipyard’s shares from former joint owner STX Finland.

  • A SAM Electronics' NACOS Platinum integrated bridge system
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    Container ship and offshore orders for SAM Electronics

    2014-12-30T23:30:00Z

    Hamburg-based SAM Electronics, an L-3 company, has recently picked up significant orders in the container ship and offshore sectors for complete electrical installations as well as navigation, automation and communications equipment.

  • Rear three-quarter view of ASV
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    Air support technology to be tried on wind farm vessel

    2014-12-30T23:30:00Z

    Construction has started on a new type of wind farm vessel at a Danish shipyard, based on air supported vessel (ASV) technology and claimed to offer much reduced fuel consumption combined with high speeds, writes Dag Pike.

  • Sean Bond, director of global gas solutions, ABS
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    Class societies look to the LNG market and beyond

    2014-12-30T23:00:00Z

    With LNG well on the way to wide adoption, class societies are securing their place and looking ahead to more new fuels, reports Wendy Laursen.

  • 'Powered by LNG' - one way to ensure ECA compliance, but what about the thousands of ships still burning oil fuels?
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    Preparing for ECA 2015: how to prove compliance

    2014-12-30T22:30:00Z

    Alok Sharma, head of marine, Inatech, looks at how shipowners can demonstrate that they are in compliance with the new sulphur regulations

  • LNG – have falling oil prices and the still-uncertain infrastructure questions caused the bubble to burst?
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    An industry driven by uncertainty

    2014-12-30T18:00:00Z

    2014 was a year in which our industry largely stood still, awaiting the uncertain outcome of new fuel regulations and the still-unresolved ballast water question, while oversupply of tonnage and economic woes bedevilled Far Eastern shipbuilding.

  • News

    Cruise ship drill requirements

    2014-12-30T15:59:00Z

    New requirements for musters of newly embarked passengers prior to or immediately upon departure come into force on 1 January 2015.