Motorship News – Page 537

  • News

    New shipyard in Azerbaijan to be run by Keppel

    2013-09-20T14:36:00Z

    A new 62ha shipyard in Baku, Azerbaijan, was officially opened on 20 September.

  • ABS NVR certification has been awarded to MTU after 1,500 hours of testing of the 20V 8000
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    MTU’s 8000 receives NVR approval from ABS

    2013-09-19T15:16:00Z

    MTU says that its series 8000 high speed marine engine has received NVR certification from US classification society ABS, joining the 8V 396, which had previously received NVR approval.

  • Marine engine damage due to catalytic fines in fuel
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    Lack of knowledge leads to more cat fines claims

    2013-09-19T15:04:00Z

    Excessive main engine wear caused by cat fines in the fuel oil are likely to lead to hull and machinery claims exceeding $1m this year, according to a leading marine surveyor.

  • Graphical rendering of the G95ME-C9.2 engine
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    MAN anticipates return to larger engine power

    2013-09-18T23:30:00Z

    Following from perceived development in the market leading toward further optimisation of large container ships’ propulsion efficiency, MAN Diesel & Turbo recently announced two significant additions to its engine programme.

  • Eastern has seen the benefit of using FORAN for its newbuilds
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    FORAN in the US

    2013-09-18T16:26:00Z

    The Eastern Shipbuilding Group has entered into a license agreement with SENER to use the FORAN CAD/CAM system for its newbuilds.

  • The Polish SSR Gryfia yard, likely to merge with the MSR shipyard in Swinoujscie
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    Two Polish shipyards finalising merger

    2013-09-18T15:06:00Z

    Two Polish shipyards, the Szczecin-based SSR Gryfia and the MSR shipyard in Swinoujscie, are currently finalising their merger, writes Jaroslaw Adamowski.

  • Keppel’s Singapore facility, showing a previous SBM FPSO conversion project, OSX-2
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    Two FPSO conversions for Keppel Shipyard

    2013-09-18T15:05:00Z

    Singapore-based Keppel Shipyard has announced two FPSO conversion contracts from repeat customers, said to be worth a combined value of S$190 million. The contracts are from SBM Offshore and M3nergy Offshore.

  • PSM says its level transmitter technology has been used to measure sea water levels in the tanks of a floating dock newbuilding in a Turkish shipyard
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    Tank gauging for floating dock

    2013-09-17T23:30:00Z

    UK instrumentation company PSM says that its level transmitter technology was recently employed in a floating dock building project at a Turkish shipyard .

  • News

    Concordia upright

    2013-09-17T18:22:00Z

    The Costa Concordia has been righted in an operation that took 19 hours and cost upwards of £500m (€600m).

  • STX is to wind down operations at Rauma (above) and transfer work to Turku
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    STX to restructure Finnish operations

    2013-09-17T15:41:00Z

    STX has announced a plan for restructuring at its Finnish shipyards, following the decline in orders, low profitability levels and what it calls “stiffened competition”.

  • Roger Bounds, shell VP Global LNG and HE Khamis Juma Buamim, chairman of Drydocks World, have agreed an LNG MoU
    News

    Drydocks World and Shell to cooperate in Dubai LNG fuel supply

    2013-09-17T13:58:00Z

    Drydocks World, based in Dubai, has announced the signature of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Shell and Dubai Maritime City.

  • The salvors of the Concordia have their work cut out Wiki/ Roberto Vongher
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    Costa Concordia salvage

    2013-09-16T19:53:00Z

    The salvage of the Costa Concordia is underway today in what has been described as the largest and most expensive salvage operation ever undertaken.

  • The new equipment is shown on a model of the ‘Havila Phoenix’ after conversion (Deep Ocean)
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    Havyard to convert subsea vessel

    2013-09-16T19:17:00Z

    Havyard Ship Technology’s shipyard in Leirvik in Norway has won a contract for a major conversion of the subsea vessel ‘Havila Phoenix’.

  • Fuel Calculator: The Fuel Calculator predicts fuel consumption for actual load condition, speed and ambient conditions
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    More features for GL’s ECO-Assistant software

    2013-09-16T19:16:00Z

    ECO-Assistant, the trim optimisation tool from Germanischer Lloyd’s consulting arm FutureShip, has been updated to include new features, including a fuel consumption calculator, system usage monitoring, benefit reporting and an E-learning module.

  • Hudson vessel
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    GHG abatement debate morphs to survive

    2013-09-15T00:30:00Z

    Wendy Laursen outlines the political progress made at IMO''s recent MEPC65 meeting on greenhouse gas emissions, but adds that the debate is shifting its focus.

  • Aveva says that 3D laser scanning can help yards be more competitive and more accurate in estimating for conversion projects such as those involving installation of additional equipment into complex pipework systems
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    Laser scanning can help yards survive

    2013-09-14T23:30:00Z

    According to UK computer aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) specialist Aveva, the use of laser scanning can give shipyards a competitive edge in refit and conversion projects, such as the installation of ballast water treatment systems or exhaust gas scrubbers

  • At the signing ceremony: from Lloyd’s Register: Nick Brown, area general manager and marine manager, Greater China (4th from left); Dr. Xue Maogen, general manager, greater china technical and business (3rd from right); Wei Ying, principal speci...
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    LR supports Chinese LNG carrier newbuilds

    2013-09-12T23:30:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register says it has signed a classification contract for six 174,000m³ LNG tankers to be built by Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding in China.

  • Online footage is available from www.motorship.com/gfsconference
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    GFS footage online

    2013-09-12T17:55:00Z

    If you missed the opportunity to attend the fourth Motorship Gas Fuelled Ships Conference 2013, you can now view footage of the Chairman''s welcome address online.

  • Live ship to ship bunkering kicked off the second day of the Gas Fuelled Ships conference
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    LNG bunkering demonstration starts GFS second day

    2013-09-12T14:22:00Z

    The second day of the Motorship gas fuelled ship conference began very early in the morning, as the ‘Viking Grace’ arrived in Stockholm after her overnight passage from Turku.

  • Henrik Madsen, CEO, DNV GL, said that this consolidation is a “global game changer”
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    DNV GL merger approved

    2013-09-12T09:21:00Z

    The merger between the classification societies DNV and GL has been approved by all competition authorities and will be operational from today.