Motorship News – Page 612

  • The second Environship order is for a specialist vessel supplying feed to fish farms in Norway
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    Second Environship order for Rolls-Royce

    2012-03-01T14:12:00Z

    Rolls-Royce has announced a second contract for a vessel to one of its Environship designs, in this case for a 75m LNG-powered vessel for Norwegian company Eidsvaag, to supply fish farms along the Norwegian coast.

  • ‘Berlin’ naming delayed for two months
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    Berlin postponement ‘not due to problems’

    2012-03-01T13:23:00Z

    The imminent naming of Scandlines’ ‘Berlin’ at German yard P+S Werften has been postponed for nearly two months, but a spokeswoman told The Motorship it had nothing to do with any construction problems at the yard.

  • Cranes and lifting – a new sector for Kongsberg Evotec
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    Kongsberg Evotec gets into cranes

    2012-03-01T09:15:00Z

    Kongsberg Evotec has established a new department specifically dedicated to developing its crane and lifting products for the offshore supply and subsea sectors.

  • Skid-mounted Balpure installation onboard a bulk carrier
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    BWTS order for pipelay vessel

    2012-03-01T01:00:00Z

    Severn Trent De Nora says that its Balpure ballast water treatment system has been chosen by EMAS for a 22,000dwt DP3 pipelay, heavy lift and construction newbuild, ‘Lewek Constellation’, under construction in Vietnam.

  • The ‘Gower’, a 1,020bhp 1961 tug delivery for Alexandra Towing from Yarwoods; the first British tug with a Liaaen CP propeller
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    Tastes of the future

    2012-03-01T00:15:00Z

    What’s the opposite of déjà vu? Whatever it is, I got the feeling looking through The Motor Ship, March 1962.

  • Information is captured as part of the crew’s normal daily routine, says Datatrac
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    Performance monitoring rapidly becomes a total solution

    2012-02-29T23:45:00Z

    Just a few years ago, real-time system monitoring was only used by a few, technically advanced ship operators but, increasingly, intelligent data management systems are rapidly turning it into a practical and accessible tool for compliance and performance monitoring, writes Wendy Laursen.

  • Figure 1: Typical layout of the decks and main fire bulkheads for a representative cruise vessel with 7 MVZs and 15 decks.The fire zones deviating from the maximum size allowed by SOLAS are highlighted
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    Taking a systematic approach to screening fire risks

    2012-02-29T23:45:00Z

    UK-based company Safety at Sea Ltd describes its new fire risk screening methodology, designed to meet the requirements of large ships, and larger cruise vessels in particular.

  • The Bergen C-series gas engine from Rolls-Royce, regarded as the natural successor to the company’s K-series, and designed to minimise methane slip, thus contributing to particularly low GHG emissions
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    More gas engine options come to the market

    2012-02-29T23:45:00Z

    Medium speed engine designers are looking harder still at gas fuelled options – gas-only or dual fuel - while China, rather than continuing to rely on European designs built under licence, is stepping up its domestic engine design programme, as David Tinsley reports.

  • ‘Oceanic Sirius’, second of two high-specification X-Bow seismic ships from Ulstein
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    X-Bow proves effective on seismic survey ships

    2012-02-29T23:45:00Z

    On our recent visit to Norway’s West Coast offshore shipbuilders, we inspected the Ulstein SX120 ship ‘Oceanic Sirius’, second of a pair of large, high-specification seismic vessels.

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    Establishing true emission levels for ECA compliance

    2012-02-29T23:45:00Z

    Martin Lucas, managing director, Kittiwake, asks how shipowners will know the true level of pollution from their vessel exhausts, as the stricter sulphur limits in emission control areas are now less than three years away.

  • Preserving our ecosystems is one of today’s major challenges
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    An eco-friendly alternative gear oil

    2012-02-29T23:45:00Z

    Klüber Lubrication’s Dirk Fabry describes the development of a readily biodegradable, non-toxic gear oil, undertaken by Klüber Lubrication with SIMRIT and Merkel Freudenberg.

  • Cruise ship ‘Carnival Glory’ has been converted to Promas
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    Short payback claimed for integrated propulsion solution

    2012-02-29T23:45:00Z

    Some things may sound too good to be true, and many are – but some have been proven to work, such as the Promas integrated propeller and rudder from Rolls-Royce.

  • Krystallon scrubber system for Solvang – could after-treatment be the only proven and viable answer?
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    What do shipowners need to know about 2015?

    2012-02-29T23:45:00Z

    With the 0.1% fuel sulphur cap entering into force in ECAs on 1 January 2015, owners need to be prepared. The new rules are now less than three years away, and there is still some confusion.

  • The Baltzavod foundry plant, which the USC/Wärtsilä partnership will use for ship machinery production
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    Ship machinery and system production in Russia

    2012-02-29T23:45:00Z

    A joint venture between a Russian shipyard and a major European marine manufacturer hopes to take advantage of the development of shipping in the Arctic region during the next few years, as Eugene Gerden reports.

  • ‘Rem Fortress’, a Wärtsilä-designed PSV delivered from Kleven Maritime in Norway
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    Second of two ‘green’ PSVs from Kleven

    2012-02-29T23:30:00Z

    ‘Rem Fortress’ is a new PSV delivered in the last quarter of 2011 by Kleven Maritime. She is sister to ‘Rem Commander’, delivered earlier in the year. Both ships were ordered in July 2010 and replace older ships with the same name in the Rem Offshore fleet, also built by ...

  • Computer generated image of the Deltamarin B.Delta37 standard bulk carrier
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    New ‘green’ Handysize contract signed

    2012-02-29T23:30:00Z

    With mounting commercial and environmental pressure on the shipping industry to reduce emissions and fuel consumption, it’s encouraging to see that an increasing number of shipowners are ordering more efficient vessels.

  • Preliminary drawing of the CalMac hybrid ferry showing the stern ramp configuration
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    Environmentally-sound hybrid ferries to be built on the Clyde

    2012-02-29T23:30:00Z

    In a rare reversal of fortunes for the UK shipbuilding industry, Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow, Scotland has been selected to build the world’s first two sea-going ro-ro diesel electric hybrid ferries.

  • Integrated bridge systems now involve more elements than just navigation
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    Integrated control – the ‘whole ship’ system

    2012-02-29T23:30:00Z

    Dag Pike looks at the variety of systems which combine control of several onboard systems in a fully-integrated fashion.

  • Very little breakdown was observed on the tanks of Samco Raven' during inspection
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    'Better than good' after fifteen years

    2012-02-29T18:08:00Z

    A 300,000 dwt crude oil tanker has made 15 years with very little wear on its cargo tanks, thanks to the durability of an epoxy shield.

  • Kare Jonsson has been awarded the honorary title of group senior specialist by Volvo Penta
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    Specialist title for propeller engineer

    2012-02-29T18:05:00Z

    Propeller engineer Kåre Jonsson has been appointed by Volvo Penta as group senior specialist.