Motorship News – Page 721
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NewsRas Laffan drydock operational by year-end
Ras Laffan dry dock in Qatar will be operational by the year-end according to Nakilat managing director Mohamed Ghannam. The work is being undertaken as part of the comprehensive development of Ras Laffan Industrial City managed by Qatar Petroleum.
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Oman shiprepair yard on course for 2011
Oman Drydock Company (ODC) is planning to commence ship repair operations at its new facility in Duqm in March 2011. “As much as 75% of the infrastructure (including civil work) and superstructure is complete now,” said a senior official.
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NewsEngine company launches SCR for inland waters
Volvo Penta, together with Swedish emission control specialist STT Emtec, is introducing an effective solution to greatly reduce NOx emissions from high speed marine diesel engines.
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NewsDrydocks World wins semisub order
Drydocks World – South East Asia has won a contract to build a new oil well intervention compact semi-submersible (CSS) vessel, representing a third order from Singapore-based Hallin Marine. The vessel will cost a total of $110m.
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NewsThe greening of fast cats - a new wave of catamarans
The Tasmanian fast ferry shipbuilder Incat recently introduced its Ecoship 130 concept design which is billed as the new wave of lightweight fuel efficient fast ships able to carry large numbers of commercial vehicles of all types at lower operational costs.
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Satisfactory tests results for Aalborg’s BWT solution
Aalborg Industries in Denmark has successfully finalised the land-based tests towards obtaining IMO type approval for its AquaTriComb ballast water treatment system with what the company says are very satisfactory test results.
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NewsKorean shipbuilders order PureBallast
Alfa Laval has received two orders of claimed record size for its PureBallast systems from two shipyards in Korea to be installed on board 14 container vessels under construction for A.P Møller-Maersk.
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NewsABB Turbocharging introduces VCM
Under the designation Valve Control Management (VCM), ABB Turbocharging and engine component specialist INA Schaeffler KG in Germany are developing an advanced variable valve train system. We first announced this joint venture in our web site news in November 2009, now ABB has officially announced that a prototype of the ...
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NewsHyundai Heavy develops eco-friendly gas engine
Hyundai Heavy Industries has recently completed the test run of the newly developed high output eco-friendly HiMSEN gas engine H35G in Korea.
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New gas engine signals ABB turbocharging 2-stage success
Following a recent announcement centering on diesel engines, gas engine specialist GE has now reported the results of its joint development program with ABB Turbocharging for the application of two stage turbocharging on 4-stroke engines.
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NewsWärtsilä powers Chinese semisub heavy-lift vessel
Wärtsilä has signed a contract to deliver a ship power system for a 38,000 tonne semi-submersible heavy-lift vessel for privately owned Chinese customer Zhejiang Share.
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NewsWärtsilä and Robert Allan sign cooperation agreement
Wärtsilä has signed a letter of intent with the Canadian ship design company Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) to develop a strategic cooperation agreement.
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News‘Seychelles Paradise’ – a coastal oil/LNG tanker designed with ‘green’ credentials
Dieter Kühne, managing director of the Lindenau Schiffswerft & Maschinenfabrik in Kiel, Germany, describes how the yard has applied large-ship ecological principles to a small coastal tanker, featuring double hull, redundant propulsion, low emissions and high efficiency.
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NewsPiston seals for cleaner engines
According to UK company Marine Sealing Services, during the 1980s and 1990s, system oil contamination was a problem on the majority of two-stroke diesel engines.
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NewsEngine company launches SCR for inland waters
Volvo Penta, together with Swedish emission control specialist STT Emtec, is introducing an effective solution to greatly reduce NOx emissions from high speed marine diesel engines.
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NewsHitzler completes first of three river icebreakers
Germany’s small Hitzler Schiffswerft has completed ''Kietz'', the first of three special inland icebreakers worth a total of €15.3 million for service with local waterways authorities in east and west Germany, writes Tom Todd.
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NewsInnovative ferry ro-ro helps Sietas on new course
One of Germany’s oldest private shipyards, J.J.Sietas, has completed its first ro-pax newbuilding, the small, 75.1m, state-of-the-art, double-end ferry Uthlande, and with it entered a specialist sector still competitive for some European shipbuilders, writes Tom Todd.
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NewsIRS surveyors target smaller flags
As shipping rules and regulations tighten, an independent class society believes that it has found a neat way to solve the problems of smaller flag states whose vessels are often targeted and detained by port state authorities.
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NewsGas is the green solution, says BV
International classification society Bureau Veritas says natural gas-powered propulsion will be one of the major contributors to greener shipping.
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NewsGerman class prepared for gas-fuelled shipping
In common with other major classification societies, Germanischer Lloyd has issued guidelines for gas as ship fuel on the application of the IMO regulations.
