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Since The Motor Ship reported on the first cruise ship installation of MetalSCAN on the Voyager of the Seas last year, things have come a long way. Barry Taylor, GasTOPS? marketing manager…

1st November 2003

Making pods predictable

1st November 2003

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Near development offers higher thermal efficiency and reduced emissions from natural gas energy source.In a unique research project, the Japanese ?Ship and Ocean Foundation? (SOF), has, since 1998, been developing an engine…

1st November 2003

CNG engine system ? the power plant of the future

1st November 2003

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Korean shipbuilders have clinched 382 ships amounting to 13.19 million CGT for the first nine months this year, up 234.40% compared with the same period last year. Korea Shipbuilders? Association KSA) said…

30th October 2003

Korea nets 382 ships

30th October 2003

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I.M. Skaugen ASA, Oslo (IMSK), will take delivery of its sixth vessel in the newbuilding programme. Named Norgas Napa , the vessel was built by the Hudong - Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group in…

30th October 2003

Skaugen completes Chinese newbuilding programme

30th October 2003

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A new global system of competence standards to ensure that ships? crews from different nations, different cultures and different training institutes all have a common, acceptable level of knowledge, skills and attitudes…

29th October 2003

New standards to ensure safer and more efficient operations by ships? crews

29th October 2003

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Korean Register of Shipping (KR) is enhancing cooperation with other classification societies in Asia, particularly CCS (China Classification Society). This involves cooperation in technology, sharing of inspectors, future research projects and joint…

29th October 2003

KR enhancing cooperation with other classification society

29th October 2003

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On 23 October top executives from some 60 shipbuilding companies, including those from major shipyards in Japan, Europe, China, Korea and the United States, gathered in Osaka, Japan, to hold the 12th…

28th October 2003

Rosy outlook for shipbuilders

28th October 2003

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The European Commission has taken the penultimate step before making a formal complaint to the Court of Justice by issuing a warning to Italy, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg, Greece and Finland that they…

23rd October 2003

EC gets tough

23rd October 2003

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Meeting the requirements of the "one man engine room" an automatic salinity indicating system has been installed aboard the LNG Hilli. The McNab system will measure up to 10 channels of salinity…

23rd October 2003

Pass the salt

23rd October 2003

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ABS has released the first Guidance Notes on Ergonomic Design of Navigation Bridges. ABS safety manager, Denise McCafferty says, "When bridge activities rely on interfaces that are awkward for the mariner, human…

23rd October 2003

Bridge the gap

23rd October 2003

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Single-hull oil tankers have been banned from European ports with effect from 21 October 2003The Regulation banning single-hull oil tankers from European ports was published in the EU?s Official Journal on 21…

23rd October 2003

Europe bans single-hull tankers

23rd October 2003

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Following its acquisition by British Maritime Technology Ltd (BMT) in April 2003, Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd, the specialists in high-speed mono and multi-hull vessel design, will now trade as BMT Nigel…

23rd October 2003

High Speed specialists get BMT stamp

23rd October 2003

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With the completion of a 300,000DWT dock two months earlier than scheduled, the shipbuilding capacity of the Dalian shipyard has been increased to between one and two million DWT per year The…

23rd October 2003

Dalian capacity trebled

23rd October 2003

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Wärtsilä will sell all of its holdings in Polar Kiinteistöt Oyj to the German real estate company IVG Immobilien AG. Wärtsilä has a direct holding in Polar of 14,473,438 shares representing 8.0…

23rd October 2003

Wärtsilä sells its holding in Polar Diesels

23rd October 2003

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ABS President Robert Somerville said that in the rare event of a tanker casualty it is likely to be the class society, rather than the operator, that finds itself in court, and…

23rd October 2003

Double trouble

23rd October 2003

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Samsung Heavy Industries said it had won a massive order for LNG carriers from BG and RasGas. Three 145,000-cbm LNG carriers plus four more options from BG and two LNG carriers from…

23rd October 2003

Demand for LNG boosts shipbuilding

23rd October 2003

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Towage specialist Fairmount Marine has started a 9,700-mile tow of an offshore platform, Murphy Oil Front Runner SPAR, from Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates, to Pascagoula, US. The 14,000 tonnes SPAR, with…

23rd October 2003

Towed to Pascagoula

23rd October 2003

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Japan?s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport says its shipbuilding companies have orders for 46 ships of 1.9 million GT for September this year. The volume is 165.7 percent more than that…

15th October 2003

Japanese yards win orders for 46 ships during September

15th October 2003

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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge announced new port security initiatives and investments to provide increased international cooperation, greater use of technology, and additional funds for port security facility enhancements." Through…

15th October 2003

Slower but safer America

15th October 2003

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China?s Guangzhou Shipyard International has received an order for a 39,000dwt product carrier from Italian owner Solar Shipping. The ship will be delivered in January 2006. It will be 174m in length,…

15th October 2003

Guangzhou not far behind

15th October 2003

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China?s Dalian Shipyard has won an order for two 35000-dwt product tankers from the German owner Sloman Neptun. It is the first time that the German company has placed an order in…

15th October 2003

Dalian forges ahead

15th October 2003

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Cruise lines carried 11 percent more passengers from U.S. ports in the first quarter of 2003 than they did in the same period last year reported the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD). Carnival…

15th October 2003

Cruise Passenger Travel Increases by 11 Percent

15th October 2003

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The Northrop Grumman Corporation has agreed to pay the United States government $80 million to resolve allegations of overcharging and selling the Navy defective military equipment. The government alleged that from 1994…

15th October 2003

$80 million fine for overcharging

15th October 2003