Ships & Yards – Page 55
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NewsYards stay busy as production switches bite
According to Tom Todd, both large and small yards in Germany are reaping the benefits of diversification and streamlined production, and have attracted some significant newbuild orders despite some still-unresolved failures along the way.
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NewsLargest icebreaker construction now underway
Work has begun in Russia on a new nuclear-powered icebreaker, considerably larger and more powerful than any existing vessel, while a smaller Russian icebreaker soon to be completed in Finland, offers a novel approach to clearing wide channels, writes Dag Pike.
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NewsSwitch to propellers from waterjets pays dividends
Dag Pike describes a conversion to the propulsion system of a US ferry that resulted in improved performance – and a Workboat Environmental award.
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NewsIntroducing the truly innovative Edda Ferd
The latest addition to the Ostenso Rederij fleet claims that it’s capable of cutting the typical PSV energy draw by between 25% and 30% - while still running plain ordinary diesel, writes Stevie Knight.
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NewsBaseline management of coatings and fuel consumption
Wendy Laursen speaks to Jesse Millar, naval architect at BMT Design and Technology, to see how his company''s Baseline Management System can assist shipowners as they tackle the demands of energy efficiency and hull coating performance.
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NewsThe choreography of ship building
Offshore support vessels are becoming more and more densely engineered, especially in the North Sea where the oil majors play a large part in driving the technology relentlessly upward, says Stevie Knight.
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NewsNew coatings compete on operational benefits
Investment in hull coatings is on the rise, and manufacturers are responding with a range of new performance promises, writes Wendy Laursen
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NewsMaking a good marriage
Stevie Knight says that holding hands with a Brazilian collaborator who knows the water may be the best way to negotiate the ‘local content’ directive and the mire of other regulations that Brazil is known for.
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NewsBuoyant enough for the market
The Deepwater Enabler is the response to a tipping point according to Bob Rietveldt of Ulstein. Cheap is no longer really viable if it limits what you can do, and given this, ‘more is better’ - Stevie Knight explains.
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NewsOdfjell brings new scale to chemical trades
‘Bow Pioneer’, delivered this year to Odfjell Tankers of Norway by DSME in South Korea, is the largest type 2 chemical tanker afloat, and is described here by David Tinsley.
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NewsTying it all together
Although people often seem to be looking for the next novel power source, it’s more likely that the offshore support market will see an increasingly complex set of combinations rather than a ‘one size fits all’ energy generator, says Stevie Knight.
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NewsPosition and economy?
“You can’t assume much about what’s really happening to fuel consumption when a vessel is in Dynamic Position mode,” David Barton of Global Maritime tells Stevie Knight.
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NewsFerries for the future
What shape should the next generation of ferries take? was the question addressed by Rolls-Royce’s Blue Ocean team at the InterFerry Conference, held earlier this year in Malta.
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NewsRussia’s shipbuilding reform nears completion
The reform of Russian shipbuilding, which was marked by a spate of scandals and behind-the-scenes struggle for gaining control over the strategic industry, is nearing completion, writes Eugene Gerden.
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NewsGetting out alive
Every second is critical if things turn out badly enough to require abandoning ship, but as Benny Carlsen of Viking tells Stevie Knight, there is the ‘last man’ issue.
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NewsThe first tugs with pure gas propulsion
The first tug to use LNG as its sole fuel source is undergoing sea trials prior to its delivery to Norwegian operator Buksér og Berging from the Sanmar shipyard in Turkey.
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NewsRough waters for contracts
Offshore support sector vessels are more likely to find themselves working in difficult conditions, close up and personal with very expensive bits of kit which can endanger life and limb, says Stevie Knight.
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NewsGibdock continues offshore support ship dockings
Gibraltar shipyard Gibdock reports that it has continued to attract technically advanced offshore support vessel repair and maintenance projects.
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NewsLindenau works on specialist piling vessels
The German Lindenau Werft yard recently docked two ships operated by Bitunamel Feldmann of Lubeck, a contractor involved in specialised piling work for the offshore industry.
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NewsAlewijnse achieves fast timescale for electrical repair
Alewijnse Marine Systems says that it completed electrical repairs and modifications on Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes, within just three weeks.
