All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1052
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Polish yards sinking Ferguson
Ferguson Shipbuilders, the last independent yard on the Clyde, is facing a ?life or death? battle over government contracts for two new fisheries vessels. Alan Dunnet, Ferguson's chief executive, who rescued the 102-year-old Port Glasgow shipyard in the mid-1990s with his father, Frank, believes the Scottish Executive is driving the ...
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Owners rush for extra fuel protection
Leading fuel testing company Lintec Testing Services says it has had a massive response to its revolutionary new service to screen bunkers for chemical contamination. Over 300 vessels have signed up for Lintec's extra level of protection since it was launched at the end of October last year.Lintec developed the ...
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Secret cash for Swan Hunter
The British government has been accused of trying to keep secret an £84m cash lifeline to the troubled shipyard of Swan Hunter in the north-east of England and which is located near the constituencies of the prime minister and other senior cabinet ministers.The conservatives demanded to know why there had ...
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Aurora heads for Germany
P&O?s cruise liner Aurora, which recently suffered serious propulsion problems causing the abandonment of its world cruise last week, is heading for the German shiprepair yard of Lloydwerft in Bremerhaven to have repair works carried out. These are likely to take twice as long as the four to five weeks ...
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Farstad orders another AHTS
Farstad Supply AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Farstad Shipping ASA, has reached an agreement with Simek AS, Flekkefjord, for the building of an anchor handling tug supply vessel for delivery in April 2006. The vessel is of design UT 712L from Rolls-Royce Marine, which also will be a major supplier ...
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Korea top dog again
South Korean shipbuilders enjoyed another bumper year in 2004 by winning the largest amount of orders in the world totalling 17.3 million compensated gross tonnes (CGT) last year. This was well ahead of Japan in second position with 12.2 million CGT according to the London-based research firm Clarkson.South Korean shipbuilders ...
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Samsung develops SORAS
Samsung Heavy Industries has developed SORAS (Samsung Optimum Routing Assessment System), a system that will give safer routing for ships while also saving fuel. It took 3 years to develop SORAS and is currently undergoing evaluation tests onboard a container ship. A simulation carried out on a 103,000DWT tanker sailing ...
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Novel Tri/SWATH design for oil industry
Harsh environmental conditions make the complex tasks associated with oil recovery and well maintenance from certain oilfields in the North Sea extremely challenging, often resulting in oil recovery rates 20% below what should be expected. This is a problem which is being addressed by an advanced maritime vessel design being ...
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Cutty Sark lives on
The future of the museum ship Cutty Sark in Greenwich, UK, has been safeguarded following a grant of £11.25 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund which will enable the old tea clipper to be protected from further damage for the next 50 years. There had been fears that without a ...
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Germany claims France not ready
German Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement said European shipbuilders aren't ready to merge with their German counterparts as many are still government-controlled. "The potential partners are not yet advanced enough,"' Clement told reporters at a maritime conference in Bremen, Germany when asked if he would support a merger between ThyssenKrupp Marine ...
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H&W at full capacity
Harland and Wolff is gearing up for a second year of substantial business growth following a successful 2004 which saw ship repair and conversion work increasing by 60%. The Belfast shipyard is at maximum capacity with no fewer than two ferries, two high speed catamaran ferries, a tanker and three ...
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VT Halter build third NOAA vessel
VT Halter Marine Inc. (VTHM), a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., will build another Fisheries Survey Vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which organised their option for the third of four planned vessels under an existing contract. This vessel is valued at approximately $38 million and ...
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Mid-life upgrade for BC ferry
Refurbishments will bring Service Improvements for Nanaimo-Horseshoe Bay The Queen of Oak Bay, which plies on BC Ferries' Nanaimo-Horseshoe Bay route in British Columbia, Canada, is undergoing an extensive, six-month upgrade at Vancouver Drydock Company (VDC) in North Vancouver. The contract with the ship repairer, which is part of the ...
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Ballast Water Convention gains first signatories
Spain and Brazil have become the first states to sign the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004.The Ballast Water Convention contains measures to prevent the potentially devastating effects of the spread of harmful aquatic organisms carried by ships' ballast water. It will ...
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Norsk Hydro's LoI cancellation
With reference to earlier press releases on the issue of Norsk Hydro's reason for cancellation of their Letter of Intent to Farstad Shipping, fuller details have now emerged. According to Norsk Hydro they had discovered that technical information was handled in conflict with Hydro's procedures. This was related to an ...
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2004, a record year for CSIC
The China Shipbuilding Industry Corp. (CSIC), the largest shipbuilding company in China, received more than six million tons of new ship orders in 2004, ranking first in domestic shipbuilding companies. Li Changyin, CSIC general manager, said that the company built 2.14 million tons of new ships in 2004, up 30% ...
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Newbuild prices soaring
Since the beginning of this year the price of new ships has jumped raising South Korean shipbuilders' hopes of greater profits in the latter half of the year, industry sources said. The price index of new ships reached 155 in January which is a record high since it hit 163 ...
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Shipyard jobs may be saved
BAE Systems is reported to have put back moves to make 100 drawing office jobs redundant following discussion between management and the Ministry of Defence about packages of work to absorb some of the slack.The UK shipbuilder has been highlighting to the MoD the danger that more of Barrow?s unique ...
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Farstad cancels order
Farstad Shipping has decided to cancel the contract between its subsidiary, Farstad Supply, and the Norwegian shipyard Aker Brattvaag. As reported last week, the newbuilding contract was dependent on approval of the charter party between Norsk Hydro and Farstad Shipping ASA. An agreed cancellation fee will be covered by Farstad ...
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Brazilian bonanza
The Brazilian state-controlled oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras), is rumoured to be requesting bids from 12 domestic shipbuilders to build as many as 42 oil tankers at a cost of $1.9 billion.
