All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1065
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GL introduces shipboard routing assistance system
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has introduced its Shipboard Routing Assistance System (SRA) to help ship officers react promptly to heavy weather and, when necessary, sail round it.With SRA, the seaway data measured onboard are combined with the present loading information to permit the continuous recalculation of ship reactions in the waves. ...
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The changing face of Naval architecture
In an interview with The Motor Ship, Nigel Gee described naval architecture as the second oldest profession in the world. He said "The modern science of naval architecture was established during the industrial revolution with the basic methodologies established for hull design, resistance prediction, propulsion, stability and structural strength. Little ...
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Relume expands Arabian Gulf services
In July this year when MENAS showed off its new multipurpose light tender vessel Relume in a naming ceremony at Damen Shipyards? Scheldepoort facility in Vlissingen, The Netherlands, it was apparent that this was no ordinary vessel. "The new Relume marks a major transformation in the character of our organisation," ...
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A&P announce record sales
A&P Tyne has announced record sales in the first half of 2004 with turnover in excess of £30m, an increase of 50% on the first half of the previous year (2003). This has been complemented by the steady growth of the sister facility on Teesside. Despite this success A&P ...
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Germany builds ?Blue Angel? standard research vessel
The Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde, a non-university research institute dedicated to interdisciplinary marine research in coastal and marginal seas, is expanding its capabilities with a new, state-of-the-art, ice-breaking research vessel. The newbuilding, is to be named Maria S Merian, and will operate in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea ...
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The shaft alignment problem
Proper operation of marine propulsion machinery requires the shafting to be correctly aligned in all ship operating conditions. Modern propulsion technology has raised the demands made on analysis of the ship?s shaft alignment. The various bearings are displaced by carefully controlled amounts (offsets) to achieve a favourable balancing of bearing ...
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Aker to build PSVs for India
The Norwegian shipyard of Aker Brattvaag, a company in the Aker Yards Group, has signed a contract with The Great Eastern Shipping Co, Mumbai, India, for the construction of two Platform Supply Vessels (PSV). The contract is worth approximately $34.2 million and delivery is scheduled in June/July 2006 and August/September ...
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Taking action against poor copies
In recent years there have been a growing number of reports emerging from all sections of the maritime community about damage or accidents caused by the inadvertent use of imitation ship machinery parts.Because imitation parts are manufactured illegally without due respect for patent rights and other intellectual property laws, they ...
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Wärtsilä introduces the 46F
The Wärtsilä 46F is the latest in the highly successful marine engine series launched in 1987 with the Vasa 46, as it was then called. Though visually similar to the original Wärtsilä 46, with similar bore and stroke, the Wärtsilä 46F is a new engine with the latest technology applied ...
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RasGas signs deal for 3 LNG vessels
Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited (II), (RasGas) has signed a time charter agreements with Teekay Nakilat Corporation for the long-term charter of three 151,700m3 LNG vessels to be built at Daewoo Shipbuilding, Korea. Under the terms of the agreements, RasGas will charter these vessels for a firm period ...
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Jones act 2
Following on from the delivery of the 2,6000TEU boxship MV Manukai from Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard (KPSI) to the San Francisco-based Matson Navigation Company, as reported in The Motor Ship in October 2003, a second vessel has now been delivered. The MV Maunawili ? a CV2600 Philadelphia Class containership is the ...
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On the up
The maverick Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who has just received a mandate to continue as president for the next three years, declared at a top-level meeting of Mercosur ministers and leaders that he wanted Venezuela to become a member of the trade bloc within the next year. He then went ...
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HTS ship propulsion succeeds at full load
American Superconductor Corporation, a leading electricity solutionscompany, has announced that its prototype 5-megawatt (MW) High TemperatureSuperconductor (HTS) ship propulsion motor has been demonstrated successfully at full load, under steady state operational conditions, at the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The motor was developed ...
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Wärtsilä power for Spliethoff's new Sto-Ro freighters
Wärtsilä Corporation has received orders from the Polish shipbuilder Stocznia Szczecinska Nowa for the ship power plants for four new 12,800 tdw multi-purpose Sto-Ro cargo vessels contracted by the Dutch owner Spliethoff's Bevrachtingskantoor BV. For each of the four vessels, Wärtsilä will deliver two Wärtsilä 12V46 main engines, two Lips ...
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BAE merger plan could save shipyards
Shipyards in Scotland under threat were given hope after the defence giant BAE Systems said it was seeking to merge its Clydeside operations with rival facilities across the UK. The company said it was in talks with the Ministry of Defence to create a single firm to run the nation?s ...
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Austal launches world?s largest aluminium ship
Australian builder of high speed vessels, Austal, has launched what is said to be the largest aluminium ship ever built, the 127m trimaran ferry Benchijigua Express.As well as being a significant ship on the world high-speed vessel scene because of its size, the vessel has a notable ability to give ...
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Shipshape in Greenwich
Important cruise and ferry industry forecasts emerged from the 21st Century Passenger Transport Conference held at London?s University of Greenwich. Delegates were told that, terrorism notwithstanding, cruise passengers will grow 50% to 1.5 million by 2010. But ferry volumes will be halved in the decade to 2010 unless the industry ...
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Unithai yard wins containership contract
Unithai Shipyard and Engineering Ltd signed a shipbuilding contract with NP Marine for a 150 TEU containership with delivery scheduled for the end of 2005. The vessel is designed to serve Thailand's coastal trade.Unithai owns and operates the largest shipyard in Thailand and is capable of building vessels up to ...
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Moore Stephens survey confirms UK Tonnage Tax success
Leading shipping accountant and business consultant Moore Stephens says theresults of a major survey into the operation of the UK Tonnage Tax schemeshow it to have been an overwhelming success. Owners who took part in thesurvey were taken equally from those in the scheme and those outside it.The clearest message ...
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Carnival signs multi billion-dollar order with Fincantieri
Carnival Corporation has signed a historic multi-billion-dollar cooperation agreement with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to construct four new cruise ships as well as significantly redesign the previously announced Queen Victoria for its Cunard Line brand. Two of the newbuilding orders have been placed in U.S. dollars; two others are in euros. ...
