All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1081
-
News
Repairs to Cape Africa still on hold
Salvors are awaiting confirmation on whether the holed bulk carrier Cape Africa can be towed to the port of Cape Town for repair work. The latest development follows a frustrating period for salvors whose salvage attempts have been beset with technical problems, such as the collapse of a cofferdam or ...
-
News
RR well positioned to power next generation of USN ships
Rolls Royce has been selected by Lockheed Martin to provide MT30 gas turbine engines and water jets for up to two ships of the Littoral Combat Ship programme (LCS), the next generation of US Navy warship.LCS is being designed and built to improve the US Navy?s operational capability in the ...
-
News
Ropax order for IHC Caland
IHC Caland in Holland has received an order for two ropax ferries from Bornholmstrafikken, Denmark, for its wholly owned subsidiary Merwede Shipyard. The total contract value amounts to $91.5 million. The newbuildings will be delivered in April 2005 and, in order to meet the short delivery time, Merwede Shipyard had ...
-
News
Aker Yards signs conditional contract for residence ship
Kvaerner Masa-Yards (KMY), has signed a conditional contract with FS Ocean Club, managed by Ocean Development Group, to design, construct and deliver an approximately 42,500GT luxury residential ship to be branded, managed and operated by Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. The ship, to be named Four Seasons, will be approximately ...
-
News
Time to think about enforcing emissions limits
IMO?s Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from ships (Marpol) is set to come into force on 19 May next year. This follows ratification by Samoa, fulfilling the entry-into-force requirements that specify acceptance by 15 IMO member states with not less than 50% of world merchant shipping tonnage. Samoa ...
-
News
RR opens new marine propulsion service and training facility in Norway
A new service workshop has been opened at the Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine site in Ulsteinvik on the west of Norway. This will be the centre of excellence in the North Sea area for servicing and repair of thrusters and propulsion equipment.The 3,000m2 hall is fully equipped with cranes and also ...
-
News
ITOCHU and MOL in LNG JV with Algerian partners
Sonatrach (Algerian state-owned hydrocarbon company), Hyproc (shipping company wholly owned by Sonatrach), ITOCHU and MOL have agreed to establish a joint venture company (shareholding ratio 25% each) to construct a 75,500 cub metre newbuilding LNG carrier for long-term charter to Sonatrach.The JV has awarded the order for the new vessel ...
-
News
FCC grants Iridium access to 3.1 MHz of additional spectrum
Iridium Satellite LLC announced that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has expanded Iridium?s spectrum with access to an additional 3.1 MHz to meet the increasing demand for Iridium?s satellite voice and data services. This important ruling confirms the clear and discernible need for additional spectrum for Iridium as it continues ...
-
News
Daewoo captures $1.1 billion new orders
Daewoo Shipbuilding has recently secured orders for 11 newbuildings worth $1.1 billion. The orders include four 148,300 cbm LNG carriers from Bergesen ASA and a 145,700 cbm LNG carrier from Marangas. The Bergesen order includes options for three more gas carriers. The South Korean shipbuilder also clinched three 300,000DWT ...
-
News
Alstom wins Costa order
The Power Conversion Business of Alstom has just been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to supply electric power and propulsion equipment for the next Costa Crociere (Carnival Group) cruise ship to be delivered in summer 2006.This cruise vessel, the largest passenger carrying ship in the ...
-
News
DESSO aims for a ship which is its own lifeboat
A workshop concerning ship safety will be held on 15-16 June in Gothenburg, to discuss the DESSO project (Design for Survival Onboard) which was started in December 2003. This was established as a result of the VINNOVA (the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems) call 'MARITIME SAFETY 2003-2005 - a new ...
-
News
Daewoo Shipbuilding operates CNC lathe
Daewoo Shipbuilding has just installed an extra-large CNC lathe at its machine fabrication shop to carry out final machining of 100-ton size shafts. The new lathe was designed to be controlled automatically by computer which contains all manufacturing data and will be able to machine a shaft of up to ...
-
News
TEN joins LNG club
Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN) has signed a contract for the construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier. The 150,000 cubic meter capacity vessel will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea, and is scheduled for delivery in March of 2007. Today?s contract represents TEN?s first newbuilding order in ...
-
News
Kongsberg Maritime launches water ingress detection system for bulk carriers
Kongsberg Maritime is launching a sophisticated new water ingress detection system. specifically for bulk carriers. The system utilises the new patented GL-10 water detection sensors, which have been designed by Kongsberg to meet the carriage requirements under SOLAS Chapter XII Reg. 12 and are type approved by all classification societies.The ...
-
News
Singapore yard wins big conversion contract
Jurong Shipyard in Singapore has won a $1.066 billion contract to convert a crude carrier into one of the world's largest oil rigs for a unit of the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras. This latest project brings the value of conversion jobs taken up by the yard for the Brazilian ...
-
News
Dakota Creek Shipyard delivers another fast ferry
Dakota Creek Industries (DCI) in the USA recently delivered the latest version of its aluminum-hulled fast ferry to owners in the San Francisco area. The $8 million, 300 passenger Solano left the shipbuilders Anacortes shipyard after successfully completing performance testing and final adjustments. The 41.5 metre long, 12.3 metre wide ...
-
News
USCG claims 45% ISPS compliance
Almost half the ships entering US ports now comply with stringent new international anti-terror codes due to take effect on July 1, according to a top U.S. Coast Guard official. The IMO claims that less than 20% of the world's merchant fleet and 10% of the 6,000 port facilities ...
-
News
First Chinese SWATH starts maiden voyage
Chinese first SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin-Hull) offshore crew vessel New Central 1 recently left Tianjin Tanggu wharf for its maiden trip. The vessel was designed by Shanghai Merchant Ship Research & Design Institute and built by Guangzhou Huangpu Shipyard. Ship particulars are 39.78m overall length, 15m width, a draught ...
-
News
Strong growth confirms BV world leadership
Leading classification, certification and verification company Bureau Veritas (BV) has confirmed its position as the largest and strongest such group in the world, posting annual results which show the eight consecutive year of annual growth averaging over 17%.Turnover of the BV group for 2003 was Euro1.283bn ($1.51bn), up 12% on ...
-
News
Bender goes Mexican
Bender Shipbuilding & Repair company in Mobile, USA, has created a wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico which Bender?s president, Tom Bender, is promising will become "a world-class ship repair and new construction facility in Tampico that will make internationally competitive services and products available to our customers."Astilleros Bender (AB) is ...
