All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1114
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Sailing the seven seas with Dolphin pods
In February this year the Italian shipbuilder T. Mariotti delivered the 754 passenger cruiseship Seven Seas Voyager to Radisson Seven Seas Cruises (RSSC). It is the world?s second all balcony-suite vessel, following another RSSC ship Seven Seas Mariner. More interesting from a technical standpoint though is that the 41,500g Seven ...
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Evolution for P&O cross-Channel ferries
The Channel Tunnel was supposed to kill it. But in the years since the Channel Tunnel opened, trade on the short-sea crossing from Dover in the UK to Calais in France has boomed. While roro demand out of Dover and other Kent ports to Ostend, Zeebrugge and Boulogne, etc. has ...
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Comms move closer to the one-stop-shop
The maritime industry has become more and more demanding when it comes to high volume telephony, data, e-mail and internet communications. This, coupled with a demand to reduce prices has seen a number of players in the market merging in recent years to offer a one-stop shop.Xantic, a previous joining ...
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An unconventional docking challenge
Douglas McGowan bought the paddle steamer Waverley from Caledonian MacBrayne in Scotland for the princely sum of £1. He is now retired from Waverley Excursions, but works on a voluntary basis as project communications manager. Waverley is currently alongside at George Prior Engineering at Great Yarmouth in the UK. The ...
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Double double-enders for Calmac
The Scottish west coast is about to see the introduction of two new double-ended ropax ferries being built in the UK for ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (Calmac). The first of these newbuildings,Coruisk, will run on the 30-minute Mallaig to Armadale route on the Isle of Skye while the other ferry, ...
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Two-tier linkspans for bigger ferry
After just two years operational service, Stena Line will replace Stena Forwarder with a larger capacity ferry on its Irish Sea service between Dublin and Holyhead this summer. It will introduce the 44,200g Stena Adventurer in July, following its delivery from Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries."We have been frustrating freight ...
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Spanish pair for Algeriea Ferries
After many years of delays, Algerian state-owned ship operator ENTMV (Enterprise Nationale de Transports Maritimes de Voyageurs) placed an order last year for two traditional ropax ferries with Spanish shipbuilder Izar. The ferry operator issued its initial tender for the ships in 1998 and AESA (which merged with Bazan to ...
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Spanish pair for Algeriea Ferries
After many years of delays, Algerian state-owned ship operator ENTMV (Enterprise Nationale de Transports Maritimes de Voyageurs) placed an order last year for two traditional ropax ferries with Spanish shipbuilder Izar. The ferry operator issued its initial tender for the ships in 1998 and AESA (which merged with Bazan to ...
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MOL leads the way with aerodynamic PCTC
The design of the car carrier, other than in terms of sheer size, has altered very little in recent decades but all this has changed with the latest pure car truck carrier (PCTC) recently delivered to the Japanese shipowner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL). In an evolutionary step to improve efficiency ...
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Evolution for P&O cross-Channel ferries
The Channel Tunnel was supposed to kill it. But in the years since the Channel Tunnel opened, trade on the short-sea crossing from Dover in the UK to Calais in France has boomed. While roro demand out of Dover and other Kent ports to Ostend, Zeebrugge and Boulogne, etc. has ...
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Trade and terror
The need to ensure the safety and security of vessels at sea and in port is as important as the high-profile fight against terrorism.According to a report issued by the ICC International Maritime Bureau?s Kuala Lumpur-based Piracy Reporting Centre, there were 370 reported attacks on shipping worldwide last year ? ...
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Investments to up productivity
The quest is on at Korean shipyards to make most productive use of drydock space. Song Deuk Lee, director of the international cooperation office at the Korea Shipbuilders? Association, reckons Korean shipbuilders? productivity is rising but is still about 10% below that of Japanese shipbuilders. Drydock turnover in Korea is ...
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Spain?s marine expo
The first major marine event of 2003 was held in Bilbao, the capitol of Spain?s Basque country. And, fittingly for a region with a centuries-old maritime tradition, Sinaval-Eurofishing showed strong growth in visitor and exhibitor numbers despite an uncertain economic climate and the devastation wrought upon the Spanish fishing industry ...
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Dover to install QuaySailor
Dover Harbour Board is evaluating the installation of an automated mooring system at two new ferry berths it is building in its Eastern Docks. The UK port has commissioned Mooring Systems, the New Zealand-based developer of the automated QuaySailor vacuum mooring design, to produce working drawings for an initial installation. ...
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Responding to demand upswings
It was not so long ago that talk was of when and not if a box ship with a capacity greater than 10,000 TEU would be built. That talk has subsided in recent years. World trade took a downturn as the 21st century rolled in and ships half that size ...
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Upping levels of customer service
Engine companies are developing training packages as products evolve and the recruitment environment changes. They have for some time offered formal classroom-based product training. However the new packages and facilities take their customer service to new levels.Wärtsilä, for example, has recently established the Wärtsilä Land and Sea Academy (WLSA) in ...
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Nanotechnology could provide cleaner fuels
Scientists from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, have developed a technique that could improve the commercial processes used to remove environmentally harmful sulphur from fossil fuels. This is currently done using a catalyst, which binds the harmful sulphur molecules to it. The Danish team have studied the chemical reactions that ...
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Meeting challenges
Korean shipbuilders are faced with a number of problems as the industry in their country matures. Traditionally they have competed against Japan largely on a price basis. Now they need to look over their shoulders at China on price. Talk has now turned to productivity and quality of product, the ...
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Breaking ground
Develop design. Begin domestic marketing. Sell first ships. Build reputation. Commence exports. Increase complexity. Prepare for next market. Repeat cycle. This is the basic pattern that Korean shipbuilding has followed since its modern era took off. Now the shipbuilders are at the stage where they are ready for their next ...
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Cruise ferries keep getting bigger
Just when one ferry company claims it is building, or has just put into service, the world?s largest cruise ferry, along comes another operator announcing it is building an even bigger ship. This game of one upmanship reached new heights when Norwegian ferry operator Color Line recently placed an order ...
