All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1121
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Heavy lift pair for Chipolbrok
Chipolbrok, the Sino-Polish shipping company, is upgrading its fleet with the building of two 30,000 dwt newbuildings at Shanghai Shipyard. The contract includes an option for a second pair. The ships will each have a 640t lifting capacity in addition to a container capacity of around 2,000 TEU.As with the ...
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Mixing cargo and cruise passengers
They carry passengers, but they are much more than mere ferries. Hurtigruten ships provide a lifeline for Norway?s remote northern communities, bringing in essentials while taking local products out to market.A Hurtigruten ship is scheduled to leave Bergen every evening on an 11-day round-trip that can take it as far ...
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Juicy Brazilian carrier
Wet bulk ships don?t come any sweeter than Carlos Fischer. The 42,500 dwt carrier is specifically designed for transporting fresh and concentrated orange juice in tanks.Carlos Fischer is owned by Aleuropa, a subsidiary of leading Brazilian conglomerate Grupo Fischer. It was recently delivered by shipbuilder Kleven Maritime from its Flor? ...
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New design safety vessel fights on all fronts
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Küstenschutz (coastal protection working group) ? set up by the towing companies Bugsier, Transport & Service, Fairplay and URAG ? has, in cooperation with SSW Fähr- und Spezialschiffbau, developed a new concept in safety vessels. Drawing on the modular design approach of naval warships, the design offers three optional ...
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Signum upgrade
ExxonMobil Marine Lubricants has improved its Signum Oil Analysis web site to make it easier for ship operators to monitor the condition of engines, equipment and lubricants by testing used oil samples. The site upgrades improve access to ExxonMobil technical experts, according to the company. New features include enhanced e-mail ...
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More RT-flex orders
Wärtsilä has reported more orders for its RT-flex marine diesel engines. Two orders for the engines, which feature common-rail fuel injection, have been secured for installation in two 30,000 dwt multipurpose dry cargo carriers building at Shanghai Shipyard in China for Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Co (Chipolbrok). Each vessel will ...
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Two New models from Polarmarine
Polarmarine has launched a new type of single nozzle tank cleaning machine named PJ 120T-CPA as well as a new twin-nozzle, the PJ 25T. The deck-mounted single nozzle PJ 120T-CPA has speed, angle and pitch control brought together within a single model, says the company. The cleaning area can be ...
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Rise passes MOD tests
CSD Sealing Systems says its Rise range of cable and pipe transit conduit sealing systems and its Sealing Plug system have all successfully passed a range of MOD Standard shock tests. The tests were carried out in accordance with the Naval Engineering Standard NE5814 and prove the system?s suitability for ...
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Martek pressure warning system
The Sentry from Martek Marine is a cargo tank pressure monitoring system designed in compliance with SOLAS II Reg 59, providing early warning of under or over pressurisation in oil and chemical tankers. The system uses pressure transducers installed on deck which continually monitor tank pressure and provides indications of ...
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Portable unit for on-board maintenance
The MTC 2000 Marine Test Case from Druck contains hand-held calibration tools for in-situ maintenance of pressure, temperature and electrical equipment. Applications include the monitoring and control systems on engine gear and thrust bearings, turbo chargers, fuel and lubricating oil systems, firefighting systems, heat exchangers and crew and cargo area ...
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New lifeboat from NME
Norwegian Maritime Equipment is launching a newly developed, fully enclosed lifeboat with a capacity of 102 persons. The company is also announcing a fast rescue boat in three different versions. Both the lifeboat and the rescue boat are produced in China by Jiangyin Xinjiang. The lifeboat comes in two versions, ...
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Largest LNG
Leif Höegh and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines have together ordered the world?s largest LNG carrier. The order, placed with Mitsubishi HI, is for a 145,000m3 vessel featuring a Moss Rosenberg spherical tank containment system. The vessel is due for delivery at the end of 2005.
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SOLAS pocket guide
Kelvin Hughes has produced a free pocket guide to the revised SOLAS Chapter V which is set to apply to more vessels than ever before. The guide allows users to see which navigation systems and services vessels must carry in order to comply with the new regulations, including information on ...
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Gotland pace
Chinese shipyards don?t just build simple ships. Yes, they build a lot of bulk carriers and product tankers. But there is also a level of expertise at certain yards that allows them to build more sophisticated vessels. The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has earmarked certain yards for the development ...
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Screen wipers go hi-tech
UK-based Wynn Marine has developed a new touch screen system for controlling a large number of bridge window wipers. The touch screen is designed to be integrated with the company?s series 3000 control network and is capable of controlling up to 50 wipers either individually or in groups, with fast ...
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FSL overseas
Fleet Support Limited (FSL), the British ship repair organisation, has taken steps to move into the international ship repair market and has appointed overseas agents in Norway, Denmark, Greece, and Cyprus. Discussions are also being held with potential agents in Germany.
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Holeby first
The first onboard installation of MAN B&W?s L21/31 Holeby genset will not, as expected, be on one of the four DFDS Tor Line roro vessels on order at Flensburg Shipyard. Rather MAN B&W has won a contract to supply a pilot installation of two L21/31 gensets to a ship that ...
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Wärtsilä gets more EnviroEngine orders
Wärtsilä has sold its first EnviroEngines that combine common-rail fuel injection with electronically-controlled direct water injection. P&O Princess Cruises has elected to install 12 EnviroEngines on four of its cruise ships under construction in Japan and France. Wärtsilä says the combination of the two technologies will allow the cruise ships ...
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Electricity from waste heat
American-based researchers say they have developed a semiconductor technology that could allow efficient electricity generation without using traditional auxiliary machinery. Associate Professor Peter Hagelstein of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)?s department of electrical engineering and computer science and Dr Yan Kucherov of ENECO say their technology works through thermionics, ...
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EIMS to kill waste
Marine Environmental Partners (MEP), the Ft. Lauderdale based water treatment company, has developed two new treatment processes to deal with shipboard generated black (sewage) and grey (laundry, kitchen, and sink/shower) wastewater. It has also produced a simple and effective process for eliminating pollutants and bacteria in ships? ballast water. Designed ...
