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    Viking/Ocenco offers EEBD solution

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    US-based company Ocenco has launched its emergency escape breathing devices (EEBD) to the commercial marine sector following an agreement with the Danish life saving equipment manufacturer Viking, which will undertake the distribution. Viking will use its existing distribution network including several subsidiaries and agents as well as its network of ...

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    Huge ECDIS order

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Transas Scandinavia has won an order to supply A P M?ller?s ships with an extensive ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) package comprising 160 dual Navi-Sailor 2400 ECDIS complete with radar overlay, a full world folio of Transas electronic charts and a subscription to the chart correction service. The ...

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    Largest vessel returns to Dubai

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The 564,000dwt ULCC Jahre Viking, the world?s largest ship, has completed its fifth Special Survey at Dock Number 2 at Dubai Drydocks. Jahre Viking entered dock on October 15, and left, on schedule on November 14. The fifth Special Survey involved extensive steel renewals, a full painting programme, pipework and ...

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    Full mission diesel electric simulator

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    RTM Star Center has announced the installation of a DE III full mission diesel electric simulator at its Dania Beach, Florida facility. The simulator, based on a design by Kongsberg Maritime Ship Systems, meets the STCW ?95 requirements for Class A full mission simulation, says RTM. The system is based ...

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    Izar releases PTC design

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Izar has designed a pure trailer carrying 3,075 lane metre vessel, classified as the R-3000. The 180m long vessel has a deadweight of 9,400t and is equipped with 22 single crew cabins and nine single driver cabins. The yard has specified two engines producing 5,900kW of power to give a ...

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    Diary dates

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The dates for the 24th annual Motor Ship Marine Propulsion Conference have been changed to avoid a clash with Danish public holidays ? so mark 10-11 April 2002 in your diary to be in Copenhagen for the marine technology event of the year. Whatever your interest in ship propulsion - ...

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    CSX Lines to introduce wave software system

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Resurgence Software and CSX Lines have signed a software licensing agreement for Resurgence to implement its Wave Software System on all sixteen vessels in the CSX Lines fleet and at selected shore-side locations. The Wave Software System is designed to provide the reliability information and analysis tools for making equipment ...

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    Re-conversion restores cruise ferry role

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A former cruise liner that re-entered service earlier this year with DFDS Seaways has assumed the mantle of Denmark?s largest cruise ferry after a conversion project which included installation of a hoistable car deck and flood control doors. MacGregor has played a key role in the conversion of DFDS Seaways? ...

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    KMSS upgrades fire detection for cruise ships

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    KMSS has won the contract to upgrade the fire detection system on the luxury cruise ships Sea Goddess I and II. KMSS will be supplying its Autronica fire detection system to the sister ships. The order follows the recent demand from the National Safety Transport Board in the USA for ...

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    Remote control for deck machinery

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Valued for cost-effective, reliable and above all safe operation, increasingly mooring and anchoring equipment is likely to be automated and acquired as part of an integrated package from a single manufacturer. Already a major supplier of many individual items of equipment such as low voltage switchboards and other items such ...

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    M.A. system ?reduces fuel consumption and emissions?

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    M.A. Turbo/Engine Design, based in Vancouver, Canada, has developed a water injection system specifically designed for retrofit to existing diesel engines which, it says, reduces both fuel consumption and emissions. The system has just been installed on two Detroit diesel engines of a ferry in San Francisco Bay?s Blue & ...

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    COMSAT launches enhanced Inmarsat-C data service

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Comsat Mobile Communications has launched new enhancements for its Innarsat-C service and equipment as part of what it calls Simply Easy Comsat-CTM. The company says it includes a new Web interface, simplified billing and improved customer resource materials. Comsat says the new service makes it easier for fixed users to ...

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    Compact valve for large engines

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    AMOT Controls says it has improved its G Valve three-way temperature control valve by making it more compact and lighter. The unit is designed to regulate fluid temperatures in large diesel and gas engines to 100?C with a maximum flowrate of 3,000m3/hr. Three types of control system are available electric, ...

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    Underwater coating repair

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Jones Marine is continuing development of its JML 2000 underwater coating system, with an application containing anti-fouling properties among its goals. Talking to The Motor Ship, Jones Marine managing director Mike Jones said the JML 2000 system is designed to effect repairs to areas of small-scale coating damage, for instance ...

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    WIG classification completed

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Flightship has completed the final phase of a lengthy three year classification process with Germanischer Lloyd for its futuristic wing in ground effect (WIG) craft. Flightship Australia managing director John Leslie says the classification of the eight seater FS8 has been extremely complex and required many negotiations of shipping standards ...

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    Chinese getting it together

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Chinese shipyards will be capable of competing with South Korean yards on equal terms after 2005, according to a new report released by the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade and the commerce ministry. The report says that South Korean shipbuilders should expand their R&D investment if they are ...

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    Saab TransponderTech wins Chinese order

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Saab TransponderTech has won an order for several R30 AIS base stations for the VTS system in Huangha and Majisuan in China. In Majisuan, the VTS system is under construction and will identify, track and serve all commercial vessels in the area carrying AIS-equipment.

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    Indian ship modernised in China

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Shipping Corporation of India?s cargo vessel Vishvakarma has completed a tweendeck hatch cover conversion at Chengxi Shipyard (part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation). Deterioration in the condition of the operating system for all the tweendeck panels was such that operation eventually became possible only by wire and crane, the emergency ...

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    UECC upgrading older car carriers

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Car carrier specialist UECC is seeking to extend the service life of three of its older vessels by up to 15 years. It is doing this via a major upgrading of Autocarrier, Autotransporter, and Autoline. The ships? bow thrusters, propellers, boilers, fans, some steelwork, switchboard, automation and electronic equipment plus ...

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    Shanhaiguan builds wind turbine ship

    2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Faced with dwindling world fossil fuel reserves, energy companies are exploiting alternative sources at an increasing pace. The latest development in the wind-mill energy farm concept is the construction of offshore facilities. And UK-based engineering firm, Mayflower Energy Ltd, has come up with a practical solution to the problems associated ...