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Submarines get composite rudder blades
Pilgrim hydraulic nuts and oil injection system have been specified for Britain?s fleet of S and I class nuclear attack submarines undergoing major upgrade work. The nuts will enable fast installation and removal of a new generation of composite rudder blades and hydroplanes, says Pilgrim. The new rudder required a ...
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Biggest Scania
Scania has launched its most powerful marine engine ever. The new DI16M can deliver up to 590kW of power. It is a watercooled, twin turbocharged, direct injection V8 engine. It has a bore of 127mm, a stroke of 154mm and a displacement of about 16 litres. The engine design features ...
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GPS distress beacon gets smaller
Northern Airborne Technology says its GPIRB II is smaller and lighter than its predecessor. The unit includes a 406MHz satellite and 121.5MHz homing beacon as well as a Xenon strobe light. The unit weighs two pounds five ounces (1 kilogram), and measures 8 3/4in tall (16 1/2in with antenna) x ...
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Niigata bankruptcy
Niigata Engineering has sort court protection from its creditors. The company, whose business includes the design and manufacture of a range of medium-speed diesel engines and other propulsion machinery, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the face of crippling debts estimated at „227 billion ($1.84 billion). The company has supplied ...
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Grander Bahama
Arrival of Grand Bahama Shipyard?s newly acquired floating dock at the Freeport facility is imminent. The 87,000t lift dock has virtually circumnavigated the globe on its westbound trip from its former home, Cascade General?s Portland Shipyard on the US west coast to the Bahamas. The dock will enable Grand Bahama ...
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Modular design for Avecs black box
Avecs says its Marine Event Recorder?s modular design allows it to be used in any vessel type and its data storage time can be adjusted to exceed IMO requirements. The company says 20 of its VDRs have already been installed in passenger vessels and super fast ferries.
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Australian stevedore implements box track and trace system
P&O Ports Australia will push to implement sophisticated tracking and tracing systems at its Australian container handling facilities in 2002. P&O Ports general manager for container handling Tim Blood says technologies equipped to track containers "for virtually every inch of their journey" are essential for maximising just in time manufacturing ...
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Canadian designed tug makes Australian debut
An innovative Canadian designed harbour tug, which is said to offer higher manoeuvrability, stability and bollard pull than conventional designs, is making an Australian debut at the south west coast bulk commodity port of Esperance. The brain child of Canadian based naval architect, Al McIlwain, the 21.7m long, 10.6m beam ...
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August Rodin enters service
SeaFrance Rodin, the largest ferry ever to operate on the Dover to Calais route, recently entered service on the English Channel. Its entry into service heralds a new phase in trade on this highly competitive crossing. At 185m long and 27.7m wide, the 34,000g newbuilding is capable of transiting the ...
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Atlas VTS for Chinese customs authority
STN Atlas Elektronik has completed installation of new VTS facilities for the Customs authority at Shenzhen, the South China Sea coastal city north of Hong Kong, under a contract worth $400,000. Designed to monitor and help avert unauthorised local border crossings and smuggling activities, the system comprises a remote-sited Atlas ...
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Korean orders for STN Atlas
STN Atlas Marine Electronics has received orders from South Korean yards for a further 23 NACOS integrated navigation command systems incorporating Atlas Radarpilot 1000 radars, ECDIS and other proprietary sensors. The new commissionings include 35-4 systems for a series of LNG carriers and oil tankers being built by Daewoo for ...
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Ultrasonic hatch testing approved
Following type-approval of MacGregor?s Sherlog ultrasonic equipment by Lloyd?s Register, the company?s Hatch Cover division has gained a Class Service Supplier certificate from Det Norske Veritas. The certificate grants acceptance for service on tightness testing of hatches with ultrasonic equipment on ships, high speed light craft and mobile offshore units ...
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Another Chinese dock opens
China?s shipbuilding industry, already a world class player with around 6% of the newbuilding market, has expanded its capacity even further with the recent introduction of its latest newbuilding dock at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard (SWSC). This marks the completion of the first phase of a $387 million joint venture project ...
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Handling all
The first of a new series of heavy-lift multi-purpose containerships under construction in China has been delivered. The vessels, ordered by German-based Schoeller Holdings, are being built in Xiamen (8 + 4 options), Jinling (2), Dalian (6) and Shanghai (2) shipyards with deliveries over the next three years. All 18 ...
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Lloyd?s Register adopts a listening approach
It is strange how the funding for technological advances is acquired and how long it can take for some technologies to be accepted. A case in point is BALRUE, a new generation acoustic emission monitoring system developed jointly by Lloyd?s Register, Airbus (a BAE Systems and EADS joint company) and ...
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The advantages of AdhFAST
Adhesives have been around a long time but because of prejudices they have not been fully utilised, particularly in the marine sector, despite the fact that they have some obvious advantages. Fire is one of the biggest problems in the ship repair industry and welding is usually to blame, so ...
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Inmarsat activates an additional beam
Inmarsat has activated a sixth beam on its Indian Ocean Region satellite to boost capacity and provide temporary coverage in the area. This south central beam will now provide mini-M services over the entire southern Indian Ocean for competitors taking part in the Volvo round-the-world Ocean Race 2001-2002. Inmarsat says ...
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Time to act on safety
Legislation that eventually caught up with tankers will inevitably catch up with bulkers. But will we have to wait until a bulker pollutes a French beach with bunkers before there are any serious design changes legislated? The unfortunate thing, or fortunate depending on your point of view, is that bulkers ...
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Online accident reporting system for high speed vessels
The Royal Institution of Naval Architects has introduced an online HSV accident reporting system, by which members of the Institution and others involved with the high-speed vessel industry can report accidents to the Institution. Reports may be made on all forms of unconventional and high-speed craft, including those within the ...
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Improved access from Kelvin Hughes
The new bridge system from Kelvin Hughes uses five 23in flat panel displays and an independent control unit. Two high chairs either side of the control unit give operators head-height vision while using the system, says the company. Kelvin Hughes says the new bridge system will make moving around the ...
