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Shock proof enclosures for Indian Navy
IAC has won the contract to supply acoustic enclosures for a series of new frigates being built at Mazagon Dock in Mumbai for the Indian Navy. In addition to containing the noise emissions of the Wärtsilä diesel generators on the new vessels, the enclosures are designed to withstand severe shock ...
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Skimoil introduces two EatsWaste systems
Skimoil has introduced two new waste minimisation systems. The RM97 Wiseash/Eatstrash marine batch incinerator is designed to handle the solid wastes produced on workboats and offshore rigs. The cart-mounted unit will burn oily wastes including filters, rags, absorbents, waste oils and other non-hazardous materials including paper, cardboard and galley wastes. ...
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Transas wins Far Eastern GMDSS simulators order
Transas Marine Pacific has won an order for a networked GMDSS simulator for the Pertamina Marine Education and Training Centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. In co-operation with its local agent, Panorama Timur Jaya, the company will supply a TGS4000 simulator system comprising 12 PC-based trainee workstations, two mini GMDSS consoles and ...
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Norwegians go for Wärtsilä dual fuel
Wärtsilä has won the contract to supply dual fuel engines to the two offshore supply vessels which Statoil said earlier this year would run on liquefied natural gas (see The Motor Ship, September 2001). The vessels, which Statoil is chartering from Eidesvik and Simon M?nkster Shipping, will each have a ...
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Web-based turbo doctor
Turbo Service International has launched a web-based turbocharger repair service. The website, located at www.turbo chargerbreakdown.com, is designed for use by onboard satellite communications systems and consequently features no graphics or unnecessary data. Causes, remedies and solutions to problems are provided for 152 types of ABB, MAN B&W and Mitsubishi ...
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MHI delivers double rainbow
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has completed delivery of two 11,410g car ferries from its Shimonoseki Shipyard to local ferry operator Kyuetsu Ferry in coownership with the Corporation for Advanced Transport and Technology. Named New Rainbow Love and New Rainbow Bell, these newbuildings entered service on July 9 and October 5 ...
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Saab signs Hong Kong deal
Saab TransponderTech has won an order to cover the Hong Kong area with its automatic identification system (AIS). The company has delivered six fully redundant R30 AIS base stations to the Marine Department in Hong Kong. The system will have full AIS coverage of the entire port area, says Saab. ...
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Dalian trio ready to run
Faced with the need to modernise its roro fleet, Stena RoRo decided to base the design of its new vessels on the 1998-built Sea Centurion. This is the only completed example of the original 4-Runner type, delivered from the now defunct Italian shipyard Societa Esercizio Cantieri. The resulting design is ...
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Versatile newbuilding for Dag Engström
Flexibility is the name of the game in the short-sea trade. While most owners claim their roro newbuildings are state-of-the-art multi-purpose vessels, it is unusual to come across a design which is truly an ?all in one? design concept. A new 13,000 dwt freight roro vessel, ordered by Swedish shipping ...
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Leica gets cruise ship sea trial
Leica Geosystems has received an order from Princess Cruises to install an automatic identification system (AIS) on the 109,000g luxury cruise ship Grand Princess. The vessel, which carries over 2,600 passengers and 1,200 crew, will be fitted with a Leica MX 420 integrated DGPS/AIS system and if sea trials are ...
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Crewcall keeps crewmembers in touch
Those who go to sea, whether for work or holiday, have always suffered from poor and slow communications facilities when trying to maintain contact with friends and relations ashore. This situation is about to undergo a dramatic change, says UK-based AND Group, with the introduction of ANDcrewcall, a state of ...
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Integrated system for surface and subsurface craft
The Seadevil (Seaborne Navigation System/Doppler Velocity Log) has been jointly developed by Kearfott Guidance & Navigation Corporation and RD Instruments. It is a navigation system designed for surface and subsurface craft, including remotely controlled underwater vehicles. It is enclosed in a 457 x 228mm cylinder weighing 27kg in air (16.8kg ...
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Shipbuilding websites to co-operate
ZoHakuWeb.com and Tribon.com are in talks to see how information can be accessed from each other?s websites. ZoHakuWeb?s business-to-business site is mainly focused on the technical information exchange between shipyards and marine equipment suppliers. It covers online catalogues, design support, application service provider functions and digitised purchase orders. Currently about ...
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Odfjell engineers express confidence in ME engine
Norwegian shipowner Odfjell is optimistic that the world?s first electronically controlled two-stroke diesel engine, installed onboard its 37,545 dwt chemical tanker Bow Cecil, is potentially an attractive and practical proposition. The ship?s crew, and in particular the engineers, have so far expressed their complete confidence in the mechanical electric (ME) ...
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Fierce but compatible
Fierce competition between MAN and ABB for their share of the large turbocharger market has not prevented a measure of compatibility, if unintentional, being demonstrated in their products. This is borne out by an example from the Tru-Marine service station in Singapore, of a fire damaged filter/silencer unit on a ...
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Compact terminal from Thrane & Thrane
Thrane & Thrane has launched the Capsat Fleet77 satellite communication terminal which uses the new Inmarsat Fleet service. The company says it is smaller and lighter than conventional terminals measuring 85cm high and 84cm in diameter and weighs 25kg. The unit offers both voice and data traffic via either 64 ...
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Shipbuilding cluster nears completion
Australia?s most concentrated shipbuilding region will gain a significant boost to its infrastructure when the A$200 million ($104 million) Jervoise Bay Marine Industry complex becomes operational in mid 2002. The complex, which neighbours the Henderson shipbuilding strip, is being set up as a one-stop venue for large ship fit outs ...
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Wärtsilä closes Zwolle
Wärtsilä is to shut its manufacturing plant at Zwolle, the Netherlands, and shift production of the W26, W28SG and W38 medium-speed engines to the Trieste plant in Italy. The company plans to focus the activities of Wärtsilä Nederland on the service centre at Schiedam. The move affects 700 employees at ...
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Wave and wind climate on the Web
Global Wave Statistics Online (globalwavestatisticsonline.com), a Website designed to provide information on the wave and wind climate across the world has been launched by BMT Fluid Mechanics. The company says its site gives access to 130 years of recorded observations from ships, which have been enhanced using the NMIMET process. ...
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Researchers in motion link with China
Western Australian based researchers are collaborating with the Marine Design & Research Institute of China (MARIC) to examine ship motion behaviour in volatile weather conditions. Curtin University?s Centre for Marine Science and Technology is employing computer modelling to develop more advanced theories to predict heave, pitch and roll motions in ...
