All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1129
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What price a level playing field?
While deadlines come and go with regular monotony, there is no end in sight to the European Union (EU)-Korea shipbuilding dispute ? particularly if the case is referred to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Delays in resolving this issue are claimed to be putting the European shipbuilding industry under increasing ...
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Fast ferry order
Rodriquez has secured a contract for an 83m Aquastrada-design monohull fast ferry. The Sicilian-based shipbuilder confirms it is "well underway on construction" of the aluminium- hulled ship at its Pietra Ligure shipyard in north-west Italy. The fast ferry is scheduled for delivery to an undisclosed owner in Autumn 2002. It ...
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Liquid level gauge for extinguisher systems
An ultrasonic liquid level comparitor for marine fire extinguisher systems, installed in single or two to three skid-mounted rows, is available from Link Instruments. The comparitor compares below-liquid gas level ultrasonic echoes with the surface acoustic wave. This produces an enhanced propagation across the liquid gas to identify the liquid ...
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On-line exchange up and running
LevelSeas has announced that shipping services group Clarksons has joined its on-line trading exchange LSX following the launch of version 2.0 of the exchange. The new site allows charterers, owners or brokers to negotiate and fix vessels online. LevelSeas has also announced the launch of LSOps 1.0, a new ship ...
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Horn for harsh environments
Loudspeaker system company Next Two/MEDC has launched a horn for harsh industrial and marine environments. The DBI4 loudspeaker uses GRP and stainless steel fittings and has an ingress protection rating of IP 66 and 67, says the company. The units have an output of 117dBA at 15W at 1m.
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Hyundai releases high tech Himsen engine
Hyundai Heavy Industries, has launched its first own-designed new engine under the brand name of Himsen. The result of a ten-year $31m R&D programme, the first batch of the new compact class of medium-speed Himsen H21/32 diesel gensets was delivered in September. To date, demand for the new engine has ...
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Engine room extinguisher from Kashiwa
Kashiwa has launched a fire extinguisher for fighting fires in the engine room. Called Hyper-Mist it uses a high pressure jet nozzle and is suitable for use on ships of all sizes including VLCCs, says Kashiwa. The company says it has received an order from a South Korean shipyard for ...
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Dutch expertise raises Kursk
The nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea at a depth of 108m on August 12, 2000 with the loss of 118 lives. President Putin of Russia promised to have the submarine salvaged so that the bodies of the drowned crew could be returned to their families. The salvors ...
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World-Wide orders at DSME
In September, Daewoo secured an order for two 300,000 dwt VLCCs plus two on option from Hong Kong-based World-Wide Shipping worth an estimated $300 million. The vessels are due to be delivered in early 2004. Since 1986, World-Wide companies have ordered in total 33 newbuildings from Daewoo, including 24 VLCCs. ...
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Flying Dolphins for Korea?
George Patakos, ceo of Greek ferry company Hellas Flying Dolphins (formerly Minoan Flying Dolphins), has confirmed the company is close to ordering two high speed conventional ferries with an option for two more vessels. Talks are said to involve Scandinavian and Korean yards. The company has a fleet of 74 ...
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Isolde docks at Remontowa
Polish shipyard Stocznia Remontowa has docked the 30,000 dwt car carrier Isolde for general inspection and maintenance work. Jobs carried out included hull treatment, sandblasting and painting of the ship?s two vehicle ramps. Other work included inspection of the car deck?s 55 ventilation heads, cleaning of the fuel tanks and ...
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Northrop Grumman to supply new US Navy destroyers
Northrop Grumman has won a contract from Bath Iron Works to supply commercial-off-the-shelf surface search radars for new Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) Class destroyers. It will supply the Decca BridgeMaster E naval radars for the next 19 ships in the class, replacing the SPS-64 radars installed on the earlier DDG ...
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LSE-powered ship delivered
The first ship with a Mitsubishi UE LSE engine has been delivered to its owner. Pacific International Lines of Singapore took delivery of the 6UEC52LSE-powered 1,098 TEU feeder container ship Kota Hakim from Japanese yard Shin Kochi Jyuko on September 26. The 10,230kW engine, manufactured at the Nagasaki factory of ...
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Stena V-Max VLCCs delivered
HHI has been involved in a high-profile newbuilding contract with Concordia Maritime, a public tanker company of the Swedish-based Stena organisation, which involved building two innovative 315,000 dwt VLCC at its Ulsan shipyard. The first vessel, Stena Vision, was handed over to Concordia on 19 April with the second unit, ...
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Dredging packages from De Groot Nijkerk
IHC Holland may be the Netherlands? best known dredger builder, but several other smaller concerns - such as De Groot Nijkerk, part of the Damen group of companies - are also highly successful, and innovative in their own right. Among De Groot Nijkerk?s latest projects is a bucket dredger that ...
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Tankers ?R? Daewoo
Located in Okpo Bay on Koje Island, off the south eastern tip of the Korean Peninsula, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has built 174 oil tankers up to September 2000 including 56 VLCCs since 1988 which corresponds to about 13% of the world?s VLCCs. In addition, DSME is currently ...
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Daedong Shipbuilding is reborn with STX help
STX Corporation has expanded into the shipbuilding business with an equity injection of $77 million into Daedong Shipbuilding. STX, formerly called Ssangyong Heavy Industries, is a licensed builder of MAN B&W, SEMT Pielstick, Niigata Engineering and Hanshin Diesel marine engines. Daedong Shipbuilding had been under court management since 1997. During ...
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Dae A Express goes high speed
Dae A Express has commenced operation of a new high speed ferry. The mv Hankyoreh operates services on the Sea of Japan between Mukho City, on the east coast of Korea, and the tourist island of Ollongdo, 110 miles offshore. It also operates a once weekly return service from Sokcho, ...
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Customising a successful design
Izar?s Seville yard recently saw the launch of the 6,300 DWT ropax Murillo, the largest ship in Trasmediterranea?s fleet even exceeding the dimensions of the recently delivered 172m long ropax sisters Sorolla and Fortuny. The ship?s hull is identical to that of the vessels built for Cenargo, Dawn Merchant and ...
