All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1131
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Bigger and more sophisticated
In the last four or five years the capacity of trailing suction hopper dredgers has increased tremendously, but dredger builders and operators in the Netherlands say that size is not all important, and highlight the need for highly manoeuvrable, accurately controlled vessels. They also highlight the growing demand for sophisticated ...
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Big boxship delivered
In September, SHI held a christening ceremony for a 6,200 TEU container vessel ordered by NYK of Japan. The boxship, which was named NYK Lodestar, is 300m long, 40m wide, has a service speed of 27.7 knots and is the largest built at the yard to date. The four remaining ...
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Keeping tabs on battery performance
Merlin?s Expert-501 battery monitor displays voltage, current (+/-), amp hours consumed, per cent remaining and time remaining until flat on its LCD display. The unit also shows historical information such as battery efficiency (to look for battery sulphation or cells going down), number of cycles, average depth of discharge, deepest ...
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Paint ban sealed
The IMO has finally decided to ban TBT antifoulings and, more importantly, decided on the barrier coat option, which will save owners having to go about getting all their existing TBT antifouling removed. Many will breathe a sigh of relief because removing 20 years of antifouling from the bottom of ...
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Tunnel fin equals less ballast
A 30,000 dwt chemical tanker under construction at the Japanese shipyard of Shin Kurushima will be installed with a ?tunnel fin? when it is delivered to local shipping company Iino Kaiun Kaisha at the end of 2002. The fin, which is shaped like a semi-elliptical long tunnel fitted on the ...
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Heerema?s Balder conversion
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) is well known for its crane vessels Balder, Hermod and Thialf, the latter having a lifting capacity of 14,000t. However, the market for lifting platforms is becoming smaller while the market for offshore installations in deep water is growing. Therefore, Heerema has decided to convert Balder ...
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Italians award OBO-to-tanker contract
Premuda has awarded Skipskonsulent in Norway a major conversion design contract. Premuda from Genoa, Italy has a number of 12-14 year old Swedish-built OBOs, which are to be converted to Panamax Tankers. The conversion involves removing the entire cargo section and forebody forward of the engine room bulkhead. A completely ...
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Avoiding catastrophe
Amot says its bearing temperature monitoring systems reduce the risk of catastrophic financial and safety consequences caused by the failure of big end bearings in large diesel or gas engines. They are designed to detect rapid temperature changes within individual moving bearings and give an early warning of excessive wear ...
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Fire control and safety plans via Autocad
Safety products and signage supplier Maritime Progress is offering to produce fire control and safety plans for its customers. These include mandatory requirements for safety plans, fire control plans and phased evacuation plans. The company uses a copy of the general arrangement plan, inputting it via Autocad and adding the ...
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Flat panel ECDIS gets type approval
Maris says its ECDIS900, based on its SmartLine flat panel computer (FPC), is the first ECDIS to receive a type approval certificate using an FPC. The unit is certified to IEC 61774 ed. 2. Maris says its ECDIS900 has achieved a market-share in Scandinavia of almost 100% for commercial vessels ...
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Consilium gets BSH type approval
Consilium Navigation has acquired Bundesamt fir Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH) type approval for its VDR M2 voyage data recorder. New orders for the system include deliveries to China National Offshore Shipping Company, NITC, Sun Cruises and Euroceanica.
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APC announces further orders
Anticorrosion company Advanced Polymer Coatings says its polymer-based tank protection system MarineLine has been specified for the cargo tanks of 10 chemical tanker new buildings to be constructed or converted in Turkey. These range in size from two 1,450 dwt chemical tankers for Holland?s Unifleet, to be constructed by the ...
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Smaller G by half valve from Amot
Amot says its G Valve three-way temperature control valve is now 50% smaller in height than comparative units. It is designed to offer regulation of fluid temperatures to 100?C with a maximum flow rate of 3,000m3/hr, and is typically employed for fluid temperature control in large diesel and gas engines. ...
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Alfa Laval fuel conditioning system
A new fuel conditioning system from Alfa Laval will be available in three sizes, with a modular concept for maximum flexibility to suit the needs of specific installations. Key components are the fully automatic back flush filter, the new M6M plate heat exchanger (using either steam or thermal fluid as ...
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Alerting owners to the sound of safe evacuation
The independent trials of what is a major advantage in passenger ship safety were completed at Ardossan in Scotland last week. Caledonian MacBrayne allowed one of its ferries to be used for the trials, which were conducted under the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency and University of Strathclyde supervision. The ...
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Water treatment aid
Unitor has launched a software package to help engineers manage the treatment of boiler and engine cooling water. Unitor Electronic Rapid Response is a CD-based package in which water treatment test results are recorded and analysed. It provides instant feedback when results fall outside pre-defined criteria.
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Europort time again
Europort ? to be held at Amsterdam?s RAI centre from November 13 to 17 ? will this year feature more than 550 exhibitors representing just about every aspect of sea transport and technology. A dozen national pavilions ? from Belgium, Denmark, Japan, the United Kingdom, Austria, the United States, South ...
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ABB monitoring
ABB will this month unveil a system for continuous monitoring of the performance of large diesel engines, based on measuring cylinder pressure and flywheel angle for each engine cycle. The Cylmate system features a pressure transducer on each cylinder and an angle transducer at the flywheel, which uses weak magnetic ...
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UK troops with Wärtsilä power
Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply diesel generating sets for two new Bay class twin-screw diesel electric powered Alternative Landing Ships Logistic (ALSL) being built for the UK Navy. The four main diesel-generating sets in each ship will be powered by Wärtsilä 26s; each ship will have two ...
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UK troops with Wärtsilä power
Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply diesel generating sets for two Bay class twin-screw diesel electric powered Alternative Landing Ships Logistic (ALSL) being built for the UK Navy. The four main diesel-generating sets in each ship will be powered by Wärtsilä 26s; each ship will have two 8L26 ...
