All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1140
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Growing order book for Marine Software
Marine Software has supplied Marine Planned Maintenance for Windows to Byron Marine for MV Dorada, the Falkland Islands Fishery Protection vessel. Marine Software carried out a skeleton setup of the planned maintenance database creating a planned maintenance (PM) JobCard for each item on the master survey list. Byron?s own staff ...
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Applications and telemetry via Inmarsat D+
Satamatics has announced that it has gone live with its satellite-based telematics information services via Inmarsat. Applications include fleet management, asset tracking, positioning and messaging and the monitoring and control of remote fixed installations. The company has also announced that Globecomm Marine has agreed to transfer its entire requirement for ...
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American Eagle takes satellite update service
American Eagle Tankers, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, has signed up with ChartCo?s ChartManager satellite chart update service. Trials began last summer on the Eagle Corona following which the company decided to fit out the rest of its fleet and ordered a further 19 installations. The ships are ...
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New axial unit from Dry Air Technology
Ventilation company Dry Air Technology has launched a new axial fan. Called the VAF-12E it has a five-vane motor mount and an eight bladed fan with 12in blades. The company says a throughput of 2,200cfm is achieved and its duct ring has a larger lip for a more secure duct ...
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Video-based first aid course
The Maritime Medical Emergencies Joint Venture has released a video-based first aid training course called Onboard First Aid: Immediate Actions. Parts one and two of the three-tape set feature medical professionals portraying shipboard personnel as they demonstrate the immediate actions required for stabilising the condition of an ill or injured ...
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Equotip 2 launched by Proceq
Proceq has announced details of developments to its range of dynamic and static hardness measuring systems for metallic materials. The company says its Equotip 2 is now a complete hardness measuring system which can perform hardness measurements in grooves and at the bottom of holes and can also carry out ...
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QM 2 gets Kelvin Hughes system
Cunard is to install a Kelvin Hughes fully integrated bridge system onboard Queen Mary 2. The company will supply a flat screen bridge system comprising eight screens from which the vessel?s navigation systems, radars, dynamic positioning system and engine monitoring can be controlled. Contact: Ron Nailer Fax: +44 20 8500 ...
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Incat converts 050 for US Army
Incat Australia?s newly commissioned dry dock has made its debut with groundbreaking work to refit Incat 050 as a Theatre Logistics Vessel for the US Military. Formerly known as Top Cat, the November 1998-launched vessel has already proven itself at sea with a 100% reliability rating for the three times ...
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Rolls Royce
A pulling version of the Aquamaster azimuthing thruster is being developed by Rolls-Royce. The unit uses a mechanical drive in a `C` configuration to take the power to the propeller. Units up to 6MW will be available and the pulling design has an efficiency advantage of 4-8% for ships with ...
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Kvaerner to upgrade Petrojarl I
Kvaerner, the Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction group, has signed a Letter of Intent with PGS Production AS to undertake modification and upgrade work on the production ship, Petrojarl I. The value of the work will amount to approximately NOK300 million ($34.44 million). The letter of intent came at a convenient ...
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Keeping in touch
P&O Cruises` passengers need no longer abandon their mobile phones on the quayside. A new ship-borne mobile phone system, Cruise Connect, from British Telecom Aeronautical and Maritime (BT A&M) - recently acquired by Stratos Global - will allow P&O Cruise passengers to use their mobile phones on board ship exactly ...
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Incat into the US
Incat`s recently sealed joint venture with Bollinger Shipyards is primarily focused on the US military market, but the company sees strong commercial potential too. "As the military craft design is based on its commercial counterpart it is reasonable to expect added interest from the commercial market," explains Robert Clifford, chairman ...
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Two more ferries to get SPS
Intelligent Engineering (IE) in the UK says two more ferries are to be refitted with the Sandwich Plate Systems (SPS) that was first tested aboard P&O`s ferry Pride of Cherbourg in 1999. The company has declined to identify the ships or the shipowner in question, but says that work will ...
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Reefers get intelligent engines
Two Sulzer 7RT-flex60C engines have been ordered as main propulsion for a pair of 13,200 dwt containerised reefer ships being built by Viana do Castelo in Portugal for Agricultural Export Co. The 16,520 kW (22,148 bhp), 114 rev/min engines will use the common rail injection system, and give the vessels ...
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EPA to regulate emissions
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to introduce ship emission regulations by 2003. The regulations will seek to impose limits on nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from large marine engines, and are the result of the recent settlement of a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund on behalf ...
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Striving for higher separation efficiency
The main aim of centrifugal separators is to remove fuel contaminants - notably water, catalyst fines, abrasive grit and sodium from seawater - which can cause excessive wear when burned in the engine. Judgements on the suitability of a fuel treatment system should not therefore be based on the amount ...
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Malta Dry Docks wins first FPSO
Malta Dry Docks (MDD) has been awarded a contract by Brovig-RDS of the UK, for the conversion of the tanker Northia into a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Isis field off the coast of Tunisia. The contract is the first major oil and gas industry project ...
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Successful debut for `Intelligent Engine`
After ten years of dedicated development Bow Cecil, Odfjell`s 37,500 dwt chemical carrier, has become the first ship to be powered by an `Intelligent Engine`. Converting the MAN B&W 6L60MC main engine was from camshaft operation to fully computerised fuel injection and valve operation. Work took 1½ hours while the ...
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Cyber-Erection at Daewoo
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co has initiated use of Cyber-Erection, its new 3D digital measuring and simulation program. It says the technology enabled greater precision when it was used for the first time last November to help join the heavy fore and aft sections of a 75,000 dwt bulk ...
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Countering the piracy threat
Four Australian ex-Special Air Services officers have combined their experience to combat rising piracy attacks in Asian waters. Osprey and Asset Management (OAM) partners David Harper, Peter Towndrow, Bob Hunter and John Gartner have devised an anti-piracy battle plan that draws on 90 years of collective experience in military and ...
