All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1143
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Ingalls wins more cruise orders
SeaAmerica has formalised its plan to build a pair of 1,000 passenger cruise ships for operation in US waters, and has agreed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton Ship Systems. Detailed design of the 42,000gt newbuildings will be a joint effort between Ingalls, and SeaAmerica, ...
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Cruise ship to Malta
The 34,250g cruise ship Crown Odyssey has been booked into Malta Drydocks for ten days of repair and refurbishment work starting April 25. This is the Maltese yard?s first cruise vessel project of the new Millennium. Factors in the yard?s selection included its proven track record in cruise ship repairs, ...
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Lubricant for crude oil washing machines
Hydrox 8EP is an emulsifiable lubricant designed by Vickers for use with crude oil washing machines. Where conventional oils are used gear box failure can occur if moisture from condensate contaminates the oil, says the compay. Hydrox 8EP absorbs moisture, forming an emulsion which continues to provide the required standard ...
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Contship goes for newbuildings
Known until now purely as a charterer of container ships, Contship Containerlines has dipped its toe into the newbuildings market for the first time with an order for three 4,115 TEU container ships at Daewoo in Korea. Low prices in Korea are thought to have encouraged the line to order ...
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MCA contract goes to Icom
Radio communication company, Icom (UK) has won the contract to supply approximately 3,000 IC M1 EuroV VHF hand-portable radio transceivers to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). Last year, the company supplied the MCA`s vehicle fleet with 50 IC M59 Euro VHF mobile radio transceivers. The IC-M1 EuroV is set ...
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Consolidation ? the way forward?
The role of class is again under intense scrutiny, particularly in Europe, where pressure for ever-higher standards of shipping is the result of the Erika sinking. Casualties and financial problems aside, Class faces major challenges as it attempts to make greater use of risk-based methodologies in the establishment and implementation ...
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No consensus on liner marking
Neither Wartsila NSD or Mitsubishi are marking the cylinder liners on its NOx certified low-speed engines. This is in contrast to MAN B&W which marks cylinder liners on its MC engines as a NOx-affecting component. While MAN B&W?s low-speed side believes that cylinder liners have an effect on the NOx ...
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Coating and steel together
The Touchstone 3 is a combined ultrasonic and paint thickness gauge which can simultaneously measure and display the thickness of both steel and coatings using only the first back echo, says Class Instrumentation. This overcomes the problems associated with obtaining multiple echoes from pitted or heavily corroded reflecting surfaces, says ...
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Koreans close orderbook
As shipowners try to place newbuilding orders ahead of expected price rises, Daewoo and Hyundai have closed their books, as their current backlogs will keep the yards busy to 2003. Both yards say that 2003 is too far ahead to quote for newbuildings. Daewoo has over 80 merchant vessels (totalling ...
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RINa clears itself
RINa`s report into the loss of Erika concludes that the class society has "substantially complied with the applicable rules, guidelines and procedures." It says the loss of the vessel was caused by the mishandling of an initial crack in the hull below the waterline leading to progressive structural failure and ...
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CIMAC plot problems
Almost 80% of failures in Sulzer engines are of hot components, while the equivalent figure for MAN B&W is over 45%. These figures come from an analysis of the database set up by the CIMAC Users Working Group and were shown at the recent Motor Ship Propulsion Conference. Details are ...
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Choice of operation method
Berendsen has introduced a new 3/8 BSP monoblock hydraulic directional control valve designed for flows up to 50 litres/min and pressures up to 350 bar. The valves can be operated by lever, solenoid, cable, pneumatic pilot or hydraulic pilot. Up to six functions can be housed in one valve block ...
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Compact control centre
Radio Holland Marine and SAIT Marine have developed a compact bridge console. Called Triple Sea, the companies say it provides unobstructed lookout, internal and external communications, systems monitoring, speed and course control and navigational information. The unit is designed for vessels with limited space available on the bridge such as ...
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Machinery failure CD-ROM
Richards Technical Services (RTS) says its database of shipboard machinery failures is compiled from thousands of incidents covering the full spectrum of marine machinery. It includes 15 fields of information, which for reasons of confidentiality do not include the name of the ship or the operator, but include type of ...
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Bulker loss reopens debate
The 69,120 dwt Leader L which broke up and sank in under one minute with the loss of 18 of its 31 crew, has reopened the debate about structural failures of bulkers. While there are reports of the vessel striking an underwater object some time earlier, those in the industry ...
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French order for fast ferry builder
Emeraude Lines in France has awarded the Fjellstrand shipyard in Norway a contract for a single example of its well-known JumboCat design. The 60m fast ferry is the first newbuilding contract awarded to the Fjellstrand yard since the Kvaerner group sold it. Its only other work, won before the yard ...
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Fincantieri set to build more passenger ships
Carnival, the cruise ship operator, has awarded Fincantieri?s Monfalcone yard an order for a single 110,00g cruise ship, and has instructed the yard to lengthen two similar vessels it already has on order there. Under the $600 million deal, the Monfalcone yard will build a lengthened version of the Carnival ...
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Fosen to build Hurtigruten ferry
Fosen Mekaniske Verksteder is to build a new ropax ferry for operator Troms Fylkes Dampskibsselskap. The newbuilding is scheduled for delivery in early 2002, and will replace an existing Hurtigruten ferry vessel, Harald Jarl; which is now more than 40 years old. One notable feature of the new vessel is ...
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Broadgate launches latest VDR
UK-based Broadgate Ltd, who pioneered the development of voyage data recorders, is introducing an entirely new model, the VER3000. The unit is fully compliant with current and planned regulations, including the proposed revisions to SOLAS Chapter V, incorporating IMO Performance Standard A.861(20) and IEC Technical Standard 61996, and EU Council ...
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Harder competition brings harder times
Two years ago, the Spanish orderbook looked very healthy, but the situation is a lot less rosey today. In early 1998 Spanish shipbuilders were boasting a collective orderbook at a 15-year high, with 147 vessels on order, totalling 1,209,948cgt. Excluding 51 fishing vessels, always the mainstay of the Spanish orderbook, ...
