All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1147
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Asian inspections increase
Tokyo MOU members have agreed to increase inspections on ships calling at their ports from 50% to 75%. The 17 members include Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Russian Federation, Singapore, Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. Also approved was a new qualitative criteria for members and ...
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North Sea to be SOx control area
The North Sea has joined The Baltic in being designated a SOx Emission Control Area. Once MARPOL annex VI has entered into force, ships in these waters will have to use fuel with a sulphur content of 1.5% or lower. Work continued on the phasing out of organotin based anti-fouling ...
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Anti-collision system
Consilium Selesmar says its new NavBat ATA radar complies fully with the new SOLAS Chapter V carriage requirements for ships of 3,000g and above. The unit features modular architecture and comes with a choice of either S or X frequency band transceivers (both up-mast and down-mast), 406 or 204mm (16 ...
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Another Kvaerner yard wins orders
Struggling German shipyard Kvaerner Warnow Werft has been awarded an order for a pair of 2,524 TEU container ships based on its CV2500 design.Due to be delivered in the first half of 2001, the newbuildings are the first ships ordered at Kvaerner Warnow Werft for more than 12 months.Still part ...
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Korea wins another Japanese order
Japanese shipyards received another blow at the end of February when Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) chose to order a series of five 6,200 TEU post-panamax container ships from Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) rather than a Japanese yard.NYK says the first of the new ships will begin entering service in September ...
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Crunch time for Harland & Wolff
The announcement on March 10 that Chantiers de l?Atlantique had received a letter of intent from Carnival for the Queen Mary 2 contract dealt a severe blow to Harland & Wolff?s yard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the only other remaining yard in contention for the contract. The day before the ...
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MAN buys Alstom Engines
German engineering conglomerate MAN (parent company of MAN B&W) has bought Alstom Engines which comprises the UK-based manufacturers Ruston, Paxman and Mirrlees Blackstone. In general the UK-produced range fits well between the small marine engines made by MAN Nutzfahrzeugh and the larger units from MAN B&W.However, overlaps occur with Mirrlees ...
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American fast ferry gets Alstom system
Alstom Regulateurs Europa has supplied a range of equipment for a new 41m fast ferry to be built by Derecktor Shipyards for Nantucket/Woods Hole Steamship Authority. The maximum speed of the vessel will be 36 knots with a full load of 300 passengers. The company has designed a system for ...
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Open all hours
Maritime Information Systems is offering a web-based supply chain management service via the e-commerce portal site Maritime Global Net. The service offers 24-hour transactions and allows web browser users to transact business directly over the internet, intranets, extranets or virtual private networks, says the company. Users can create and exchange ...
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Jan De Nul invests again?
Dredging and Maritime Management, a subsidiary of the Jan De Nul Group of Companies in Belgium, has ordered the construction of a new trailing suction hopper dredger at AESA?s Sestao shipyard.With a hopper capacity of 16,500m3, the 145m long jumbo dredger will have a sailing speed of 15.6kt. It is ...
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First ISO 9002 yard in Batam
Labroy Shipbuilding & Engineering has been awarded ISO 9002 accreditation by ABS. It is the first shipyard in Batam, Indonesia to receive this certification.Labroy repaired a record number of non-group vessels in 1999, having commissioned its 30,000 dwt capacity floating dock Venture Dock 2 in January. A total of 204 ...
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EU adopts OPA 90
In the fall out from the loss of Erika, the EU has proposed a ban on older, single-skinned tankers in line with OPA 90. In addition, it wants to ban any vessel over 15 years old that has been detained twice by port state control officials in the preceding two ...
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Mechanical 360deg de-scaling
Dalseide Shipping Services has developed a machine designed for de-scaling and cleaning outer pipe surfaces in a 360deg single operation. Called Rustibus Pipe it has a capacity of up to 25 m/hr and achieves a surface treatment to SA2.5, says the company. The unit is available in various sizes to ...
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Queen Mary 2 goes to France
On March 9, Carnival signed a letter of intent with French yard Chantiers de l?Atlantique for the $700 million contract to build Cunard?s giant cruise ship, now named Queen Mary 2 (See Cruise).The 345m long, 150,000g vessel will carry around 2,800 passengers, a small complement for a ship of that ...
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More progress on yard sales
Kvaerner has agreed the sale of the Norwegian Fjellstrand shipyards, to an MBO and other local investors for NKr100 million ($12 million) but is still looking for a buyer for the Singaporean yard. Fjellstrand?s two Norwegian yards employ 250 staff, build small car/passenger catamaran ferries, and have revenues of NKr400 ...
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Straightening it out
The 137,567dwt Polembros OBO Lassia which sagged, almost splitting in two during discharge at Taranto, is under repair at Tuzla Shipyard in Turkey. The vessel, which ended up with its mid section touching bottom and the aft and stern out of the water, was salvaged and towed to Turkey by ...
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Port sea performance module
Software company SpecTec has designed a port sea performance module for Jo Tankers. It will be integrated with the AMOS Quality management system to give it enhanced reporting capabilities as well as keeping track of documentation, says SpecTec. AMOS Quality is designed to aid compliance with ISM certification requirements by ...
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Shipbroking packages merge
Following last year`s marketing link up, IT providers Dataworks and ShipNet, have decided to merge their shipbroking applications. ShipNet clients will be upgraded this year to the latest version of Dataworks` software, says the company, and they will also be offered its 2000 Message Manager application at a discount.Contact: Lawrence ...
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Voyage management tool update
Shipping software provider BIMCO has released updates of its Voyage Estimator and Laytime Calculator.Laytime Calculator 2000 is designed to produce demurrage and despatch calculations, laytime reports and standard time sheets.Its main features include reversible and non-reversible calculations, combined calculation capabilities by assigning ports to groups and pre-input capabilities for working ...
