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Korea : VLCC orders for Daewoo and SHI
Korean yards, including the troubled Daewoo shipyard, have been awarded a number of VLCC contracts in the past month. Daewoo`s orders include a pair of 300,000 dwt tankers from Worldwide Shipping for delivery at the end of 2001 and in early 2002, respectively, while Hellespoint Steamship in Greece has ordered ...
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Software : Costing part manufacture
Software : Costing part manufacture Boothroyd Dewhurst has launched DFM Concurrent Costing 1.1. The software is designed to isolate the major costs associated with part manufacture and finishing. Used as an analysis tool during part design the application guides product engineers as they investigate alternative materials and processes for producing ...
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No room for complacency
No room for complacency During a three-month campaign member states of the Paris MOU detained eight out of 79 bulk carriers, above 30,000gt and over 15 years old, for structural deficiencies. While this compares favourably with an average detention rate 13.9 per cent for 1998, Alan Cubbin, chairman of the ...
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Norway: The World comes to Fosen
Norway: The World comes to Fosen Fosen Mekaniske Verksteder shipyard in Norway has confirmed that it has been awarded the much anticipated contract to build The World of ResidenSea, the 40,000g residential cruise vessel. Due for delivery in December 2001 at a price tag of $260 million, The ...
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Cleaning : Cleaning by microemulsion
Cleaning : Cleaning by microemulsion The Drew Marine Division of Ashland Specialty Chemical Company has developed a solvent-free air cooler cleaner that it says eliminates the hydrocarbon fumes, surface residues and sludge potential associated with the use of many conventional products. Called ACC/ME the product requires no mixing, and rinses ...
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Emissions : Cleaner gensets
Alaska Diesel has introduced a soot trap and regeneration system (Stars) which can be fitted on any diesel engine up to around 200kW (268 bhp) output or 10 litres capacity.The unit requires no maintenance and is said to reduce carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons in addition to being a soot trap.Stars ...
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Class Societies feel the pinch
Lloyds Register is making over 400 people redundant at its UK headquarters and while both DNV and GL has instigated a number of cost cutting measures. The redundancies at LR come as the society is reorganising to devolve more of the management and technical responsibilities to overseas offices.While the technical ...
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Laying the foundations for ecdis charts
European HOs are working through the folio of charts covering their own national waters to produce vectorised electronic navigation charts (ENC)s. The process of digitising the information is relatively fast, but then the charts have to be verified, as every HO will accept legal responsibility for their accuracy, in the ...
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Bridge Systems : Compact integrated console
Bridge Systems : Compact integrated console In co-operation with SAIT Marine, Radio Holland has developed a compact integrated bridge console for ships with a limited amount of space available on the bridge. The console contains the Transas ECDIS system, a Datamation conning display, the Furuno FR2115 radar, a Sailor VHF ...
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Low-speed : Merger behind schedule
Contracts transferring Samsung`s engine building division to Hanjung remain unsigned some over two months after the target date, and past the time when the new joint venture company should have started operation. Problems remain in the valuation of the business by foreign banks which started at the end of March.Until ...
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New drillship beats a path for deepwater
Described as the first of its kind by owners Conoco and R&B Falcon Corporation, Deepwater Pathfinder started a five-year work programme drilling in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year.The first vessel capable of drilling in water depths of up to 3,000m, it is due to drill three or four ...
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Boilers : BDT equips two cruise ships
Boilers : BDT equips two cruise ships Greens Division, part of the newly formed BDT Engineering, has secured a contract to supply six Diesecon exhaust gas boilers and two spanner boilers to each of two new cruise liners currently under construction for P&O Princess Cruise at the Monfalcone shipyard in ...
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Corrosion protection : BAC clocks up four years
Corrosion protection : BAC clocks up four years BAC Corrosion Control`s impressed current cathodic protection systems have now been operational on Stena Line fast ferries operating between the UK, Holland and Ireland for four years.The ferries are aluminium-hulled catamarans with water jet propulsion and additional protection is needed to prevent ...
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Design software : Autoship works for Portuguese yard
Design software : Autoship works for Portuguese yard The naval shipyard, Arsenal do Alfeite of Portugal, has installed Autoship Systems` naval architecture design software at its engineering offices. The yard repairs the Portuguese fleet and designs and builds small vessels.The Autoship Works package includes Autoship (hull design), Autohydro (intact and ...
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Positioning : Cable layer gets auto track
Positioning : Cable layer gets auto track Alstom Drives & Controls has won an order for three dynamic positioning systems from DG Electrical, the electrical engineering arm of Cammell Laird, for three vessels which are being converted into cable layer ships for Global Marine Services.Alstom`s duplex DP system, the DPS902, ...
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Austal markets its ride control system
Austal`s new company, Seastate, started trading on November 1 and is poised to build a multi-million dollar global business from selling ride control and possibly, at a future date, other high-tech specialist ship systems.The ride control systems, which reduce sea sickness for passengers by substantially reducing motion levels of high-speed ...
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Vessel Tracking : STN Atlas to upgrade Hamburg
Vessel Tracking : STN Atlas to upgrade Hamburg STN Atlas Elektronik has won a contract for upgrading of VTS facilities at the Port of Hamburg.Due for completion in April 2000, the project involves development of new signal compression and processing facilities for eleven existing radar sites along the River Elbe ...
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Classification : ClassNK assessments
Classification : ClassNK assessments ClassNK, the Tokyo-based classification society, has introduced a conformity assessment service for life-saving appliances, marine pollution prevention and fire protection equipment under the amendments to Council Directive 96/98/EC of the European Commission. ClassNK`s Rotterdam office has been designated as a notified body to provide the ...
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China : Another first for Chinese yards
China : Another first for Chinese yards Hard on the heels of recent first-time orders for ropax ferries and VLCCs at Chinese yards, Dalian New Shipyard in China has won its first ever contract to build a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO for the Qinghuangdao Field ...
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Italy : Minoan orders again
Italy : Minoan orders again Fincantieri`s wholly owned subsidiary Sestri Cantiere Navali has won an order to build a pair of new passenger ferries for Minoan Lines of Greece.The two ships were the subjects of an option in Minoan Line`s existing contract with Fincantieri for a pair of 2,000-passenger ferry ...