All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1159
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B+V`s high profile repairs
Repairs to the 15 x 6m hole in the port side of container vessel Ever Decent were carried out afloat at Blohm+Voss Repair. The yard also repaired a smaller penetration higher in the ship`s side and an 8m crack in the superstructure. A total of 40 tonnes of steel were ...
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Bulker losses rise
According to dry bulk carrier owners association Intercargo there were 19 bulk carriers lost in 1998 - the highest total since 1991, and up from 12 in 1997. Eight were Actual Total Losses and other eleven were Constructive Total losses while the average age was 24 years. ...
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Costa Classica goes to Birkenhead
Cammell Laird`s Birkenhead yard has won the hotly contested contract to convert the 52,926g Italian cruise ship Costa Classica. Valued at £51 million ($84.15 million) to the yard, this is said to be the world`s largest cruise ship conversion to date. The cost to owner Costa Crociere is put at ...
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Claims analysed
Analysis of claims over a ten- year period by the UK P&I Club showed that two per cent of the claims account for 72 per cent of the costs incurred. The analysis of over 3,700 claims above $100,000 in ten years to the end of 1997 showed that 40 ...
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Cable layer gets acoustic system
A Sonardyne USBL (Ultra-Short Base Line) acoustic positioning system has been chosen by submarine cable company Global Marine for installation aboard its new cable layer Bold Endeavour. The 5,500t vessel is designed to lay up to 8,820km of continuous cable with repeaters at 40km intervals. The ship is required to ...
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New Syncrolift for Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi Ship Building has placed an order with Syncrolift for a 2,100t nominal lift capacity shiplift as part of its yard expansion plan. The additional facility will allow ADSB to compete with Dubai`s Jadaf contractors for regional repair work. The lift platform will measure 77m x 20m ...
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K98 starts to make mark
The first engine tested was one of ten seven-cylinder 98cm bore units, and will power a 4,800 TEU container ship for Hapag-Lloyd. MAN B&W says that the tests had been particularly successful, as had the component inspection. Also on order are five 10K98MC-C and the five 12K98MC-C ...
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Training software update
Maritime Education Sweden has issued version 2.0 of its Maritime Communications GMDSS training software to incorporate changes in IMO regulations. The software is used by deck officers as a preparation for GMDSS courses, and as a refresher afterwards. It is also used by training institutes as a complement to traditional ...
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Space saving unit
The latest Omnipure marine sewage treatment process module from Exceltec International Corporation, designed to treat black water effluent from 500 people has a footprint of only 762mm (30 ins) wide and 1,626 mm (64 ins) long. The 15MX process module is skid-mounted and utilised existing shipboard tanks. It has a ...
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A year in pancake time
With the market flat in all sectors companies in the tanker trade are looking much further ahead for an upturn. The picture painted by charterers and owners is bleak. There are no bright spots anywhere in the tanker trades, although some companies are slightly more optimistic than others. Although there ...
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Wärtsilä NSD order
Ody: Recently Wärtsilä NSD has secured orders for 25 Sulzer engines totalling 525MW, along with a host of medium-speed engines. The low-speed units include a 6RTA72 (16.4MW), two eight- and three seven-cylinder RTA62U (83MW), four 6RTA58T-B (51MW), eight 7RTA48T -B(166.4MW), and three 6RTA48T (24.5MW). In addition there is an order ...
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Will Norway win The World?
Having failed to reach an agreement with Nuovi Cantieri Apuania shipyard in Italy, Bahamas-based ResidenSea is believed to be close to concluding a deal with Fosen Mekaniske Verksted shipyard in Norway to build The World, the first of a new type of cruise ship with flats for rent. Fosen is ...
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Monitoring via modem
The Amot Hawk-I Marine pump control system uses a wireless modem to provide the safe monitoring of temperature, pressure, flow and level of all on board pumps, including those located in hazardous areas. The system can be used to sequence multiple pump systems, providing complete control and monitoring from the ...
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Medical procedures package
US company, Maritime Training Services, has produced a 53 min training video and an accompanying 60-page handbook entitled: Medical Emergencies: The Officers? Shipboard Guide. Designed to be used together, the video and handbook coaches the viewer in dealing with the most common medical procedures and emergencies encountered at sea. The ...
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Struggling yard wins order lifeline
Former East German shipyard Volkswerft Stralsund has won an order for a quartet of 2,900 TEU container ships, but has declined to name the ships? owner. Due to be delivered in 2001, the newbuildings provide much needed work for the yard, which is close to completing a pair of 2,500 ...
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Keeping up traditions
Currently around $7 billion of vessels are under construction or on order world-wide for Norwegian interests, including nearly a hundred ships and a number of mobile offshore platforms. The global Norwegian merchant fleet amounts to around 1,600 vessels and 52.5 million dwt, and covers a broad spectrum of ship types. ...
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Japanese yards set to restructure
Japanese shipbuilders say the problems they face because of continuing competition from Korea and China, and premature ordering from many shipowners in the past 12-18 months, are being compounded by the value of the Yen, and that spin-offs and mergers among the major yards are inevitable. Against this backdrop, the ...
