All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1163
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Canada seeks to revitalise yards
Key organisations within the shipping and shipbuilding industries in Canada have banded together to produce what they have called a Joint Strategy Paper the aim of which is the revitalisation of the shipbuilding industry in Canada. The alliance of shipyard executives and union leaders also included the Shipbuilding Association ...
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Rods and boxes
Engine manufacturers have addressed the problems encountered with the stuffing box/piston rod interface on new long-stroke two-stroke engines. Concerns over performance of the stuffing box/piston rod combination in two-stroke engines can be addressed through a number of upgrade and reconditioning options, say engine builders and component suppliers. Problems arose with ...
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Small movements - big impact
Royal Caribbean’s engine problems created a major headache for MAN B&W’s medium-speed operation. For the first two or three years all went well. The MAN B&W 12V48/60 engines aboard Grandeur and Enchantment of the Seas performed well - then things started to go wrong. In February The Motor Ship broke ...
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Star Cruises enters the big league
Further evidence of the buoyant level of orders for cruise ship newbuildings has been provided by a decision on the part of Star Cruises in Singapore to sign a Letter of Intent with German shipyard Meyer Werft for two large cruise ships. At 316m in length the newbuildings are the ...
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One-stop message and data application
Globe Wireless has introduced the Globe Communications Centre, which it says provides a one-stop program for onboard communication needs. The system features a single interface that handles all messaging and data transfer and its least cost routing capability helps the user determine the most cost-effective means to send the message, ...
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Deck machinery advances
In addition to improvements to the design existing types of deck gear, there are now alternatives to traditional mooring winch and rope arrangements Modern deck gear is more compact and has improved electric and hydraulic drives. One example of this is the new generation of frequency-controlled electric anchoring and mooring ...
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MacGregor signs $2 million roro ramp deal
MacGregor`s roro ship division is supplying stern quarter ramp/doors to a new pair of Grimaldi deep sea roros, having already installed the same access outfits on an earlier three sister ships. Two more 25,000 dwt multipurpose roro freight carriers for Grimaldi Line from Fincantieri`s Palermo yard have also been specified ...
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1999 Ship repair directory
This issue of Ship Repair included the Shiprepair Directory which lists repair facilities, country-by-country and port-by-port under 16 ocean areas. The information is given for each company: full name and postal address; telephone and fax; plus email and website details if applicable. It also give the names of company officials ...
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Time to upgrade
Despite a downturn in trading and continued poor freight rates, container ship owners are ordering new tonnage, expanding services and introducing new routes. Evergreen’s fleet continues to grow. Last year, the Taiwanese line placed an order at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for five 5,364TEU U-class container ships; the yard already ...
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Portable package for shipboard projects
The Drew Marine has introduced the New Era portable wire-welding package. The package includes the Amerarc I-400GMS inverter arc welding machine, Merarc F-4 wire feeder and Merarc No.4 MIG gun. The equipment is designed to use inverter technology for high volume, fast-turnaround, shipboard projects and permits the use of the ...
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Norway reduces NOx
To date 24 vessels are participating in the Norway’s NOxRed scheme aimed at cutting NOx emissions from the coastal fleet. Five have been fitted with water emulsified fuel systems, with the same number being processed, and another two ships have been retrofitted with SCRs. A further six ships have ...
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Turning a new page
With its announcement that it has signed letters of intent for a further five newbuildings P&O has also altered shipbuilding’s future. Although the order itself is significant, of greater importance is that Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will build two of the newbuildings. While P&O argues that the development is entirely ...
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New orders for Solar Solve
Solar Solve Marine has won two orders for its anti-glare screens and roller blinds together worth over £20,000 ($31,572). Five Solasafe screens were installed on the bridge windows of Ben-My-Chree, a 12,600gt ro-pax ferry for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. The order comprised four Casslite roller blinds in ...
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One man operation for product tankers
Raytheon Marine has installed its first DNV-W1 integrated BridgeControl system on Norway`s latest newbuilding Doris, a product tanker designed for one-man bridge operation, built by Aukra shipyard for Anders Utkilen`s Rederi. The system includes the company’s Pathfinder/ST MK 2 radars with built-in autopilot operation, ecdis, navigation monitoring and the NautoConning ...
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Kvaerner sells second yard
Kvaerner has sold another of its yards, and been ordered by the EU to repay Euro41.5 million ($42.5 million) of state aid. Marconi Electronic Systems has agreed to pay £2.25 million ($3.55 million) for the Govan shipyard in Scotland and will complete two vessels currently under construction. This lifts ...
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Kelvin Hughes to supply Spliethoff newbuilds
Spliethoff Bevrachtingskantoor`s new multi-purpose freighters will be fitted with Kelvin Hughes radar sets. The 10 ships will each feature a Nucleus2 6000 arpa split radar system with display; a Nucleus2 5000 True Motion radar with display and a HRC-A9 interswitch unit. The multi-purpose freighters with sideport loaders will be built ...
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Regulatory regime guide published by IACS
A general guide to current safety and pollution prevention requirements for ships, and the thinking behind their development, has been published by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). The 28-page guide, Ship Safety and Pollution Prevention: The Regulatory Regime, looks at hazards to and represented by ships at sea, ...
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P&O goes Japanese
P&O’s Princess Cruises has announced that it has signed letters of intent for four new cruise ships (see design feature) which will, along with the three ships it already has under construction, double its fleet size by 2004. Two 88,000g, 1,950-passenger vessels will be built at France’s Chantiers de ...
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Faster turnaround
Hamworthy KSE is developing a new system for loading and unloading roro vessels called IPSI. The system is based on the roro operation of containers loaded on cassettes as well as normal trailers. GPS controlled automated guided vehicles will manoeuvre the cassettes to locate them within a system of kerbed ...
