All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1174
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Disco blacked out
The majority of the windows covered are forward facing and above the bridge, so it is vital that reflections from the accommodation lights and the flashing lasers from the Horizon discodo not distract the navigation officers at night, says Solar Solve. The order, valued at £13,000 ($21,320), was manufactured ...
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Hanshin adds slow four-stroke
Pmax is 142 bar with a BMEP of 21 bar, and a maximum piston speed of 6.36 m/sec. During testing the fuel consumption was measured at 185 g/kWh, and the company says the engine will conform to the IMOÕs NOx code. The inlet and exhaust valves are hydraulically opened ...
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Syncrolift for Abu Dhabi
Details of the Syncrolift shiplift system that will form the heart of the new Abu Dhabi Shipbuilding (ADSB) yard have been released. The new lift will measure 120 x 25m and operate with 34 x 325t hoists. The platform will be rated at a maximum net lifting capacity of ...
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Fastship about to set sail?
Capable of transiting the Atlantic in four days, and of providing what transportation and logistics companies call a seven-day, door-to-door ?time definiteÕ delivery service between the US Mid-West and central Europe, FastShip is designed to open up new markets for seaborne transportation services.In so doing, FastShip will, claim its proponents, ...
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P&O books Oriana
P&O Cruises` flagship Oriana will undergo a two and a half week refit at A&P`s Southampton yard commencing April 14. It is the second scheduled refit for the 1995-built vessel. The programme to be carried out by A&P includes standard drydock work with sea valve maintenance, thruster inspection ...
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Turbines power up
In the quest for greater speed, ship designers are increasingly looking towards gas turbines. Turbine driven containerships! You can almost hear the gasps of astonishment in Copenhagen and Winterthur. Containerships - the users of the worlds largest diesel engines, being driven by gas turbines - and waterjets too. This ...
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World orderbook recovers
Figures from Lloyd`s Register shows the world orderbook grew by 2.1 million gross tonnage (mgt) in the quarter to end-September 1998 to stand at 57.7mgt (2,727 sea-going merchant ships over 100gt). Almost 8.5 mgt of new orders were reported in the quarter, lifting the orderbook by nearly 4 per cent ...
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Yards order Hamworthy treatment systems
Dutch yard IHC has ordered a Hamworthy Marine integrated sewage collection and management system comprising 42 toilets with vacuum collection, and the ST3A sewage treatment plant for a dredger currently under construction for Goyo Kensetsu. Also the German Sietas yard is equipping eight container ships with sewage collection and treatment ...
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Shell goes to Sembawang
Oil major Shell International Trading and Shipping Company (STASCo) has signed an evergreen alliance agreement with Sembawang Shipyard of Singapore. The agreement commits the scheduled refit and drydocking of the Shell fleet trading in the east to the Singaporean yard for the foreseeable future, reports Sembawang. It is the first ...
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Shipyards go to MARS
The shipyard Material Management and Production Control System (MARS) from Logimatic has been ordered by two shipyards in Europe. The Gdynia Shipyard in Poland has taken the complete MARS system as an integrated part of the TRIBON CAD/CIM suite of software from Kockums. The yard will start using the ...
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Horn protects four strokes
Specialist equipment manufacturer Horn has added two four-stroke engine protection products to its portfolio. The MEV278 is a compact safety system gives overspeed protection and monitors all the functions required by the classification societies. Up to 225 events are recorded in the unit`s memory and setting/resetting of warning ...
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Three-stage filtration
Air Industrial Developments has introduced a water-wash booth system called `Tri-Filter` which incorporates a three-stage filtration process. It is designed to be used where paint spraying is part of a manufacturing processes and where stringent environmental protection regulations are in place, including the need to control the discharge of solids ...
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Exotic metal tubes
The Elfin process, developed by Britannia Heat Transfer, enables heat exchanger tubes to be manufactured cost-effectively from a wide range of exotic metals, including titanium, zirconium, hastelloy and stainless steel, says the company. Elfin is also available in multi-tube block matrix configurations, known as ElfinBlock. The Elfin process precision swages ...
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Racal to offer EGNOS
EC-sponsored multi-modal satellite navigation trials are being conducted by Racal in the Baltic Sea, where a Colour Line ferry is using Racal`s prototype EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) system for the first time in a non-aviation application. The latest generation of EGNOS satellite navigation systems can provide a range ...
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Podded drives for Swedish tanker
Chinese yard Shanghai Edward Shipbuilding Co has signed a contract to build a 16,800 dwt chemical tanker for Swedish owner Rederi Donsoetank AB. The yard, which is working with a full orderbook to the end of 2000, says that the 20,200m3 vessel will be equipped with the Siemens/Schottel podded diesel ...
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Diesels deliver economies
Horst Kohler from MAN B&W`s engine technology promotion department argues that diesel engines remain the best option for cruise ship propulsion. When Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines signed a deal to use turbines as prime movers in its latest generation of cruise ships, many saw this as a breakthrough. Each ...
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High-speed containers
FastShip is to install 250MW (340,000 bhp) in each of its high-speed container ships to achieve a service speed of 40 knots on the route between the USA and Europe. The company is planning expenditure of $220 million for each 1,432 TEU vessel and is currently in negotiations with Avondale, ...
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Yards regroup and consolidate
Finland`s main shipyards have been busy with corporate changes as well as with newbuildings. Kvaerner ASA plans to reduce its debt burden by raising a reported NKr2.5 billion ($39.28 million) through the sale of newbuilding debt owed to it by shipowners, to third parties. A spokesman described it as ...
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Danes seek fair competition
The number of Danish-owned vessels sailing under the Danish flag remained static last year. As at January 1, the figure stood at 593, still making it the third largest fleet in Europe, but the total deadweight rose from just under 7 million tonnes to 7.5 million tonnes. As at ...
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A touch less class
As competition increases and the market continues to suffer, the possibility of class society mergers gets closer. There are likely to be mergers or alliances among classification societies within the next few years. Some believe that it may take slightly longer, but few believe the current situation will continue. The ...
