All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 513
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Turner EPS to distribute GE in the UK
GE Transportation has appointed Turner Engine Powered Services as the UK distributor for its marine diesel engine parts and servicing.
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NewsThome Group appoints new CEO
Olav Magnus Nortun will replace Olav Eek Thorstensen as chief executive officer of ship management company Thome Group from 1 April 2015.
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NewsRussia renews focus on commercial shipbuilding
Russia’s Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev has announced a renewed focus on the commercial shipbuilding industry as a key aim regarding the development of the sector in 2015.
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Green Tech renamed Yara Marine Technologies
Exhaust gas cleaning system provider Green Tech Marine has been renamed Yara Marine Technologies after its acquisition by Yara International last year.
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NewsCROE wins Stena scrubber contract
CR Ocean Engineering (CROE) will design and supply two open-loop scrubbing systems for the main engines on the Stena RoRo vessel Forerunner.
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NewsNew editor at The Motorship
Mercator Media has appointed Gavin Lipsith as Editor of The Motorship, succeeding Bill Thomson who has retired after nearly eight years at the title.
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NewsBMT SMART appoints Sales and Marketing Director
Specialist fleet and vessel performance company BMT SMART has appointed Martin Penney as sales and marketing director.
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NewsSecond FLNG vessel conversion order
Keppel Shipyard has secured the contract from Golar Gimi Corporation to perform the US$705m conversion of a second Moss Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier, the ‘GIMI’, into a Floating Liquefaction Vessel (FLNGV).
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NewsWärtsilä power for super dredger
One of the world''s largest non self-propelled cutter dredger vessels currently being built in China will be equipped with Wärtsilä engines, both to generate power and to drive the dredging pump.
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NewsMarin Teknikk wins diving vessel contract
Marin Teknikk has entered into a contract for design and delivery of a large multipurpose diving support and construction vessel (DSCV) for Ultra Deep Solutions (UDS) in Singapore.
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NewsNew requirements focus on towing and lifting
Bureau Veritas has updated its towing and lifting notations to reflect the wide variety of vessel types now employed in the industry; Wendy Laursen elucidates.
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NewsRevitalisation of Pacific Northwest ferry fleet
David Tinsley describes the first of a new class of double ended vessels for Washington State Ferries, strongly conventional and traditional in concept, but designed with conversion to gas fuel in mind.
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NewsShipping still undecided on emissions legislation
By the time this issue appears in print, ships in ECAs will be mandated to cut sulphur emissions to 0.1% fuel content, or take equivalent appropriate measures, while the global 0.5% limit edges closer, and attention is turning to carbon emissions. Yet even with such a short time scale, there ...
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NewsGeoff Dean: A life in design
“Nothing stays the same,” Geoff Dean of OSD IMT tells Stevie Knight: “Change is what drives the industry, so there’s no point in wishing it otherwise, you just have to stay ahead.”
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NewsCaterpillar undertakes first in-hull LNG retrofit and reports new orders
An LNG tanker has had its engine converted to LNG without modifying the ship structure, while MaK and larger Cat engines continue to rack up orders from the offshore market sector.
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NewsWool lube oil filters claimed to perform better than centrifuges
Danish company GreenOil reports on a collaboration with ship operator Torm involving using filtration rather than centrifuges to clean lubricating oil in the auxiliary engines of two ships, by Joel Goodstein.
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News2014 Support Sector Review: A changing game
Will people remember 2014 as the year the game changed? If they are in the oil and gas support sector, then that’s quite likely... writes Stevie Knight
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NewsCloud-based simulation in US
Transas is supplying a full-mission classroom and cloud based Transas technical simulation (TechSim) package to the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College.
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NewsHappy New Year – and changes for 2015
The Motorship sends its best wishes for the New Year and we welcome Gavin Lipsith who takes over as editor on 5 January. All the best for 2015 to all our readers, advertisers, conference delegates, supporters and sponsors, and other friends.
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NewsArctech Helsinki passes to Russian ownership
United Shipbuilding Corporation, the Russian state-controlled shipbuilder, has completed its purchase of the remaining half of Arctech Helsinki Shipyard’s shares from former joint owner STX Finland.
