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ISU pollution survey highlights decline in salvage workload
Results from the latest annual Pollution Prevention Survey published by the International Salvage Union (ISU) show that oils, chemicals, other pollutants and bunker fuel recovered last year totalled 605,677 tonnes, as against 957,122 tonnes in 2002. This amounts to a decrease of nearly 37%. This is a significant decline in ...
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MacGREGOR adds fire-extinguishing systems to its portfolio
The MacGREGOR Group has signed a contract with Finnish fire safety specialist Softonex to become the exclusive distributor and service provider for Softonex?s fire-extinguishing systems in marine sector. The contract covers global sales of fire-extinguishing systems to newbuildings and conversions, with the exception of Japan and Thailand, and a worldwide ...
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NewsDiamond Princess delivered
The latest addition to Princess Cruise?s fleet, Diamond Princess, was named and delivered yesterday by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). The 116,000gt vessel with a 2,670 passenger capacity launches a new ship design for Princess and makes history as the first large cruise ship built in Japan in more than a ...
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New IMO test simulates bilge water treatment under ?real life? conditions
With effect from January 1, 2005, bilge water treatment systems installed in newbuildings and retrofitted on existing ships must fulfil tougher demands to gain IMO approval. While the limit for the oil content in bilge water pumped overboard remains the same at 15 ppm, an additional step is being added ...
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Newbuilding orders round-up
Hyundai Samho Shipyard in South Korea secured an order for two 159,000DWT tankers from a ship owner in Bermuda. The pair will be delivered during 2007 at a total cost of $118 million. Hyundai Mipo Dockyard won an order for a 47,000DWT ice class 1A product carrier from OMI Corporation. ...
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NewsNorfolkline orders third new ferry
Norfolkline has confirmed the order of a third new purpose-built RO-PAX ferry to meet growing demand on its Dover to Dunkerque cross channel freight and passenger services. The company currently has the first two ferries of its new generation RO-PAX ferries under construction at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in ...
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MSC selects Alstom for two cruise-ships
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has just selected ALSTOM as the builder of its new generation of cruise-ships. The contract calls for ALSTOM to construct two 1,275 cabin cruise-ships, with an option for a third sister-ship. It will enter into force once the financing arrangements have been put in place by ...
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Samsung and Tsuneishi to cooperate
Samsung HI revealed that it signed a cooperation agreement with Tsuneishi Corporation. This represents the first of such an agreement between a Japanese shipbuilder and a Korean shipbuilders. The cooperation covers design, purchasing, production and workforce training. The agreement also includes mutual exchange of marketing information such as new order ...
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Korean shipbuilders capture new orders
Daewoo Shipbuilding said that it clinched two orders for VLCC?s, one from TCC in Taiwan and another from World Wide in Hong Kong. Both vessels will be delivered during 2007. Safmarine of Belgium exercised an option for a 4,200TEU container ship at Hyundai Heavy Industries for delivery during 2007. ...
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Korea Shipyard to build a shipbuilding facility
The Korea Shipyard Co. in Mokpo and Jindogun in Jeollanamdo have signed a contract for the construction of a shipyard in Jindogun. The new shipyard will have an annual shipbuilding capacity of 200,000 DWT and will be completed by the end of 2005. Some $24 million will be invested and ...
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Telenor Satellite Services improve SSAS
Telenor Satellite Services today announced that it is expanding its Inmarsat C and Mini-C system at the Eik earth station in Norway making it easier for ship owners to comply with the new global Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) requirements defined by IMO. Telenor's commitment to provide SSAS solutions via ...
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Bow Mariner search postponed
The offshore supply vessel Powhatan returned to Little Creek on Tuesday after encountering heavy weather that prevented the ROV from being launched to begin searching for missing seamen of the Bow Mariner and to take video footage of the vessel to determine whether there are recoverable quantities of ethanol and ...
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STX wins order for tanker quartet
GESCO (Great Eastern Shipping Co) of India has ordered four 47,400 DWT product/chemical tankers from STX Shipbuilding. The vessels ordered have a length of 183m, a breadth of 32.2m, and a depth of 19.1m with a service speed of 14.8 knots. The tankers are scheduled for delivery in 2007. This ...
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Dongkuk to increase price of steel plates
Dongkuk Steel in South Korea has advised that it will increase the price of steel plates by W 65,000 per tonne from March 16. The price hike is unavoidable because the import price of steel ingots has jumped last week from $499 to between $515 and $520 per tonne. When ...
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IMO realistic change to proposed PMA regulation
The Ship Design & Equipment Subcommittee of IMO recently held its 47th session (DE47) in London, and amended the proposed revision to IMO's regulations on Permanent Means of Access (PMA or fixed scaffoldings for inspection) to be fitted on tankers and bulk carriers. The latest amendment was made in a ...
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NewsNew Voith Schneider propeller blades successfully tested on sea trials
A CAD illustration of the new VSP size 36R6/255-2 with a propeller input power of 3380 kW.With the commissioning of the new Voith Water Tractor Baut built for the Norwegian tug operator Bukser og Berging, the improved characteristics of the new VSP blades were successfully demonstrated last December. The bollard ...
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Thrane & Thrane receives class approvals for capsat SSAS
The Danish company Thrane & Thrane has received five new type approvals for its mini-C solution for Ship Security Alert System (SSAS), the TT-3000SSA Capsat. The following organizations have given their approval: American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). Chinese Classification Society (CCS). Germanischer Lloyds (GL) Government of India Ministry of ...
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NewsNew ship security system installed on Berge Boston
The 135,000 cubic metre Berge Boston.The first vessel certified by DNV to comply with the new International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code by IMO, Berge Boston, has installed a new integrated Ship Security System by Norway-based Hernis Scan Systems A/S.Hernis is offering three alternative standardised ISPS packages: basic, ...
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ICS warns industry on ISPS Code
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has issued a stark reminder to shipping companies about the need to comply with the IMO ISPS Code, and has published a simple checklist of actions that must be taken before the July 2004 deadline. "In general the shipping industry is well aware of ...
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NewsOperation under way to recover bodies and cargo from Bow Mariner wreck
Bow Petros, sister ship to the Bow Mariner.A formidable array of marine salvage expertise and equipment is converging in the Hampton Roads area to conduct a two-pronged operation to locate and recover the missing seamen and to remove any remaining ethanol and fuel oil from the sunken tanker. The 39,821 ...
