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Virtually perfect
CAD/CAM systems have been around in the shipbuilding industry for quite a long time ? since the early 1960s. Per-Olof Nilsson, vice president of research for Tribon Solutions, told The Motor Ship that the first thing they did was produce control for flame cutters using paper tapes. However, things have ...
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Skydex gives relief from G forces
Skydex gives relief from G forcesShock forces experienced by passengers and crew onboard fast ferries and other small vessels is an issue which is constantly being looked at by naval architects in an attempt to mitigate the worst of the effects on individuals. Apart from ship borne systems to dampen ...
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The sky?s the limit
With growth rates of 8% per year being predicted, the current slump in cruise ship orders could only be short term ? but what direction is design heading in? When asked what would be next after Queen Mary 2, Gerry Ellis, director of new builds for Cunard Line, told The ...
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NewsTechnical Fault ? Current News
We would like to appologise for the lack of Current News items being displayed for the month of August, this was due to a technical fault with the site. We are currently working on the problem and hope to have these articles restored to the site within the next few ...
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Dubai Drydocks continues its drive forward
Dubai Drydocks is the largest ship repair facility in the Middle East. Built in the late 1970s, with the aim of capitalising on Dubai?s geographical proximity to the major oil terminals in the Arabian Gulf, Dubai Drydocks was designed to be able to accommodate oil tankers with a capacity of ...
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Izar Gijon delivers Chilean chemical carrier
Chilean ship owner Ultragas has taken delivery of the latest addition to its fleet, the 22,700m3 chemical carrier Guanaco. Built at Izar?s shipyard in Gijon, this 161.23m long double hulled vessel is fitted with 28 duplex stainless steel tanks constructed out of vertically corrugated bulkheads enabling the newbuilding to transport ...
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Pasha Hawaii building first US PCTC
Some of our readers with good memories may recall that a few years ago there was an announcement that a new shipping company transporting vehicles between Hawaii and the mainland would be entering the market soon. The company in question, Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines (PHTL), had plans to employ a ...
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Stena orders P-max quartet
Following in the footsteps of the V-MAX and C-MAX series of tankers, Concordia Maritime of the Stena Group, is poised to introduce a new member to its MAX tanker family called P-MAX. Four of these 49,900 dwt product tankers have recently been ordered from the Croatian yard of Brodosplit Shipyard ...
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Experts disagree on propeller issue
If they were sure they could, they probably would. Ordering of very large containerships has resumed this year and talk has resurfaced of the potential to build vessels with unprecedented carrying capacities of 10,000 TEU and above. Terminal infrastructure is, in the most part, sufficient to accommodate and handle much ...
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CODED powers up
Despite pods suffering from their problems, there has been no let up in the advance of this technology. There have been a number of interesting developments of late, such as the two high-speed conventional ferries ordered by Shin-Nihonkai Ferry and due for delivery form Mitsubishi?s Nagasaki yard in mid-2004. The ...
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Cruising?s big bosses
It was a big summer for what has become the pivotal yard-line relationship in cruising. Carnival group took two ships from Fincantieri, and the handovers of Carnival Cruises? Carnival Glory (built at Monfalcone, near Trieste) and Oosterdam (Marghera, at Venice) for Carnival?s Holland America Line highlighted just how dominant the ...
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Austral shortlisted for LCS deal
Austal Ships is claiming that its success in making the short list for the preliminary design of the US Navy?s $10 billion Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) project represents further proof of the suitability of aluminium ships for defence roles.Austal Ships and Austal USA and their tender partner, the US defence ...
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Sparks, zap and smoke
The next stage in the evolution process of cutting technology is laser hybrid welding, which uses a YAG laser combined with an arc system to offer high penetration welds with little distortion. The ideal weld process for heavy sections will produce very narrow, very deep welds with minimal heat input, ...
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Shanghai Shipyard nets five ships
Shanghai Shipyard in China has netted orders for five ships of 123,600 dwt in the first half of 2003, over 60% of its annual new order target and nearly 30% more than that of same period last year. The shipbuilder completed four ships, launched two and laid the keel for ...
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Jiangnan secures orders for 15 ships
Jiangnan Shipyard in China has recently secured orders for 15 ships, including an FPSO, totalling just under 1 million dwt. As at the end of June this year, the shipbuilder?s order book stood at over 1.5 million dwt. For the first half of 2003, Jiangnan shipyard has achieved an output ...
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Kawasaki SB delivers coastal LNG carrier
Kawasaki Shipbuilding in Japan delivered the 2,500 cu m LNG carrier to joint ship owners, Shinwa Chemical Tanker and Corporation for Advanced Transport & Technology (CATT) on July 30. Named Shinju Maru No.1, the 2,936 gt vessel is the first coastal LNG carrier for domestic use in Japan. Kawasaki built ...
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Keppel Singmarine secures orders for tugs and AHTS
Keppel Corporation Limited, through its offshore and marine units in Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has clinched contracts worth a total of S$45m ($25.5m). The contracts involve the construction of two 45-tonne bollard pull harbour tugs for PSA Corporation and a 4,040kW AHTS vessel for Hadi H. Al-Hamman ...
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Daewoo delivers first ship for Sovcomflot
Daewoo Shipbuilding in South Korea delivered the first ice classed tanker for Sovcomflot on August 29. Sea trials of the 115,000DWT tanker Nevskiy Prospect were carried out from 21 to 26 July and is the first unit in a three-ship series being built at the shipyard for the Russian ship ...
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Nord orders five 8,200TEU box ships
Nord Capital in Germany is believed to have placed an order for five 8,200TEU box ships with Hyundai Samho Shipyard in Korea. The total order is valued at W 431.9 billion ($367m) and deliveries are scheduled to start in 2006. This is the second mega boxship newbuilding contract for this ...
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Waigaoqiao nets 14 ships of 2.1M DWT
Shanghao Waigaoqio Shipyard in China has netted 14 ships totalling 2.1 million DWT for the first half of 2003. The shipbuilder received five 105,000DWT Aframax tankers during April to June from two Greek ship owners. It also received several 175,000DWT capesize bulkers from Belgium, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the ...
