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Developing power in changing times
Medium-speed market-leader Wärtsilä may not have much to report in the way of big development stories right now that The Motor Ship hasn?t previously covered, but those companies trying to take market share from the Finnish engine designer have plenty on the go.Hyundai Heavy IndustriesHyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is on ...
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Efficient vessels in series
The European Community?s phase out of shipyards subsidies by the end of next year for orders received up to the end of 2000 led, understandably, to an orders boom in 2000. That boom left most German yards with an order backlog up to the end of 2003. Some have orders ...
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Cycloidal rudder breaks new ground
After nearly 75 years of producing and marketing its highly successful cycloidal propulsion system, Voith Schneider in Germany has extended its range by developing the Voith Cycloidal Rudder (VCR). This is basically a modified propeller system based on the company?s vertical axis cycloidal propeller but with only two blades instead ...
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State-of-the-art large two stroke engines
There are only three manufacturers that spring to mind when talking about large two-stroke engines: MAN B&W, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Wärtsilä. The most successful company is MAN B&W with a record result of engines delivered and on order. At the beginning of this year the company recorded about 8,000 ...
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Juicy Brazilian carrier
Wet bulk ships don?t come any sweeter than Carlos Fischer. The 42,500 dwt carrier is specifically designed for transporting fresh and concentrated orange juice in tanks.Carlos Fischer is owned by Aleuropa, a subsidiary of leading Brazilian conglomerate Grupo Fischer. It was recently delivered by shipbuilder Kleven Maritime from its Flor? ...
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Propelling, compelling
The mood for the conference was set by Ole Hoeg, executive vice president, technical organisation, AP M?ller, when pointing out in his opening remarks that the NOx levels of 4% set by IMO are still far too high. The industry, he claims, should aim for virtually sulphur-free bunker fuel with ...
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Tough time for comms
Communications service providers have been having a tough time of it since Iridium filed for Chapter 11 creditor protection and was cut off on March 17, 2000. Both ICO and more recently GlobalStar have followed suit, although all these service providers have now restructured and, with fresh injections of cash, ...
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Mixing cargo and cruise passengers
They carry passengers, but they are much more than mere ferries. Hurtigruten ships provide a lifeline for Norway?s remote northern communities, bringing in essentials while taking local products out to market.A Hurtigruten ship is scheduled to leave Bergen every evening on an 11-day round-trip that can take it as far ...
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Cool and fast
In September 2000, German shipowner ER Schiffahrt/ Nordcapital, better known as Erck Rickmers, contracted compatriot shipbuilder SSW Fähr- und Spezialschiffbau to build up to 10 units of the shipyard?s Super 25-type container vessel. The initial order placed at the Bremerhaven yard called for five firm contracts plus five options, of ...
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New design safety vessel fights on all fronts
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Küstenschutz (coastal protection working group) ? set up by the towing companies Bugsier, Transport & Service, Fairplay and URAG ? has, in cooperation with SSW Fähr- und Spezialschiffbau, developed a new concept in safety vessels. Drawing on the modular design approach of naval warships, the design offers three optional ...
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Enlarged gear programme
Until passengers are prepared to pay very high ticket prices for speed, weight and cost will remain the most important parameters when looking at fast-ferry propulsion systems, with low fuel consumption and low emissions being the deciding design features.Against this background high-speed diesel engines have a strong position in the ...
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Heavy lift pair for Chipolbrok
Chipolbrok, the Sino-Polish shipping company, is upgrading its fleet with the building of two 30,000 dwt newbuildings at Shanghai Shipyard. The contract includes an option for a second pair. The ships will each have a 640t lifting capacity in addition to a container capacity of around 2,000 TEU.As with the ...
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Positively Posidonia
Posidonia 2002 is the 18th biennial International Shipping Exhibition at Piraeus, Athens, and as usual the organisers expect to break all records for attendance. The Motor Ship will be on hand, and visitors can pick up a copy of the magazine at our stand, number 807.Its organisers are probably justified ...
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Seeking global contracts
Among the more amazing and heart-warming stories, in these glum days of global recession and failing businesses, is one of a comprehensive turnaround, scripted by an Indian shipyard.Notorious for cost and time overruns that deterred prospective clients in the past, Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) has started delivering vessels on time ...
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Making up ground
Both Rolls-Royce and GE have taken engines from the wing and adapted them for use in the marine industry. And both companies agree that gas turbines have some ground to make up on diesel engines, with there being a considerable challenge ahead in converting the industry to the idea of ...
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MAN B&W draws up K108 engine
MAN B&W has designs for a 1,080mm bore engine. The company says it has confined the designs to the bottom of a drawer while the containership market, for which the so-called K108 engine is targeted, remains depressed. "[But] if the market necessitates we will be ready," says Gregers Thomsen, a ...
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Biggest Scania
Scania has launched its most powerful marine engine ever. The new DI16M can deliver up to 590kW of power. It is a watercooled, twin turbocharged, direct injection V8 engine. It has a bore of 127mm, a stroke of 154mm and a displacement of about 16 litres. The engine design features ...
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Wärtsilä gets more EnviroEngine orders
Wärtsilä has sold its first EnviroEngines that combine common-rail fuel injection with electronically-controlled direct water injection. P&O Princess Cruises has elected to install 12 EnviroEngines on four of its cruise ships under construction in Japan and France. Wärtsilä says the combination of the two technologies will allow the cruise ships ...
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Holeby first
The first onboard installation of MAN B&W?s L21/31 Holeby genset will not, as expected, be on one of the four DFDS Tor Line roro vessels on order at Flensburg Shipyard. Rather MAN B&W has won a contract to supply a pilot installation of two L21/31 gensets to a ship that ...
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More on UEC60LSE
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has released further details on development of a 600mm bore UEC LSE engine (see The Motor Ship, December 2001). It says it expects to complete design work by this April, with a shop trial planned for the first half of 2003. The engine is targeted as a ...
