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CIMAC users group seeks revised guarantees
The CIMAC users group wants revised guarantees for engines and components that more accurately reflect the promises made by manufacturers pre-purchase. J?rn Dragsted, chairman of the CIMAC users? working group, points to data collected by the working group, which shows that occurrences of engine failures increase dramatically as more running ...
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Main bearing failures in the spotlight
Data on the causes of main engine failures demonstrates that engine manufacturers and shipbuilders are not cooperating enough in the development of ship designs, according to the CIMAC users? group. Two thirds of main bearing failures are found on super long-stroke engines, typically found on tankers, which have flexible hulls ...
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DNV with five point plan to fight substandard ships
Dedicated "Flying Squads" with experienced surveyors is one element in a five point plan established by DNV to step up the efforts to remove substandard shipping. "DNV considers quality the single most important factor to improve safety and serious quality cases the biggest threat to the public confidence in shipping," ...
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NewsHapag Lloyd orders largest electronically controlled engines
Hapag Lloyd has placed an order for three 12K98ME engines, the largest electrically controlled engines yet ordered. The MAN B&W design engines are for three 8,145 TEU containerships to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, Korea.The electronic control will ensure optimal fuel injection timing and rate, as ...
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Structural inspection management tool developed
DNV Software has developed software to help the fleet manager log the condition of his ships and plan maintenance. Hull Life Cycle Manager is an inspection and repair management tool in which hull condition data recorded by the crew is transferred electronically from ship to shore for analysis by fleet ...
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Norwegian shipping "can remain strong"
Norway's shipping industry can remain strong as the country continues its shift toward a service-based economy, but the government must respond to international competition by making the tax system more friendly to Norwegian-flagged shippers. Speaking on the eve of the 2003 Nor-Shipping exhibition in Oslo, Norwegian Shipowners' Association president Terje ...
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ITOPF wins Heyerdahl award
Thirty-five years of behind-the-scenes work to prevent and clean up oil spills was honoured last night with the presentation of the Thor Heyerdahl Award 2003 to the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation.
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Functional integration for IBS and control
Rolls-Royce and Furuno are developing an integrated bridge system in which Furuno hardware is functionally integrated with Rolls-Royce?s automation and control products."The goal is to provide customers with more synergies in the information they see on screen so that it will be more transportable," explains Rick Kane, president ? marine ...
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AC drive series launched
Vacon has launched a series of modular AC drives for marine applications. The new Vacon NX series of frequency converters includes both air and liquid cooled units within the power range of 0.2kW to 3MW. In developing the series for the marine market, the Finnish company says it took care ...
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Norway issues demarche against Spain
Norway has issued a demarche against Spain for what it sees as an invasion of its sovereignty following the recent exclusion by Spanish authorities of two Norwegian flag ships from Spain?s 200 mile coastal zone. The demarche was in the form of a formal note sent by the Norwegian government ...
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International law in jeopardy from EU
There are countless arguments against the EUs unilateral action to bring forward the internationally agreed phase-out dates of single hull tankers. Intertanko, the representative body for independent tanker owners, has heard them all. But one seems to raise its ire more than others."The flouting of international law is a major ...
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Buckling up for more robust ships
Three major incidents in three years have woken the industry up to the fact that post-Marpol, buckling is a far more critical design strength factor than pre-Marpol. Erika, Prestige and to a lesser extent Castor have demonstrated that current minimum buckling criteria for decks, bottoms and girders only take strength ...
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VOCstop and low smoking oil barrels
Recent reports from CRUCOSGA and the National Academy of Science estimate that 0.2% of a crude oil tanker?s cargo is lost through vapour emissions. Over the course of a year the total loss is estimated at more than 6 million tons. Much of the loss is a result of crew ...
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Payback dogs VOC recycling
Oscar Spieler, technical director at Frontline, says that it is not commercially viable for an independent tanker operator to retrofit a VOC vapour recovery system to his ships since the cost is currently unrecoverable. Frontline has tested a prototype VOC recycling system, developed in cooperation with compatriot Norwegian company Venturie, ...
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Izar dredgers head for Asia
Two sister ships, ordered by Belgium dredger operator Jan de Nul, were launched earlier this year at Izar?s Sestao shipyard. Named Filippo Brunelleschi and Francis Beaufort, the vessels are trailing suction hopper dredgers, each with an 11,300m3 hopper capacity suitable for various operations. These include dredging by the trailing suction ...
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New ships for Far East round trip
Hamburg-based Rickmers Line has moved a step closer to realising its round-the-world service ambitions with the christening of Rickmers Shanghai, the fourth newbuilding in a $270 million series of nine vessels it will be taking on this year from China.The first ship, Rickmers Hamburg, was christened in Hamburg on its ...
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Hamburg pushes out boat for boxships
The port of Hamburg has reached the halfway mark in its most ambitious development since its post-war reconstruction. The scale of the CTA (Container Terminal Altenwerder) project ? including its 8650 million price tag and 20-year timetable ? is truly immense, and the outcome promises truly exceptional facilities for container ...
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Japanese CRP pod ferry order
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to build two high-speed ropax ferries, featuring CRP Azipod propulsion, for Osaka-based Shin-Nihonkai Ferries. It is the first application of the innovative contra-rotating pod propulsion solution devised by ABB.Both ships will be built at MHI?s Nagasaki yard and are slated for delivery in June 2004. ...
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Ultimate roro newbuilding from Flensburg
Earlier this year the German shipyard of Flensburg laid the keel for the first unit in a new five-ship series of roro ferries ordered by the Danish ferry operator DFDS. The lead ship in this new roro 3900 design, is scheduled for delivery towards the end of September this year ...
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Trimaran design takes to the air
The Dynamic Assisted Trimaran or DAT is a unique combination of super slender monohull, multihull and hydrofoil technology. Originally developed by TechMan, the key features of the design have each been carefully selected to maximize the DAT?s potential as a passenger vessel. Potential applications also exist as a ro-pax vessel, ...
