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Niigata bankruptcy
Niigata Engineering has sort court protection from its creditors. The company, whose business includes the design and manufacture of a range of medium-speed diesel engines and other propulsion machinery, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the face of crippling debts estimated at „227 billion ($1.84 billion). The company has supplied ...
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M.A. system ?reduces fuel consumption and emissions?
M.A. Turbo/Engine Design, based in Vancouver, Canada, has developed a water injection system specifically designed for retrofit to existing diesel engines which, it says, reduces both fuel consumption and emissions. The system has just been installed on two Detroit diesel engines of a ferry in San Francisco Bay?s Blue & ...
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Electricity from waste heat
American-based researchers say they have developed a semiconductor technology that could allow efficient electricity generation without using traditional auxiliary machinery. Associate Professor Peter Hagelstein of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)?s department of electrical engineering and computer science and Dr Yan Kucherov of ENECO say their technology works through thermionics, ...
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More RT-flex orders
Wärtsilä has reported more orders for its RT-flex marine diesel engines. Two orders for the engines, which feature common-rail fuel injection, have been secured for installation in two 30,000 dwt multipurpose dry cargo carriers building at Shanghai Shipyard in China for Chinese-Polish Joint Stock Shipping Co (Chipolbrok). Each vessel will ...
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Diesel for another 100 years, says Lausch
That is the verdict of MAN B&W senior vice president Dr Wolfram Lausch, who bases this conclusion on simple fuel efficiency: "A ship is meant to carry cargo, not fuel. So it is my absolutely strong belief that big diesel engines for ship propulsion will last for the next 50 ...
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EIMS to kill waste
Marine Environmental Partners (MEP), the Ft. Lauderdale based water treatment company, has developed two new treatment processes to deal with shipboard generated black (sewage) and grey (laundry, kitchen, and sink/shower) wastewater. It has also produced a simple and effective process for eliminating pollutants and bacteria in ships? ballast water. Designed ...
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Another Chinese dock opens
China?s shipbuilding industry, already a world class player with around 6% of the newbuilding market, has expanded its capacity even further with the recent introduction of its latest newbuilding dock at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard (SWSC). This marks the completion of the first phase of a $387 million joint venture project ...
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Diary dates
The dates for the 24th annual Motor Ship Marine Propulsion Conference have been changed to avoid a clash with Danish public holidays ? so mark 10-11 April 2002 in your diary to be in Copenhagen for the marine technology event of the year. Whatever your interest in ship propulsion - ...
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Izar releases PTC design
Izar has designed a pure trailer carrying 3,075 lane metre vessel, classified as the R-3000. The 180m long vessel has a deadweight of 9,400t and is equipped with 22 single crew cabins and nine single driver cabins. The yard has specified two engines producing 5,900kW of power to give a ...
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Huge ECDIS order
Transas Scandinavia has won an order to supply A P M?ller?s ships with an extensive ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) package comprising 160 dual Navi-Sailor 2400 ECDIS complete with radar overlay, a full world folio of Transas electronic charts and a subscription to the chart correction service. The ...
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ABB sells Fläkt
ABB has sold its air handling business, including the Fläkt trademark, to Global Air Movement for $225 million. The new owner plans to combine it with Woods Air Movement Limited, of Colchester in the UK, a company acquired by Global Air Movement last year. Jörgen Centerman, ABB?s president and CEO, ...
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Signum upgrade
ExxonMobil Marine Lubricants has improved its Signum Oil Analysis web site to make it easier for ship operators to monitor the condition of engines, equipment and lubricants by testing used oil samples. The site upgrades improve access to ExxonMobil technical experts, according to the company. New features include enhanced e-mail ...
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Largest LNG
Leif Höegh and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines have together ordered the world?s largest LNG carrier. The order, placed with Mitsubishi HI, is for a 145,000m3 vessel featuring a Moss Rosenberg spherical tank containment system. The vessel is due for delivery at the end of 2005.
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Australian stevedore implements box track and trace system
P&O Ports Australia will push to implement sophisticated tracking and tracing systems at its Australian container handling facilities in 2002. P&O Ports general manager for container handling Tim Blood says technologies equipped to track containers "for virtually every inch of their journey" are essential for maximising just in time manufacturing ...
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WIG classification completed
Flightship has completed the final phase of a lengthy three year classification process with Germanischer Lloyd for its futuristic wing in ground effect (WIG) craft. Flightship Australia managing director John Leslie says the classification of the eight seater FS8 has been extremely complex and required many negotiations of shipping standards ...
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Inmarsat launches Fleet F77
Inmarsat has released a new maritime service, Fleet F77, that meets the IMOs latest GMDSS criteria by providing emergency voice prioritisation and pre-emption. The function ensures that high priority communications aren?t blocked by lower priority communications. This applies to both outgoing and incoming communications. Distress calls pre-empt all other communications, ...
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Largest vessel returns to Dubai
The 564,000dwt ULCC Jahre Viking, the world?s largest ship, has completed its fifth Special Survey at Dock Number 2 at Dubai Drydocks. Jahre Viking entered dock on October 15, and left, on schedule on November 14. The fifth Special Survey involved extensive steel renewals, a full painting programme, pipework and ...
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UECC upgrading older car carriers
Car carrier specialist UECC is seeking to extend the service life of three of its older vessels by up to 15 years. It is doing this via a major upgrading of Autocarrier, Autotransporter, and Autoline. The ships? bow thrusters, propellers, boilers, fans, some steelwork, switchboard, automation and electronic equipment plus ...
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Indian ship modernised in China
Shipping Corporation of India?s cargo vessel Vishvakarma has completed a tweendeck hatch cover conversion at Chengxi Shipyard (part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation). Deterioration in the condition of the operating system for all the tweendeck panels was such that operation eventually became possible only by wire and crane, the emergency ...
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FSL overseas
Fleet Support Limited (FSL), the British ship repair organisation, has taken steps to move into the international ship repair market and has appointed overseas agents in Norway, Denmark, Greece, and Cyprus. Discussions are also being held with potential agents in Germany.
