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Underwater coating repair
Jones Marine is continuing development of its JML 2000 underwater coating system, with an application containing anti-fouling properties among its goals. Talking to The Motor Ship, Jones Marine managing director Mike Jones said the JML 2000 system is designed to effect repairs to areas of small-scale coating damage, for instance ...
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Lloyd?s Register adopts a listening approach
It is strange how the funding for technological advances is acquired and how long it can take for some technologies to be accepted. A case in point is BALRUE, a new generation acoustic emission monitoring system developed jointly by Lloyd?s Register, Airbus (a BAE Systems and EADS joint company) and ...
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Chinese getting it together
Chinese shipyards will be capable of competing with South Korean yards on equal terms after 2005, according to a new report released by the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade and the commerce ministry. The report says that South Korean shipbuilders should expand their R&D investment if they are ...
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Gotland pace
Chinese shipyards don?t just build simple ships. Yes, they build a lot of bulk carriers and product tankers. But there is also a level of expertise at certain yards that allows them to build more sophisticated vessels. The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has earmarked certain yards for the development ...
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Shanhaiguan builds wind turbine ship
Faced with dwindling world fossil fuel reserves, energy companies are exploiting alternative sources at an increasing pace. The latest development in the wind-mill energy farm concept is the construction of offshore facilities. And UK-based engineering firm, Mayflower Energy Ltd, has come up with a practical solution to the problems associated ...
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Handling all
The first of a new series of heavy-lift multi-purpose containerships under construction in China has been delivered. The vessels, ordered by German-based Schoeller Holdings, are being built in Xiamen (8 + 4 options), Jinling (2), Dalian (6) and Shanghai (2) shipyards with deliveries over the next three years. All 18 ...
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Time to act on safety
Legislation that eventually caught up with tankers will inevitably catch up with bulkers. But will we have to wait until a bulker pollutes a French beach with bunkers before there are any serious design changes legislated? The unfortunate thing, or fortunate depending on your point of view, is that bulkers ...
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Remote control for deck machinery
Valued for cost-effective, reliable and above all safe operation, increasingly mooring and anchoring equipment is likely to be automated and acquired as part of an integrated package from a single manufacturer. Already a major supplier of many individual items of equipment such as low voltage switchboards and other items such ...
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Re-conversion restores cruise ferry role
A former cruise liner that re-entered service earlier this year with DFDS Seaways has assumed the mantle of Denmark?s largest cruise ferry after a conversion project which included installation of a hoistable car deck and flood control doors. MacGregor has played a key role in the conversion of DFDS Seaways? ...
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August Rodin enters service
SeaFrance Rodin, the largest ferry ever to operate on the Dover to Calais route, recently entered service on the English Channel. Its entry into service heralds a new phase in trade on this highly competitive crossing. At 185m long and 27.7m wide, the 34,000g newbuilding is capable of transiting the ...
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The advantages of AdhFAST
Adhesives have been around a long time but because of prejudices they have not been fully utilised, particularly in the marine sector, despite the fact that they have some obvious advantages. Fire is one of the biggest problems in the ship repair industry and welding is usually to blame, so ...
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Rise passes MOD tests
CSD Sealing Systems says its Rise range of cable and pipe transit conduit sealing systems and its Sealing Plug system have all successfully passed a range of MOD Standard shock tests. The tests were carried out in accordance with the Naval Engineering Standard NE5814 and prove the system?s suitability for ...
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Portable unit for on-board maintenance
The MTC 2000 Marine Test Case from Druck contains hand-held calibration tools for in-situ maintenance of pressure, temperature and electrical equipment. Applications include the monitoring and control systems on engine gear and thrust bearings, turbo chargers, fuel and lubricating oil systems, firefighting systems, heat exchangers and crew and cargo area ...
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Viking/Ocenco offers EEBD solution
US-based company Ocenco has launched its emergency escape breathing devices (EEBD) to the commercial marine sector following an agreement with the Danish life saving equipment manufacturer Viking, which will undertake the distribution. Viking will use its existing distribution network including several subsidiaries and agents as well as its network of ...
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KMSS upgrades fire detection for cruise ships
KMSS has won the contract to upgrade the fire detection system on the luxury cruise ships Sea Goddess I and II. KMSS will be supplying its Autronica fire detection system to the sister ships. The order follows the recent demand from the National Safety Transport Board in the USA for ...
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Ultrasonic hatch testing approved
Following type-approval of MacGregor?s Sherlog ultrasonic equipment by Lloyd?s Register, the company?s Hatch Cover division has gained a Class Service Supplier certificate from Det Norske Veritas. The certificate grants acceptance for service on tightness testing of hatches with ultrasonic equipment on ships, high speed light craft and mobile offshore units ...
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Two New models from Polarmarine
Polarmarine has launched a new type of single nozzle tank cleaning machine named PJ 120T-CPA as well as a new twin-nozzle, the PJ 25T. The deck-mounted single nozzle PJ 120T-CPA has speed, angle and pitch control brought together within a single model, says the company. The cleaning area can be ...
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Martek pressure warning system
The Sentry from Martek Marine is a cargo tank pressure monitoring system designed in compliance with SOLAS II Reg 59, providing early warning of under or over pressurisation in oil and chemical tankers. The system uses pressure transducers installed on deck which continually monitor tank pressure and provides indications of ...
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Compact valve for large engines
AMOT Controls says it has improved its G Valve three-way temperature control valve by making it more compact and lighter. The unit is designed to regulate fluid temperatures in large diesel and gas engines to 100?C with a maximum flowrate of 3,000m3/hr. Three types of control system are available electric, ...
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New lifeboat from NME
Norwegian Maritime Equipment is launching a newly developed, fully enclosed lifeboat with a capacity of 102 persons. The company is also announcing a fast rescue boat in three different versions. Both the lifeboat and the rescue boat are produced in China by Jiangyin Xinjiang. The lifeboat comes in two versions, ...
