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Keeping up with the Joneses
Times are changing. For the American shipbuilding industry the 1980s were rough. Despite the Cold War defence spending of the Reagan years, many famous names went to the wall. But for those that survived the US shipping industry is now in a replacement phase so pickings are currently good for ...
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What next after QM2?
Many might have thought the departure of John McNeece from McNeece, the London headquartered design practice, would have left the company rudderless and in a state of flux. However, that is far from true and the company?s joint managing directors, Mark Hilferty and Erol Aziz, have already secured two important ...
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Brilliance has six appeal
Six may not sound like a lot. But there are six cabins on Royal Caribbean?s latest ship Brilliance of the Seas from which the revenue goes straight to the operator?s financial bottom line. Six cabins that, therefore, do represent a lot.Add up the revenue from these six cabins over the ...
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Cylinder oil feed rate optimisation
Our industry is sometimes known to be slow to accept change and cautious in the implementation of new concepts and practices. There is nothing wrong with this approach in a mature industry, however, sometimes factors such as new regulations, true step-out technology advances and striving for economic advantage, can outweigh ...
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New dock planned to support oil refineries
Much coverage has been given of the potential for Vietnam to follow China?s recent advance and mount a competitive challenge to the established Asian shipbuilding nations. However Nguyen Quoc Anh, director of the business and international department at Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin), believes the coverage has been overstated and ...
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Big box ships are NO Laughing matter
Lua Cheng Eng, former chairman of Singapore-based shipping company Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), has pretty much seen it all. Over his nearly 33 years in NOL and shipping, he has witnessed the advent of containerisation, the rise and fall of the ultra large crude carriers, and the amazing technological shipboard ...
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Keeping the Straits safe
The Straits of Malacca is one of the world?s busiest waterways. Not surprisingly, therefore, the issue of navigational safety through the Straits remains a hot topic. A major subject of discussion today is just who should pay to ensure that it remains a safe passage for the 60,000 ships that ...
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Houston of the East
In a bid to turn Singapore into a byword for technical expertise on a par with oil production centres like Houston or Aberdeen, Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) is establishing a Centre of Excellence for Technology.Choo Chiau Beng, chairman and chief executive officer of Keppel O&M, says: "With some ...
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Keeping the crewing top spot
The Philippine Maritime Industry Cluster has outlined an action plan aimed at maintaining the global competitiveness of the country?s seafarers as well as it shipping and marine businesses.The Cluster comprises the Philippine Inter-Island Shipping Association, the Filipino Shipowners Association and the Philippine Seafarers Promotion Council. Its action plan, published in ...
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More agility and speed for Agile
Having undergone a major refit in mid 2001, the cable ship Agile now has the accumulated miles to enable an accurate assessment of its improved operational performance. The principal objectives of the refit were to increase transit speed and change the manoeuvring characteristics during cable laying operations."The ship?s handling characteristics ...
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Near-zero emissions at today?s prices
RINA believes that outstanding performance from the point of safety and environmental protection are today, and will be for several years to come, the two main goals of the innovation in ship science. The Italian classification society says that this has particular relevance for passenger ships for because the number ...
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Next generation SMGT
There have been a number of driving forces behind the development of the Super Marine Gas Turbine (SMGT) ? a primary one being protecting the environment. This has seen a major effort by the Japanese developers of the SMGT in trying to reduce emissions from ships by developing a thermally ...
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Carriers to boost UK shipbuilders
The UK shipbuilding industry, or what remains of it, is heavily dependant on defence contracts for its survival. The forthcoming future aircraft carrier (CVF) programme will be crucial in this respect and essential to ensuring the long-term survival of the industry. The projected contract will involve the construction of two ...
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The birth of a transatlantic giant
The keel laying of Cunard Line?s Queen Mary 2 (QM2) at the French shipyard of Chantiers de l?Atlantique on July 4 represented a landmark in the history of passenger-ship building. This newbuilding, costing £540 million ($788 million), will be the largest, longest, tallest, widest, and most expensive passenger ship ever ...
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Ringed propellers set for comeback
For more or less a century the propeller has been a much-studied and highly-developed feature of modern ship design. So while it is perhaps surprising to find attempts to reinvent this particular wheel, there are aspects of performance which still tempt engineers looking to make improvements.One benefit which has lured ...
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Y-shaped support web for unsinkability
Earlier this year the Waterhuizen shipyard in Groningen, the Netherlands, delivered a gas tanker with a collision resistant hull to which the hull designer attaches the bold adjective unsinkable. The ship, for Dutch owner Chemgas, is the first of two vessels built to the concept. It is designed to carry ...
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Noise is next
There are numerous national and international codes that recommend and, in some cases, demand that noise levels are kept below certain limits. This applies not just to noise levels outside a ship but also to the noise levels in various parts of the ship. This has placed greater demands on ...
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CMA CGM bids to join box ship elite
A top five position is sought. The break has been made into the top ten. But Marseilles-based CMA CGM must still increase fleet capacity by more than 50%, without overstretching itself financially, if it is to overtake the strong players ahead of it and achieve an internal aim to be ...
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Thais after Vanessa
In a couple of months, chemical tanker operator Fouquet-Sacop takes delivery of the second of two 15,500 dwt ships from Portuguese shipbuilder Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo (Vianayard). The vessel, called FS Thais, will like its sistership FS Vanessa, delivered earlier this year, transport petroleum-based products (such as crude, ...
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BV looks to FSA
Bureau Veritas is involved in a number of Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) studies that include the EC projects Nereus and Safety First for stability safety and fire safety of passenger roros respectively, a Safety at Speed project for design safety of high speed craft and an IACS PT/SSI assessment of ...
