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Roxtec launches SRC frame to prevent cracks in thin bulkheads
Roxtec, which makes the MultiDiameter sealing system for cable and pipe penetrations, has launched an SRC frame designed to prevent cracks in thin bulkheads. The frame is tested and approved for A and H classed decks and bulkheads, says the company. It has an inner corner radius of 20mm and ...
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Fast oil changes without spillage
Vision Energy says its Environmentally Safe Oil Change (ESOC) system for marine engines takes about ten minutes for a complete oil and filter change and uses a closed loop system which removes the threat of spillage. Air is used to purge used oil from the engine and filter, and replace ...
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Mini-mesh fibreglass floor grating
Fibreglass Grating says its new Grid Walk Mini-Mesh reinforced plastic grating has one quarter the opening of regular 33x33mm square mesh, which prevents objects as small as 12mm from falling through, and complies with the European 15mm ball falling test requirement. Because of the close spacing of the bearing bars, ...
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Conversion gets dual fuel engine
Jurong Shipyard in Singapore has installed a Wärtsilä dual fuel engine into a FPSO conversion it is doing for Bergesen Offshore. The shipyard installed the Wärtsilä 18V32DF engine into a converted VLCC Berge Hus. The vessel is scheduled to commence operation off west Africa early next year. The engine can ...
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New Irish Sea repair group
A number of former Cammell Laird directors have formed a new shiprepair organisation in the shadow of their old employer?s mothballed shipyard on Merseyside, UK. North Western Ship Repair is leasing two drydocks from the Mersey Docks & Harbour Company. The company is targeting ferry work, small-scale conversions and military ...
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French port commissions shiplift
The Port of Cherbourg in France has formally commissioned a new shiplift. It hopes this will enable it to win maintenance and repair work on high-speed craft. Dimensioned to accommodate catamarans, the shiplift is 90m by 32m and is also capable of handling a wide range of other craft. It ...
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FSL starts voyage repair
Portsmouth, UK-based Fleet Support Limited (FSL) has established a voyage repair service. It will initially target all vessels using ports in the south of England. Specific services offered include electrical, hydraulic and engine repairs; calibration; ultrasonic thickness measurements; pipework; rigging; joinery; steel and aluminium repairs.
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NKK and HZ merge
The Japanese organisations NKK and Hitachi Zosen are to merge their ship repair divisions. They will consolidate ship repair activities at NKK?s 4,000g capacity Tsurumi Works. And a new 180m x 35m x 11.5m dock will replace Hitachi?s 40,000g capacity repair dock at its Kanagawa Works, pending permission from the ...
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Swedes create the Ecoship
A new concept for short-sea trade, the Ecoship, has recently emerged onto the shipping scene. It sports sleek lines with low water resistance. It has an advanced engine configuration and comprehensive exhaust gas cleaning equipment. And it is the result of some radical thinking within the Swedish marine industry. The ...
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A simply Swedish ship movement sensor
Simplicity is a virtue when designing a new product. It is of particular importance when trying to correlate the complex movements of a ship at sea with the resultant data this produces in a user-friendly manner. Transformator, based in Varberg, Sweden, has developed a simple and low-cost dynamic ship movement ...
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e-solution is more than a dot.com
The dust is settling on the dot.com era after a number of high profile collapses. Many now realise that you cannot sit between a shipowner and his supplier and collect a premium without offering something in return. Ship chandlery is not the same as delivering books for example. Delivering pyrotechnics ...
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Lift-off for cats
Howard Harley?s Skirtless SES patented technology has had an important breakthrough. The EFFISES (Energy Efficient SAFE Innovative Ships and Vessels) project, which was initiated last year by SES Europe of Norway and partners, has received ?2.15 million ($1.98 million) funding through the EU 5th framework R&D Growth Programme. EFFISES is ...
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Finnish shipyards invest in IT
Both Kvaerner Masa-Yards and Aker Finnyards have embarked on substantial information technology investments. Masa-Yards has acquired a 3D CAD system for basic ship design from the Spanish supplier Sener Ingeneria y Sistemas. Its Foran 50 software will be tailored to meet the customer? demands and once in place, it will ...
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German M?ller yard delivers its largest boxes
AP M?ller-owned shipyard Volkswerft Stralsund is building a series of four 2,833 TEU container vessels for operation by sister company Maersk Sealand. The second unit of the VWS 2900 design was christened Jens Maersk on August 14. Maersk Sealand has employed the first unit Jeppesen Maersk on its northern Europe ...
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Internet class verificiation
Bureau Veritas has launched an extension to its Veristar system allowing clients to track classification of their newbuilding projects in real time using the Internet. Brittany Ferries is using a pilot version of the system on Mont St Michel, now being built at van der Giessen-de Noord shipyard in the ...
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MAN-branded Pielstick models
Technology is leaping across the divide between MAN B&W Diesel?s various operating subsidiaries. The most recent example is the SEMT Pielstick developed PC2.6B, which MAN B&W is now selling as its own-branded V40/50 engine. Jean-Fran?ois Chapuy, sales manager for SEMT Pielstick at its Paris office, says the V40/50 combines the ...
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Throwing out the rubbish
Removing class from a vessel is the final weapon in a class society?s armoury against a substandard owner. Once it is decided a vessel could contravene a society?s conditions of class and action might be needed, it is interesting to note the procedures followed. Lloyd?s Register says it has class ...
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More than just passenger ships
Finnish shipbuilders have largely concentrated on passenger shipping in recent years. This focus seems set to continue, although their development work does cover other ship categories. Kvaerner Masa-Yards Double Acting Tanker (DAT) design, for example, is one non-passengership design originating from Finland that is set to become reality. Sumitomo Heavy ...
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Good structure
Will doubling up prevail on future tanker designs? The situation already exists where new tankers require a double hull in order to improve their safety margins. But the majority of tankers still only have a single propulsion system. In the event of a failure anywhere in the propulsion train, they ...
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Hospital ship enters service
It is rare for any country to build a hospital ship in wartime, let alone peacetime. But Izar?s Gijon Shipyard in northern Spain has handed over just such a ship. The 5,000g hospital cum rescue vessel, Esperanza del Mar, was delivered to the Spanish maritime social institute (Instituto Social de ...
