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Russian bunker tanker upgrade
St Petersburg bunker company ECO Phoenix Holding is boosting its ability to deliver marine fuel to customers throughout the year with the introduction into service in March of an ice class double-hull tanker. The purchase represents the first stage of a programme to upgrade the ECO Phoenix fleet both in ...
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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, designed and built to perform a number of operations. These include ...
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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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Hot house at Hamburg
Delegates to this year's Motor Ship Marine Propulsion Conference got the most out of their trip to Hamburg in more ways than merely being present in such a renowned centre of world shipping, which provided truly delightful summer weather for the two conference days, May 7 and 8, which preceded ...
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Norwegian supply ships go gas powered
This year marks a remarkable double event in the Norwegian offshore industry with the delivery of the world's first two gas-driven cargo carrying ships. These platform supply vessels, ordered by the shipping companies Eidesvik and Simon M?kster Shipping, will operate on a 10 year charter to Norway's state owned energy ...
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Germans builds Iranian feeders
Six 2,478 TEU feeder boxships ordered by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) will be equipped with MacGregor hatch covers with a partial box design offering improved construction, maintenance, and operational characteristics. The Tehran-based owner has ordered the MTW 2500 type containerships from Norway's Aker Kvaerner Yards group, which ...
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Norway leads on ports of refuge
Norwegian authorities are better prepared than most to reach a "quick and rational" decision on whether a vessel in distress should be sent further out to sea or allowed to enter a place of refuge, according to a leading maritime lawyer.Trond Eilertsen, a partner at Oslo-based law firm Wikborg Rein, ...
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Distraction of technology
Report says computers are a "recipe for disaster" when used in restricted watersIt is the IT age and computers are supposed to solve our every need. Yet the grounding of a vessel in restricted waters off western Scotland has led to the ship?s owner having all computers removed from the ...
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Economiser design change
A fire on a roro passenger ferry has caused the Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the UK government?s Department of Transport to suggest designing economiser systems with separate drain valves so that the system can be totally emptied for maintenance.The fire started after oil that had escaped from a thermal ...
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Unfamiliarity breeds danger
The collision of an oil-rig support vessel equipped with azimuthing propulsion units with an oil-rig has highlighted the problems that can occur when an Officer-on-Watch is unfamiliar with different types of propulsion and steering systems.The bridge watchkeeper in attempting to increase his ship?s distance from the nearest rig turned the ...
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Research to explore resistance of double hulls
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Current issues and compromises
Designers of roro ferries are faced with a choice of maximising lane metres or minimising risk of damage to the sideshell through contact with harbour walls. Designs to maximise lane metres have flat sides above the fenders; those minimising risk of damage to the sideshell have sides above the fenders ...
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Evolution for P&O cross-Channel ferries
The Channel Tunnel was supposed to kill it. But in the years since the Channel Tunnel opened, trade on the short-sea crossing from Dover in the UK to Calais in France has boomed. While roro demand out of Dover and other Kent ports to Ostend, Zeebrugge and Boulogne, etc. has ...
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Two-tier linkspans for bigger ferry
After just two years operational service, Stena Line will replace Stena Forwarder with a larger capacity ferry on its Irish Sea service between Dublin and Holyhead this summer. It will introduce the 44,200g Stena Adventurer in July, following its delivery from Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries."We have been frustrating freight ...
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Double double-enders for Calmac
The Scottish west coast is about to see the introduction of two new double-ended ropax ferries being built in the UK for ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (Calmac). The first of these newbuildings,Coruisk, will run on the 30-minute Mallaig to Armadale route on the Isle of Skye while the other ferry, ...
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Spanish pair for Algeriea Ferries
After many years of delays, Algerian state-owned ship operator ENTMV (Enterprise Nationale de Transports Maritimes de Voyageurs) placed an order last year for two traditional ropax ferries with Spanish shipbuilder Izar. The ferry operator issued its initial tender for the ships in 1998 and AESA (which merged with Bazan to ...
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Spanish pair for Algeriea Ferries
After many years of delays, Algerian state-owned ship operator ENTMV (Enterprise Nationale de Transports Maritimes de Voyageurs) placed an order last year for two traditional ropax ferries with Spanish shipbuilder Izar. The ferry operator issued its initial tender for the ships in 1998 and AESA (which merged with Bazan to ...
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Hainan rail link launched
China?s first-ever rail ferry service was launched in January with the introduction of Yue Hai Tie I Hao. The rail ferry was purpose built to link the mainland railway terminal at Zhanjiang, in Guangdong Province, and Haikou, the provincial capital of Hainan Island. The 14,381g newbuilding, designed by Maric (Marine ...
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SARS hits Star
Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has spread from southern China to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore and as far away as Canada. It has killed over 100 people and infected thousands. Asian cruise line Star Cruises has been affected. In early April, two of its crew on SuperStar ...
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Sailing the seven seas with Dolphin pods
In February this year the Italian shipbuilder T. Mariotti delivered the 754 passenger cruiseship Seven Seas Voyager to Radisson Seven Seas Cruises (RSSC). It is the world?s second all balcony-suite vessel, following another RSSC ship Seven Seas Mariner. More interesting from a technical standpoint though is that the 41,500g Seven ...
