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Poseidon Simulation AS receives DNV approval
Poseidon Simulation AS has received Det Norske Veritas Product Certificate for GMDSS simulation, Class A. The certificate guarantees that the simulator system gives the capability to simulate a realistic environment. The system consists of 15 PC-based learner stations networked with two real equipment installations simulating Skanti?s GMDSS equipment. The company ...
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Primar signs navy supplier model agreement
The Royal Danish Navy has signed an agreement with Primar ENC covering the delivery of official ENCs. It involves a navy supplier model, designed to allow the download of all charts and updates directly from Primar. The navy supplier office, which is in charge of chart folios for the Danish ...
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Transas wins Far Eastern GMDSS simulators order
Transas Marine Pacific has won an order for a networked GMDSS simulator for the Pertamina Marine Education and Training Centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. In co-operation with its local agent, Panorama Timur Jaya, the company will supply a TGS4000 simulator system comprising 12 PC-based trainee workstations, two mini GMDSS consoles and ...
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Veripos launches West African DGPS service
Veripos has established a new Inmarsat-based Differential GPS service for West Africa, Veripos-I, which, it says, will complement an existing HF area network and provide two independent reference facilities for continuous positioning for offshore applications. Two land-based reference stations have been established at Luanda and Cabinda in Angola while a ...
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Shipbuilding websites to co-operate
ZoHakuWeb.com and Tribon.com are in talks to see how information can be accessed from each other?s websites. ZoHakuWeb?s business-to-business site is mainly focused on the technical information exchange between shipyards and marine equipment suppliers. It covers online catalogues, design support, application service provider functions and digitised purchase orders. Currently about ...
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Compact terminal from Thrane & Thrane
Thrane & Thrane has launched the Capsat Fleet77 satellite communication terminal which uses the new Inmarsat Fleet service. The company says it is smaller and lighter than conventional terminals measuring 85cm high and 84cm in diameter and weighs 25kg. The unit offers both voice and data traffic via either 64 ...
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Guarded optimism
Australia?s shipbuilders hope to chart smoother seas next year after weathering a year of turbulent waters. The past year has been marked by redundancies at major yards and reduced profits, as the global downturn in demand for fast ferries caused big gaps in the order books for builders on both ...
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LSE-powered ship delivered
The first ship with a Mitsubishi UE LSE engine has been delivered to its owner. Pacific International Lines of Singapore took delivery of the 6UEC52LSE-powered 1,098 TEU feeder container ship Kota Hakim from Japanese yard Shin Kochi Jyuko on September 26. The 10,230kW engine, manufactured at the Nagasaki factory of ...
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MAN tests upgrade
MAN B&W is testing an upgraded version of its 480mm bore medium-speed engine. A spokesman for the company confirmed that the prototype model is undergoing long-cycle endurance tests in Augsburg, Germany. He says the improved version includes "decisive design changes". The Motor Ship understands these include strengthened pumps and cam ...
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Queen won?t smoke
All four of the diesel engines on Cunard Line?s Queen Mary 2 will have smokeless common-rail fuel injection technology fitted. With the remainder of the ship?s power coming from two gas turbines, the ship should be able to operate without emitting visible smoke at all times. Wärtsilä plans to ship ...
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Stretchy ceramic
Japanese researchers have developed a superplastic ceramic that will stretch to over 10 times its original length before breaking, reports the journal Nature. It is possible such a material could be used to help improve engine performance. The ceramic consists of zirconium and aluminium oxides and magnesium aluminate. It has ...
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Water treatment aid
Unitor has launched a software package to help engineers manage the treatment of boiler and engine cooling water. Unitor Electronic Rapid Response is a CD-based package in which water treatment test results are recorded and analysed. It provides instant feedback when results fall outside pre-defined criteria.
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Tunnel fin equals less ballast
A 30,000 dwt chemical tanker under construction at the Japanese shipyard of Shin Kurushima will be installed with a ?tunnel fin? when it is delivered to local shipping company Iino Kaiun Kaisha at the end of 2002. The fin, which is shaped like a semi-elliptical long tunnel fitted on the ...
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Green win for Wärtsilä
Wärtsilä?s first environmental report was ranked the joint best separate environmental report in 2001 in a competition held in Finland annually to judge the environmental and social responsibility of Finnish companies reporting. The report, written in English, covers Wärtsilä?s research and development activities and factory operations and their environmental impacts. ...
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Fast ferry order
Rodriquez has secured a contract for an 83m Aquastrada-design monohull fast ferry. The Sicilian-based shipbuilder confirms it is "well underway on construction" of the aluminium- hulled ship at its Pietra Ligure shipyard in north-west Italy. The fast ferry is scheduled for delivery to an undisclosed owner in Autumn 2002. It ...
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Plugging the gap in maintenance
Lloyd?s Register has alerted ship owners to the problem of neglecting plugs on fuel delivery systems. In the worst cases, the neglect can result in machinery space fires. The classification society says that the loosening of threaded plugs has resulted in fuel spraying onto hot surfaces, such as an exhaust ...
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Alerting owners to the sound of safe evacuation
The independent trials of what is a major advantage in passenger ship safety were completed at Ardossan in Scotland last week. Caledonian MacBrayne allowed one of its ferries to be used for the trials, which were conducted under the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency and University of Strathclyde supervision. The ...
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Daedong Shipbuilding is reborn with STX help
STX Corporation has expanded into the shipbuilding business with an equity injection of $77 million into Daedong Shipbuilding. STX, formerly called Ssangyong Heavy Industries, is a licensed builder of MAN B&W, SEMT Pielstick, Niigata Engineering and Hanshin Diesel marine engines. Daedong Shipbuilding had been under court management since 1997. During ...
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Flying Dolphins for Korea?
George Patakos, ceo of Greek ferry company Hellas Flying Dolphins (formerly Minoan Flying Dolphins), has confirmed the company is close to ordering two high speed conventional ferries with an option for two more vessels. Talks are said to involve Scandinavian and Korean yards. The company has a fleet of 74 ...
