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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 ...
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Waste water without worries
With regulations getting tougher and pressure from environmental groups increasing it is inevitable that cruise ship owners will have to adopt new technologies in dealing with wastewater.Conformance to IMO / USCG historic standards for treated sewage (black water) is not sufficient to meet the expectations of those responsible for regulating ...
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MOL leads the way with aerodynamic PCTC
The design of the car carrier, other than in terms of sheer size, has altered very little in recent decades but all this has changed with the latest pure car truck carrier (PCTC) recently delivered to the Japanese shipowner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL). In an evolutionary step to improve efficiency ...
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EU phase-out
European Councillors have agreed on proposals for an accelerated phase-out of single-hull tankers. The proposals will enter into force immediately upon the European Parliament issuing approval, expected within months. "I expect this new regulation to enter into force very quickly," says Loyola de Palacio, vice president for transport and energy ...
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State-of-the-art drive technology guarantees efficient land reclamation
Like huge vacuum cleaners, trailer suction hopper dredgers suction-up the sand from the sea bed and empty it into their containers which can hold about 20,000m3. The ship, which with its freight weighs about 30,000t, steams to the area where the new land is to be reclaimed and ejects the ...
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An unconventional docking challenge
Douglas McGowan bought the paddle steamer Waverley from Caledonian MacBrayne in Scotland for the princely sum of £1. He is now retired from Waverley Excursions, but works on a voluntary basis as project communications manager. Waverley is currently alongside at George Prior Engineering at Great Yarmouth in the UK. The ...
