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Certificates for sale
A set of four basic STCW certificates and a seaman`s book for can be bought for $75 on the streets of a major seafarer supplying country. A researcher for Cardiff University`s Seafarers International Research Centre actually purchased the items. What is even more shocking says the centre`s director, Professor Tony ...
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Spain bets on rise in tanker demand
Spain`s state-owned shipbuilder is staking its future on rising world demand for modern gas and oil tankers and its ability to find benefits in marrying naval and civil shipbuilding technologies. Izar - pronounced "ithar" and meaning "to hoist" in Spanish - was created late last year with the acquisition by ...
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Countering the piracy threat
Four Australian ex-Special Air Services officers have combined their experience to combat rising piracy attacks in Asian waters. Osprey and Asset Management (OAM) partners David Harper, Peter Towndrow, Bob Hunter and John Gartner have devised an anti-piracy battle plan that draws on 90 years of collective experience in military and ...
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Incat into the US
Incat`s recently sealed joint venture with Bollinger Shipyards is primarily focused on the US military market, but the company sees strong commercial potential too. "As the military craft design is based on its commercial counterpart it is reasonable to expect added interest from the commercial market," explains Robert Clifford, chairman ...
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EPA to regulate emissions
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to introduce ship emission regulations by 2003. The regulations will seek to impose limits on nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from large marine engines, and are the result of the recent settlement of a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund on behalf ...
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Millennium gremlins strike again
An electric motor operating a Mermaid pod on Celebrity Cruises` Millennium has suffered a breakage in a pole connection. Repairs were affected as soon as the rupture was discovered meaning no voyages were cancelled. However the work hasn`t fully cured the problem leaving Celebrity with an under-performing ship whose attainable ...
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Cyber-Erection at Daewoo
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co has initiated use of Cyber-Erection, its new 3D digital measuring and simulation program. It says the technology enabled greater precision when it was used for the first time last November to help join the heavy fore and aft sections of a 75,000 dwt bulk ...
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Second apartment ship ordered
ResidenSea has placed a NOK2.5 billion ($287 million) order with Norway`s Fosen Mek Verksteder for a second apartment cruise ship. Delivery is planned for the end of 2003. At 50,000GT it is slightly larger than the first ship, The World, which is scheduled for delivery at the end of the ...
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Kvaerner to upgrade Petrojarl I
Kvaerner, the Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction group, has signed a Letter of Intent with PGS Production AS to undertake modification and upgrade work on the production ship, Petrojarl I. The value of the work will amount to approximately NOK300 million ($34.44 million). The letter of intent came at a convenient ...
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Malta Dry Docks wins first FPSO
Malta Dry Docks (MDD) has been awarded a contract by Brovig-RDS of the UK, for the conversion of the tanker Northia into a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Isis field off the coast of Tunisia. The contract is the first major oil and gas industry project ...
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Two more ferries to get SPS
Intelligent Engineering (IE) in the UK says two more ferries are to be refitted with the Sandwich Plate Systems (SPS) that was first tested aboard P&O`s ferry Pride of Cherbourg in 1999. The company has declined to identify the ships or the shipowner in question, but says that work will ...
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ASRYMAR signs deal with China Shipping
ASRYMAR has been appointed exclusive UK agents for the China Shipping (Europe) Holding Company, representing its six yards in China. China Shipping (Europe) Holding is part of China Industries Company (CIC) which forms part of the China Shipping Group, the second largest ship owner in China. Peter Thornton, Sales & ...
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AHI completes dry-dock
Arab Heavy Industries (AHI) says its new dry-dock was completed and became operational in November. Measuring 175m by 32m, the dry-dock has an extra wide enabling it to accommodate a wide range of vessels of up to 30,000dwt. AHI says the new dry-dock will be complemented by two dock cranes ...
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Brazilian yard wins FPSO conversion
The Brazilian subsidiary of Keppel FELS Limited, FELS Setal SA, has signed a Letter of Intent with Halliburton Productos Ltd for the conversion of the tanker Stena Concordia into a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility. Mr Tong Chong Heong, managing director of Keppel FELS said winning the contract ...
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Successful debut for `Intelligent Engine`
After ten years of dedicated development Bow Cecil, Odfjell`s 37,500 dwt chemical carrier, has become the first ship to be powered by an `Intelligent Engine`. Converting the MAN B&W 6L60MC main engine was from camshaft operation to fully computerised fuel injection and valve operation. Work took 1½ hours while the ...
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Carnival Spirit has first `smokeless` diesel
When Carnival Spirit emerges from Kvaerner Masa-Yards in late spring 2001it will be powered by the cruise industry`s first "smokeless" diesel engines, says Wrtsil. At first only two of the ship`s six Wartsila 9L46D units will be modified with the new EnviroEngines technology. EnviroEngines use common rail fuel injection, giving ...
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Sulzer secures RTA84T orders
Defects in the bedplates of some Sulzer RTA84 engines has not prevented owners placing new orders for the power unit. Last year 24 orders were placed for the 84T (for installation in VLCCs and ULCCs to be built in China, Japan and Korea) and will bring the total to 78 ...
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MAN B&W receive 500th 32/40 order
Recently MAN B&W has taken the 500th order for a 32/40 engine taking the total output for the range to almost two million kW. The L32/40 was launched in September 1992 with the vee versions added two years later taking the maximum output to 8,640kW (11,580 bhp).
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Cylindrical cooler for high boost
To cope with higher boost pressures on medium-speed engines up to 14.7MW, Honeywell Serck has introduced a cylindrical design of charge air cooler. The cylindrical design gives better mechanical integrity than a box, permits better air manifolding and is easier to package, says the company. It is a shell and ...
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Reefers get intelligent engines
Two Sulzer 7RT-flex60C engines have been ordered as main propulsion for a pair of 13,200 dwt containerised reefer ships being built by Viana do Castelo in Portugal for Agricultural Export Co. The 16,520 kW (22,148 bhp), 114 rev/min engines will use the common rail injection system, and give the vessels ...
