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Signum upgrade
ExxonMobil Marine Lubricants has improved its Signum Oil Analysis web site to make it easier for ship operators to monitor the condition of engines, equipment and lubricants by testing used oil samples. The site upgrades improve access to ExxonMobil technical experts, according to the company. New features include enhanced e-mail ...
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Largest LNG
Leif Höegh and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines have together ordered the world?s largest LNG carrier. The order, placed with Mitsubishi HI, is for a 145,000m3 vessel featuring a Moss Rosenberg spherical tank containment system. The vessel is due for delivery at the end of 2005.
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Australian stevedore implements box track and trace system
P&O Ports Australia will push to implement sophisticated tracking and tracing systems at its Australian container handling facilities in 2002. P&O Ports general manager for container handling Tim Blood says technologies equipped to track containers "for virtually every inch of their journey" are essential for maximising just in time manufacturing ...
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WIG classification completed
Flightship has completed the final phase of a lengthy three year classification process with Germanischer Lloyd for its futuristic wing in ground effect (WIG) craft. Flightship Australia managing director John Leslie says the classification of the eight seater FS8 has been extremely complex and required many negotiations of shipping standards ...
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Inmarsat launches Fleet F77
Inmarsat has released a new maritime service, Fleet F77, that meets the IMOs latest GMDSS criteria by providing emergency voice prioritisation and pre-emption. The function ensures that high priority communications aren?t blocked by lower priority communications. This applies to both outgoing and incoming communications. Distress calls pre-empt all other communications, ...
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Largest vessel returns to Dubai
The 564,000dwt ULCC Jahre Viking, the world?s largest ship, has completed its fifth Special Survey at Dock Number 2 at Dubai Drydocks. Jahre Viking entered dock on October 15, and left, on schedule on November 14. The fifth Special Survey involved extensive steel renewals, a full painting programme, pipework and ...
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UECC upgrading older car carriers
Car carrier specialist UECC is seeking to extend the service life of three of its older vessels by up to 15 years. It is doing this via a major upgrading of Autocarrier, Autotransporter, and Autoline. The ships? bow thrusters, propellers, boilers, fans, some steelwork, switchboard, automation and electronic equipment plus ...
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Indian ship modernised in China
Shipping Corporation of India?s cargo vessel Vishvakarma has completed a tweendeck hatch cover conversion at Chengxi Shipyard (part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation). Deterioration in the condition of the operating system for all the tweendeck panels was such that operation eventually became possible only by wire and crane, the emergency ...
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FSL overseas
Fleet Support Limited (FSL), the British ship repair organisation, has taken steps to move into the international ship repair market and has appointed overseas agents in Norway, Denmark, Greece, and Cyprus. Discussions are also being held with potential agents in Germany.
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Underwater coating repair
Jones Marine is continuing development of its JML 2000 underwater coating system, with an application containing anti-fouling properties among its goals. Talking to The Motor Ship, Jones Marine managing director Mike Jones said the JML 2000 system is designed to effect repairs to areas of small-scale coating damage, for instance ...
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Lloyd?s Register adopts a listening approach
It is strange how the funding for technological advances is acquired and how long it can take for some technologies to be accepted. A case in point is BALRUE, a new generation acoustic emission monitoring system developed jointly by Lloyd?s Register, Airbus (a BAE Systems and EADS joint company) and ...
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Chinese getting it together
Chinese shipyards will be capable of competing with South Korean yards on equal terms after 2005, according to a new report released by the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade and the commerce ministry. The report says that South Korean shipbuilders should expand their R&D investment if they are ...
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Gotland pace
Chinese shipyards don?t just build simple ships. Yes, they build a lot of bulk carriers and product tankers. But there is also a level of expertise at certain yards that allows them to build more sophisticated vessels. The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has earmarked certain yards for the development ...
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Shanhaiguan builds wind turbine ship
Faced with dwindling world fossil fuel reserves, energy companies are exploiting alternative sources at an increasing pace. The latest development in the wind-mill energy farm concept is the construction of offshore facilities. And UK-based engineering firm, Mayflower Energy Ltd, has come up with a practical solution to the problems associated ...
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Handling all
The first of a new series of heavy-lift multi-purpose containerships under construction in China has been delivered. The vessels, ordered by German-based Schoeller Holdings, are being built in Xiamen (8 + 4 options), Jinling (2), Dalian (6) and Shanghai (2) shipyards with deliveries over the next three years. All 18 ...
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Time to act on safety
Legislation that eventually caught up with tankers will inevitably catch up with bulkers. But will we have to wait until a bulker pollutes a French beach with bunkers before there are any serious design changes legislated? The unfortunate thing, or fortunate depending on your point of view, is that bulkers ...
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Remote control for deck machinery
Valued for cost-effective, reliable and above all safe operation, increasingly mooring and anchoring equipment is likely to be automated and acquired as part of an integrated package from a single manufacturer. Already a major supplier of many individual items of equipment such as low voltage switchboards and other items such ...
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Re-conversion restores cruise ferry role
A former cruise liner that re-entered service earlier this year with DFDS Seaways has assumed the mantle of Denmark?s largest cruise ferry after a conversion project which included installation of a hoistable car deck and flood control doors. MacGregor has played a key role in the conversion of DFDS Seaways? ...
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August Rodin enters service
SeaFrance Rodin, the largest ferry ever to operate on the Dover to Calais route, recently entered service on the English Channel. Its entry into service heralds a new phase in trade on this highly competitive crossing. At 185m long and 27.7m wide, the 34,000g newbuilding is capable of transiting the ...
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The advantages of AdhFAST
Adhesives have been around a long time but because of prejudices they have not been fully utilised, particularly in the marine sector, despite the fact that they have some obvious advantages. Fire is one of the biggest problems in the ship repair industry and welding is usually to blame, so ...
