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Rolls Royce
A pulling version of the Aquamaster azimuthing thruster is being developed by Rolls-Royce. The unit uses a mechanical drive in a `C` configuration to take the power to the propeller. Units up to 6MW will be available and the pulling design has an efficiency advantage of 4-8% for ships with ...
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Thruster challenge for Portland
The latest addition to United States Lines fleet of cruise ships, the 17-year old Patriot (formerly Nieuw Amsterdam), has completed a major refit at Portland Shipyard, has been re-flagged by the US Coast Guard, and entered service in Hawaii in December. Perhaps the most interesting and technically challenging aspect of ...
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Owner takes diesel-electric option
Rami Jokela, area sales manager of ABB Marine, explains the process behind the selection of diesel-electric propulsion for the chemical tanker Turchese. The 12,000 dwt, 13,800m3 capacity chemical tanker Turchese, delivered to Finbeta Spa from the Ancona yard of Mario Morini earlier this year, has been equipped with a diesel ...
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Seeds of potential in pods
Podded propulsion has proven itself and is winning converts. When the chairman and chief executive officer of the world?s largest cruise operator, Carnival?s Micky Arison, says that all its future newbuildings will have podded propulsion ? that is a big vote of confidence. Festival and Radisson have joined the pod ...
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Bearings in tailspin
Aurora?s untimely return to Southampton put tailshaft bearings in the headlines again. The tailshaft bearing problems causing Aurora to abandon its maiden voyage is the latest in a series of high profile failures. Twin propeller vessels have figured highly in the casualty list, and while Aurora has whitemetal bearings, others ...
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Fast monohulls enter Greek ferry market
With renewal of the Greek domestic ferry fleet gaining momentum, monohull fast ferries join multihulls on the list of newbuilding orders. If anybody in the Greek ferry business has been dozing, they may have got a rude awakening last month when Maritime Company of Lesvos (NEL) put its new Corsaire ...
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Harder competition brings harder times
Two years ago, the Spanish orderbook looked very healthy, but the situation is a lot less rosey today. In early 1998 Spanish shipbuilders were boasting a collective orderbook at a 15-year high, with 147 vessels on order, totalling 1,209,948cgt. Excluding 51 fishing vessels, always the mainstay of the Spanish orderbook, ...
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Diverse solutions satisfy electrical power demands
Generating electrical power at sea imposes challenges on prime mover, alternator and system designers. Electrical power demands on ships were traditionally met by auxiliary diesel gensets running on marine diesel oil. Higher fuel prices and advances in fuel treatment and injection systems undermined the viability of such sets and ...
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Consolidation ? the way forward?
The role of class is again under intense scrutiny, particularly in Europe, where pressure for ever-higher standards of shipping is the result of the Erika sinking. Casualties and financial problems aside, Class faces major challenges as it attempts to make greater use of risk-based methodologies in the establishment and implementation ...
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Pivotal debate
The latest Motor Ship Propulsion Conference in Amsterdam was attended by over 200 people and touched on some controversial subjects. Germanischer Lloyd?s Hans Jacob Gatjens chaired the conference and introduced speakers giving papers ranging from engine problems to podded propulsion systems, as well as impending emissions legislation. Opening the conference ...
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Gas used to power ferry
A low Nox emmission, gas powered car/passenger ferry looks as though it could be the first of many such vessels in Norway. The first roro/passenger ferry in the world to be powered by LNG entered service with Norwegian domestic operator More og Romsdal Fylkesbatar (MRF) in January. The vessel`s hull ...
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Yards seize Windows of opportunity
Computer-aided design, engineering and manufacturing systems have become an integral part of shipbuilding operations worldwide over the past decade. Investment in CAD/CAE/CAM technology has now spread to the smaller shipyards, or those yards in areas where technological sophistication has not tended to be a priority, in order for them to ...
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Benefits brought on the wind
A project led by Danish consulting naval architects Pelmatic Knud E Hansen could breathe new life into the wind ship concept. In the right circumstances - wind-assisted commercial vessels could be significantly more fuel efficient, and produce less pollution than mechanically driven ships. This are the findings of the Phase ...
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Bulker loss reopens debate
The 69,120 dwt Leader L which broke up and sank in under one minute with the loss of 18 of its 31 crew, has reopened the debate about structural failures of bulkers. While there are reports of the vessel striking an underwater object some time earlier, those in the industry ...
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RINa clears itself
RINa`s report into the loss of Erika concludes that the class society has "substantially complied with the applicable rules, guidelines and procedures." It says the loss of the vessel was caused by the mishandling of an initial crack in the hull below the waterline leading to progressive structural failure and ...
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Koreans close orderbook
As shipowners try to place newbuilding orders ahead of expected price rises, Daewoo and Hyundai have closed their books, as their current backlogs will keep the yards busy to 2003. Both yards say that 2003 is too far ahead to quote for newbuildings. Daewoo has over 80 merchant vessels (totalling ...
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Growth prediction
Rolls-Royce is looking to its newly enlarged marine systems division to drive group growth as prospects in its core civil aerospace markets slow. Marine division managing director Bob Sunerton said that following its £500 million acquisition late last year of British defence group Vickers and its Ulstein marine divisions, Rolls? ...
