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Reduced-rate Inmarsat-A
Stratos has re-launched Inmarsat-A services with the inauguration of a fully digital system which it says gives enhanced call quality and data throughput. The company is also offering over 40 per cent off the standard Inmarsat-A commercial rates.Stratos has also converted to 25kHz-channel spacing as opposed to the former 50kHz-channel ...
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First ISO 9002 yard in Batam
Labroy Shipbuilding & Engineering has been awarded ISO 9002 accreditation by ABS. It is the first shipyard in Batam, Indonesia to receive this certification.Labroy repaired a record number of non-group vessels in 1999, having commissioned its 30,000 dwt capacity floating dock Venture Dock 2 in January. A total of 204 ...
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Cadiz wins conversion
AESA repair yard Astilleros de Cadiz has started converting the 7,000 dwt supply vessel Viking Lady into a cable layer for Norwegian owner Eidesvik & Co.The vessel is being lengthened from 92.4m to 105.6m loa by the addition of a midbody section. A new accommodation block will be fitted and ...
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HVS repairs crane barge
Hyundai-Vinashin Shipyard (HVS) has repaired the 9,322 dwt crane barge Hoang Sa for Vietnamese-Russian joint-venture company Vietsovpetro.Work included cargo crane overhaul, approximately 400t of steel renewals, hull blasting and coating and the overhaul of electric motors. Repairs were contracted to take 75 days, including 20 days in drydock.This was HVS?s ...
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Lisnave diversification
In spite of a tough market Lisnave managed to attract 132 vessels to its yards for repair in 1999; a 12% increase on 1998. Total deadweight tonnage increased by 5% to over 9 million dwt.The year was marked by successful diversification into markets other than its traditional tanker and bulk ...
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Celsius sells Gotaverken
Sweden?s Celsius group has sold its wholly-owned Gothenburg repair yard Gotaverken Cityvarvet to the Damen Shipyards Group. "The sale is consistent with Celsius? policy for strategic consolidation," a company statement advised, "and as result Gotaverken Cityvarvet gains a financially solid owner with a long term investment perspective." Celsius? other commercial ...
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Philippine yards target international work
1999 pre-tax profit at restructured Keppel Philippines Marine improved by 20% to P93 million ($2.27 million). Revenue was up by over 90% to P774 million ($18.9 million), as a result of the acquisition of Keppel Cebu Shipyard.Keppel Batangas and Keppel Cebu both recorded an increase in repair activity. The number ...
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New bulb at Dorbyl
Container vessel MSC Giovanna went into Dorbyl?s Durban yard for damage repairs following a collision with bulk carrier Decurion off Cape Town in January.The container vessel suffered severe damage to the bulbous bow. A significant section of the bulb has been cropped almost all the way back to the collision ...
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Big, and getting bigger
A procession of increasingly larger post panamax newbuildings enter liner service, with more on order.The first of five 5,500 TEU post-panamax container ships, all with completion dates this year, has been delivered by Kvaerner Warnow Werft (KWW), Germany, to P&O Nedlloyd.These ships are the largest ever built in Germany in ...
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Baby smooth
The polymer commonly used in the making of teats for baby bottles lies at the heart of Jotun?s latest launch.As environmental awareness has grown, so have restrictions on a number of different substances. One compound that is on the way out is the use of TBT in hull coatings. Should ...
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Shipowners set steady course
Japanese shipowners are finding the strong yen is preventing them gaining from the recovery in trade.Figures just released from the Japanese Ministry of Transport do not paint too glowing a picture of the country?s shipping activities. Having hit 100 million deadweight in 1997, by mid-1988 the Japanese fleet had lost ...
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Amsterdam bound
This year?s Motor Ship Marine Propulsion Conference takes place in Amsterdam on March 29 and 30.This year?s Marine Propulsion Conference will examine the key issues affecting marine propulsion today, with presentations from all sides of the industry, ensuring that the two-day meeting will be of great value to anyone involved ...
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The world?s largest trailing suction hopper dredger, Jan de Nul?s Vasco da Gama, built at German shipyard Thyssen Nordseewerke, and is about to start work.With a capacity of 33,000m3; - equivalent to 58,000 dwt ? Vasco da Gama has a hopper approximately 40 per cent larger and carrying capacity approximately ...
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Satellite mobile phone service on countdown
Following a period of financial uncertainty, ICO Global Communications is back on track and poised to launch the first of its 12 satellites.ICO Global Communications, the UK company set up in 1995 to develop a global mobile satellite communications system (previously known as Inmarsat P), has been bailed out of ...
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ABS calls for tougher standards
Following the preliminary report about the loss of Erika, ABS has proposed a range of measures to tighten scrutiny of ageing vessels. "It is quite clear that Erikasank as a result of structural failure," says ABS chairman and CEO, Frank Iarossi.He comments: "Substandard ships continue in service because there are ...
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Shipbuilding talks deadlocked
Negotiations over the actions of Korea?s shipbuilders entered into by the EU and the OECD are both deadlocked. Representatives of the EU and the Korean government met in Seoul to discuss what the Europeans see as anti-competitive practices, but the Korean delegation says the low prices in its yards are ...
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Equasis agreement signed
A database called Equasis that contains safety-related information on the world?s merchant fleet will be accessible on the Internet from May. So far and the European Commission, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Singapore are signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding, while the US Coast Guard and Japan have expressed ...
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Lifejacket approval withdrawn
There has been a wholesale withdrawl of type-approval for the Italian-made Canepa & Campi Artica lifejackets used during the sinking of the fast ferry Sleipner, which resulted in the loss of 19 lives. The lifejackets, which were originally tested and type-approved by RINA in 1997, failed in operation.Based on the ...
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BV joins pursuit of old tankers
BV has issued its own set of proposals to improve safety of old tankers. It echoes ABS?s call for computerised records, and adds that it wants computerised evaluation of the ship?s structure to identify critical areas at each Special Survey.The computerised database would contain thickness measurements, details of coating condition, ...
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More progress on yard sales
Kvaerner has agreed the sale of the Norwegian Fjellstrand shipyards, to an MBO and other local investors for NKr100 million ($12 million) but is still looking for a buyer for the Singaporean yard. Fjellstrand?s two Norwegian yards employ 250 staff, build small car/passenger catamaran ferries, and have revenues of NKr400 ...
