Latest News – Page 1126
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Space saving unit
The latest Omnipure marine sewage treatment process module from Exceltec International Corporation, designed to treat black water effluent from 500 people has a footprint of only 762mm (30 ins) wide and 1,626 mm (64 ins) long. The 15MX process module is skid-mounted and utilised existing shipboard tanks. It has a ...
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Ameron Coatings has launched DSP2, a waterborne inorganic pre-construction primer.
DSP2 combines a blend of metal silicates and zirconium compounds which improve the water resistance and decrease weld porosity compared with other pre-construction primers. It does not contain any Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), and is environmentally compliant, the company says. The primer also provides corrosion protection and enhances the welding ...
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Sensors check weld quality
The latest range of quartz sensors from Kistler Instrument monitor consistent high quality in spot welding applications. The sensors are used in monitoring the electrod force, and the force profile during welding. This type of measurement requires several thousand amps, and quartz sensors are suitable because the results will not ...
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Dual treatment programme
The Drewplex AT dual-treatment program for treating boiler water has been formulated to eliminate heat-reducing scale and deposits caused by excessively hard feedwater, says Drew Marine. Synthetic polymers have been added to the traditional formulation so serve as a reserve agent to reinforce the phosphate program. When there are more ...
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Managing design
The Tribon M1 software recently launched by Kockums Computer Systems allows management and supervisors to have full control of design development. Tribon M1 Design Manager allows the co-ordination of design tasks within and between different design disciplines, the review of progress by compartment, system, and area, or by an individual ...
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Medical procedures package
US company, Maritime Training Services, has produced a 53 min training video and an accompanying 60-page handbook entitled: Medical Emergencies: The Officers? Shipboard Guide. Designed to be used together, the video and handbook coaches the viewer in dealing with the most common medical procedures and emergencies encountered at sea. The ...
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Cosco adopts global system
Cosco has adopted a Global Intelligence System (GNIS) which will enable its ship and shore staff to access worldwide information covering all aspects of safety and commercial efficiency. It will be installed on all of the company?s newbuild vessels, and retrofitting to the existing fleet has already started. Development of ...
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Duplex DPS for ROV
The Marine and Offshore Division of Alstom Drives & Controls (previously known at Cegelec Projects) has won a contract to supply its duplex dynamic positioning system to a remote operated vehicle (ROV) support vessel. To be built at Yantai Raffles yard, China for US owner Tidewater Marine Inc, the 74.5m ...
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Training software update
Maritime Education Sweden has issued version 2.0 of its Maritime Communications GMDSS training software to incorporate changes in IMO regulations. The software is used by deck officers as a preparation for GMDSS courses, and as a refresher afterwards. It is also used by training institutes as a complement to traditional ...
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Monitoring via modem
The Amot Hawk-I Marine pump control system uses a wireless modem to provide the safe monitoring of temperature, pressure, flow and level of all on board pumps, including those located in hazardous areas. The system can be used to sequence multiple pump systems, providing complete control and monitoring from the ...
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Bahamas yard to open January
A new shiprepair yard will commence operations in the Bahamas in January 2000. A 35,000tl, 280 x 35.5m floating dock is already en route to the islands, and a newbuilding order for a second, larger unit will be placed shortly. The new yard, a 60/40 partnership between the Grand Bahamas ...
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Orskov wins cable layer conversion
Orskov Christensens Staalskibvaerft will convert the 9,975g former Scandline roro-passenger ferry Heimdal into a cable layer for new owner Tele Danmark International Marine. The vessel arrives at Orskov?s Frederikshavn yard on September 2 and is due for redelivery on March 1, 2000. On completion the ship will be used for ...
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ISO 9001 for Colombo
Colombo Dockyard has been awarded ISO 9001 certification for ?Design and construction of small and medium crafts, including high speed aluminium crafts, drydocking of ships up to 130,000dwt, and major repair of ships, engineering, engineering project management, manufacture and installation of pressure vessels, piping and heavy engineering structures?. CDL?s QA ...
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Brazilian offshore upgrades
Astromaritima Navegacao, the largest Brazilian offshore vessel owner, is investing $4.5 million in upgrading three of its 55m OSVs. A third engine and second bow thruster unit will be installed on two of the vessels, increasing overall power to 3,205kW (4,300 bhp). The third vessel will be stretched by 9m ...
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KHZ buys from KMI
Keppel Hitachi Zosen (KHZ) has agreed to purchase the shiprepair, shipbuilding and marine related activities of Keppel Marine Industries for S$166.9 million ($98.9 million). The deal covers KMI?s interests in shipbuilder and repairer Keppel Singmarine Dockyard (100 per cent), afloat repairer Eagle Engineering (100 per cent), Keppel UAE-Investment (100 per ...
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Collision ships to Germany
Cruise ship Norwegian Dream and container vessel Ever Decent have both docked in Germany following their widely publicised collision in the English Channel. After emergency repairs were carried out at Dover by A&P, Norwegian Dream proceeded to Lloyd Werft where the damaged bow is being cut away and replaced with ...
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Will Norway win The World?
Having failed to reach an agreement with Nuovi Cantieri Apuania shipyard in Italy, Bahamas-based ResidenSea is believed to be close to concluding a deal with Fosen Mekaniske Verksted shipyard in Norway to build The World, the first of a new type of cruise ship with flats for rent. Fosen is ...
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Check and detect
What is feasible is not necessarily desirable - and monitoring is a case in point. It is possible to monitor almost anything by measuring a combination of factors like vibration, temperatures, pressures, power consumption, resistance, or liquid levels - but do you need to? When does enough information to ensure ...
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Lubrication in cyberspace
The launch of internet services means that Castrol’s marine customers can call up technical and market information from anywhere in the world. Castrol Marine has utilised the internet to upgrade its customer services with the launch of its dedicated website, www.castrolmarine.com. The site provides a raft of on-line services ...
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Two horse chase
Increasingly the future for Spain as an international shipbuilding nation depends on the future of two groups, AESA and Boluda. Although there are shipbuilders in Spain other than AESA and Boluda, either their impact is limited, or they are focused more towards smaller ships and localised industries. Boluda ...
