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Sloppy mess faces owners
Ship operators are increasingly seen as a prime target for tough environmental regulations, especially in the USA. One particular challenge is the demand to segregate out hazardous wastes. Unfortunately such actions depend on the definition of hazardous waste, and this is impacting on operations, especially those of cruise ships. While ...
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A year in pancake time
With the market flat in all sectors companies in the tanker trade are looking much further ahead for an upturn. The picture painted by charterers and owners is bleak. There are no bright spots anywhere in the tanker trades, although some companies are slightly more optimistic than others. Although there ...
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UK yard delivers largest Tricat
The UK yard of FBM Marine has delivered its largest ever Tricat fast ferry to Greek owner Agapitos Lines. The 53m Sea Speed 1 is an elongated version of FBM?s well-proven TriCat 45, the first of which was built in 1995. Last year FBM built a TriCat 45, Athina 2004 ...
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Keeping up traditions
Currently around $7 billion of vessels are under construction or on order world-wide for Norwegian interests, including nearly a hundred ships and a number of mobile offshore platforms. The global Norwegian merchant fleet amounts to around 1,600 vessels and 52.5 million dwt, and covers a broad spectrum of ship types. ...
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Freight duo enter North Sea service
The first of a pair of 20,000 gross roro freight ferries was delivered in July to Bore by Aker Finnyard. Both Norsky and sistership Norstream, to be delivered in October, are being chartered from Finnish owner Oy Rettig ab Bore by P&O North Sea Ferries for service on its Zeebrugge ...
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Package gives a good deal
Nine months after the genset engine made its debut, the propulsion version of the L27/38 has been launched by MAN B&W Alpha. At the same time the company has introduced a dedicated range of modular gearboxes and a new engine/gearbox monitoring system. At about 2MW, the 6L27/38 with its gearbox ...
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Japanese yards set to restructure
Japanese shipbuilders say the problems they face because of continuing competition from Korea and China, and premature ordering from many shipowners in the past 12-18 months, are being compounded by the value of the Yen, and that spin-offs and mergers among the major yards are inevitable. Against this backdrop, the ...
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Coatings legislation moves ahead
Although certain interest groups have endeavoured to put a different interpretation on the results of the proceedings, it is clear that the most recent meeting of the IMO`s marine environment protection committee (MEPC) has moved the industry closer towards a global ban on tin-containing antifoulings. Despite claims to the contrary ...
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EU reconsiders yard subsidies
In November EU industry ministers have to decide whether shipyard aid should stop at the end of 2000. The production subsidies will stop unless the current legislation is changed. Ahead of the meeting the EU is gathering information on the funding of shipyards world-wide and especially in Korea. If there ...
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Dalian breaks into VLCC market
China?s Dalian New Shipyard has won an order from National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) to build five 300,000 dwt VLCCs. The order marks the first occasion that Dalian New Shipyard (or any other Chinese yard) has built VLCCs, and provides continued evidence of the growing technological sophistication of Chinese shipbuilders. ...
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HHI expands orderbook
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Korea has won a five-ship order from Bernard Schulte in Germany for 2,500 TEU container ships. Due to be delivered between early 2001 and June 2002, the newbuildings will be chartered to P&O Nedlloyd. Five more ships are the subject of options in the contract. ...
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Cosco contracts shared by KHI
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) in Japan plans to share an order for seven post-panamax container ships from China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco) with Natong Shipyard in China, the joint venture between KHI and Cosco. Under the terms of the seven-ship deal, which also includes an option for three more vessels, ...
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Repeat order for Gdynia
Israeli shipowner Ray Shipping has ordered a second 6,260 unit, 20,600 gt pure car carrier at Poland?s Gdynia shipyard. Scheduled for delivery in 2001, the newbuilding will be equipped with a Sulzer 7RTA62U main engine.
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Struggling yard wins order lifeline
Former East German shipyard Volkswerft Stralsund has won an order for a quartet of 2,900 TEU container ships, but has declined to name the ships? owner. Due to be delivered in 2001, the newbuildings provide much needed work for the yard, which is close to completing a pair of 2,500 ...
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Rolls-Royce clinch FastShip deal
Rolls-Royce has reached a $1 billion agreement to supply 25 marine Trent gas turbines to FastShip for propulsion of the operator?s high speed container ships. Rated at 47.5MW (64,580 bhp), the turbines will be used in simple cycle, giving fuel consumption of 204 g/kWh and service speeds up to 40 ...
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Wärtsilä NSD order
Ody: Recently Wärtsilä NSD has secured orders for 25 Sulzer engines totalling 525MW, along with a host of medium-speed engines. The low-speed units include a 6RTA72 (16.4MW), two eight- and three seven-cylinder RTA62U (83MW), four 6RTA58T-B (51MW), eight 7RTA48T -B(166.4MW), and three 6RTA48T (24.5MW). In addition there is an order ...
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MAN B&W introduces Alpha Clutcher
MAN B&W is applying for a patent on a system which can be used to disengage the engine from the propeller shaft to accommodate a power take in (pti) emergency drive. The basis of the system is a number of tapered pins locking split flanges together to transmit the drive. ...
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ABB powers Star Cruises
German shipyard Meyer Werft has ordered Azipod propulsion pods from ABB for the two 91,000g, 2,800 passengers cruise ships it is building for Star Cruises. Each vessel will be fitted with two 19MW (25,830 bhp) units each fitted with a 5.8m diameter propeller to give a top cruising speed of ...
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Syncrolift wins Panama canal contract
Syncrolift has been awarded a $1.2 million contract from The Panama Canal Commission to study the feasibility of using its Syncrolift technology to assist in moving ships through the Panama Canal. The study will look at using a Syncrolift to transfer ocean-going ships between Lake Gatun, at an elevation of ...
