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Volvo Penta diesels for Brazil
Volvo Penta Brazil has received orders for auxiliary engines and complete genset systems from two shipyards in Rio de Janeiro which build and refit ships under contract to Companhia de Navega??o Norsul, one of Brazil?s largest privately-owned shipping companies.The Volvo Penta order comprises 15 34-litre auxiliary diesel engines, three 16-litre ...
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NewsShiprepair boom
Cosco Corp. Singapore expects its shiprepair business to account for about 70% of total revenue in the next 1 or 2 years after its recent acquisition of a shipyard in China, company President Ji Hai Sheng said recently. Cosco Corp., a unit of China's largest shipping conglomerate, COSCO Shipping Co. ...
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A question of rules
By now, most are aware of what exactly the new generation of classification rules for oil tankers are. The new Common Rules for Tankers are aimed at establishing a global standard, increased structural durability, longer asset life and the elimination of competition on minimum structural scantlings. The intention is also ...
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Rules that need tweaking
While most participants in the single-hull versus double-hull debate accept that a second hull is not a panacea, it is acknowledged that it is an acceptable and cost effective way of preventing oil spills in certain types of tanker incidents, such as low energy groundings or collisions. Lloyd?s Register says, ...
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Meeting today?s need
To meet the future legislative emission limits with today?s medium and high-speed diesel engines, all engine manufacturers have to consider electronic controlled injection systems, which allow optimised combustion and engine control close to the limits with best possible efficiency.In Germany there are two independent specialists developing standard and advanced injection ...
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Optimum and innovative propulsion
Expert knowledge is said to be responsible for the increasing popularity of Bakker Sliedrecht?s diesel-electric propulsion systems. The company is acutely aware of the sharp increase in the application of electric drive systems for main and auxiliary propulsion systems, and for bow- and sternthrusters, particularly with the advance of low ...
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Innovation and invention
On 12 September 2004, ESAB celebrated its centenary. "The world is now a vastly different place than the one Oscar Kjellberg, ESAB?s founder, knew at the start of the last century," says Jon Templeman, the company?s CEO.He explains that at that time heavy steel manufacturing was centred on Europe and ...
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Hyundai wins massive LNG order
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has won an order to build eight LNG carriers for BP Shipping of the United Kingdom. The gas carriers will be in the 155,000 cubic meter class and will cost a total of $1.5 billion. Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, formerly Halla Heavy Industries and now a ...
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Smooth Swath ferries
Two SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) vessels, designed by BMT Nigel Gee and Associates, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology (BMT), and built in Holland at the Vlissingen yard of the Damen Shipyards Group for the Province of Zeeland, entered service in April this year. Designed to offer a ...
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From science fiction to science fact
As one of five strategic programmes in DNV Research, nanotechnology is a new area of high interest and relevance for the classification society. "We?ve been aware of this for at least two or three years but we started looking at it in earnest this year due to some internal reorganisation," ...
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Extended power range for Scania engines
Scania, the Swedish engine manufacturer, recently introduced a 12-litre marine engine equipped with Scania's unique electronic engine management system, Scania EMS. Now the power range is extended to meet customer and environmental demands. The new power range starts at 221 kW at 1800 r/min and goes all the way up ...
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Maintenance goes digital
Regulatory responses to marine casualties, which have dictated age limits for ships, have provoked vigorous debate about the issues of age and ship maintenance. While it has been argued that a well maintained ship of age, will often be superior to a poorly maintained younger ship, there has been little ...
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Kongsberg Maritime develops new vapour monitoring system
Kongsberg Maritime of Norway is launching a new vapour monitoring system designed to meet and exceed the SOLAS standards for cargo tank venting, purging, gas freeing and ventilation. The SOLAS regulation specifies a system consisting of pressure transducers in each tank with a monitoring system in the control room, which ...
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Norwegian stealth taps the deep
Norway's maritime research and construction sectors are successfully exploiting a paradox ? they are selling silence to niche market on a global scale at healthy profit margins.The vessel design is being pushed forward by Skipteknisk AS, consulting naval architects and marine engineers in Ålesund Norway and the latest research vessel ...
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GL starts electronic data exchange with the maritime industry
Germanischer Lloyd (GL) is introducing a system of electronic data exchange with shipyards, engine manufacturers and other suppliers in order to accelerate the plan approval of ships and their equipment. The international classification society is testing the new communication procedures in a pilot project with notable clients from Asia and ...
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River cruise innovation
The first of six innovative river cruise vessels is currently under construction at Neptun Stahlbau GmbH in Rostock-Warnemuende, a subsidiary of Meyer Werft Papenburg, and scheduled for delivery end of May 2005. The shipowner is Premicon AG, Munich, founded in 1998 and focused on operation of river cruise vessels and ...
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Safer high-speed craft on the horizon
Although maligned for its excessive and unnecessary bureaucratic interference, the EU does support worthwhile projects such as the development of safer ?high speed craft? (HSC), i.e. ships with design speeds of well over 30 knots. The need for this project was derived from EU?s attempts to alleviate congestion on the ...
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VT calls for UK shipbuilding shake-up
VT Group has added its voice to calls to restructure the UK shipbuilding industry while at the same time ruling out a bid for the Clydeside operations owned by rival BAE Systems. Chief executive Paul Lester described the current ship-building set-up as "crazy", complaining that something had to change to ...
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US to build Taiwan subs
The US plans to build eight diesel-electric submarines for Taiwan as part of an $18 billion arms package, a decision likely to irritate China, which has opposed the sale of weapons to Taipei. This decision ends years of speculation about who would build the submarines. Although the USA no ...
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Better by design
A DOR (Design, Operation, and Regulation) for Safety ? or in short SAFEDOR ? is the name of an ambitious initiative towards an integrated project within the 6th Framework Program (FP6) of the European Commission. The aim is to enhance safety through innovation and to strengthen the competitiveness of the ...
