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NewsBritish seaman working 85-hour week
UK seafarers working 'dangerously' long hours: A new study, which surveyed Numast members, and assessed seafarers working on a high-speed ferry, a traditional passenger ferry, a freight ferry and coastal tankers, reveals that many seafarers are working excessive hours. Many are not given the opportunity for six hours of uninterrupted ...
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$80 million fine for overcharging
The Northrop Grumman Corporation has agreed to pay the United States government $80 million to resolve allegations of overcharging and selling the Navy defective military equipment. The government alleged that from 1994 to 1999, Northrop Grumman?s subsidiary Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), charged costs to the state for Independent Research and ...
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Japanese yards win orders for 46 ships during September
Japan?s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport says its shipbuilding companies have orders for 46 ships of 1.9 million GT for September this year. The volume is 165.7 percent more than that of the same month last year in terms of GT.There are 37 cargo ships including 31 bulk carriers, ...
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The Queen to name QM2
Cunard Line is pleased to confirm that Her Majesty The Queen will name the company?s new flagship, Queen Mary 2, at a ceremony to take place in Southampton on Thursday 8 January 2004. His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh will accompany her Majesty. The naming will be a milestone ...
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NewsCruise Passenger Travel Increases by 11 Percent
Cruise lines carried 11 percent more passengers from U.S. ports in the first quarter of 2003 than they did in the same period last year reported the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD). Carnival Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean International maintain the largest market share among the top 10 cruise lines, accounting ...
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NewsLargest heavy lift ship
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard started the conversion work on the Blue Marlin on October 6. It will be reborn as the largest heavylift in the world. Dockwise of the Netherlands ordered the conversion work at the price of $26 million on September last year. The shipbuilder will extend the length of ...
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NewsFresia set for delivery
STX Shipbuilding names a 37,000DWT product carrier ordered from Minos Societe Di Navigazione in Italy on October 8. She is named as Fresia. Ship particulars are 180m long, 32m wide and 16.2m deep with a a speed of 14.5 knots. She will be delivered on October 15.Minos together with Motia ...
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NewsAppledore faces closure
Receivers have ben appointed to the last commercial shipbuilder in England, threatening up to 1,000 jobs. Workers at the Appledore shipyard, North Devon are protesting at impending redundancies. Many are still hopeful that a buyer will be found for the UK?s oldest yard. Receivers from the accounting firm Tenon Recovery ...
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NewsPremuda achieves certification
Premuda, the first Italian shipping company to be publicly listed on the stock exchange, has achieved certification to the quality and environmental standards of ISO 9001-2000 and ISO 14001-1996. The Genoa based operator of tankers, bulk carriers and an offshore production unit has also achieved certification to the voluntary Safety, ...
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New Cunarder passes sea trials in style
Cunard Line?s flagship Queen Mary 2 recently completed her first builder?s sea trials with flying colours. The largest, longest, tallest, widest and, at $780m, the most expensive passenger liner ever built underwent four days of rigorous testing of her power, manoeuvrability and vibration levels off the Brittany coast. The successful ...
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NewsLast ditch attempt to save Appledore Shipbuilders
Around 100 workers recently staged a demonstration in an attempt to save England?s last remaining commercial shipyard. The future of the 148-year old Appledore Shipbuilders? facility in North Devon hangs in the balance as the yard?s owners failed to secure a £40m order from Sea Structures to build a ship ...
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ABS and NAVSEA sign naval vessel rules agreement
ABS has signed a formal co-operative agreement with the US Navy?s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) which calls for joint development of ABS Naval Vessel Rules (NVR) to support the design and acquisition of ?naval combatant ships? and craft. This is similar to the well established agreement between ABS and ...
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Post-Panamax surge
The growth in containership orders and sizes of vessels appears to be relentless. There has been a flood of orders this year for new vessels, including vessels of over 8,000 TEU and Germanischer Lloyd (GL) alone claims to have 44 large container carriers of this size waiting classification. Dr. Hans ...
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Passenger ship shake-up
There are more rules and regulations governing passenger ships due to come into force during the next three years than ever before. "More importantly, some of these rules are risk-based rules, not prescriptive any more," says Markku Kanerva, marketing manager at Deltamarin. Simulation and optimisation tools have been developed to ...
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From oars to reactors
Naval warfare has always benefited from advances in technology going right back through history when oars were the prime propulsors, to today?s propulsion plants such as gas turbines and nuclear reactors. Recently, the commercial sector has led the way in technological advances with the application of electric propulsion largely due ...
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Triple Screw Multi-Cat Zwerver II
A further step in the evolution of multipurpose, shallow draft work-vesselsDuring the last twenty years or so, the ?Multi-purpose work vessel? has enjoyed an evolution that now sees it positioned as an essential item of floating plant in several sectors of the marine industry, from fish farming to port construction. ...
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Grinding and squeezing
Generally we are finding 2003 to be rather difficult," says Magnus Ringner, managing director of Götaverken Cityvarvet. He explains that this is primarily because demand has been slow all year so far (as was also the case for the last few months of 2002) and as a result competition has ...
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German navy launches SWATH research vessel
In August, the German Navy launched its new research and test vessel at the ThyssenKrupp shipyard of Nordseewerke in Emden. Named Planet, the vessel?s hull shape makes use of the SWATH technology (small waterplane area twin hull) developed by the yard. Delivery of the newbuilding is scheduled for the summer ...
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A fresh look at ship operation manuals
Ship operating manuals have been around for many years in one form or another and to varying degrees of usefulness to the people on board, whether as a collection of ?crib-notes? at the crew hand-over or as a series of professionally produced manuals.The reasons behind producing such manuals have always ...
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Crane swop shop
The demands that deepwater operations place on deck-mounted cranes has forced manufacturers to offer a wider choice of cranes. Arne Riple, vice president of sales and marketing at TTS Marine told The Motor Ship; "The owners that we work with in these instances are quite particular regarding their crane specifications. ...
