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Alstom wins order for Carnival
Alstom has secured a contract to supply an ectrical package for "Carnival Liberty", the new vessel for Carnival Cruise Lines.The ocean-going cruise vessel will be built by Fincantieri at the Port of Monfalcone in the Gulf of Trieste, Italy. Carrying 3,500 passengers it will be used for year-round for worldwide ...
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Serenade sails the seas
Towards the end of July the latest unit in the four-ship Radiance class cruise vessels set sail from Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg. Weighing in at 90,090t, the Serenade of the Seas is the third unit of the series to be delivered to Royal Caribbean International (RCI) by the German ...
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Virtually perfect
CAD/CAM systems have been around in the shipbuilding industry for quite a long time ? since the early 1960s. Per-Olof Nilsson, vice president of research for Tribon Solutions, told The Motor Ship that the first thing they did was produce control for flame cutters using paper tapes. However, things have ...
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The sky?s the limit
With growth rates of 8% per year being predicted, the current slump in cruise ship orders could only be short term ? but what direction is design heading in? When asked what would be next after Queen Mary 2, Gerry Ellis, director of new builds for Cunard Line, told The ...
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Skydex gives relief from G forces
Skydex gives relief from G forcesShock forces experienced by passengers and crew onboard fast ferries and other small vessels is an issue which is constantly being looked at by naval architects in an attempt to mitigate the worst of the effects on individuals. Apart from ship borne systems to dampen ...
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Fincantieri lands Moby newbuildings
In a deal worth some £200m ($224m), the Italian ferry company Moby Lines has placed a contract with Fincantieri to build two cruise ferries with one being an option. The Italian shipbuilder plans to commence construction in early 2004 at its Ancona yard. The first of the 36,000g newbuildings will ...
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The future is electric
The last decade has been exciting for electric propulsion with around 2% of vessels over 500t being propelled by it. This represents about 1,200 ships and the annual market for marine electric motors and propulsion drives is estimated to grow from $800m to between $4 and $5 billion by the ...
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Electronically-controlled developments
In a market not renowned for its hyperbole, it is undoubtedly significant that a head of one of the largest manufacturers of slow speed marine diesel engines should hail the launch of a new engine as: "...the greatest step forward in the technology of large marine diesel engines since the ...
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Simple solution to NOx technical code imple mentation
Annex VI entry into force immiAlthough entry into force conditions for MARPOL Annex VI (air emissions) may be satisfied before the end of the year, it will not become enforceable until 12 months after that date, which in practice means the end of 2004 or early 2005.The protocol requires that ...
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SeaFrame ? the flexible cat
Incat?s new 112-metre SeaFrame under construction at Hobart promises a revolutionary framework for shipbuilding, lower production costs, and significant through life savings for both commercial and military operators. Being built for the account of Incat USA as hull number 64, the final accommodation configuration has not yet been decided. Delivery ...
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Pocket-size ferry fits the bill perfectly
The Gdansk-built multi-purpose ferry Filla has a tough job to do. It must cross between Lerwick and the Skerries no matter what the weather throws at it.Designed by Macduff Ship Design in Scotland and built in Poland by the Northern Shipyard (Stocznia Polnocna) in Gdansk, the small but purposeful 365g ...
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NewsTechnical Fault ? Current News
We would like to appologise for the lack of Current News items being displayed for the month of August, this was due to a technical fault with the site. We are currently working on the problem and hope to have these articles restored to the site within the next few ...
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Sparks, zap and smoke
The next stage in the evolution process of cutting technology is laser hybrid welding, which uses a YAG laser combined with an arc system to offer high penetration welds with little distortion. The ideal weld process for heavy sections will produce very narrow, very deep welds with minimal heat input, ...
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Stena orders P-max quartet
Following in the footsteps of the V-MAX and C-MAX series of tankers, Concordia Maritime of the Stena Group, is poised to introduce a new member to its MAX tanker family called P-MAX. Four of these 49,900 dwt product tankers have recently been ordered from the Croatian yard of Brodosplit Shipyard ...
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Experts disagree on propeller issue
If they were sure they could, they probably would. Ordering of very large containerships has resumed this year and talk has resurfaced of the potential to build vessels with unprecedented carrying capacities of 10,000 TEU and above. Terminal infrastructure is, in the most part, sufficient to accommodate and handle much ...
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Dubai Drydocks continues its drive forward
Dubai Drydocks is the largest ship repair facility in the Middle East. Built in the late 1970s, with the aim of capitalising on Dubai?s geographical proximity to the major oil terminals in the Arabian Gulf, Dubai Drydocks was designed to be able to accommodate oil tankers with a capacity of ...
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CODED powers up
Despite pods suffering from their problems, there has been no let up in the advance of this technology. There have been a number of interesting developments of late, such as the two high-speed conventional ferries ordered by Shin-Nihonkai Ferry and due for delivery form Mitsubishi?s Nagasaki yard in mid-2004. The ...
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Izar Gijon delivers Chilean chemical carrier
Chilean ship owner Ultragas has taken delivery of the latest addition to its fleet, the 22,700m3 chemical carrier Guanaco. Built at Izar?s shipyard in Gijon, this 161.23m long double hulled vessel is fitted with 28 duplex stainless steel tanks constructed out of vertically corrugated bulkheads enabling the newbuilding to transport ...
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Pasha Hawaii building first US PCTC
Some of our readers with good memories may recall that a few years ago there was an announcement that a new shipping company transporting vehicles between Hawaii and the mainland would be entering the market soon. The company in question, Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines (PHTL), had plans to employ a ...
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Cruising?s big bosses
It was a big summer for what has become the pivotal yard-line relationship in cruising. Carnival group took two ships from Fincantieri, and the handovers of Carnival Cruises? Carnival Glory (built at Monfalcone, near Trieste) and Oosterdam (Marghera, at Venice) for Carnival?s Holland America Line highlighted just how dominant the ...
