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    Unfamiliarity breeds danger

    2003-05-27T00:00:00Z

    The collision of an oil-rig support vessel equipped with azimuthing propulsion units with an oil-rig has highlighted the problems that can occur when an Officer-on-Watch is unfamiliar with different types of propulsion and steering systems.The bridge watchkeeper in attempting to increase his ship?s distance from the nearest rig turned the ...

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    Research to explore resistance of double hulls

    2003-05-25T00:00:00Z

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    Current issues and compromises

    2003-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Designers of roro ferries are faced with a choice of maximising lane metres or minimising risk of damage to the sideshell through contact with harbour walls. Designs to maximise lane metres have flat sides above the fenders; those minimising risk of damage to the sideshell have sides above the fenders ...

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    Waste water without worries

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    With regulations getting tougher and pressure from environmental groups increasing it is inevitable that cruise ship owners will have to adopt new technologies in dealing with wastewater.Conformance to IMO / USCG historic standards for treated sewage (black water) is not sufficient to meet the expectations of those responsible for regulating ...

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    X-cellent sea-keeping

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The X-Craft is a demonstrator, which will be used to prove technologies for use in the US Navy?s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The prime contract was awarded to The Titan Corporation (NYSE: TTN) with detailed design by Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd, which recently became part of BMT in the ...

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    SARS hits Star

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has spread from southern China to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore and as far away as Canada. It has killed over 100 people and infected thousands. Asian cruise line Star Cruises has been affected. In early April, two of its crew on SuperStar ...

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    Hainan rail link launched

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    China?s first-ever rail ferry service was launched in January with the introduction of Yue Hai Tie I Hao. The rail ferry was purpose built to link the mainland railway terminal at Zhanjiang, in Guangdong Province, and Haikou, the provincial capital of Hainan Island. The 14,381g newbuilding, designed by Maric (Marine ...

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    EU phase-out

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    European Councillors have agreed on proposals for an accelerated phase-out of single-hull tankers. The proposals will enter into force immediately upon the European Parliament issuing approval, expected within months. "I expect this new regulation to enter into force very quickly," says Loyola de Palacio, vice president for transport and energy ...

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    State-of-the-art drive technology guarantees efficient land reclamation

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Like huge vacuum cleaners, trailer suction hopper dredgers suction-up the sand from the sea bed and empty it into their containers which can hold about 20,000m3. The ship, which with its freight weighs about 30,000t, steams to the area where the new land is to be reclaimed and ejects the ...

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    Navigation goes down the integration route

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Navi-Radar 3000, a PC-based radar display system with advanced ARPA and chart facilities and extended integration capabilities has been launched by Transas. These integration capabilities include the ability to exchange data with Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS or ECS, Navi-Fisher 3000 and Navi-Conning 3000. All three systems can be installed on a ...

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    Sailing the seven seas with Dolphin pods

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    In February this year the Italian shipbuilder T. Mariotti delivered the 754 passenger cruiseship Seven Seas Voyager to Radisson Seven Seas Cruises (RSSC). It is the world?s second all balcony-suite vessel, following another RSSC ship Seven Seas Mariner. More interesting from a technical standpoint though is that the 41,500g Seven ...

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    Evolution for P&O cross-Channel ferries

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The Channel Tunnel was supposed to kill it. But in the years since the Channel Tunnel opened, trade on the short-sea crossing from Dover in the UK to Calais in France has boomed. While roro demand out of Dover and other Kent ports to Ostend, Zeebrugge and Boulogne, etc. has ...

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    Comms move closer to the one-stop-shop

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The maritime industry has become more and more demanding when it comes to high volume telephony, data, e-mail and internet communications. This, coupled with a demand to reduce prices has seen a number of players in the market merging in recent years to offer a one-stop shop.Xantic, a previous joining ...

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    An unconventional docking challenge

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Douglas McGowan bought the paddle steamer Waverley from Caledonian MacBrayne in Scotland for the princely sum of £1. He is now retired from Waverley Excursions, but works on a voluntary basis as project communications manager. Waverley is currently alongside at George Prior Engineering at Great Yarmouth in the UK. The ...

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    Double double-enders for Calmac

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish west coast is about to see the introduction of two new double-ended ropax ferries being built in the UK for ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (Calmac). The first of these newbuildings,Coruisk, will run on the 30-minute Mallaig to Armadale route on the Isle of Skye while the other ferry, ...

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    Two-tier linkspans for bigger ferry

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    After just two years operational service, Stena Line will replace Stena Forwarder with a larger capacity ferry on its Irish Sea service between Dublin and Holyhead this summer. It will introduce the 44,200g Stena Adventurer in July, following its delivery from Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries."We have been frustrating freight ...

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    Spanish pair for Algeriea Ferries

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    After many years of delays, Algerian state-owned ship operator ENTMV (Enterprise Nationale de Transports Maritimes de Voyageurs) placed an order last year for two traditional ropax ferries with Spanish shipbuilder Izar. The ferry operator issued its initial tender for the ships in 1998 and AESA (which merged with Bazan to ...

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    Spanish pair for Algeriea Ferries

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    After many years of delays, Algerian state-owned ship operator ENTMV (Enterprise Nationale de Transports Maritimes de Voyageurs) placed an order last year for two traditional ropax ferries with Spanish shipbuilder Izar. The ferry operator issued its initial tender for the ships in 1998 and AESA (which merged with Bazan to ...

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    MOL leads the way with aerodynamic PCTC

    2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

    The design of the car carrier, other than in terms of sheer size, has altered very little in recent decades but all this has changed with the latest pure car truck carrier (PCTC) recently delivered to the Japanese shipowner Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL). In an evolutionary step to improve efficiency ...

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    Evolution for P&O cross-Channel ferries

    2003-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The Channel Tunnel was supposed to kill it. But in the years since the Channel Tunnel opened, trade on the short-sea crossing from Dover in the UK to Calais in France has boomed. While roro demand out of Dover and other Kent ports to Ostend, Zeebrugge and Boulogne, etc. has ...