All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1103
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Diary dates
The dates for the 24th annual Motor Ship Marine Propulsion Conference have been changed to avoid a clash with Danish public holidays ? so mark 10-11 April 2002 in your diary to be in Copenhagen for the marine technology event of the year. Whatever your interest in ship propulsion - ...
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CSX Lines to introduce wave software system
Resurgence Software and CSX Lines have signed a software licensing agreement for Resurgence to implement its Wave Software System on all sixteen vessels in the CSX Lines fleet and at selected shore-side locations. The Wave Software System is designed to provide the reliability information and analysis tools for making equipment ...
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Re-conversion restores cruise ferry role
A former cruise liner that re-entered service earlier this year with DFDS Seaways has assumed the mantle of Denmark?s largest cruise ferry after a conversion project which included installation of a hoistable car deck and flood control doors. MacGregor has played a key role in the conversion of DFDS Seaways? ...
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KMSS upgrades fire detection for cruise ships
KMSS has won the contract to upgrade the fire detection system on the luxury cruise ships Sea Goddess I and II. KMSS will be supplying its Autronica fire detection system to the sister ships. The order follows the recent demand from the National Safety Transport Board in the USA for ...
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Remote control for deck machinery
Valued for cost-effective, reliable and above all safe operation, increasingly mooring and anchoring equipment is likely to be automated and acquired as part of an integrated package from a single manufacturer. Already a major supplier of many individual items of equipment such as low voltage switchboards and other items such ...
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M.A. system ?reduces fuel consumption and emissions?
M.A. Turbo/Engine Design, based in Vancouver, Canada, has developed a water injection system specifically designed for retrofit to existing diesel engines which, it says, reduces both fuel consumption and emissions. The system has just been installed on two Detroit diesel engines of a ferry in San Francisco Bay?s Blue & ...
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COMSAT launches enhanced Inmarsat-C data service
Comsat Mobile Communications has launched new enhancements for its Innarsat-C service and equipment as part of what it calls Simply Easy Comsat-CTM. The company says it includes a new Web interface, simplified billing and improved customer resource materials. Comsat says the new service makes it easier for fixed users to ...
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Compact valve for large engines
AMOT Controls says it has improved its G Valve three-way temperature control valve by making it more compact and lighter. The unit is designed to regulate fluid temperatures in large diesel and gas engines to 100?C with a maximum flowrate of 3,000m3/hr. Three types of control system are available electric, ...
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Underwater coating repair
Jones Marine is continuing development of its JML 2000 underwater coating system, with an application containing anti-fouling properties among its goals. Talking to The Motor Ship, Jones Marine managing director Mike Jones said the JML 2000 system is designed to effect repairs to areas of small-scale coating damage, for instance ...
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WIG classification completed
Flightship has completed the final phase of a lengthy three year classification process with Germanischer Lloyd for its futuristic wing in ground effect (WIG) craft. Flightship Australia managing director John Leslie says the classification of the eight seater FS8 has been extremely complex and required many negotiations of shipping standards ...
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Chinese getting it together
Chinese shipyards will be capable of competing with South Korean yards on equal terms after 2005, according to a new report released by the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade and the commerce ministry. The report says that South Korean shipbuilders should expand their R&D investment if they are ...
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Saab TransponderTech wins Chinese order
Saab TransponderTech has won an order for several R30 AIS base stations for the VTS system in Huangha and Majisuan in China. In Majisuan, the VTS system is under construction and will identify, track and serve all commercial vessels in the area carrying AIS-equipment.
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Indian ship modernised in China
Shipping Corporation of India?s cargo vessel Vishvakarma has completed a tweendeck hatch cover conversion at Chengxi Shipyard (part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation). Deterioration in the condition of the operating system for all the tweendeck panels was such that operation eventually became possible only by wire and crane, the emergency ...
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UECC upgrading older car carriers
Car carrier specialist UECC is seeking to extend the service life of three of its older vessels by up to 15 years. It is doing this via a major upgrading of Autocarrier, Autotransporter, and Autoline. The ships? bow thrusters, propellers, boilers, fans, some steelwork, switchboard, automation and electronic equipment plus ...
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Shanhaiguan builds wind turbine ship
Faced with dwindling world fossil fuel reserves, energy companies are exploiting alternative sources at an increasing pace. The latest development in the wind-mill energy farm concept is the construction of offshore facilities. And UK-based engineering firm, Mayflower Energy Ltd, has come up with a practical solution to the problems associated ...
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Submarines get composite rudder blades
Pilgrim hydraulic nuts and oil injection system have been specified for Britain?s fleet of S and I class nuclear attack submarines undergoing major upgrade work. The nuts will enable fast installation and removal of a new generation of composite rudder blades and hydroplanes, says Pilgrim. The new rudder required a ...
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Biggest Scania
Scania has launched its most powerful marine engine ever. The new DI16M can deliver up to 590kW of power. It is a watercooled, twin turbocharged, direct injection V8 engine. It has a bore of 127mm, a stroke of 154mm and a displacement of about 16 litres. The engine design features ...
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GPS distress beacon gets smaller
Northern Airborne Technology says its GPIRB II is smaller and lighter than its predecessor. The unit includes a 406MHz satellite and 121.5MHz homing beacon as well as a Xenon strobe light. The unit weighs two pounds five ounces (1 kilogram), and measures 8 3/4in tall (16 1/2in with antenna) x ...
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Niigata bankruptcy
Niigata Engineering has sort court protection from its creditors. The company, whose business includes the design and manufacture of a range of medium-speed diesel engines and other propulsion machinery, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the face of crippling debts estimated at „227 billion ($1.84 billion). The company has supplied ...
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Grander Bahama
Arrival of Grand Bahama Shipyard?s newly acquired floating dock at the Freeport facility is imminent. The 87,000t lift dock has virtually circumnavigated the globe on its westbound trip from its former home, Cascade General?s Portland Shipyard on the US west coast to the Bahamas. The dock will enable Grand Bahama ...
