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  • News

    Shaft alignment science

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Bureau Veritas is drawing on past experience to offer a shaft alignment service to large-vessel owners. The service comes outside the normal scope of class. It has already been utilised on newbuildings for Hellespont, Hapag Lloyd, CMA CGM, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company and Kristen Navigation. The service has been re-launched ...

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    Shaft alignment science

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Bureau Veritas is drawing on past experience to offer a shaft alignment service to large-vessel owners. The service comes outside the normal scope of class. It has already been utilised on newbuildings for Hellespont, Hapag Lloyd, CMA CGM, Kuwait Oil Tanker Company and Kristen Navigation. The service has been re-launched ...

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    Izar confirms Algerian negotiations

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Izar has confirmed it is negotiating with Algerian shipowner ENTMV for a share of a contract to construct two 2,900 dwt roro passenger ferries. The two-ship order is subject to a Development Aid Fund loan from the Spanish government to Algeria. The plan is to build one vessel at Izar?s ...

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    Izar confirms Algerian ferry negotiations

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Izar has confirmed it is negotiating with Algerian shipowner ENTMV for a share of a contract to construct two 2,900 dwt roro passenger ferries. The two-ship order is subject to a Development Aid Fund loan from the Spanish government to Algeria. The plan is to build one vessel at Izar?s ...

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    On-line procurement service adds Chinese language

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    iShipExchange, the web-based shipping procurement service, has introduced the Chinese language (using traditional and simplified characters) alongside English and Japanese. However the core data entries remain in English, says the company. iShipExchange has been trading since early this year and says it currently has 25 companies working with the system, ...

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    On-line procurement service adds Chinese language

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    iShipExchange, the web-based shipping procurement service, has introduced the Chinese language (using traditional and simplified characters) alongside English and Japanese. However the core data entries remain in English, says the company. iShipExchange has been trading since early this year and says it currently has 25 companies working with the system, ...

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    More Mitsui green action

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Mitsui OSK Lines has set new environmental targets for its ships and operations. In September it released its second environmental report, stretching from April 2001 to March 2002. It states that MOL plans to sandblast 10 ships going to drydock and re-coat them with tin-free paint. Tin-based TBT anti-fouling paint ...

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    More Mitsui green action

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Mitsui OSK Lines has set new environmental targets for its ships and operations. In September it released its second environmental report, stretching from April 2001 to March 2002. It states that MOL plans to sandblast 10 ships going to drydock and re-coat them with tin-free paint. Tin-based TBT anti-fouling paint ...

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    Telaurus acquires US HF radio stations

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Telaurus Communications has acquired three US HF radio stations: WLO in Mobile, Alabama; KLB in Seattle, Washington and WSC in Tuckerton, New Jersey. They will be incorporated into the company?s global network. WLO is a full service provider of voice, telex and data services to ships at sea. The company ...

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    Telaurus acquires US HF radio stations

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Telaurus Communications has acquired three US HF radio stations: WLO in Mobile, Alabama; KLB in Seattle, Washington and WSC in Tuckerton, New Jersey. They will be incorporated into the company?s global network. WLO is a full service provider of voice, telex and data services to ships at sea. The company ...

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    Hydrocarbon monitoring from up to 60 points

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The GDS300 from Martek Marine is a sequential sampling system for detection of hydrocarbon gas in ballast/void spaces and cargo pump rooms on tankers. The system comprises a steel cabinet housing the sampling pump, pneumatics, solenoid valves, flame arrestors and system electronics. Sample lines are run back to the monitoring ...

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    Hydrocarbon monitoring from up to 60 points

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The GDS300 from Martek Marine is a sequential sampling system for detection of hydrocarbon gas in ballast/void spaces and cargo pump rooms on tankers. The system comprises a steel cabinet housing the sampling pump, pneumatics, solenoid valves, flame arrestors and system electronics. Sample lines are run back to the monitoring ...

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    GE GTs for QM2

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The gas turbine power element in the combined diesel and gas plant planned for Cunard?s superliner, Queen Mary 2, will be provided by GE. Two aeroderivative LM2500+ units will run in combination with four Wärtsilä 46 diesels to drive four pods, two fixed and two steerable. The order takes to ...

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    GE GTs for QM2

    2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The gas turbine power element in the combined diesel and gas plant planned for Cunard?s superliner, Queen Mary 2, will be provided by GE. Two aeroderivative LM2500+ units will run in combination with four Wärtsilä 46 diesels to drive four pods, two fixed and two steerable. The order takes to ...

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    Superconductor wiring

    2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

    American Superconductor has built and demonstrated its first 3,680kW (5,000hp) high temperature superconductor (HTS) electric motor. The HTS motor is designed to reduce manufacturing costs by up to 40% and is as little as half the size and weight of a conventional electric motor, says American Superconductor. The HTS wiring ...

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    Rolling from the Stones

    2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

    JJ Sietas Schiffswerft has delivered its first self-discharging bulk carriers. The 28,000 dwt Stones and Kvitnes were handed over to German company Mibau, which extracts and transports aggregate for building purposes. The flexibility of the newbuildings, which can operate independently from port handling equipment, is achieved by use of a ...

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    Saving our ships

    2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The past year has seen Singapore salvors undertake some unusual jobs, including the salvage of two chemical tankers laden with the hazardous cargo phenol. The more recent of the two involved Endah Lestari, which listed about two nautical miles off Pasir Gudang, Malaysia. Kasel Salvage got the contract to do ...

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    Niches suit nicely

    2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

    When the subject of shipbuilding in Asia is discussed, Japan, Korea and a rising China are usually the focus of attention given the sheer volume of tonnage they produce as well as their stranglehold on the production of big ships. Little Singapore doesn?t compete on those terms, but over the ...

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    Ruston for Navy

    2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Vosper Thornycroft has placed an order with MAN B&W Diesel, Ruston for the supply of six 12RK270 main engines with gearboxes and ancillary equipment. The shipbuilder will install the machinery on three offshore patrol vessels it is building for the UK Royal Navy. Each vessel?s propulsion chain will consist of ...

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    MHI starts UEC-LSE

    2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Mitsubishi Heavy Engineering (MHI) recently delivered the first marine version of its UEC-LSE series two-stroke diesel engine. It was manufactured at the Nagasaki factory of Kobe Diesel. The delivery was the first of four 10,230 kW 6UEC52LSE engines ordered for installation in a four-ship series of 1,100 TEU boxships being ...