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LR urges NOx testing
LR is warning shipowners to ensure all engines fitted into newbuildings comply with IMO`s NOx emission standards. While it does not expect the relevant regulations to come into force until 2002, once ratified it will apply to all diesel engines on ships over 400g with keels laid after January 1, ...
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Japan scoop orders
In September Japanese yards took orders for 38 ships (including 33 bulkers) totalling 1,350,000g bringing the total to 133 (4.8 million gross) since April. Order levels are running at twice the rate of last year with the latest orders taking the backlog to 389 vessels - up from ...
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It`s showtime
The 29th International Maritime Exhibition and 11th International Inland Shipping Exhibition will be held at Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands, on 16-20 November. All sectors of the International maritime industry will be represented at the show. Among the many companies exhibiting are: 4Sea Trading will introduce a new safety lifting hook ...
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VLCCs for HHI
Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) has confirmed an order for two more 308,700 dwt VLCCs with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Korea. OSG - which now has a total of eight vessels on order, including two more VLCCs due to be delivered next year, and four Aframax tankers - continues to ...
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Motion monitor for helidecks
A deck motion monitor is available from TSS (UK) which it says enables offshore operators to comply with the Health and Safety Executive CAP 437 guidelines for the safe operation of helidecks. CAP 437 guidelines require helideck operators to provide approaching pilots with pitch and poll reports, in ...
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Repair show still growing
This year`s ShipRepair & Conversion exhibition takes place at Olympia on November 10-11. Organisers report another increase in the number of companies exhibiting at the show, which covers two floors of Hall 2 at the central London exhibition centre. Visitors will be able to meet shipyards and suppliers from all ...
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The proving ground
The 900 passenger, 96m Incat wavepiercer Avemar, delivered to Buquebus Espana SA at the end of August, is the first of Incat`s Evolution 10 class. Incat`s ten years` experience of building wavepiercing catamarans has produced a bigger, faster vessel capable of carrying a full freight mix. Several new features allow ...
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F-Ships ships ordered in Poland
Bylock & Nordsjofrakt (B&N) in Sweden and Palkkiyhtyma in Finland have ordered a pair of 14,800 dwt roll-on roll-off/lift-off (roro/lolo) vessels from Stocznia Gdynia in Poland. Along with Finncarriers, B&N and its Finnish counterpart operate the F-Ships pool joint venture, carrying forest products and bulk cargoes across the North Atlantic. ...
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Irish ferries for Finnish yard
Aker Finnyards is to build what it is claimed will be the largest ropax ferry in the world when it is delivered to Irish Ferries in early 2001. The order for the newbuilding also includes an option for a second vessel, which is slated for delivery by January 2002. With ...
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FastShip places gearbox order
Philadelphia Gear has landed its largest contract to date in the form of $35 million order for transmissions from FastShip. The company will supply 21 gearboxes, ,five per ship, plus one spare, to reduce the 3,600 rev/min output from the Rolls Royce gas turbines to the 200 rev/min required by ...
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European orders for Hyundai Mipo
In the last month, Hyundai Mipo Shipyard in Korea has won orders for newbuildings from Italy and France. Navigazione Montanari in Italy has ordered a pair of 35,000 dwt chemical carriers from the yard for delivery in 2001, while French offshore contractor Coflexip Stena Offshore has selected the yard to ...
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Euro yards talk tough on Korea
Representatives of Europe`s shipyards are demanding urgent action by the EU to protect them from what they claim are unfair practices in Korea, and claim that protective measures - such as a European Jone`s Act, Gibbons Bill, or a Title XI loan guarantee scheme - will have to be enforced ...
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Epirb fails sinking ship
An epirb which failed to function has raised concerns with Canadian Coast Guard. The failure came to light in a report into the search and rescue operation following the loss of Flare which sank in January 1998. The report says that for unknown reasons the 406 ...
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Ship engine simulators
The new STN Atlas SES 4000 series of engine room simulators are based on real-time physical mathematical models instead of traditional look-up tables, says the company. The simulators cover all aspects of engine operation from planning schedules and operational procedures to analysis of engine performance, monitoring, control functions and fault ...
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Major engine repair
Repairs to the four Pielstick 12PC3V-480 main engines on DFDS passenger ferry Princess of Scandinavia are underway at MAN B&W`s Servicecenter Frederikshavn. The engines, which have logged about 160,000 running hours over the last 23 years, have developed cracks in the A frames. Servicecenter Frederikshavn is acting as ...
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Three vie for DMR
Three potential buyers are in negotiations to buy the bankrupt German engine builder DMR. The Polish engine builder H Cegielski is known to be interested, and another potential buyer is an unnamed German company which produces four-stroke engines. DMR delivered its last engine to Volkswerft in August and ...
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Software includes distance tables
BP Marine has launched the latest version of its Port to Port voyage planning program based on the company`s own marine distance tables. The company says that Port to Port makes voyage planning more accurate and economical. Users enter departure and destination ports from over 1,700 waypoints, canals ...
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FPSO uses deep DP
Seillean FPSO, operating at 1,853m on the Roncador field, Brazil, uses an Alstom triple voting dynamic positioning system and is the first continuous dynamically positioned FPSO to operate in waters of this depth, says the company. The vessel, built at Harland & Wolff in Belfast in 1989, was fitted with ...
