All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 1144
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1999 Ship repair directory
This issue of Ship Repair included the Shiprepair Directory which lists repair facilities, country-by-country and port-by-port under 16 ocean areas. The information is given for each company: full name and postal address; telephone and fax; plus email and website details if applicable. It also give the names of company officials ...
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Time to upgrade
Despite a downturn in trading and continued poor freight rates, container ship owners are ordering new tonnage, expanding services and introducing new routes. Evergreen’s fleet continues to grow. Last year, the Taiwanese line placed an order at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for five 5,364TEU U-class container ships; the yard already ...
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Portable package for shipboard projects
The Drew Marine has introduced the New Era portable wire-welding package. The package includes the Amerarc I-400GMS inverter arc welding machine, Merarc F-4 wire feeder and Merarc No.4 MIG gun. The equipment is designed to use inverter technology for high volume, fast-turnaround, shipboard projects and permits the use of the ...
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Norway reduces NOx
To date 24 vessels are participating in the Norway’s NOxRed scheme aimed at cutting NOx emissions from the coastal fleet. Five have been fitted with water emulsified fuel systems, with the same number being processed, and another two ships have been retrofitted with SCRs. A further six ships have ...
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Turning a new page
With its announcement that it has signed letters of intent for a further five newbuildings P&O has also altered shipbuilding’s future. Although the order itself is significant, of greater importance is that Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will build two of the newbuildings. While P&O argues that the development is entirely ...
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New orders for Solar Solve
Solar Solve Marine has won two orders for its anti-glare screens and roller blinds together worth over £20,000 ($31,572). Five Solasafe screens were installed on the bridge windows of Ben-My-Chree, a 12,600gt ro-pax ferry for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. The order comprised four Casslite roller blinds in ...
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One man operation for product tankers
Raytheon Marine has installed its first DNV-W1 integrated BridgeControl system on Norway`s latest newbuilding Doris, a product tanker designed for one-man bridge operation, built by Aukra shipyard for Anders Utkilen`s Rederi. The system includes the company’s Pathfinder/ST MK 2 radars with built-in autopilot operation, ecdis, navigation monitoring and the NautoConning ...
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Kvaerner sells second yard
Kvaerner has sold another of its yards, and been ordered by the EU to repay Euro41.5 million ($42.5 million) of state aid. Marconi Electronic Systems has agreed to pay £2.25 million ($3.55 million) for the Govan shipyard in Scotland and will complete two vessels currently under construction. This lifts ...
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Kelvin Hughes to supply Spliethoff newbuilds
Spliethoff Bevrachtingskantoor`s new multi-purpose freighters will be fitted with Kelvin Hughes radar sets. The 10 ships will each feature a Nucleus2 6000 arpa split radar system with display; a Nucleus2 5000 True Motion radar with display and a HRC-A9 interswitch unit. The multi-purpose freighters with sideport loaders will be built ...
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Regulatory regime guide published by IACS
A general guide to current safety and pollution prevention requirements for ships, and the thinking behind their development, has been published by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). The 28-page guide, Ship Safety and Pollution Prevention: The Regulatory Regime, looks at hazards to and represented by ships at sea, ...
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P&O goes Japanese
P&O’s Princess Cruises has announced that it has signed letters of intent for four new cruise ships (see design feature) which will, along with the three ships it already has under construction, double its fleet size by 2004. Two 88,000g, 1,950-passenger vessels will be built at France’s Chantiers de ...
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Faster turnaround
Hamworthy KSE is developing a new system for loading and unloading roro vessels called IPSI. The system is based on the roro operation of containers loaded on cassettes as well as normal trailers. GPS controlled automated guided vehicles will manoeuvre the cassettes to locate them within a system of kerbed ...
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SuperFast ferry order extended
MacGregor cargo access/transfer equipment has been specified for six SuperFast ferries ordered by Attica Enterprises from HDW. Each shipset being supplied by the company`s roro division comprises: two stern ramps, bow equipment on two levels, hoistable car decks, hoistable tilting ramp, ramp covers, provisions lift, four bunker/pilot doors, two passenger ...
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Electronic equipment giants merge
EuroMarine Electronics was created in July by the merger of SAIT-RadioHolland and STN Atlas. Their respective marine activities cover the development, marketing, production, assembling, sale and servicing of maritime electronics, power and drive systems, electric equipment, survey equipment, automation, navigation and communication systems. The new company will employ 2,500 people ...
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Mar-In fuels Eagle engines
Mar-In Controls, manufacturer of feeder booster modules and viscosity control systems, has two of its systems aboard each of Royal Caribbean’s Project Eagle cruise ships, one for each engine room. Mar-In says its modules supply a stable inlet pressure and can work out cheaper, as it specifies feeder pump capacities ...
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New dock for Unithai
Unithai is soon to sign a contract for a newbuild floating dock for its yard at Laem Chabang. The 33 x 200m dock will be built in China. Though it will be a very large handymax dock, the yard`s Derick Soares advises that it should be able to hold some ...
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DHI scoops ferry deal
Daewoo Heavy Industries is continuing to secure itself a foothold in the luxury passenger newbuilding field by winning a contract to build two fast cruise ferries for a European operator. Moby Lines, which is part of Italy’s Onorato Group, has placed an order for two newbuildings capable of carrying up ...
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Space saving cruise tender
Safety equipment supplier Umoe Schat-Harding has launched a compact tender for smaller cruise ships. The CTL1200 cruise tender has a capacity of 100 persons when used as a tender, or 150 when used as a lifeboat. It is 12m long and 4.5m wide. It has the same dimensions as a ...
