All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 267

  • A magnetically geared drive has no metal touching metal - the engaging elements stay just a few millimetres apart, but it yields surprisingly high torque. Image: Magnomatics
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    Poles apart: magnetic gearing offers efficiency improvements

    2021-01-04T12:28:00Z

    Even for the latest motor developments, gear losses are just one of those unavoidable realities. Or are they?

  • Heerema H-851 Photo: Techcross
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    Techcross BWMS for large vessels and barges

    2021-01-04T12:27:00Z

    Techcross and Heerema Marine Contractors have signed a contract to install Techcross’s ballast water management systems in six special vessels and barges, after the delivery of two sets of ECS 6000B to Europe’s largest Heavy Lift Vessel in November.

  • DisinfectYour.com’s service includes complete disinfection of closed areas on a vessel, as well as care for the crew Photo: DisinfectYour.com
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    Covid cleaning service launches in Rotterdam

    2021-01-04T12:23:00Z

    DisinfectYour.com has launched a new service to help vessel owners and crew respond to Covid-19 outbreaks.

  • Shipowners and ship managers face requirements to implement cyber risk management in their safety management systems (SMS) by the time of their first Document of Compliance audit after 1 January 2021. (credit: BIMCO)
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    Updated Cyber Security Guide released

    2021-01-04T12:21:00Z

    A consortium of international shipping organisations has published a fourth version of its Cyber Security Onboard Ships. The updated guidance meets demand from shipowners and ship managers as they face requirements to implement cyber risk management in their safety management systems (SMS) by the time of their first Document of ...

  • Cybersecurity Onboard Ships
    White Papers

    Guidelines on Cyber-Security Onboard Ships

    2021-01-04T11:00:00Z

    The fourth edition of the industry cyber risk management guidelines, Guidelines on Cyber Security Onboard Ships is now available and lays the foundation for further improvements and refinement of companies’ cyber security risk assessments. The updated version of the cyber security guidelines report is published at a ...

  • Stefan Goranov, WinGD: “You should be able to tell when you’d be better off raising the load and transferring the extra energy to a battery for future use, and when it’s more effective to allow partial loading of the generator.”
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    The big hybrid conundrum – more or less than the sum of its parts?

    2021-01-04T10:56:00Z

    For hybrids, system control integration isn’t a ‘nice to have’, it’s a necessity.

  • A special form of vessel constitutes Russia’s new floating Arctic research station.(credit: Admiralty Shipyard).
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    UNIQUE PLATFORM FOR ARCTIC RESEARCH

    2021-01-04T10:47:00Z

    Russia’s unerring focus on the Arctic region has spawned a project entailing a distinctly unusual design of home-grown research vessel, writes David Tinsley.

  • The interdisciplinary SATURN project includes DNV GL, BV and Wärtsilä among its participants © Pauhla McGrane
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    CONCERTED BID FOR QUIETER SEAS

    2021-01-04T10:35:00Z

    A major European research project is set to be launched to address the issue of underwater radiated noise, writes David Tinsley.

  • M/V ‘Auto Energy’ and LNG bunker vessel ‘Coralius’ Photo: UECC
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    First ship-to-ship bunkering of LNG/LBG

    2020-12-18T10:30:00Z

    A pure car truck carrier (PCTC) owned by UECC has received the first ship-to-ship bunkering of LNG blended with 10% renewable liquefied biogas (LBG).

  • A large Kongsberg winch package will be fitted to Astrid Fiskeri’s new pelagic trawler/purse seiner Photo: Kongsberg Maritime
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    Kongsberg to supply electric winch package

    2020-12-17T10:54:00Z

    Kongsberg Maritime has been chosen to supply a large electric winch package for a pelagic trawler/ purse seiner currently being built for Astrid Fiskeri at Karstensens Skibsvaerft in Denmark.

  • The BW Gemini, a VLGC from the BW LPG fleet, has had its MAN B&W 6G60ME-C9.2 main engine retrofitted to an MAN B&W 6G60ME-C9.5-LGIP dual-fuel type, capable of operating on fuel oil and LPG. (picture courtesy of BW LPG)
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    BW TAKES UP OPTION FOR 3 MORE LPG-FUEL RETROFITS

    2020-12-16T17:04:00Z

    Oslo-listed BW LPG has announced today that it will retrofit three more vessels” engines to dual-fuel engines burning liquid petroleum gas (LPG). This is an option in BW LPG”s 4+4+4+3 contract with MAN PrimeServ – MAN Energy Solutions’ after-sales division.

  • Luxury yachts, such as the Jean Jacques Coste designed Galaxy of Happiness, have been early to adopt new technologies in the past. (Picture courtesy of Fraser Yachts)
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    LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERY TECHNOLOGY READIED FOR MARINE MARKET

    2020-12-16T16:16:00Z

    Two UK-based companies are readying a lithium-sulfur battery system for a luxury day boat ahead of what they see as a wide range of other potential marine applications.

  • Windfarm development ship: a new Belfast product? (copyright: NOV/Triumph Subsea Services)
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    BELFAST YARD CHASES OFFSHORE DEAL

    2020-12-16T15:52:00Z

    A return to shipbuilding at Belfast could be in prospect soon following the signing of a letter of intent for the construction of an offshore windfarm development vessel (WDV), writes David Tinsley.

  • ABB Marine & Ports is offering virtual demonstrations of its new cyber security lab Photo: ABB Marine & Ports
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    ABB opens new cyber security lab

    2020-12-16T13:13:00Z

    ABB Marine & Ports is opening a new cyber security laboratory featuring hardware and software systems developed to help shipowners and operators combat the maritime industry’s growing cyber threats.

  • Norsepower Rotor Sail
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    First newbuild order for Norsepower

    2020-12-15T16:19:00Z

    Norsepower has announced its first newbuild order - for the installation of a record five tilting Rotor Sails onboard a large bulk carrier.

  • The Edda Fauna will achieve fuel consumption and emission reductions after the retrofit.
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    ØSTENSJØ REDERI OPTS FOR OFFSHORE CONSTRUCTION VESSEL HYBRID RETROFIT

    2020-12-14T16:04:00Z

    Norway-based ship operator Østensjø Rederi has commissioned the hybrid retrofit of two of its offshore construction vessels, the Edda Fauna and Edda Flora.

  • The bilobe tank has a capacity of 8000cbm and more than doubles the transportation capacity of liquid CO2 over current vessel capacity without the size, weight and stability concerns that would have come with a higher capacity "monolobe" design ...
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    LNG-FUELLED TANKER DESIGNED FOR LOW COST CO2 CARRIAGE

    2020-12-14T13:45:00Z

    A new CO2 tanker design by Høglund Marine Solutions and HB Hunte Engineering aims at low OPEX by combining a high-capacity bi-lobed cargo tank with LNG-fuelled propulsion.

  • WinGD's next target is to introduce continuous optimization to its real time energy management controller (credit: WinGD)
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    OPTIMISATION STRATEGY PRODUCES STRONG RESULTS FOR HYBRID DESIGNS

    2020-12-14T13:39:00Z

    Any ship with an irregular power demand profile and relatively large auxiliary power installed could be suitable for hybridisation, and WinGD is developing what it says is unmatched optimisation technology that is providing excellent results for shipowners.

  • Ludwig Prandtl 11 is tipped to be the world’ first hydrogen-propelled research ship.
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    Germans double up on hydrogen testing

    2020-12-14T13:36:00Z

    Funding of almost €50 million has been allocated in Germany for two new research ships which will both study and test maritime energy systems including hydrogen propulsion, writes Tom Todd.

  • The MoU signing Photo: Jotun
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    HHI, HMM and Jotun sign hull cleaning MoU

    2020-12-14T12:33:00Z

    Three global shipping leaders have united to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in a push for cleaner, more efficient and greener vessel hull performance.