All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 307

  • The USNS Spearhead's digital twin Photo: ABS
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    ABS digitises US navy maintenance

    2019-06-13T12:10:00Z

    The ABS condition-based class programme with the United States’ Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) was the focus of a keynote presentation at Mega Rust 2019.

  • The first low-pressure dual-fuel engine for smaller two-stroke vessels, X40DF (Credit: WinGD)
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    WinGD extends dual-fuel engine portfolio

    2019-06-12T15:19:00Z

    WinGD (Winterthur Gas & Diesel) introduced three new two-stroke engines capable of operating on low emission fuels at Nor-Shipping on 4 June.

  • The “Oshima Ultramax 2030”, an innovative bulk carrier design developed in cooperation with Wärtsilä. was the first delivery under a strategic cooperation agreement between Oshima Shipbuilding and DNV GL.
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    Oshima Shipbuilding and DNV GL sign strategic cooperation

    2019-06-12T15:11:00Z

    Oshima Shipbuilding and classification society DNV GL have signed a long-term strategic cooperation to conduct R&D into new bulk carrier designs. Oshima unveiled the first design to result from the cooperation, the “Oshima Ultramax 2030” at Nor-Shipping 2019 in Oslo last week.

  • ABB Turbocharging's new Ability™ Tekomar XPERT for fleet satisfies a demand for a fleet level engine optimisation tool.
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    ABB Turbocharging launches fleet engine performance tool

    2019-06-12T03:01:00Z

    ABB Turbocharging has upgraded digital platform ABB Ability™ Tekomar XPERT, for use on a fleet-wide scale. The platform provides accurate insight into engine performance from fleet to vessel level with all key indicators available at a glance.

  • ABB is launching new turbochargers for the low-speed market, extending the A200-L design, and combining it with with a smaller frame size and enhanced rotor component technologies.
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    ABB TURBOCHARGING LAUNCHES NEW COMPACT TURBOCHARGER

    2019-06-12T02:06:00Z

    ABB Turbocharging has extended its turbocharger range, launching the A255-L and A260-L turbochargers for small and medium bore diesel and gas engines in the low-speed market.

  • Damen has awarded a contract for batteries for seven ferries to Echandia Marine.
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    LITHIUM TITANIUM OXIDE BATTERIES FOR MARINE USE

    2019-06-11T05:15:00Z

    Lithium titanium oxide (LTO) batteries are a relatively new concept in battery technology, which are starting to attract attention from the marine sector, writes Dag Pike.

  • The potential for IT to undermine operational technology means we are exposing ourselves – and our environment - to new types of risk
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    Remote considerations: change is in the air

    2019-06-11T05:09:00Z

    Shoreside connectivity provides an answer to many questions... but it’s just the beginning for a swathe of others, writes Stevie Knight.

  • Olav Hansen, Senior Principal Consultant in Lloyd’s Register Risk Management Consulting, is a leading authority on the use of hydrogen and is involved in a number of hydrogen development projects. (Credit: Lloyd's Register)
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    Taking the lead on hydrogen safety

    2019-06-11T05:03:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register is focusing on the safety of using hydrogen as a fuel

  • The new MTU gas engine on the test bench (Copyright: Rolls Royce Power Systems)
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    Rolls-Royce Power Systems to begin full-scale hydrogen tests in 2020

    2019-06-11T05:00:00Z

    Dr Peter Riegger of Rolls-Royce Power Systems outlines the MTU engine designer’s alternative fuel R&D position

  • TThe first Chinese owned LNG bunker vessel will operate on Wärtsilä propulsion machinery and with Wärtsilä cargo handling and waste treatment systems Photo: CSDC
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    Wärtsilä aids China's first LNG bunker vessel

    2019-06-10T16:32:00Z

    Technology group Wärtsilä is supplying an integrated package of sustainable solutions for China''s first seagoing LNG bunker vessel.

  • 'K' Line is trialling the Airseas Seawing Photo: Airseas
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    'K' Line trials flying wing system

    2019-06-10T16:24:00Z

    Japanese transportation company, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (''K'' Line), is installing an automated kite system developed by Airbus company, Airseas, on its large bulk carrier.

  • Artem Dovlatov, CEO of VEB-Leasing (l) and Nikolai Kolesnikov, EVP and CFO Sovcomflot (r) Photo: Sovcomflot
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    Sovcomflot orders new LNG tankers

    2019-06-10T14:29:00Z

    Sovcomflot and VEB.RF Group have signed agreements whereby VEB Leasing will finance the construction of three new LNG-fuelled MR tankers.

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    Ammonia as a marine fuel

    2019-06-10T07:20:00Z

    Ammonia can be safely and effectively applied as a marine fuel to reduce harmful emissions according to new research published by C-Job Naval Architects.

  • Corvus’ Blue Whale has been getting a lot of interest from the cruise and ferry market with units ready for delivery in 2021.
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    Corvus offers greater potential through Blue Whale

    2019-06-10T07:11:00Z

    Corvus has launched its latest energy storage system (ESS) featuring a larger battery, the Corvus Blue Whale, that will cater for more power-hungry vessels like the cruise market, writes Samantha Fisk.

  • Workmanlike ship from Japan: reefer Boyang Bering pictured after delivery in the Kanmon Strait (credit: Kyokuyo Shipbuilding).
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    NEW REEFERSHIPS FOR PACIFIC TRADE

    2019-06-10T06:39:00Z

    Although the containerised mode and major container lines now command by far the greatest share of seaborne refrigerated cargo, specialist breakbulk reefer operators have implemented a clutch of newbuild projects in recent years, writes David Tinsley.

  • Kim Gunnar Jensen, project engineer at Fjord1, at the shore-based engine control centre used in the ROMAS project Photo: Fjord1
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    Remote operation moves a step closer

    2019-06-07T13:32:00Z

    Classification society DNV GL, automation systems vendor Høglund, ferry operator Fjord1, and the Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) have completed the first testing phase of the ROMAS (Remote Operation of Machinery and Automation Systems) project.

  • LR has awarded AiP to SHI Photo: LR
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    LR approves SHI LNG VLCC

    2019-06-07T13:23:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register (LR) has presented SHI with approval in principle (AiP) for an LNG-fuelled very large crude carrier (VLCC) equipped with a 6,000 cubic metre LNG fuel storage tank, a two-stroke dual-fuel diesel engine and an LNG fuel supply system.

  • Shell Marine's engine oil has led to cost savings for Indo Container Line Photo: Shell Marine
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    Shell engine oil shown to reduce costs

    2019-06-06T13:33:00Z

    An Indonesian shipping line has confirmed that installing Shell Marine’s medium-speed engine oil has led to longer oil-drain intervals and reduced costs.

  • HHI has received AiP for LR for its 'eco-tanker' Photo: LR
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    LR gives approval for eco-tanker

    2019-06-06T13:26:00Z

    Lloyd''s Register (LR) has presented Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) with approval in principle (AiP) for a very large crude carrier (VLCC) ‘eco-tanker’ design, capable of using volatile organic compounds (VOC) mixed with LNG as fuel and Norsepower’s rotor sail solution for wind-assisted propulsion.

  • Class notation to help prevent engine room fires will be implemented on RCL's new cruise liner 'Navigator of the Seas' Photo: RCL
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    Joining forces to prevent engine room fires

    2019-06-06T13:18:00Z

    Cruise operator RCL, technology group Wärtsilä, and classification society DNV GL have joined forces to improve engine room fire prevention.