All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 507

  • News

    Island Offshore OSV contract

    2014-10-09T11:34:00Z

    Vard Holding has secured a NOK 300m order for a new offshore support vessel (OSV) with Island Offshore.

  • Taking up little space on board, the iCOlube unit can be easily retrofitted. Photo: Lukoil
    News

    Lukoil launches “perfect” cylinder oil

    2014-10-08T16:38:00Z

    Lukoil Marine Lubricants, the Hamburg-based subsidiary of the Russian oil major, has developed an Intelligent cylinder oil lubrication (iCOlube) system designed to “perfectly” meet engine requirements and fuel quality.

  • The 'Blue Star Delos' Renewable Energy Project will be a test bed for renewable technologies
    News

    Battery power for test project

    2014-10-08T14:09:00Z

    Furukawa Battery Co Ltd has joined a renewable energy project being spearheaded by Japan’s Eco Marine Power (EMP). It''s supplying batteries for use onboard the passenger ferry being used in the project.

  • Ship designers have the Polar Code as well as a lot of other IMO rule development to take into account. Credit Aker Arctic Technology Inc.
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    A necessary start with some unnecessary confusion

    2014-10-08T09:30:00Z

    The latest draft of the Polar Code has been met with mixed feelings, says Wendy Laursen.

  • LNG carrier, 1964 vintage, the ‘Jules Verne’
    News

    Sulzer to the fore

    2014-10-08T09:29:00Z

    Big news back in October 1964 was that the first licence for building high power Diesel engines in the US had been awarded by Sulzer Bros to Nordberg Manufacturing.

  • News

    The Jones Act market

    2014-10-08T09:29:00Z

    The US Jones Act generally restricts the marine transportation of cargo and passengers between points in the US (including non-contiguous areas) to vessels built in the US and registered under the US flag, manned by predominately US crews and 75%-owned and controlled by US citizens.

  • KHI’s Kobe yard is used to very dense sub construction
    News

    From submarines to support vessels

    2014-10-08T09:28:00Z

    Some people may have raised an eyebrow at Island Offshore’s recent decision to take the first Rolls-Royce UT777 design to a Japanese yard that doesn’t, so far, have a record of offshore builds, writes Stevie Knight.

  • ‘Amazon Warrior’ puts the Flensburger stamp on a highly sophisticated segment of the offshore market
    News

    Purpose-built for long-endurance seismic survey anywhere

    2014-10-08T09:28:00Z

    WesternGeco’s ‘Amazon Warrior’ is a testament both to growing demand and the increasing technological and operational challenges in the high-density segment of the marine seismic data acquisition market. David Tinsley reports.

  • The Aker Philadelphia-built ‘Liberty Bay’ has been assigned to the conveyance of crude oil from Alaska to US west coast refineries. (Aker Philadelphia Shipyard)
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    Jones Act Aframax gives new dimension to US shipbuilding

    2014-10-08T09:28:00Z

    The largest vessel built to date by Aker Philadephia Shipyard is testament to increased US industrial capabilities in support of growth in domestic energy production and economic activity, writes David Tinsley.

  • 'Island Performer' was delivered in a record breaking 18 months. Photo: Ulstein Group/Marius Beck Dahle
    News

    'Island Performer': inventive inheritance

    2014-10-08T09:27:00Z

    What was wanted was an ''SUV of the ocean’, a demanding build customised not only for riserless light well intervention (RLWI) but also for IMR work. However, ‘says Stevie Knight, ''Island Performer'' was delivered by Ulstein against the clock, a mere 18 months from signing.

  • The standard paint guarantee from coating suppliers allows for some fouling before a claim can be made.
    News

    The challenges of measuring real vessel performance

    2014-10-08T09:27:00Z

    Dr Raouf Kattan, managing director of Safinah, co-wrote, with Dr R.L. Townsin (Safinah) and V.N. Armstrong (ApolloSOS), a paper on the complexity of coating performance measurement for shipowners which was presented at the recent ICMCF in Singapore. Wendy Laursen reports.

  • Farstad’s UT 754 WP 'Far Solitaire' was the first Rolls-Royce UT design to be built with a wave piercing bow
    News

    The UT story: 40 years of vessel success

    2014-10-08T09:27:00Z

    New designs and concepts continue to flow from the Rolls-Royce offshore family; John Barnes looks at the 40-year history of the UT family of offshore support ships.

  • Sigmacover 580 is an epoxy anticorrosive/tiecoat for underwater hulls
    News

    Paint technology responds to industry needs

    2014-10-08T09:26:00Z

    The marine coatings industry has experienced a period of intense product innovation over the last 25 years, responding both to regulation and the changing needs of shipowners, according to Sijmen Visser, global marketing manager marine, PPG Protective and Marine Coatings

  • Liquidity and a lack of finance remain barriers for the uptake of clean technologies within the shipping industry.
    News

    Controlling costs and gaining carbon credits

    2014-10-08T09:26:00Z

    Trevor Solomon, Intersleek Business Manager, at International, Akzo Nobel’s marine coatings business discusses the company’s carbon credits offer with Wendy Laursen.

  • Siem Offshore's pair of Well Intervention Vessels will be using Wärtsilä gensets
    News

    One million dollar button

    2014-10-08T09:26:00Z

    “They call it the ‘one million dollar button’ but in fact the cost of hitting it is several million dollars,” Matthias Becker of Wärtsilä tells Stevie Knight.

  • Lucas Zaat: How we respond will set the path for the future. One thing for sure is, we can’t be afford to be afraid
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    Lucas Zaat: Less protection, more innovation

    2014-10-08T09:25:00Z

    Running stability calculations for a salvage company in the middle 80s, “was intense – like being involved in a big rescue operation” but Lucas Zaat admits he never knew exactly how any mobilisation was going to work out.

  • News

    Ukranian shipbuilding faces serious crisis

    2014-10-08T09:24:00Z

    Ukranian shipbuilding is on the verge of a serious crisis, due to the breakdown in relations with Russia and termination of the $4 billion contract between the two sides, writes Eugene Gerden.

  • WesPac focuses on LNG infrastructure projects in the high horsepower markets
    News

    WesPac forms LNG partnership

    2014-10-07T16:15:00Z

    WesPac LLC and Clean Marine Energy LLC (CME) have formed a strategic partnership to fund LNG engine upgrades and supply LNG fuel to shipowners using CME’s Emissions Compliance Service Agreement (ECSA).

  • News

    Russia forced to withdraw from large shipbuilding in Crimea

    2014-10-06T17:15:00Z

    The Russian government will be forced to back down from earlier plans for building of large commercial ships at Crimean shipyards, writes Eugene Gerden.

  • The FCM One integrates heating functions, cooling functions and much more in the same module driven by the same controller
    News

    The 'one' for fuel conditioning challenges?

    2014-10-06T17:06:00Z

    Alfa Laval’s says it has come up with one solution to today’s fuel conditioning challenges – the new FCM One booster system.