All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 553

  • Alexia 80 relative performance vs closest operating conditions in Bolnes corrosive regime (reference oil Alexia 50)
    News

    Two new high base number cylinder oils from Shell

    2013-11-05T18:13:00Z

    Shell Marine Lubricants is introducing two new products to the Shell Alexia range of cylinder oils for large high-performance two-stroke marine engines.

  • Melanie Schultz: "Intelligent, clean shipping is the future."
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    Level playing field at Europort 2013

    2013-11-05T16:24:00Z

    This year’s Europort was opened this week by Melanie Schultz van Haegen, minister of infrastructure and the environment of the Netherlands, who called for a sustained innovation and an “international level playing field”.

  • The ‘MOL Comfort’  incident is being used to establish countermeasures to prevent the occurrence of similar casualties in the future
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    MOL Comfort preliminary findings

    2013-11-05T15:19:00Z

    The ClassNK Casualty Investigation Team has released preliminary findings and safety measures following the loss of the container vessel MOL Comfort.

  • News

    Maersk orders new MR vessels

    2013-11-04T17:35:00Z

    Maersk Tankers has ordered four new MR vessels with South Korea’s Sungdong Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering as part of its strategy to gradually update its fleet.

  • GE's DPS is more "mariner friendly"
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    GE Power advanced Hornbeck subsea vessels

    2013-11-04T09:30:00Z

    GE Power is to supply its latest generation dynamic positioning (DP) technology for Hornbeck Offshore’s four new multipurpose supply vessels (MPSVs).

  • Szczecin shipyard - photo by Nanc1, Wikipedia Commons
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    Kleven eyeing investment in Polish shipyard

    2013-11-04T08:17:00Z

    Norwegian shipbuilder Kleven is planning to invest in Poland’s bankrupt Nowa Shipyard in Szczecin, according to reports in the local media, writes Jaroslaw Adamowski.

  • News

    Shipyard De Hoop secures PSV contract

    2013-11-01T17:02:00Z

    Shipyard De Hoop is to build its newly designed platform supply vessel (PSV) for Trinidad’s Delta Logistics.

  • News

    WSS dry docking solution

    2013-11-01T14:00:00Z

    Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has launched a new streamlined dry docking service which aims to integrate ships agency, safety and equipment services into a single source.

  • Hyundai is set to raise the competitive tempo in the wide-bore medium-speed engine market with the HiMSEN H46/60V
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    Hyundai shows its mettle with powerful new medium-speed

    2013-11-01T13:59:00Z

    David Tinsley explains how, In the unerring drive to expand the market reach of its home-grown HiMSEN range of four-stroke engines, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is preparing to launch the H46/60V diesel, the brand’s most powerful design to date.

  • News

    287 large bore engines on order

    2013-11-01T00:30:00Z

    The hot topic in the November 1963 issue of The Motor Ship continued to be large bore engines. The fact that these were now firmly established in the ship propulsion universe was borne out by a five-page list of such engines in service and on order, grouped by engine type.

  • News

    Keeping the news alive

    2013-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Much has changed in maritime publishing in the last few years, and we are now very much part of the digital revolution.

  • Caterpillar’s M46DF engine features new cylinder pressure based control strategies, as reported to the CIMAC Congress 2013
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    Dual-fuel MaK engine hosts advance in control technology

    2013-10-31T23:00:00Z

    David Tinsley looks at the MaK dual fuel engine range, the first of which has now been shipped by the Caterpillar corporation for installation in a newbuild cruise vessel.

  • 'Europa 2' is the world's first cruise ship to be awarded EEDI certification
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    EEDI first for Hapag-Lloyd ship

    2013-10-31T17:26:00Z

    Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ new cruise ship, ‘Europa 2’, has become the first in the world to be awarded Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) certification by Germanischer Lloyd.

  • Ulstein's designs have pushed past the 100
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    Ulstein reaches design milestone

    2013-10-31T12:54:00Z

    Ulstein has reached a major milestone following its latest contract for Vroon Offshore Services as the total number of offshore ship designs sold by the company passes the 100 mark.

  • Seven new ferries being built in China will be Bakker-Sleidrecht powered
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    Bakker power for Brazilian ferries

    2013-10-31T12:37:00Z

    Netherlands propulsion expert Bakker-Sleidrecht is designing and supplying new drive systems for seven new Brazilian ferries being built by Afai Southern Shipyard in China.

  • News

    LNG vessels for Qatar

    2013-10-30T15:39:00Z

    Two joint ventures of Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) are to build and operate seven new LNG-related vessels for the Port of Ras Laffan Doha.

  • The PX121 design is set up to support drilling activities with longer and deeper boreholes. Photo: Ulstein Group
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    Ulstein PSV agreement

    2013-10-30T12:30:00Z

    Ulstein is to supply ship design, power and control equipment and on-site follow-up services for two platform supply vessels as part of an agreement with COSCO (Guang Dong) Shipyard.

  • The Switch has launched its next generation energy efficient drive trains for the large merchant shipping sector
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    Game-changing drive trains

    2013-10-30T12:09:00Z

    Finnish power expert, The Switch, has launched its next generation energy efficient drive trains for the large merchant shipping sector.

  • ‘Stavangerfjord’ entered service on Norway-Denmark routes earlier in 2013
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    World’s first cruise ferry using pure gas engine propulsion

    2013-10-29T23:30:00Z

    The first international service passenger ferry operating on purely-LNG-fuelled engines recently entered service on trans-Skagerrak duty, and is described here by David Tinsley.

  • News

    Arctech Helsinki shipyard buy-out

    2013-10-29T17:05:00Z

    Media reports say that the Russian state-owned shipbuilder United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) has bought out Arctech Helsinki Shipyard.