All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 562

  • Eitzen is applying Jotun's HPS to two of its largest chemical tankers
    News

    Energy-efficient coatings for chemical tankers

    2013-09-04T15:19:00Z

    Tanker operator Eitzen Chemical is implementing Jotun''s Hull Performance Solutions (HPS) system on two of its largest chemical carriers.

  • "K" Line's next generation carriers will be more energy efficient, with a wider beam than existing ships
    News

    New generation car carriers

    2013-09-04T15:19:00Z

    Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, otherwise known as “K” Line, has reached agreements with two shipbuilders to build four next generation car carrier vessels.

  • ‘Balder’ – first scrubber-equipped ship to legally use high sulphur fuel in the US ECA
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    Scrubber proves itself in US ECA

    2013-09-04T15:16:00Z

    Norwegian company Clean Marine says that its exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) from has clocked up a world first, by becoming the first EGCS to operate in the US emission control area (ECA).

  • Port state control inspections will be easier with the MLC checklist
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    KR to supply new EMSA to Paris

    2013-09-03T14:06:00Z

    The Korean Register (KR) is to supply the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) with a new generation ‘RuleCheck’ system for port state control officers (PSCOs) in the Paris MOU region.

  • Oceanfoil’s technology is to be further developed and applied to an actual ship to produce realistic predictions, in partnership with Owen Clarke Design and UCL-Energy
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    Boost for wind technology development

    2013-09-03T13:48:00Z

    UK-based marine aerofoil technology company Oceanfoil says that it has formed partnerships with naval architects Owen Clarke Design and University College London’s Energy Institute (UCL-Energy) to further develop the company’s wingsails for auxiliary ship propulsion.

  • LNG-fuelled ships could become a common sight in European waters, thanks to the recent round of TEN-T grants
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    Europe backs LNG ship fuel option

    2013-09-02T19:24:00Z

    The European TEN-T (Trans-European Network for Transport) programme recently announced funding for several major projects designed to encourage setting up of LNG bunkering facilities for ships in Europe.

  • Wärtsilä's solutions will reduce operating costs and promote environmentally sustinable shipping
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    Wärtsilä design for LNG powered PSV

    2013-09-02T12:49:00Z

    Wärtsilä is to supply the design and integrated solutions for a new LNG powered large platform supply vessel (PSV) for Siem Offshore.

  • The 2013 Gas Fuelled Ships conference, to be held onboard the ‘Viking Grace’, will include live ship-to-ship bunkering
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    Gas Fuelled Ships Conference draws near

    2013-09-01T18:59:00Z

    It is not too late to book places at the 4th Motorship Gas Fuelled Ships Conference, to be held on 11-12 September 2013, onboard the LNG-fuelled cruise ferry ‘Viking Grace’, as it sails between Stockholm and Turku.

  • Module handling tower view from top
    News

    Running right through the middle

    2013-09-01T13:52:00Z

    The new round of heavy, expensive but comparatively fragile subsea modules are once more pushing against the limits of their deployment equipment and, according to Stevie Knight, are prompting a rethink.

  • The 'Rem Installer' with its 250 tonne crane by TTS
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    Holding costs down in the deep end

    2013-09-01T13:51:00Z

    There’s more tonnage needed in the subsea construction market, but vessels are expensive, so any innovation that can help keep the rates down may well prove popular, writes Stevie Knight

  • The Kleven Verft Yard will soon have robots helping the build process gain speed
    News

    Robots gain the advantage

    2013-09-01T13:50:00Z

    Innovative automation taking place at the Kleven Verft yard in Ulsteinvik is looking to make the most out of a car-technology crossover which has been shaving time and costs from other industries, writes Stevie Knight.

  • Bunkering vessels like NLI's HighTechBarge design may well fill a gap in the market
    News

    Connecting the disconnect

    2013-09-01T13:49:00Z

    The issue with LNG power so far has been the disconnect between the large ocean going carriers and the bunkering facilities available in ports for vessels such as PSVs, Thanos Koliopulos, global special projects manager for Lloyd’s Register, tells Stevie Knight.

  • Many are now looking toward the subsea construction sector to provide a market boost
    News

    Playing the OSV guessing game

    2013-09-01T13:44:00Z

    Many of the new rigs expected to come into the North Sea region around end 2015 to 2016 will be bigger than the previous generation, but it’s unclear yet if the new rigs and PSVs will help or hinder the support market, writes Stevie Knight.

  • Rolls-royce’s ‘Unified Bridge’
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    A bridge over troubled water

    2013-09-01T13:43:00Z

    While multiple strands of technology are a necessity for support vessels, Stevie Knight says that it seems some users are being caught in the knot that’s been slowly tying up the bridge.

  • News

    Heading for a log jam

    2013-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Shipping and shipbuilding could, say some commentators, fall apart in the next few years. A lack of any sense of urgency seems to be to blame.

  • The 'Aleksey Chirikov' has just joined sister ship 'Vitus Bering' in the ice-laden Sakhalin-1 ArkutunDagi oil and gas field
    News

    No freeze to icebound operations

    2013-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The distinctive foredeck covers of the recently delivered ice-support vessels ''Aleksey Chirikov'' and ''Vitus Bering'' sweep upward from the bow to near level with the wheelhouse, making both ships instantly recognisable. But will there be more? asks Stevie Knight.

  • Crestchic loadbanks are used for shipyard tests, and can be installed onboard
    News

    Reactive or resistive

    2013-08-31T23:31:00Z

    Paul Brickman, sales and marketing manager of Crestchic, looks at optimisation of testing for power generation in shipbuilding applications.

  • The Port of Ystad demonstrated shore power being connected to the ferry ‘Skania’
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    Swedish ports take the lead in shore power

    2013-08-31T23:31:00Z

    Recently, the Port of Ystad in southern Sweden played host to an event demonstrating the benefits of shore-to-ship power systems.

  • ‘Royal Princess’ at sea
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    Fincantieri’s largest-ever continues cruise tradition

    2013-08-31T23:31:00Z

    The new flagship of the Carnival Group’s Princess Cruises fleet, ‘Royal Princess’, is the largest ship to have been built by the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri.

  • The Bernard C. Webber is the first of the new Sentinel class vessels, launched in April 2011 (Picture. USCG)
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    MTU power for US Coast Guard

    2013-08-31T23:31:00Z

    The US Coast Guard’s latest class of fast response cutter relies, as did several of its predecessors, on MTU engines. Adapted from an article by Mike Principato, first published in ‘MTU Review’