All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 587

  • Transas had a large market for cruise ship modelling last year
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    Transas ship modelling for cruisers

    2013-02-19T17:37:00Z

    The Transas ship modelling and hydrodynamics department did high fidelity modelling for more than 10 global cruise vessels last year – a market for which it’s hoping to get more business in this year.

  • Sailors’ Society’s port chaplain of Vitoria, Brazil, gives support to a hospitalised seafarer
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    Gulf Oil and Sailors’ Society join to support seafarers

    2013-02-19T17:28:00Z

    Global marine lubricant marketer, Gulf Oil Marine, has announced a mutli year partnering agreement with international maritime charity, the Sailors’ Society, to offer support for seafarers.

  • Cosalt PLC has been struggling for a long time
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    NBGI acquires Cosalt Offshore

    2013-02-19T17:16:00Z

    NBGI Private Equity, investor in Scotland based equipment specialist, ATR Group, has acquired the Aberdeen and Norway operations of Grimsby based maritime safety equipment company, Cosalt Offshore.

  • Mobile applications with dual spray mode and jet mode for lancing distances give firefighters an advantage
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    Fire safety for support vessels

    2013-02-19T15:30:00Z

    Support vessels bring unique challenges to fire safety: flammable cargos and a deck space which is often taken up by heavy machinery.

  • Experience without the danger is the aim of Transas’ new simulator
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    Taking trainees to the edge (without dropping them over)

    2013-02-18T23:00:00Z

    Training simulators are very useful, especially when you need to show how difficult things can get, without endangering a vessel, crew or even getting your shoes wet.

  • TCC operates a fleet of tankers and dry bulkers, and wants to make their engines cleaner
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    USC works on ‘greening’ sea transport

    2013-02-18T16:34:00Z

    Researchers from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering have been collaborating with Hong Kong shipowner Tai Chong Cheang Steamship Co (TCC) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by marine diesel engines.

  • Market outlook of offshore wind turbine installations until year 2023; currently around 1GW is being installed annually rising to 5GW - this means 250 to 1,000 turbines installed per year
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    GL studies design of offshore windfarm installation and supply vessels

    2013-02-18T16:33:00Z

    Henrik Segercrantz describes a recent study by Germanisher Lloyd on development of windfarm projects, and the requirements for turbines, construction vessels and the support fleet.

  • Some are concerned that detentions may rise with ILO MLC implementation. Photo: MCA
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    Grounds for detention

    2013-02-18T16:31:00Z

    On one hand you have Lloyds Register working hard to provide easy to read regulation guides and checklists which, as Nigel Carden of Thomas Miller P&I says “gets rid of some of the verbiage and brings it down to bullet points”.

  • Ice navigation promises to save time, fuel and emissions, but at a probable cost
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    Ice navigation encourages new technologies

    2013-02-18T16:26:00Z

    It is a very rare occurrence these days when a new sea route opens up; now the traditional trading rotesm plus the later additions of the Suez and Panama Canals are being supplemented by the Arctic. Dag Pike considers the implications.

  • ‘Hamburg Express’, Hapag-Lloyd’s newest and largest, protected by International
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    Coatings for new mega-boxship

    2013-02-18T16:26:00Z

    International Paint says that Hapag-Lloyd has again chosen its coatings for its latest container ship, the 13,200TEU ‘Hamburg Express’, first in a class of 10 newbuildings from Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea.

  • Three LNG-powered multi-purpose vessels have been built at Kleven, and are owned and managed by Remøy for the Norwegian Coastguard
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    Norwegian Coastguard ships feature LNG fuel and novel rescue gear

    2013-02-18T16:26:00Z

    In 2011, the Norwegian Coastguard took delivery of the first of its class of innovative multi-purpose ships built by Kleven Maritime. Stevie Knight reports on experience so far.

  • Example installation in the separator room of a vessel
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    On-line measurement of catalytic fines in HFO systems

    2013-02-18T16:26:00Z

    Chris Marine is marketing a device to continuously monitor cat fines levels in fuel treatment systems, which can transmit results to the superintendent’s office on shore. The company describes the problem, and its proposed solution.

  • Cotunav's 52,645gt ‘Tanit’, built by Daewoo, has boosted capacity and service quality on Tunisian links with southern Europe
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    Ferry project captures spirit of resurgent Tunisia

    2013-02-18T16:26:00Z

    David Tinsley looks at a recently-delivered large cruise ferry, built at DSME in Korea, which is designed to serve Tunisia’s links with Europe, and is built for speed as well as comfort.

  • ‘Balder’, with EGCS installed in a new funnel, leaves the yard after drydocking
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    Bulker receives EGCS retrofit

    2013-02-18T16:26:00Z

    Norwegian company Clean Marine has developed an exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) to remove sulphur and particulate matter from the exhaust gas by mixing sodium hydroxide aqueous solution and water with the exhaust gas.

  • In 2007 the global shipping industry emitted 1,046 million tonnes of CO2, some 3.3% of total global emissions
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    Bridging the environmental gap in shipping

    2013-02-18T16:26:00Z

    Ship operators need to rationalise their energy use in the face of current and anticipated legislation, increasing customer environmental awareness among cargo owners and passengers plus fuel cost rises, says Stuart Melling, manager for marine and crane service at ABB.

  • Parker Procal analyser mounted onboard a ship
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    Payback on sensors not assured

    2013-02-18T16:26:00Z

    The role of air emissions monitoring sensors is only just being clarified as SOx and NOx regulations loom. Wendy Laursen looks at the present situation.

  • The Marine Service LNG fuel tank container
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    Reliable and safe LNG supply for ships

    2013-02-18T16:25:00Z

    German consultancy Marine Service has developed a containerised LNG fuel tank for gas-fuelled ships, which the company claims as a world first.

  • The KRAL Volumeter from the OMG 32 series with new sensor technology
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    New sensor system for fuel flow measurement

    2013-02-18T16:25:00Z

    Austrian company Kral has recently introduced new sensors for its Volumeter liquid flow measurement technology.

  • The ‘Costa Concordia’ sinking will be painful for underwriters (Rvongher, Wikimedia)
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    Few signs of optimism in hull and machinery insurance

    2013-02-18T16:25:00Z

    After another gloomy year for marine insurers, will 2013 be a pivotal year for underwriters? Will the market turn up? The signs are not encouraging, writes Denzil Stuart.

  • Vessgard EXT after two years’ service
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    Exterior encapsulation product goes offshore and into newbuilds

    2013-02-18T16:25:00Z

    UK based specialist polymer coatings development and applications company CAPPS International reports success with its latest product, CAPPS Vessgard EXT, an advanced polyurethane encapsulation technology for protection of marine and offshore exterior surfaces and structures.