All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 660
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Contract for boxship propulsion packages
An order for supply of engines and propulsion equipment for six new ro-ro container vessels being built in Korea for NSCSA, the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, has been placed with Wärtsilä.
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NewsSecond Irish Sea ro-ro launched at FSG
Irish Sea ro-ro freight operator Seatruck has launched and named the second in its series of four new vessels building at FSG Flensburg in Germany. The ship has been named ‘Seatruck Power’.
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NewsQM2 to visit B+V for interior refit
Cunard has announced that its flagship cruise vessel, the ‘Queen Mary 2’, is shortly to dock at the Blohm & Voss repair yard in Hamburg, Germany, for an extensive interior refit.
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NewsLargest Italian cruise ship enters service
Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Venice, Italy, recently delivered the largest cruise ship flying the Italian flag to Costa Cruises.
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NewsWorld’s first hybrid turbocharged bulk carrier
The Japanese shipowner Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) recently took delivery of a new 180,000dwt bulk carrier, Shin Koho, from the Universal Shipbuilding Corporation’s Tsu Shipyard.
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NewsVersatile, gas-fuelled design for northern waters
Norway’s geography and its distribution of communities and industry has ensured a continuing, important role for coastal and short-sea transportation, writes David Tinsley.
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NewsZF on a roll with several large contracts
Friedrichshafen-based ZF Marine, in conjunction with Dutch company HRP (now ZF Marine Krimpen) has secured a contract with Aberdeen-based global shipping and energy firm, the Craig Group, to supply retractable azimuth thrusters for four 50m stand-by type vessels.
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NewsTanzania gets new catamaran ferry
The Hobart, Tasmania, shipbuilder Richardson Devine Marine (RDM) recently delivered the 38m aluminium catamaran passenger ferry Kilimanjaro III to Coastal Fast Ferries in Tanzania.
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NewsAvoiding the slippery slope to lubricant pollution
Environmental lobby groups are pressing the shipping industry, and its regulators, to move away from traditional oil-based lubricants which are causing significant harm to the global marine environment.
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NewsMarine evacuation systems: a viable alternative to lifeboats
With MES now in its fourth decade it is now a well-proven system with clear advantages in certain applications, says Richard McCormick, Marin-Ark sales manager, Survitec Group.
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NewsBaltic operator to use biofuel in new project cargo carrier
Finnish-based industrial products and general cargo transport group Meriaura added a new dimension to its Baltic and North Sea fleet in 2008 when it commissioned the 4,700dwt multipurpose open deck carrier Aura, targeted at regional heavy-load opportunities.
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NewsGetting lifeboats off the hook
Lifeboat launching systems may finally be getting upgraded but is there a problem with lifeboat maintenance? asks Mark Langdon
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Combating piracy
There are lots of meetings being held on how to combat piracy but how do you go about making your ship less of a target for pirates and how do you stop them getting onboard?
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NewsCaution remains in hull and machinery insurance
The year 2011 has seen the cost of nautical-related marine insurance claims return to former high levels, and new technology is doing nothing to reassure underwriters, as Denzil Stuart reports.
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NewsNon-invasive draught measurement technology from Canada
Dr Iain Weir-Jones, PhD, PEng, of Vancouver-based Weir-Jones Engineering, looks at a system for determining actual draught measurement to improve safety, shiphandling and fuel economy.
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Keep damaged ships afloat
Salvage companies and marine underwriters are keeping an eye on a new initiative that could prevent a damaged ship from sinking.
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NewsNew sea-river coaster class for UK operator
Operating economics and relative shipbuilding costs have fostered a shift towards larger vessels in the European coastal and short-sea trades, reducing the availability of vessels able to access length- or draught-restricted, small ports and harbours, and thereby limiting opportunities for waterborne freight transportation in those areas, writes David Tinsley.
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NewsNon-lethal protection for ships against pirates
Piracy is a serious problem in the Indian Ocean and off the Somali coast. The problem has been with us in that area for several years now, and it was a far back as 2005 when Lodewijk Westerbeek van Eerten of the Netherlands had an idea for combating it.
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Bearing wear monitor adds Korean Registry approval
UK company Amot says that its XTS-W bearing wear monitor has received Korean Registry Approval, in addition to approvals from other classification societies and certification authorities.
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NewsA successful Gas Fuelled Ships conference
The Motorship’s second Gas Fuelled Ships conference, held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, ended on a high note on 27 October. Chairman John Aitken, secretary general of SEAaT, pronounced the two-day event a great success.
