All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 679

  • News

    Software ordered by Chinese yard

    2011-07-12T10:55:00Z

    Aveva says that its Aveva Mars system has been selected by Guangxin Shipbuilding & Heavy Industry. The system, described as an “enterprise resource management system” will be used to optimise GSHI’s shipbuilding process.

  • Recently-delivered AHTS 'Crest Olympus'
    News

    Dubai company delivers OSV from Indonesia

    2011-07-12T10:53:00Z

    Drydocks World of Dubai has announced the delivery an anchor handling offshore support vessel built at the company’s yard in Nanindah, Indonesia, for Singapore-based Pacific Crest.

  • News

    Voluntary onboard tests improve training standards

    2011-07-11T17:17:00Z

    Videotel Marine International is pioneering a new voluntary crew knowledge and proficiency (CKP) testing system by randomly testing officers’ operational knowledge.

  • News

    DP system ordered for bio-fuel ship

    2011-07-11T17:17:00Z

    Finnish developer Navis Engineering has won a contract from STX Finland to supply a NavDP4000 DP technology to Aura II, currently under construction in Turku, Finland and due for delivery in 2012.

  • The new Sener office is staffed by a team of naval architects, including (pictured from right) Country Manager Mun-Seob Cho, Technical Manager Doo-Jin Lee and Consultants Min-Bong Park and Yeong-Ho Kim
    News

    CAD/CAM company opens in Korea

    2011-07-11T17:15:00Z

    Sener of Spain has set up a new office in Busan to provide improved sales and technical support to its Foran customer base in South Korea and neighbouring countries.

  • PrimeShip HULL (Rules) screen shot
    News

    New structure software version issued

    2011-07-08T17:43:00Z

    ClassNK has released version 5.0 of its structural assessment software programs PrimeShip-HULL(Rules) and PrimeShip-HULL(DSA), which are in use by shipyards globally.

  • ClassNK chairman and president Noboru Ueda (centre) welcomes Jan Jankowski of PRS (left) and Zlatko Zulim of CRS (right) to the IACS Council.
    News

    Bring Class into the 21st Century

    2011-07-08T16:45:00Z

    Retiring IACS chairman Noboru Ueda of ClassNK says the association must play an expanded role in the future, to better meet the changing needs of the industry, and bring classification into the 21st century.

  • The agreement was signed at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington by Rear Admiral Paul F. Zukunft (Assistant Commandant for marine safety, security and stewardship) USCG and Ugo Salerno, CEO, RINA
    News

    USCG approval for RINA

    2011-07-08T13:22:00Z

    Italian classification society RINA says that it has been authorised by the US Coast Guard to conduct plan review and approval and initial and subsequent surveys for US-flagged cargo and passenger vessels.

  • News

    VLCC oversupply relieved by slow deliveries

    2011-07-07T13:08:00Z

    Market analysis by Braemar Shipping Services shows a continuing over-supply of VLCC tonnage.

  • Cable ships provide a typical application for VSAT systems
    News

    Consilium moves into VSAT

    2011-07-06T17:16:00Z

    Supplier of marine products and services Consilium Marine Group has signed a global cooperation agreement with communications solutions integrator Orange Business Services.

  • The Sovcomflot icebreaker design
    News

    Russian icebreakers begin build

    2011-07-06T17:16:00Z

    Production has begun at STX Europe’s Vyborg shipyard of two multi-purpose icebreaking service vessels, ordered from Arctech Helsinki Shipyard by Sovcomflot in December 2010. Both are scheduled for April 2013 delivery.

  • News

    DNV acquires software company

    2011-07-06T17:15:00Z

    Det Norske Veritas has acquired Norwegian risk management software company Synergi Solutions, which extends DNV’s portfolio to include risk based software for operational risk management.

  • Maersk Drilling's large drillship design; two more ordered from Samsung
    News

    Maersk exercises drillship option

    2011-07-06T17:14:00Z

    Maersk Drilling has declared its option to build two ultra deepwater drillships at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, at a cost of about $1.3 billion, for delivery in the second and third quarters of 2014.

  • ‘Atlantic Labrador’, being converted into accommodation at Vlissingen
    News

    Jack-up conversion gets underway

    2011-07-06T17:14:00Z

    Dutch company Alewijnse Marine Systems says it is playing a significant role in the conversion of the jack-up drill rig Atlantic Labrador to offshore hotel accommodation.

  • MHI’s 300-ton jib crane
    News

    Japanese yard completes upgrade

    2011-07-06T17:13:00Z

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) says it has completed the modernisation of its Enoura shipbuilding facility at the Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

  • News

    ICS backs MBMs for carbon reduction

    2011-07-06T17:13:00Z

    The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is calling on governments to support next week’s vote at the IMO, which it says will help shipping deliver meaningful CO2 emissions reductions on a global basis.

  • The Zodiac MES ESS escape system installed on the ‘Älvsnabben 4’
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    First Scandinavian MES installation

    2011-07-06T17:12:00Z

    Zodiac reports that Swedish ferry operator Stirsöbolage has become the first Scandinavian company to benefit from its new MES ESS automatic escape slide, with three 3.4m slides installed onboard the Älvsnabben 4.

  • News

    Liferaft exchange goes global

    2011-07-06T17:12:00Z

    Wilhelmsen Ships Service says it has opened eight new liferaft servicing stations so far in 2011 to provide ready-serviced liferafts to vessels that have signed up to its LRE scheme.

  • News

    Bunker supplier expands to India

    2011-07-06T17:11:00Z

    OW Bunker, the supplier and trader of marine fuel, is opening a new support operation in Mumbai, India, which it says will enable further strengthening of the group in the fast-growing BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries

  • The BIMS control unit
    News

    Measurement reduces rudder hysteresis

    2011-07-05T16:37:00Z

    German company Becker Marine Systems has introduced BIMS (Becker intelligent monitoring system) which it says overcomes delays and improves dynamic positioning (DP) and autopilot (AP) systems.