All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 693
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NewsChinese group names first high-end OSV
The Chinese private shipbuilder Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group’s Zhejiang yard has named its first high-end offshore support vessels, being built for the French Bourbon group.
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NewsUlstein grows its Dutch business
The Norwegian Ulstein Group and Netherlands based IDEA Heavy Equipment have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), which outlines the proposed cooperation between the two companies.
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NewsMore contracts for Ulstein in Brazil
Ulstein has signed two ship design contracts with Brazilian Shipyard Alianca to build two PX105 platform supply vessels for Brazilian owner CBO. Like four previously-ordered CBO PSVs, they will feature the X-bow design.
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Hempel to produce paint in Russia
Danish coatings supplier Hempel has signed an agreement to establish a paint production facility in Russia.
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NewsOSV installs MPM package
UK-based Marine Software has supplied Dubai based Seacor Offshore with its Marine Planned Maintenance (MPM) package for Seacor’s diesel-electric DP2 anchor handler John Coghill.
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NewsOffshore orders for Australian builder
Western Australian company Strategic Marine has signed another repeat order with Western Australian company Bhagwan Marine, also of Western Australia, to deliver two offshore landing craft vessels.
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Change gathers pace – at last
Looking through the archive collection of The Motor Ship in our offices, it was interesting to note that even as far back as the 1930s it was being forecast that the earth’s oil resources could run out in less than 20 years.
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NewsTechnology outlook 2020 from DNV
It seems customary at the moment to try and predict the future of shipping. At SMM 2010, we were given Wärtsilä’s Shipping Scenarios 2030, and at Nor-Shipping 2011, Det Norske Veritas will present its view of where the maritime business – and the other industries with which DNV is involved ...
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NewsGermany goes for high-tech emergency towing vessel
On 1 January 2011 the new German Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) ''Nordic'' sailed from Cuxhaven to take up station off Norderney on Germany’s North Sea coast. The powerful, purpose built ship is one of the latest and most sophisticated ETVs to enter service anywhere. Nordic was designed for the sole ...
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NewsSplit bearings prevent ship layovers
UK company Revolvo says that its split roller bearings can prevent unplanned layovers resulting from bearing failures in marine shaft propulsion systems.
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NewsModern shipbuilder chooses laser measurement
Measurement specialist Hexagon Metrology describes how the surveying team at German yard Meyer Werft uses Leica Geosystems instruments to maintain build quality of its cruise ships. By Andreas Petrosino.
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NewsWärtsilä capitalises on buoyant Mid East market
Boiler servicing and modification business is booming in the Gulf, according to Wärtsilä Dubai boss, Ad J.W. Bertens.
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NewsLaw aims to shake up Russian shipbuilding
Russian shipbuilding and shipping are on the verge of big changes, which may follow the adoption of a long-awaited law ‘On the measures to support Russian shipbuilding and shipping’, which is currently under government consideration.
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NewsUltra low-speed engines for VLCCs make economic sense
Recent developments in low-speed diesel engines have made it possible to offer solutions which will enable significantly lower transportation costs and emissions for VLCCs, according to a paper compiled by MAN Diesel & Turbo.
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NewsClean and green cargo systems
The drive for more clean and green cargo ships is now penetrating down into the way the cargo is handled, writes Mark Langdon
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NewsDNV – foot on the gas
As political unrest spreads across the Middle East from one country to another, there is growing concern over the security of oil supplies and the impact of soaring oil prices on the world economy.
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NewsKeeping to schedule
Dag Pike looks at the need to maintain timetables, which can expose the disadvantages of operating slower ships, besides the well-known environmental benefits.
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NewsMarine gear oil designed for thrusters operating in extreme conditions
ExxonMobil Marine Lubricants has introduced Mobilgear SHC MT 68, which the company says is a fully synthetic extreme pressure (EP) marine gear oil formulated to optimise the performance of equipment operating under extreme conditions.
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NewsTransmission partnership offers bigger drive products
Mechanical power transmissions company Centa Transmissions, which designs, manufactures and supplies flexible couplings, gears and gearboxes, says that it can now offer larger marine drive solutions.
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NewsUlstein delivers another X-bow PSV
Ulstein’s popular PX105 design received further endorsement when yard number 288, the platform supply vessel ‘Rem Hrist’, was delivered to a Norwegian offshore operator at the beginning of March 2011.
