All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 703

  • Maersk’s new 18,000 TEU boxships – an indicator of good times ahead?
    News

    Maersk contract benefits Korean yards

    2011-03-03T12:27:00Z

    Following last week’s announcement of a 10-ship order, with options for further vessels, placed with Daewoo by Maersk Line, shares in Daewoo and other Korean yards are soaring in value.

  • News

    Shanghai launches marine investment fund

    2011-03-03T12:26:00Z

    As part of the Shanghai local government’s plan for the city to become an international shipping centre by 2020, the local government has launched a RMB 50 billion ($7.6 billion) fund to invest in the city’s nascent shipping and shipbuilding industry.

  • Wärtsilä’s 50DF engine has been chosen for the largest LNG-fuelled passenger ferry to date
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    Gas engines ordered for ‘green’ ferry

    2011-03-03T08:25:00Z

    Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the propulsion machinery to STX Finland for the new environmentally-friendly passenger ferry being built for Finnish operator Viking Line.

  • TTS Marine has won more car carrier cargo access equipment orders
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    Car carrier cargo contracts continue

    2011-03-02T18:53:00Z

    Norwegian company TTS Marine reports that it is still winning contracts from car carrier builders for cargo access equipment, two additional contracts havimg recently been received for ro-ro equipment.

  • Wärtsilä’s competitive, easy-to-install waterjet package for a shaft power of up to 4,500kW
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    New mid-size waterjet series from Wärtsilä

    2011-03-02T14:56:00Z

    A new mid-size range of Wärtsilä waterjet s features ''plug & play'' installation, inboard hydraulics, ease of maintenance and improved economic and environmental performance.

  • News

    Navigation systems contract for Canadian Coast Guard ships

    2011-03-02T14:50:00Z

    The Sperry Marine division of Northrop Grumman Corporation is to supply bridge navigation systems for nine new mid-shore patrol vessels to be built for the Canadian Coast Guard.

  • News

    ESAB to sponsor welding competition again

    2011-03-02T14:47:00Z

    ESAB Group (UK) says that it will be sponsoring the third annual ShipWeld competition. As before, the competition will comprise inter-yard competitions, with awards for apprentice welders.

  • News

    First ship to employ silicon anti-fouling

    2011-03-02T14:27:00Z

    Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has announced that its 38,000-class bulk carrier now under construction at the Minaminippon Shipbuilding will be the first ship to use International’s new silicon-based anti-fouling paint.

  • Sea Marshall’s AU9 commercial PLB
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    Safety companies join forces

    2011-03-02T14:20:00Z

    Australian marine safety equipment provider Mobilarm is joining forces with Marine Rescue Technologies, the company behind the Sea Marshall PLB brand. Mobilarm has entered a sale and purchase agreement which covers all MRT assets, including the entire Sea Marshall product line.

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    Global shipping chiefs focus on piracy

    2011-03-02T14:15:00Z

    Shipping companies and associations have joined forces in a campaign to press national governments to crackdown on piracy.

  • MHI’s turbine-powered ‘Eco-ship’ LNG carrier concept design has been ordered by NYK
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    NYK orders ‘green’ LNG turbine ship

    2011-03-02T14:10:00Z

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order from Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) for a LNG carrier capable of marked reductions in fuel consumption.

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    Gauge offers faster thickness measurement

    2011-03-02T14:04:00Z

    UK company Elcometer has launched what it describes as its “next generation” of its digital thickness gauge, the Elcometer 456.

  • IMO’s London HQ – scene of the latest anti-piracy discussions
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    Piracy comes under IMO spotlight

    2011-03-02T13:58:00Z

    Within the context of International Maritime Organization’s World Maritime Day theme ‘Piracy: orchestrating the response’, a meeting took place on 28 February at IMO headquarters.

  • News

    New owner for UK shiprepairer

    2011-03-02T13:54:00Z

    UK-based business A&P Group, which operates three ship repair, conversion and fabrication yards, has been acquired by a consortium including Atlantic & Peninsula Marine Services and private investors including the directors of Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders.

  • Hatteland will provide hardware for Transas' ECDIS
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    Hatteland to provide Transas ECDIS hardware

    2011-03-02T13:51:00Z

    Norwegian company Hatteland Display says it has been selected by Transas Marine as a supplier of dedicated hardware for the new generation Transas ECDIS system.

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    Sulphur directive help from class

    2011-03-01T14:01:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register''s FOBAS says that it can provides answers to shipowners’ key questions related to the ‘at berth’ requirements of EC Directive 2005/33/EC .

  • Demonstration model at Warsash showing positions of Flettner rotors
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    Harnessing the wind

    2011-03-01T10:00:00Z

    Greenwave, a UK registered charity that exists to remind the shipping industry of its environmental obligations and to find practical, meaningful and affordable ways to meet them, has been looking at the concept of developing wind engines (article reproduced by kind permission of Lloyd''s Register).

  • ‘Spirit of Britain’, the largest ferry ever designed for the Dover Strait, undergoing sea trials
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    New Dover Strait ferry makes big impact

    2011-03-01T10:00:00Z

    Last month the new ropax ferry ‘Spirit of Britain’ went into service on the P&O Ferries’ English Channel service and more than doubled the freight-carrying capacity of the vessel it replaced.

  • UKHO Admiralty Information Overlay on Transas Navi-Sailor ECDIS screen
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    ECDIS features information overlay

    2011-02-28T23:45:00Z

    Transas says that its Navi-Sailor ECDIS is the first to feature compatibility with the UKHO’s AIO (Admiralty information overlay). The overlay includes all temporary and preliminary notices to mariners (T&P NMs) and provides navigationally significant information from UKHO’s ENC validation programme.

  • News

    ECDIS support offers ‘zero downtime’

    2011-02-28T16:41:00Z

    Norwegian electronic navigation company Maris has launched a new product support service known as ‘Zero downtime ECDIS’, which is intended to ensure that electronic chart display information systems are available at all times.