All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 737
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Navy project could expand SA shipbuilding
South African shipbuilding company Damen Shipyards Cape Town, part of the Dutch owned Damen shipbuilding group, would consider expanding its facilities in Cape Town if the South African Navy’s (SAN) Project Biro materialised.
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Leading container lines join forces against piracy
The world’s three largest container shipping companies, CMA CGM, MSC and Maersk Line, have decided to cooperate in the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
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NewsReport backs Iridium for sat phone performance
Iridium says that a comparison report by Frost & Sullivan found that although the equivalent Inmarsat product was cheaper in terms of purchase cost and airtime cost, the Iridium satphone proved superior in all other respects.
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Differing judgements could influence class selection
A complex range of differing legal judgments in recent years has led to greater discrimination on the part of plaintiffs in identifying the most favourable regime for actions involving classification societies.
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News‘Maersk Lancer’ gets anti-glare treatment
South Shields based Solar Solve Marine recently received an order from LV Shipping & Transport to measure, supply and install 15 of its ‘Solasafe’ anti-glare, heat rejecting roller screens to some of the wheelhouse windows on Maersk Lancer.
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NewsMAN to cooperate with gas-tank specialist
MAN Diesel & Turbo has reached agreement with TGE Marine Gas Engineering, market leader and specialist in the design and construction of cargo-handling systems for cryogenic gases, regarding their future cooperation.
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NewsMAN readies gas engine for full-scale testing
MAN Diesel & Turbo plans to carry out full-scale ME-GI testing on a gas fired engine at its Copenhagen test centre.
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NewsNew maritime broadband offering from Furuno
Furuno of Japan is joining with SpeedCast and Eutelsat Communications to launch a new VSAT antenna, the VSAT KU-100.
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Customer services manager for Wilhemsen
Following the establishment of a new customer services base in Melbourne, Australia, Wilhelmsen Ships Service has appointed a customer services manager, Michael Mellefont, to focus on the company’s ship agency and maritime logistics business.
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NewsDNV skills certification for ship manager
Singapore-based Thome Ship Management has become the first third party ship manager to receive full accreditation by DNV SeaSkill for its competency management system.
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Vale finally confirms VLOC order
Vale announces recently that it has entered into agreements with The Export-Import Bank of China and the Bank of China Limited for the financing to build 12 very large ore carriers (VLOC) of 400,000 dwt (Chinamax) at the Rongsheng Heavy Industries shipyard in China.
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NewsIncat Crowther to design Nigerian crew boats
Incat Crowther has signed a contract to design two 30m aluminium monohull crewboats for service in Nigeria.
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Hellenic yard’s future looking brighter
ThyssenKrupp, Abu Dhabi MAR and the Greek government have reached agreement ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), Abu Dhabi MAR and the Greek government have reached agreement on the wording for the contracts regarding the implementation of the framework agreement.
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Frontline restructuring VLCC newbuilding contracts
Frontline, the Bermuda-based tanker company, has reached an agreement with Zhoushan Jinhaiwan Shipyard in China to re-structure its VLCC newbuilding program at the yard
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Diesel Switch solves fuel changeover problem
MAN Diesel & Turbo has developed a system known as Diesel Switch to handle changeover between high and low sulphur fuel in a controlled way to avoid rapid temperature deviations and fuel-pump seizures.
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South Africa to establish ship-repair yard in Congo
The director of the South African Company, SFG, Duncan MacNab, announced that his company would set up a ship-repair yard in Pointe-Noire, the economic and industrial capital of Congo Brazzaville.
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NewsFirst double-ended ferry fitted with VSPs
Voith Turbo Marine in Germany is supplying four slightly modified Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP) to Wyker Dampfschiff-Reederei (WDR) to power the first double-ended ferry in its fleet.
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NewsR-R powers world’s largest gas ferry
Rolls-Royce is to provide gas engines and main azimuth thrusters for a double ended passenger/vehicle ferry to be built for the Norwegian operator Fjord1. The vessel will be the world’s largest gas engined ferry.
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First ever ASV monohull with pod propulsion
Effect Ships International AS in Sandefjord, Norway, has just launched its first air supported vessel (ASV) monohull with pod propulsion. The ASV technology is the result of more than 8 years of dedicated R&D.
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OSX to build Petrobras rigs and tankers
OSX Brasil SA, which is building a shipyard in Brazil with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industry, said that it plans to bid for oil drilling rig and tanker contracts worth $2 billion that Brazil’s Petrobras wants to build.
