All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 737

  • News

    Navy project could expand SA shipbuilding

    2010-09-22T10:37:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Leading container lines join forces against piracy

    2010-09-22T10:36:00Z

    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.

  • Iridium's OpenPort, a competitor for FleetBroadband
    News

    Report backs Iridium for sat phone performance

    2010-09-21T16:48:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Differing judgements could influence class selection

    2010-09-21T12:33:00Z

    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.

  • ‘Maersk Lancer’ at LV’s Teesside facility
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    ‘Maersk Lancer’ gets anti-glare treatment

    2010-09-21T12:32:00Z

    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.

  • An LNG bilobe tank (support design patented by TGE)
    News

    MAN to cooperate with gas-tank specialist

    2010-09-21T12:29:00Z

    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.

  • Graphical rendering of MAN Diesel & Turbo’s 6S70ME-GI engine
    News

    MAN readies gas engine for full-scale testing

    2010-09-21T12:27:00Z

    MAN Diesel & Turbo plans to carry out full-scale ME-GI testing on a gas fired engine at its Copenhagen test centre.

  • Furuno Ku-band VSAT KU-100 system
    News

    New maritime broadband offering from Furuno

    2010-09-21T11:14:00Z

    Furuno of Japan is joining with SpeedCast and Eutelsat Communications to launch a new VSAT antenna, the VSAT KU-100.

  • News

    Customer services manager for Wilhemsen

    2010-09-21T09:44:00Z

    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.

  • Thome CEO Olav Eek Thorstensen, president Claes Eek Thorstensen, and Capt Ivar Thomasli, managing director of Thome Ship Management Philippines, were presented with the DNV SeaSkill certification by DNV president Tor Svensson at DNV’s Singapore offices
    News

    DNV skills certification for ship manager

    2010-09-21T09:32:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Vale finally confirms VLOC order

    2010-09-20T12:30:00Z

    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.

  • Artist impression of the 30m crewboats designed by Incat Crowther
    News

    Incat Crowther to design Nigerian crew boats

    2010-09-17T11:30:00Z

    Incat Crowther has signed a contract to design two 30m aluminium monohull crewboats for service in Nigeria.

  • News

    Hellenic yard’s future looking brighter

    2010-09-17T11:29:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Frontline restructuring VLCC newbuilding contracts

    2010-09-17T11:28:00Z

    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

  • News

    Diesel Switch solves fuel changeover problem

    2010-09-17T11:27:00Z

    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.

  • News

    South Africa to establish ship-repair yard in Congo

    2010-09-16T16:09:00Z

    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.

  • Double-ended ferry ‘Uthlande’ with VSPs
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    First double-ended ferry fitted with VSPs

    2010-09-16T13:24:00Z

    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.

  • Rolls-Rolls is providing the LNG power plant for the new Fjord1 ferry
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    R-R powers world’s largest gas ferry

    2010-09-16T12:58:00Z

    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.

  • News

    First ever ASV monohull with pod propulsion

    2010-09-16T12:56:00Z

    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.

  • News

    OSX to build Petrobras rigs and tankers

    2010-09-16T12:55:00Z

    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.