All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 745

  • A Paxman 1,650 bhp V16 engine on the test bed, complete with reverse-reduction gearbox
    News

    Shipbuilding statistics and engine design

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Most of the July 1960 issue of ''The Motor Ship'' was taken up by tables of ships on order arranged by country, which showed Great Britain still held a leading position, closely followed by Germany and Japan.

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    Distribution deal for US fuel management system

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Nautical Control Solutions (NCS) of Houston has announced that Honeywell Marine has become an official distributor of its FuelTrax marine fuel management system.

  • ‘Uthlande’ ready for launch at the Sietas yard
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    Innovative ferry ro-ro helps Sietas on new course

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    One of Germany’s oldest private shipyards, J.J.Sietas, has completed its first ro-pax newbuilding, the small, 75.1m, state-of-the-art, double-end ferry Uthlande, and with it entered a specialist sector still competitive for some European shipbuilders, writes Tom Todd.

  • The 'black box' behind the Kelvin Hughes Sharpeye radar
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    High-specification radar offered at low cost

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Kelvin Hughes says that customers who purchased its SharpEye, described as the first commercial solid-state marine radar, are finding several benefits to the system.

  • Damen water taxi in Dubai
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    Composite water taxi fleet enters service

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Dutch yard Damen is best-known for its policy of standardising designs and using common parts as much as possible throughout the range, but recently the Damen group has embarked on what it describes as “a truly unique project” - an unusual composite vessel.

  • 'Kietz' is first of three from Hitzler
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    Hitzler completes first of three river icebreakers

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Germany’s small Hitzler Schiffswerft has completed ''Kietz'', the first of three special inland icebreakers worth a total of €15.3 million for service with local waterways authorities in east and west Germany, writes Tom Todd.

  • Volvo Penta and STT Emtec have trialled the SCR on a Swedish coastal ferry
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    Engine company launches SCR for inland waters

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Volvo Penta, together with Swedish emission control specialist STT Emtec, is introducing an effective solution to greatly reduce NOx emissions from high speed marine diesel engines.

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    ‘Seychelles Paradise’ – a coastal oil/LNG tanker designed with ‘green’ credentials

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Dieter Kühne, managing director of the Lindenau Schiffswerft & Maschinenfabrik in Kiel, Germany, describes how the yard has applied large-ship ecological principles to a small coastal tanker, featuring double hull, redundant propulsion, low emissions and high efficiency.

  • A typical detritus blockage at the top end of a gland box housing, after 3000 hours of service;
    News

    Piston seals for cleaner engines

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    According to UK company Marine Sealing Services, during the 1980s and 1990s, system oil contamination was a problem on the majority of two-stroke diesel engines.

  • Model showing the compact architecture of two-stage turbocharging with intermediate cooling
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    Turbo technology the key to clean low speed diesels

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    MAN has completed the reorganisation of its engine and turbo businesses and the former MAN Diesel and MAN Turbo companies are now joined as a single enterprise, known as MAN Diesel and Turbo SE.

  • Dr Hermann Klein of GL (left) presents Costamare Shipping with its first MLC 2006 certification
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    German class prepared for gas-fuelled shipping

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    In common with other major classification societies, Germanischer Lloyd has issued guidelines for gas as ship fuel on the application of the IMO regulations.

  • Imo fuel pump in the engine room
    News

    Pump group meets low-sulphur challenge

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    When a major oil-tanker operator discovered its existing fuel oil pump system could not meet new environmental regulations for ships entering European ports designated in emission-controlled areas (ECAs), pump group Colfax became involved.

  • Bernard Anne, managing director of Bureau Veritas marine division
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    Gas is the green solution, says BV

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    International classification society Bureau Veritas says natural gas-powered propulsion will be one of the major contributors to greener shipping.

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    Bunker supplier revises strategy

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    OW Bunker, a supplier and trader of marine fuel, says that it is implementing a new corporate strategy to support significant growth, and to create a foundation for expansion over the coming years.

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    Benchmark scheme for marine industry training

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register has launched a new scheme aimed at helping training providers deliver courses to recognised standards that meet its clients’ needs

  • ABB Turbocharging’s turbine blades with hard wear resistant tips are designed to scrape away hard HFO fouling on turbocharger turbine diffusers to minimise contact of standard blades with the abrasive deposits
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    Turbo manufacturer addresses blade wear issues

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    ABB Turbocharging of Switzerland has introduced new turbine blades for engines burning lower qualities of HFO and with especially heavy duty operating profiles. The axial turbine blades feature hard-faced tips to counter accelerated circumferential wear.

  • Fuel Saver application engine performance screen
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    Fuel saver added to engine automation system

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Kongsberg Maritime has added three new monitoring and efficiency applications to its K-Chief automation system. The fuel saver applications have been developed as part of Kongsberg Maritime''s commitment to the ''Green Ship'' concept.

  • The unit at the core of the CSNOx system
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    Two important alliances for abatement technology

    2010-07-31T00:01:00Z

    Ecospec of Singapore has announced two significant ventures in the development of its CSNOx exhaust emissions abatement technology.

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    CSBC anticipates healthy sales increase

    2010-07-30T17:24:00Z

    Driven by orders from big shippers including Yangming Marine Transport, Taiwan’s largest shipbuilder, CSBC, expects to see sales increase 20% year-on-year in the second half, with yearly sales to return to NT$30 billion ($938 million) in 2011.

  • Keppel FELS’s new multi-purpose self-elevating platform, KFELS MPSEP, is set to redefine the way in which offshore wind farms are installed and maintained across the world
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    New depths in the offshore wind energy sector

    2010-07-30T10:21:00Z

    Keppel FELS multi-purpose self-elevating platform (MPSEP) design has been chosen by the Seafox Group (Seafox) as the basis for a new-generation, wind turbine installation vessel that can withstand harsh offshore environmental conditions all year round in water depths of 65m in the North Sea.