All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 952
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UK CVF programme approaches deadline
Industry stakeholders in the Aircraft Carrier Alliance (ACA) established to deliver the UK's Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF) programme are to submit their latest pricing data on 20 September 2006, a little over a month ahead of a planned Main Gate 2 (MG2) submission to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) which ...
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Flekkefjord gets Solstad order
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) in Norway has signed a letter of intent with compatriot shipbuilder Flekkefjord Slipp og Maskinfabrikk AS for the building of a large construction vessel. The new vessel will have a length of 113m and width of 24m, will be purpose built for the Inspection Maintenance and ...
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STX to build shipbuilding and block factories
STX will build shipbuilding and block factories in Liaoning, China, and has signed an MOU with the Chinese government to set up an investment plan for this project. STX is currently producing blocks totalling 450,000 tonnes per year and will require 700,000 tonnes by 2008. To meet this increase STX ...
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Tognum aims to expand market share
Since the sale of the Off-Highway division by DaimlerChrysler AG to EQT, a Swedish financial investor, the Tognum holding company is the group with globally leading companies and brands for diesel and gas engines as well as for complete propulsion systems for ships, heavy land and rail vehicles, industrial propulsion ...
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Wartsila powers Emma Maersk
The largest container ship built to date, the 11,000 TEU ?Emma Maersk?, is propelled by a Wartsila developed 14-cylinder RT-flex96C engine, the worlds most powerful engine in service with an output of 80,080 kW at 102 rpm.Traditionally low-speed marine engines have been built with a maximum of 12 cylinders. However, ...
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TTS wins Ray Carrier contracts
Poland?s Gdynia Shipyard placed two orders with Swedish cargo equipment manufacturer TTS Ship Equipment AB, to supply almost 14,000 tonnes of roro equipment. The orders cover the supply of equipment for a total of eight vessels being built for Ray Car Carriers. The first new order, placed in June 2006, ...
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Danish giant big fan of China
AP Moller-Maersk AS will order 25 vessels from Chinese shipbuilders including Qingdao Qianjin Shipbuilding within the next 12 months, the China Business News reported. Citing an unnamed source from Maersk's China office, the newspaper said that the Danish shipping company signed two agreements last week to buy four 1,800 TEU ...
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European Parliament opposes extension of pilot's role
Intertanko is pleased to see that the European Parliament is set to oppose the extension of the pilot?s role to include reports of visible deficiencies on board. The EC is keen to ensure that Europe?s port state control directive, which is part of the Third Maritime Safety Package, extends to ...
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Rodriquez develops green Ropax prototype
Italian shipyard group Rodriquez Cantieri Navali and Genoa-based classification society RINA have jointly developed an innovative and environmentally friendly high-speed ferry. A full scale prototype of the ALISWATH, presently under construction, will undertake comprehensive sea trials in 2007.The ALISWATH hybrid design combines the small wetted area of the SWATH concept ...
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Gulf Craft delivers Honduras ferry
Honduras-based operator Safeway Maritime Transportation Co., has just taken delivery of its first Incat Crowther catamaran ferry for operation on the north coast of Honduras between La Ceiba and the Isla de Roat?n in the Caribbean Sea. The vessel is a 49 metre high speed catamaran ferry capable of carrying ...
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Malaysia seeking to share cost of maintaining Straits
MALAYSIA has called for the burden of maintaining the Straits of Malacca to be shared by all users, not just the littoral states. The Straits, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, requires more than $27 million a year to maintain and currently the cost is shared by the littoral ...
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Schat-Harding buys Singapore lifeboat business
Schat-Harding, the world?s leading supplier of lifeboats and davits, has purchased the independent lifeboat servicing business of Singapore-based Lyttelton Marine.David Bradley, Schat-Harding group after sales and service manager says, "Singapore is a key hub for both the shipping and offshore worlds. From there engineers can service equipment in its busy ...
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Shanghai shipyard breaks record
Shanghai Shipyard & Chengxi Shipyard Company Ltd has recently built a 3,500 TEU container vessel in only 54 days, breaking China's record of 60 days for a mid-sized container vessel. The shipyard's accelerated shipbuilding technique has attracted more clients from the US and European countries and the yard has won ...
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BP to design new emissions measurement technology
Cascade Technologies has secured a technology licensing deal with BP, valued at in excess of £4million to the company over the next three years. The partnership will see Cascade Technologies, a major player in the application of quantum cascade lasers (QCL), exclusively designs and supplies emissions monitoring systems for use ...
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DSE enters 'Floatel' sector
A Dubai-based marine services company is building a floating hotel that will provide accommodation for people working in the offshore energy industry. Mubarak Marine will invest $19 million to build the floating structure that will be house 320 people."It will be a purpose-built barge serving oil and gas companies that ...
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EPA catalyst proposal could hit megayachts
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to propose a recreational marine diesel rule that could require large yacht builders to install exhaust after-treatment on all future yacht designs. Aware such a ruling may create problems for these manufacturers, EPA has asked the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) to ...
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Samsung to build Norwegian drill ship
Samsung Heavy Industries has won an order to build a drill ship for Ferncliff Drilling in Norway. The new vessel will be delivered in 2009 at a cost of $500 million. The ship can drill to a depth of 11,000 metres, is 222 metres long and has a displacement of ...
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HHI wins mega French boxship order
French-based container line operator CMA CGM has upped the stakes against its arch rival, the Danish shipping giant Maersk Line, which recently took delivery of its first 11,000 TEU vessel, ?Emma Maersk?, by placing a $1.2 billion order for eight 11,400 TEU ships from South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries. ...
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Nordseewerke delivers another feeder
The German shipbuilder Nordseewerke, a company of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, has handed over the 2,700 TEU feeder container ship ?Nona? to the Meerbusch-based shipping company GEBAB. The owner of the ship is the Elsfleth-based shipping company Maritime. This is the second 37,950 dwt vessel in the six-ship series ordered by ...
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Viking orders three more ERRVs
North Sea emergency response and rescue services provider Viking Offshore Services is extending its multi-million pound new-build programme to nine vessels. It is exercising its option on the construction of a further three field support vessels at the Astilleros Zamakona shipyard in Spain, to bring the total value of the ...
