All Motorship articles in Web Issue – Page 996
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Wärtsilä powers VeKa feeders
Wärtsilä was awarded a contract from Bijlsma Shipyard in Lemmer, Netherlands, to deliver propulsion plants for two 350 TEU container feeder vessels ordered by the Dutch VeKa Group For each vessel, Wärtsilä will deliver an eight-cylinder Wärtsilä Vasa 32LN main engine, a Wärtsilä reduction gearbox, a 3.20 m-diameter Lips controllable-pitch ...
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STX mulls shipbuilding facility expansion
STX Shipbuilding in Korea is considering the construction of a new shipbuilding dry dock. The aim is to increase output to 70 ships per year by 2008.
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Oil drilling ship gets Wartsila power
Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to deliver six Wärtsilä 32 diesel engines with a combined power of over 40 MW for the world's largest oil drilling ship which is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. Ordered by Stena Drilling, a member of the Stena group of Gothenburg, ...
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Waigaoqiao sets new delivery record
Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) has become China's first shipbuilder to deliver more than 2 million deadweight tonnes in a year after it recently handed over a 175,000 dwt Capesize bulk carrier. Waigaoqiao has delivered ships of 2.06 million dwt this year, following its record 1.7 million dwt last year. Overseas ...
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Hyundai to build R&D centers in China
Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea has unveiled its strategy to enter the Chinese ship market. The Korean shipbuilder will spend $14 million to construct research and development centers in Beijing and Shanghai next year. Although Hyundai has four branches in China including a joint venture with a construction company and ...
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ITS to help build warships
The Indonesian shipbuilder PT PAL will cooperate with the Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS) to build corvette warships using technology similar to stealth aircraft technology. The cooperation was conceived under a Ministry of Defense program, which requires PAL to cooperate with the country's universities to build the warships. Aside from ...
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Two Austal fast ferries for Guadeloupe
Austal Shipping, the West Australian shipbuilder, has delivered two more fast ferries to the Guadeloupe ferry operator L?Express des Iles. The first newbuilding named ?Silver Express?, will carry 360 passengers and 10 cars while the second unit named ?Gold Express?, will carry 446 passengers. Both vessels share the same 45.24 ...
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ARL introduces revolutionary software
Albacore Research Ltd. (ARL), the creator of the 3D product modeling software ShipConstructor, is putting the last touches on this year?s new software version, ShipConstructor 2006, scheduled for release towards the end of 2005, represents a quantum leap in CAD/CAM with the introduction of the Database Driven Relational Object Model ...
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Two superspeed Color ferries for Aker
Color Line has signed a Letter of Intent with Aker Yards for the building of two new ships for delivery in 2007 and 2008 respectively. These ships represent a new type of transport solution and are to be put into service between Norway and Denmark in a new concept called ...
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Teekay to acquire three Suezmaxes
Teekay Lng Partners plans to acquire three Suezmax crude oil tankers and related long-term fixed-rate charters for $180 million from its parent company, Teekay Shipping. The company said Teekay Lng plans to finance the acquisition with the net proceeds of a proposed public offering of its common units, together with ...
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ABS and RS sign bilateral agreement
A new bilateral agreement that extends the long-standing agreement on cooperation between ABS and the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has been signed by the two societies in St Petersburg, Russia. The wide ranging, cooperative agreement principally addresses the provision of field surveys for ships and floating structures in ...
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Fairmount Summit joins fleet
The second in a series of five supertugs ordered from Niigata Shipbuilders in Japan by Fairmount Marine recently joined the fleet. The 200 tonnes bollard pull anchor handling/salvage/long distance towing vessel ?Fairmount Summit? joins the first in the newbuilding series, ?Fairmount Sherpa?, which has been operating successfully since going into ...
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Diamond job for Wartsila
Wärtsilä has been awarded contracts to supply RT-flex50 common-rail low-speed engines, propellers and Auxpac generating sets to Goodearth Maritime Ltd of Chennai, India, for the six 53,000 dwt handymax bulk carriers. For each ship, Wärtsilä will deliver a six-cylinder RT-flex50 common-rail low-speed engine with a maximum continuous power of ...
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Saigon shipbuilder signs first export deal
The Saigon shipbuilding industry company (SSIC), a member company of the Vinashin group, has won its first ever export contract to build ten 5,190 DWT multipurpose ships.Under the contract inked with Midland Shipping Co (MSC). of Canada, SSIC will build a ten-ship series over the next four years at a ...
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UK carrier contract delayed
The decision on the Royal Navy?s aircraft carrier contracts for Barrow shipyard has been delayed until next year. Yard bosses are keeping a ?watching brief? on the timetable for the work after a government minister said the first of two new carriers will not be in service by the target ...
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DD(X) propulsion motor achieves full power
Alstom Power Conversion Incorporated (APCI) reports that the DD(X) Integrated Power System (IPS) test team has achieved full torque of over one million foot pounds on the Advanced Induction Motor (AIM) at the NGSS, NSWC land based test site in Philadelphia. This AIM is rated at 18.25 MW at 127 ...
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Reliance plans 25-ship fleet
Reliance Industries Ltd, the largest and one of the fastest growing private sector companies in India with business activities encompassing oil & gas exploration and production, petroleum refining, petrochemicals and textiles, is planning to acquire a fleet of 25 ships. The fleet will consist of a combination of chemical tankers, ...
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SUEZ signs for two LNG vessels
SUEZ LNG Trading SA of France has signed two 20-year charter agreements with Bergesen Worldwide Gas ASA for a pair of LNG carriers to deliver Yemen LNG to North America. The vessels, each of which will have a capacity of 156,100m3, are scheduled for delivery from Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & ...
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More orders for Korea
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard won three 47,000DWT product carriers valued at $138 million from a Liberian shipowner for delivery from 2007 to July 2008. Choi Kil Sun, president and CEO of the South Korean shipbuilder, said that HMD aims to build 70 ships annually with turnover of $3.8 billion in 2010.Meanwhile, ...
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Kittiwake introduces new range of remote sensors
The UK-based company, Kittwake, has introduced the ANALEXrs remote sensor range, a new set of instrumentation designed to put lubricant and machine condition information in the hands of the engineer, real-time. Ideal for applications ranging from gearboxes and engines to power generators, compressors and other oil filled heavy plant ...
