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Significant Small Ships - open for entries | |
Ship & Boat International eNews: August 2020 The Ship & Boat International team has started work on this year’s edition of the annual RINA journal Significant Small Ships, profiling approximately 30 new vessels sized between 5-100m and officially delivered in 2020. | |
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Barge lifeline for northern Canada | |
Ship & Boat International eNews: August 2020 A new flotilla of 90m cargo barges is being readied at a Chinese yard for service in the Northwest Territories of northern Canada. | |
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Greek sea ambulance trio hits the waves | |
Ship & Boat International eNews: August 2020 Viking Life-Saving Equipment has delivered three customised versions of its Munin-S1200 craft, fitted out to serve as mobile medical units. | |
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MarineShaft tackles containership rudder stock repair | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: 3rd Quarter 2020 A specialist in cold straightening shafts and rudder stocks, the Danish company MarineShaft has recently completed a notable project for container operator MSC | |
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Leading Qatar shipyard enjoys increased shiprepair workload in 2020 | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: 3rd Quarter 2020 N-KOM continues making progress despite challenging times | |
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New look planned for Blohm+Voss floating dock | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: 3rd Quarter 2020 Significant investment is underway at the Hamburg shipyard | |
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Hull Vane retrofit delivers savings | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: 3rd Quarter 2020 Fitting a novel stern appendage has generated environmental benefits as well as a swift return on investment for a Swiss passenger ship operator | |
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Hempel further strengthens its antifouling product range | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: 3rd Quarter 2020 An important addition to the company’s marine product offer promises significant cost savings and sustainability gains for shipowners and operators | |
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Maritime Research & Innovation UK | |
The Naval Architect Jul/Aug 2020 An industry-government partnership aims to establish a UK maritime network and help realise the sector’s 2050 targets, writes Richard Westgarth | |
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Raw magnetism | |
Offshore Marine Technology: 3rd Quarter 2020 McNetiq’s new fall protection device uses a magnetic anchor to keep personnel at a safe distance from unprotected edges. | |
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Facing a new phase | |
Offshore Marine Technology: 3rd Quarter 2020 The imminent delivery of Malin Sentinel draws to a close Phase 2 of Sentinel Marine’s fleet accumulation programme – and Phase 3 is already underway. | |
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Capturing the sound of lockdown | |
Offshore Marine Technology: 3rd Quarter 2020 Reduced shipping traffic in Q2 gave researchers a rare chance to record the Belgian North Sea without its usual man-made background noise. | |
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Green light for 'Green Jade' | |
Offshore Marine Technology: 3rd Quarter 2020 CDWE has taken the final investment decision (FID) on the construction of what’s reportedly Taiwan’s first domestically built DP3-enabled heavy-lift/wind turbine installation vessel. | |
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Significant Small Ships - final call for entries | |
Ship & Boat International eNews: November/December 2020 The Ship & Boat International team has started work on this year’s edition of the annual RINA journal Significant Small Ships, profiling approximately 30 new vessels sized between 5-100m and officially delivered in 2020. | |
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DriX of the trade | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews July/August 2020 Reliance on USVs is set to continue in the next couple of years, particularly in the North American marine and offshore segments, where iXblue is making inroads with its DriX drone. | |
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High five | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews July/August 2020 A five-hull arrangement is intended to reduce drag, boost fuel efficiency and support autonomous operations aboard BMT’s latest multipurpose vessel concept. | |
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Taking out the trash | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews July/August 2020 The Interceptor isn’t solely dedicated to recovering plastic rubbish from the world’s seas – it’s also been developed to prevent it from entering the ocean at all. | |
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What does it mean to be a retrofit ship of the future? | |
The Naval Architect Jul/Aug 2020 Green Ship of the Future’s ‘The Retrofit Project’ promotes a potential 21.7% fuel saving by utilising energy optimisation-based retrofits | |
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Container lashing: taking the strain for a bigger problem | |
The Naval Architect Jul/Aug 2020 The loss of more than 40 containers in an incident off the Australian coast has raised questions about how safely secured they were, but lashing is just one factor amid many | |
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Japanese joint project explores shipping's road to 2050 | |
The Naval Architect Jul/Aug 2020 Feasibility of innovative technologies and alternative fuels surveyed, with concept designs for zero- and low-emission ships | |
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Innovation in the age of Covid-19 | |
The Naval Architect: Jul/Aug 2020 The pandemic has turbocharged digitalisation across the entire industry, says DNV GL, as it launches its maritime specific infection prevention certificate programme | |
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First steel cut for France's new Bâtiments Ravitailleurs de Force logistic support ships | |
Warship Technology: July/August 2020
Construction of the first of a new class of logistic support ship (LSS) for the French Navy has commenced at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.
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US Navy develops requirements for next-generation amphibious platforms and logistics ships | |
Warship Technology: July/August 2020
The US Navy is exploring the acquisition of a new generation of vessels designed to support future amphibious manoeuvre and logistics sustainment operations coherent with the aims of the US Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030 development blueprint. The blueprint was published in March 2020. | |
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US Navy's first full-electric warship delivered | |
Warship Technology: July/August 2020
The US Navy has accepted delivery of the first of its DDG 1000 destroyers, three years after it said the vessel had been commissioned. | |
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Wärtsilä led consortium combines technologies for fuel efficiency | |
The Naval Architect Jul/Aug 2020 The EU-backed Seatech project will explore precise engine controlling when used in symbiosis with a dynamic bow wing | |
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Trump tasks Department of Homeland Security with Coast Guard Polar vessel review | |
Warship Technology: July/August 2020 On 9 June 2020, President Trump issued a memorandum to review required numbers of polar security cutters, US and international basing options for polar security cutters, and options for bridging a gap in polar vessels until US Coast Guard’s new polar security cutters are delivered. | |
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CO2-free crossings | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews June 2020 Wärtsilä has been contracted to design and equip two all-electric, double-ended ferries for Norwegian operator Boreal Sjö. | |
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SGMF releases guidelines for drydocking gas-fuelled ships | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: June 2020 SGMF has published its ‘Gas as a Marine Fuel: Work Practices for Maintenance, Repair and Dry-Dock Operations’, which provides guidance on drydocking gas-fuelled vessels | |
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GloFouling Partnerships launches GIA for Marine Biosafety | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: June 2020 A Global Industry Alliance for Marine biosafety has been launched by the IMO, which will work alongside the IMO GloFouling Partnerships Project | |
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BIMCO pushes for global hull cleaning standard | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: June 2020 Shipping association BIMCO has moved closer to establishing a global standard for ship hull cleaning and is aiming for IMO approval within the next two to three years | |
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"Elegance and adrenaline" | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews June 2020 TecnoRib's new Pirelli 42 RIB is intended to serve as a shadow boat or a day cruiser. | |
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Tug support for the DGA | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews June 2020 The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has ordered 15 harbour and five harbour/coastal tugs from domestic boatbuilder Piriou. | |
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Bengal build enters service | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews June 2020 India’s National Institute of Ocean Technology(NIOT) has commissioned Sagar Anveshika, the second of two 43m, dynamic-positioning sisters built in West Bengal. | |
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Tower of strength | |
Offshore Marine Technology: 2nd Quarter 2020 2022 will see the delivery of Jan De Nul Group’s latest, ‘super-sized’ floating installation crane vessel. | |
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Seajacks' pile-driving overhaul | |
Offshore Marine Technology: 2nd Quarter 2020 The 108m Seajacks Zaratan is being prepped for installation work at two of Japan’s up and coming wind turbine sites. | |
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