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Ballast water benchmark compliance testing | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: eNews September 2017 Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, has selected Chelsea Technologies sensors to provide benchmark testing for compliance with ballast water standards. | |
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Diverse range of refit work for Babcock | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: eNews September 2017 Babcock (NZ) Ltd have had a very busy 12 months with commercial docking projects including passenger cruise ships; two Antarctic going vessels, as well as a super yacht and a major refit for a South Pacific based French Navy frigate. | |
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New Ship Repair Facility in Portmouth | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: eNews September 2017 Burgess Marine Ltd and MMD (Shipping Services) Ltd, part of Portsmouth City Council, have opened a new ship repair facility using Flat House Quay in Portsmouth’s Commercial Port. | |
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NAPA partnership is big news for computer-aided ship design | |
The Naval Architect: October 2017 The software collaboration between NAPA and NTT Data Engineering Systems (NDES) could provide the key to streamlining the ship design process. | |
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Don't neglect automation, warns Høglund | |
The Naval Architect: October 2017 Giving proper consideration to automation at the design stage can boost efficiency and avoid awkward questions further down the line, the CEO of Høglund Marine Automation tells The Naval Architect | |
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Virtue and function | |
The Naval Architect: October 2017 Energy saving devices are key to meeting new emissions imperatives, but they can sometimes add complication and unforeseen design challenges. Dr Hanshin Seol, Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO), shares a practical approach to ESD design and two new developments | |
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Significant Small Ships - accepting vessel entries | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews September/October 2017 The Ship & Boat International team is putting together this year’s edition of the annual Significant Small Ships, profiling approximately 30 new vessels sized between 5-100m and delivered in 2017. | |
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The full works | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews September/October 2017 Orders are on an upwards curve for Estonia's Baltic Workboats, which has unveiled its latest design - the 30knot-capacity 4500WP patrol boat. | |
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Transatlantic turns | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews September/October 2017 Wärtsilä has completed a round of transatlantic unmanned vessel tests, in which a pilot situated in San Diego, California controlled a platform supply vessel (PSV) in the North Sea. | |
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Free Spirit | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews September/October 2017 Spirit of Rathlin, the replacement ferry for Northern Ireland's Antrim-Rathlin Island service, has greater space, capacity and power than her predecessor - and features the additional benefit of dual-coding. | |
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Washington wages war on emissions | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews September/October 2017 Work is due to commence on a new 150-pax ferry, designed for clean, green operations in Washington State’s Puget Sound. | |
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Widening the window | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews September/October 2017 Capable of safe operation in wave heights of up to 2.7m, and technician transfers in conditions up to 2.3m Hs, Strategic Marine’s new StratCAT 30 and 38 concepts are intended to grant wind farm service operators greater scope for vessel availability and utilisation. | |
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MEPC 71 serves up pragmatic solutions | |
The Naval Architect: September 2017 The 71st session of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee was one of the most keenly anticipated in years and for some parties at least it didn’t disappoint. | |
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Green Corridor bulker design heralds sustainable future | |
The Naval Architect: September 2017 The Joint Industry Project is set to provide a sustainable solution to the transportation of iron ore and coal between Australia and China and pave the way for greener shipping. | |
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Putting the safety into battery-driven propulsion | |
The Naval Architect: September 2017 Canadian-based energy storage solution provider PBES is determined that quality comes first in the rush towards electrification. | |
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ROC steady | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews August 2017
Towage operator Svitzer and power systems giant Rolls-Royce showed the marine sector a glimpse of the future this summer, with the successful completion of tests of a shore-controlled tug in Copenhagen, Denmark. | |
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Making waves in the US ferry sector | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews August 2017
Hampton Roads Transit (HRT), which provides ferry services to six cities within the state of Virginia, US, has taken delivery of the first of three new ferries, which were ordered to replace an older, existing trio on its Norfolk-to Portsmouth route. | |
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Optimistic Mainprize delivers offshore CTV | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews August 2017
UK boatbuilder Mainstay Marine has delivered a brand new crew transfer vessel (CTV) to a Scottish tug owner and operator, as part of a contract distinguished by a “short build timescale”, the yard reports. | |
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Voyaging by volcano | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews August 2017
A new ferry designed to provide a lifeline, domestic service to the Vestmannaeyjar, or Westman Islands, in the extremely challenging conditions off the southwest coast of Iceland, has been ordered from a Polish yard for delivery in June 2018. | |
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A new twist for the ProZero | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews August 2017
Danish designer and builder Tuco Marine has delivered what is the first vessel in its ProZero workboat range to have been specially customised for deployment in the aquaculture sector. | |
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Under the microscope | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews August 2017 Rivertrace Engineering's Smart PFM 107 utilises optical recognition algorithms to distinguish between all oil particles, solids and gas particles sized up to 500µ | |
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Cost-effective solutions help keep customers satisfied | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: 3rd Quarter 2017 MAN Diesel & Turbo is extending its range of maintenance, repair and refit services offered for both 2 and 4-stroke engines, meeting customers’ requirements for reduced overall costs and lower emission levels, in particular. | |
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Marseille returns large drydock to service | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: 3rd Quarter 2017 Following a large-scale renovation, the port of Marseille’s Drydock 10 is back in business for the first time in 17 years. | |
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BWT retrofit delay attracts mixed reviews | |
Shiprepair & Maintenance: 3rd Quarter 2017 The IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) has recently agreed to delay the deadline for existing vessels to retrofit ballast water treatment systems, a decision that has not been universally welcomed. | |
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Austal approaches completion of Cape class and starts work on PPB-R project | |
Warship Technology: July/Aug 2017 Recent weeks have seen Austal Limited in Australia approaching completion of construction of the Royal Australian Navy’s Cape class patrol boats and starting work on a new class of Pacific Patrol Boats. | |
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First Type 23 PGMU implementation set to start | |
Warship Technology: July/Aug 2017 The first Royal Navy Type 23 frigate to receive the Power Generation and Machinery Control and Surveillance (MCAS) Update (PGMU) package will enter upkeep at Babcock’s Devonport dockyard during the third quarter of 2017. | |
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Trump budget fails to fund naval expansion | |
Warship Technology: July/Aug 2017 The Department of Defense fiscal year 2018 budget proposal will not be enough to increase the size of the US fleet and does not fund additional vessels. Questions have also been raised about shipyards’ ability to recruit sufficient personnel to meet production targets, particularly submarines. | |
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Gearing up for future turbines | |
Offshore Marine Technology: 3rd Quarter 2017 GustoMSC's new self-propelled jack-up type, the NG-20000X, has been developed to combine high variable load capacity with the ability to access and operate within significant water depths. | |
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Heavyweight contender | |
Offshore Marine Technology: 3rd Quarter 2017 A total power output of nearly 24,000kW, a pump ashore capacity of 15,600kW and what is reported to be the heaviest cutter ladder ever installed are all key features of Royal Boskalis Westminster’s new mega cutter, Helios. | |
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From Vietnam to the North Sea | |
Offshore Marine Technology: 3rd Quarter 2017
Piriou’s yard in Vietnam is currently assembling a pair of aluminium offshore wind farm support vessels for UK operator Wind Energy Marine. | |
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Advancing safety in the containership sector | |
The Naval Archiect: July/Aug 2017 Bigger boxships demand a firefighting infrastructure with enhanced capacity, explains Matthew Tremblay, ABS vice president for containerships. | |
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China's shipbuilding industry still faces challenges | |
The Naval Architect - July/Aug 2017 Completed tonnage from Chinese shipbuilders continued to show growth between January and May 2017. However, the orderbook has shown a year-on-year fall and a decline in the main economic indicators from major companies indicates a slowdown, according to the statistics from China Association of National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI). | |
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Are rim-driven propulsors the future? | |
The Naval Architect - July/Aug 2017 Rim-driven propulsors could come to play an important role in the propulsion of future electric ships. Steven Fletcher and Robert Hayes, engineers at Frazer-Nash Consultancy, present the technology’s pros and cons and discuss the form future adoption may take for large commercial ships. | |
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French connection | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews July/August 2017
French sea rescue association Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) is set to revitalise its rescue capabilities within the Gulf of Morbihan with a new boat, currently under construction at Alumarine Shipyard. | |
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Driving pirates off the rails | |
Ship & Boat International: eNews July/August 2017
Marine investigations and security consultancy Gray Page has launched an all-plastic, modular barrier system, developed to prevent over-the-side access to vessels of all sizes, either by pirates, stowaways or other illegal boarders. | |
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