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Resolve Refloats Cruise Ship

Resolve Marine Group refloated the

Clipper Adventurer cruise ship . The ves- sel had run aground in Coronation Gulf, in Canada's Northwest Passage on Au- gust 27. Resolve deployed four tugs at high tide, to free the stranded vessel. The

Clipper had sustained several breeches to the hull when it ran aground the rocks last month, with passengers onboard. The

Canadian Coast Guard evacuated the pas- sengers without incident before the sal- vage operations began. www.resolvemarine

Resolve Opens New Orleans Ops

Resolve Marine

Group opened a

New Orleans base of operations at 643 Magazine

Street, Suite 304.

The marine sal- vage, firefighting and emergency re- sponse company is headquartered in

Fort Lauderdale, FL and maintains oper- ations in Theodore, Alabama, as well as

London, UK and in Singapore. Heading

Resolve’s New Orleans base is former

Coast Guardsmen Matthew Hahne.

Hahne joins the company as Director of

Regulatory Affairs and will focus on

OPA-90 implementation, offshore imme- diate response regulations, and tank barge response.

Gibdock Completes

Offshore Vessel Upgrade

Gibraltar’s Gibdock shipyard has com- pleted a maintenance and upgrade pro- gram on the 6430-bhp DP2 class

ROV/Subsea Service and Platform Sup- port vessel, Toisa Vigilant. The 2005- built, 3426-dwt vessel spent more than three weeks at the yard in July and Au- gust this year for a diverse package of works. Unique was the fact that the proj- ect was two-in-one, carried out for the owner, Sealion, and the charter, West- ernGeco. For Sealion, Gibdock under- took a series of conventional docking works, including the extensive overhaul of the MAK 8L26 main engines, the two bow thrusters and two stern thrusters. In addition the yard refurbished and re- paired other parts of the vessel, including the sea valves, cranes and lifeboats, while also painting the underwater areas of the hull. Charterer WesternGeco contracted

Gibdock to replace equipment onboard used as part of experimental seabed scan- ning systems.

GL-Class LNG Powered Vessel

The 25,000 dwt product tanker Bit

Viking will be converted to run on LNG.

It will then be the first ship with GL class using gas as fuel. Sea trials are planned for May 2011. With two 500 cu.m. tanks the vessel will have a range of 12 days. It is owned by Tarbit Shipping and operated by Statoil along the Norwegian coastline.

The conversion will enable the vessel to qualify for lower NOX emission taxes under the Norwegian government’s NOX fund scheme. Bit Viking has twin screw propulsion, with each screw currently powered by a 6-cylinder in-line Wärtsilä 46 engine running on heavy fuel oil (HFO). The conversion involves chang- ing these to six-cylinder in-line Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines that will operate on LNG.

Point Eight Power Enters

Licensing Agreement

Point Eight Power signed an exclusive licensing agreement with PACS Indus- tries, Inc. to offer patented arc resistant switchgear to the oil and gas, marine and pipeline industries. Point Eight Power has licensed this technology from PACS

Industries, a pioneer in arc resistant switchgear designs for heavy industry and railroad transportation, in response to growing demand from its client base.

FleetWeather Opens In Singapore

FleetWeather Ocean Services, a global provider of weather forecasting, routing, vessel performance monitoring and opti- mization services for the commercial shipping industry, announced the open- ing of a new office in Singapore:

FleetWeather Ocean Services

Centennial Tower – Level 21 3 Temasek Ave., Singapore 039190

Phone: +65 65497230

U.S. Navy Begins VVOS Trial

Jeppesen won a contract with the U.S.

Navy for a six-month trial of its Vessel and Voyage Optimization Solution (VVOS). Jeppesen’s VVOS technology combines ocean weather forecasts, ad- vanced computer modeling of ship per- formance, and sophisticated, proprietary route optimization algorithms to poten- tially improve the efficiency of ship nav- igation by reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions, improving ETAs and providing valuable data that can be used to help extend the life of a vessel. VVOS will be evaluated by Commander, Naval

Meteorology and Oceanography Com- mand – CNMOC - at the Naval Maritime

Forecast Centers in Norfolk, Virginia and

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Tognum, Norinco JV Opens China

Tognum and China North Industries

Group Corporation (Norinco) held a cer- emony in the Chinese city of Datong to mark the opening of a joint undertaking involving the assembly of large, high- speed MTU diesel engines and emer- gency standby gensets. Datong is located around 300 km west of Beijing in Shanxi

Province.

MAN Diesel & Turbo Signs Deal

MAN Diesel & Turbo has signed a four-stroke license agreement with Rong

An Power Machinery, a Chinese marine engine manufacturer. Dr. Stephan Tim- mermann, Executive Board Member

MAN Diesel & Turbo, and David Deng,

President Rong An, signed the new agreement on behalf of their respective companies on September 7, 2010 in a ceremony at MAN Diesel & Turbo’s stand at the SMM international marine trade fair in Hamburg. Rong An previ- ously signed a two-stroke license agree- ment with MAN Diesel & Turbo in

September 2008.

Alfa Laval Celebrates 125th

During 2010, Alfa Laval has been cele- brating a milestone – creating better everyday conditions for people in over 20 industries with a broad product portfolio focused on three key technologies: heat transfer, separation and fluid handling.

The De Laval Separator Company was established in the USA in 1885. A factory to make the separators was built in

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and sales skyrock- 50 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News

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