Maritime Magazines Archive
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015MARIN combined CFD with fast-time simulations and intensive testing on its bridge simulator to explore the full potential of the new SSP HUB. To save on costly helicopter crew transport, SSP Offshore took a good look at its SSP Plus design and decided to add a large crew boat docking tunnel, runnin
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015Maritime Reporter talks with Bart Otten, President, United Technologies Corporation Fire & Security EMEA, at this year’s biggest maritime trade show, the Nor-Shipping Exhibition, regarding the company’s Joint Maritime Approach. Bart Otten heads the Fire and Security Business Unit of UTC in Europe,
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- Port Automation Puts Labor on Notice page: 28
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Maritime Logistics Professional
on Q3 2015TEU Growth Forces Efficiency, Productivity Drive When Maersk subsidiary ADP Terminals (ADPT) launched APMT Maasvlakte 2, the world’s first fully automated container terminal in April, it did so against a background of months of acrimonious labor discussions between the International Longshore and W
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- A Winding Path to a Maritime Career page: 24
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Maritime Logistics Professional
on Q3 2015Career Profile: Parker Harrison - Vice President, Procurement Crowley Maritime Corporation Charlottesville, Va. and the University of Virginia are a long, long way from the ocean. Arguably, an even greater distance is the one which stretches from a Bachelor of Arts degree in Italian and German, a
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Marine Technology
on September 2015“Sustainable development” has gone from buzz word to business imperative in the two decades since the initial Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Companies are increasingly evaluated on how well they address sustainability as a critical measure of their commitment to the triple bottom line – pe
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- EIVA NaviSuite page: 57
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Marine Technology
on September 2015EIVA has launched a NaviSuite eLearning site, which via an annual subscription aims to offers users training modules covering various aspects of the NaviSuite features and applications that they can access regardless of the time of the day and where they are in the world. According to EIVA, the sit
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- QINSy page: 56
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Marine Technology
on September 2015Software design company Quality Positioning Services BV (QPS) has upgraded its hydrographic data acquisition, navigation and processing software package QINSy (Quality Integrated Navigation System). The latest version, 8.10.2015.06.29.1, includes a new feature called Hook-Up Operations for Anchor Ha
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Marine Technology
on September 2015In June 2015, ASI Marine (ASI) personnel conducted a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) underwater inspection of the Cheves Hydropower Tunnel in Peru and ended up breaking the ASI company record for the deepest flooded tunnel inspection at 570 m water depth. The Cheves Hydropower Project is being deve
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- Mega Maritime: Heavy Lift for FPSOs page: 58
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015When the Dockwise Vanguard was conceived, Dockwise, part of the Boskalis Group, had a vision for a new market - transporting the world’s largest cargoes, including FPSOs (floating production storage and offloading vessels). It hasn’t taken the vessel, the largest heavy transport vessel in the world
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015Gladding-Hearn shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation delivered a second 70-ft. tactical response vessel to New York City’s Harbor Patrol Unit. The two sister-boats were part of a five-boat order from the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Measuring 68.8 ft. on deck, with a 19-ft. beam and 3.8-ft. d
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015Ulstein Verft launched from its dock hall a special offshore construction vessel, Yno 302, for Island Offshore and Edison Chouest Offshore. The newbuild measures close to 160 m in length with at beam of 30 m, making it the largest offshore vessel built at Ulstein Verft to date. A video of the launc
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015Although a small nation on the Atlantic shores, Portugal in the 16th century was credited with discovering most of the “New World” previously unknown to Europe. In the process it became the richest nation in the West. The names of Bartolomeu Dias (Africa), Vasco da Gama (India) and Fernão de Magalhã
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- Spanish Maritime Industry Prospects page: 50
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015With a coastline of 4,964 km and a vast majority of the country’s population living along the coast, Spain’s economy has a direct bearing on its ocean related activities. The importance of sun and sand tourism, of the energy sector – for which oil and gas are supplied by sea – and the ever-increasin
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- Company Profile: Offshore Inland page: 48
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015Longer Docks; Deeper Water in Pensacola With Offshore Inland Marine & Oilfield Services Inc (OIMO), a leader in topside and riding crew repair services, experiencing strong growth before the drilling market softened, the company knew its days in Mobile, Ala., were numbered, as it had outgrown its f
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015Building the Venice Offshore Port The New York Times once called Venice “undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man.” But as beautiful as Venice might be, it is still a port city struggling to compete in a global economy, and beauty doesn’t attract Ultra Large Container Vessels (UCLV). Por
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- FPSO Guide to Life Extension page: 42
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015There are new-builds, and there are conversions. In lean times, there’s also “life-extension” for FPSOs increasingly seen as the best hope of developing oilfields too pricy as platform projects. Life extension is about making first-time money, cutting costs or continuing to earn when a field or
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- LNG Bunker Barge Concepts page: 63
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015Jensen Maritime Consultants debuted a pair of LNG bunker barge concepts. The first concept involves outfitting an existing barge with an above-deck LNG tank. The concept can be further modified to accommodate more than one type of product, if a customer has a need for multiple liquid transfers. Desi
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015A range of marine battery solutions received approval for use on-board ships or marine related applications such as offshore platforms and renewable energy projects. Available from Eco Marine Power (EMP), a developer of renewable energy solutions for ships, in cooperation with storage batteries and
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015The Fairplay fleet in Rotterdam welcomed two new members: The hybrid tractor tugs Fairplay IX and Fairplay XI, each equipped with a Schottel hybrid propulsion system including two Schottel Rudderpropellers SRP 4000 with hybrid gearboxes, two electric motors and an integrated steering control system,
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Maritime Reporter
on September 2015As vessel owners struggle over the best and most efficient means to meet stringent new emission regulations, the Interlake Steamship Company has proven phase one of emissions-reduction technology on Great Lakes; and two additional ships are to be outfitted with exhaust gas scrubbers in 2016. Follow