Maritime Magazines Archive
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- New YANMAR EPA Tier III Engine page: 56
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015YANMAR America introduced its new EPA Tier III compliant commercial marine diesel engine. Rated at 755 mHP and 1,900 rpm, the new 20.38-liter 6AYAM-ET uses a full mechanical control system. The class-approved four-cycle, in-line six-cylinder 6AYAM-ET offers low fuel consumption and a continuous rati
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015VapCor Inc. distributor of unique products for the marine industry introduced the Lindemann Marine Products. Lindemann provides over 30 years of experience in research and development of quality stop leak, repair and preventive maintenance products. Designed for use in the marine, offshore, cruise a
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015Volvo Penta introduced the first two models of its next-generation sterndrive marine gasoline engines. The new 4.3-liter catalyzed V6 engines, rated at 200 and 240 hp, will supplement Volvo Penta’s current V6 product line. Volvo Penta will roll out the complete new family of next-generation V6 and V
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- Transas: The Bridge to Tomorrow page: 54
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015Transas was founded in 1990, by a group of former navigators and engineers, who at that time envisioned ways in which computers could revolutionize maritime safety, communications and security. In the ensuing 25 years Transas has pioneered navigational technology across a wide sector, developing int
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- BICERA Explosion Relief Valve page: 53
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015Sometimes it seems cliché to repeat that a product or system “protects equipment and saves lives,” but in the case of valve manufacturer Penn-Troy, which recently unveiled a new crankcase explosion relief valve that boasts lower exhaust temperatures, more engine internal clearance and a lighter weig
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- The Art of Propeller Making page: 44
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015The world’s biggest propellers have their cradle in the North of Germany. MMG – Mecklenburger Metallguss GmbH – has manufactured for more than 65 years propellers for ships, including the biggest and fastest, in the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. With the manufacture of propellers up to 130 tons,
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- Beyond the Black Box page: 50
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015Using the VDR as the Ship’s Data Clearing House provides budget-minded operators with the means, the bandwidth and the economy to monitor critical systems. Go on: dip your toes in the big data water. Big Data. It’s all the rage across the full spectrum of the maritime world. Th
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- Lindner Sees Strong 2015 page: 48
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015On the last day of what proved to be a busy Workboat show in New Orleans, Mikael Lindner, President, Scania North America, sat with Maritime Reporter & Engineering News to reflect on the current and future direction of the power company’s marine business in North America. As the marine market follo
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015U.S. System Approvals are Key; Detailed Pre-Planning Urged Ten years on, there’s little certain about ballast water management regulations that the industry can chart a course around other than that it will be expensive – possibly the most costly marine retrofit to date. With install estimates run
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015The growth trend continues in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry, a trend that has been relatively constant during the last five year. While shipbuilding is ‘ship shape,’ the reality of the Brazilian ship repair industry is somewhat muddled, populated by only a few dedicated repair yards as the foc
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- Chemical Tanker Turned OSV page: 26
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015With innovation in its Norwegian DNA, Uksnoy Shipping took a chemical tanker and made it into an Offshore Service Vessel with an innovative propulsion system. The conversion of a Turkish-made chemical tanker and its retrofitting with a promising new energy-saving propulsion system in 2013 sugge
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015Dynamic positioning is a vessel capability provided by integration of a variety of individual systems and functions to automatically maintain a vessel’s position and heading by use of the vessel’s propellers and thrusters, and has been in use, particularly in the offshore oil and gas exploration
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015Passenger vessel safety isn’t just a third world problem. It’s a worthy challenge to take up in 2015 and at the same time, a completely sobering way to ring in the New Year. As the clock ticks down on yet another year, I couldn’t help but take note of the new cruise ship passenger drill requirem
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015With age comes perspective, and in my 20 plus years reporting on this industry I have seen my fair share of regulation that has served to ‘raise the hackles’ of ship owners. It is quite simple really; new regulation often means new procedure, new design, new equipment and new costs. With the possibl
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- What Keeps ‘Good Ship’ RINA Buoyant page: 20
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015When the Institution of Naval Architects was formed in 1860 it became one of the bastions of Victorian engineering, enabling and encouraging the exchange of knowledge, information and good practice in the field of naval architecture. The basic principles laid down in the early days saw the Instituti
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- N-KOM Sees Increased Tanker Business page: 10
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM), which recently celebrated its fourth year in operation, has seen an increasing number of tankers dry docking at its facility in Qatar. With the introduction of de-mucking and de-slopping facilities, tie-up with local customs for ‘ship spares in transit’ a
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- Bayonne Drydock Logs Successful '14 page: 10
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Maritime Reporter
on January 2015Bayonne Drydock kicked off last year with the repair and drydocking of the U.S. Navy Ship, Pomeroy followed by the successful drydocking and repairs of the USNS Watkins. It closed the year with the completion of the USNS Seay; all were completed on time, with the Seay coming in ahead of schedule wit
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Marine News
on January 2015YANMAR America’s EPA Tier III compliant commercial marine diesel engine is rated at 755 mHP and 1900 RPM. The new 20.38-liter 6AYAM-ET uses a fully mechanical control system for easy servicing and reliable performance. The four-cycle, in-line six-cylinder 6AYAM-ET offers several key features and ben
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Marine News
on January 2015The bow area of the underwater hull of Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross was coated with Ecospeed. The ship is one of two ice-strengthened research vessels operated by British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Ecospeed is not only the best solutions available for underwater hulls of icebreakers and ice-goi
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- Braemar’s FSP-LNG Containment System page: 57
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Marine News
on January 2015Braemar LNG BV has signed an agreement with NASSCO to utilize its patents in the design and construction of FSP LNG Containment systems. The FSP system - a new flat-panel, semi-membrane, prismatic-shaped LNG tank-containment system Type B - uses new flat plate technology to overcome partial filling