Maritime Magazines Archive
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- Size Matters page: 42
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001The bunker industry is changing. Bunker buyers want bigger stems, broader choice of grades, more delivery locations, higher standards, additional services, and consistency. Port authorities also want consistency, along with no pollution, more monitoring, increased regulation, heightened bench
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- Yachting Consult Offers MasterShip page: 37
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Yachting Consult is a fast growing player in the field of work preparation and engineering process services for shipbuilders. The Dutch company provides experience and skills in CAD/CAM engineering and software, as well as logistic services such as transport and just-in-time delivery of ship
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- 2 0 0 0 A Good Year for MaK page: 57
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG in Kiel, Germany played a large role in the high worldwide demand for marine engines in the record year 2000. Sales of MaK engines were up by approximately 40 percent, the largest order intake in the company's history. All new MaK long-stroke engine series M
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on May 2001For 20 years Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) has helped to rule the unruly waves in the marine CAD/CAM software industry, providing products and marine engineering services to customers worldwide. The company is enjoying good success currently with Autostructure, an advanced internal stru
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- The Tribon Ml Developer's Toolkit page: 36
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001In order to allow its customers to create specific developments to the Tribon Shipbuilding system to extract even greater competitive advantages, Tribon Solutions has created the "Developer's Toolkit" of the Tribon Ml Shipbuilding system on Windows NT based on Tribon M1 Vitesse and Oracle techn
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- NavCad V 4 . 0 Released page: 35
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001HydroComp, Inc. of Durham, N.H. released NavCad v4.0. — a software tool for the prediction and analysis ol" vessel speed and power performance. In terms of looks-and-feel, it is a comfortable transition, the interface is virtually identical to version 3. Regarding the functionality of the pro
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001EnSolve Biosystems has developed and is offering the PetroLiminator, a biomechanical oily water separator for the marine industry. In fact, the Raleigh, N.C., company was recently presented the Seatrade Award for countering marine and atmospheric pollution "The PetroLiminator was developed to o
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Titan Maritime LLC, a Florida based marine salvage company, has completed removal of the An Tai stern section. The stern of the wreck of the 9,081 gt, General cargo vessel An Tai comprised of cargo holds three, four, five and the engine room, has been successfully raised and is on the deck of
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001With a significant trend leaning toward larger-sized newbuildings, with some vessels able to carry up to 5,000 passengers, a new challenge is presented to both passengers and crew regarding a quick and easy escape during emergency situations. Current systems require all persons onboard to as
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- Carnivals New Spirit page: 44
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001The latest testament to Finnish cruise ship building prowess is embodied in the recently delivered Carnival Spirit, a ship that will become well-known not only for what it contains within, but for what it does not let out. Carnival Spirit, newbuilding no. 499, was built at Kvaerner Masa-Yards
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- Barging Ahead page: 38
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Barge operators are often accused of giving the marine fuels industry a bad name. While it is true that there are barging companies with a debatable approach to the business, they are very much in the minority. Worldwide, barge operators are working hard to improve their services and operations.
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- Online Design, Drafting Offered page: 32
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Shipyards and marine and offshore fabrication facilities across North America are being offered a new way to fill their design and drafting requirements. Genoa Design International Ltd. has launched a unique web-based system that facilitates the delivery of detail design and drafting services
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Reintjes presented its IPP System (Integrated Propulsion Package), jointly developed with Lips, for the first time in Germany more than two years ago. It marked the largest product offensive in the history of the company, and marked a vast expansion of its propulsion prod- ucts, particularly
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on May 2001Ro-Clean Desmi A/S of Denmark has been officially awarded the Guinness World Record for developing the largest offshore oil containment boom in the world. Known as the R0- BOOM 3500 this boom has an overall height of 11.5 ft. (3.5 m). Traditionally offshore booms have only been around 6.5 ft.
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001L-3 Communications' Aviation Recorder Division has delivered its first production Hardened Voyage Recorder (HVR) to Consilium Navigation — a manufacturer of high technology equipment for the maritime industry. In joining forces with Consilium, L-3 Communications' HVR is scheduled to be insta
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- N a v y Honors Propeller Expert page: 28
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Senior naval officers and government officials will recognize the career of Dr. William B. Morgan in a naming ceremony April 27 at the U.S. Navy's Large Cavitation Channel (LCC). This unique engineering test facility will bear the name of the former head of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, C
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Considerable effort, particularly following the oil embargo of the 1970s, has been placed on reducing the fuel oil consumption of ships, a task readily handled by a series of improvements in hull shapes, the fitting of energy savings devices, and improvements to the performance of main engine
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- N N S 1Q EPS Up 19% page: 27
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Newport News Shipbuilding reported net earnings of $24 million, or $0.75 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2001. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) for the quarter were $51 million, up from $47 million last year. "We are pleased to start 2001 with a continuation of our very s
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001Unauthorized welding on laundry room equipment triggered a fire aboard the cruise ship Ecstasy off Miami in 1998, injuring 22 people and causing more than $17 million in damages, U.S. safety investigators concluded. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that sparks from the we
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- Cathedral Power page: 8
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Maritime Reporter
on May 2001After a rash of containership design and propulsion system initiatives aimed at extending the reach of the most potent engines already in production, the industry has now been presented with a powering option offering an unprecedented output from a single-engine plant. Wartsila Corporation has