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• • Ferry Boat Interiors page: 24
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  on January 2004

  It is late in the day and you are anxious to get home. You drive onboard the ferry, park your car and head up to the passenger lounge. As you pass through the door at the top of the stairs, what will you see and experience? That is the challenge in designing ferry interiors. As a naval archit

• • OPA 90 & the War on Terror page: 17
  pablished in:
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  on January 2004

  According to the USCG, oil spills have been reduced by roughly 90 percent since OPA90 was passed some 12 years ago. Encouraging, but statistics are often misleading. It would be a reasonable assumption that the oil that was spilled was a result of human error or equipment failure; not spilled

• • Cruise Ship Engineers Indicted page: 10
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  on January 2004

  Tom Sansonetti. Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division and Marcos Daniel Jimenez, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced that three senior cruise ship engineers were indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami, F

• • Fast Ferries Still a Core Market for Austal page: 20
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  on January 2004

  Although it has diversified into other vessel types in recent years. Western Australian based shipbuilding group Austal still counts fast ferries as a core market. The last year has been no exception. with the biggest news being the June announcement of an order for what will be the world's

• • Recycling of Ships page: 18
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  on January 2004

  As of July 1, 2003, there were approximately 29,000 commercial self-propelled ocean-going ships worldwide in excess of 1.000 gross tons each. Of these, just over 400 are U.S. Hag. In addition, there are approximately 3,000 U.S. barges of over 1,000 gross tons each. Approximately 25% of these

• • Places of Refuge and Ship Recycling page: 11
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  on January 2004

  Member States of the International Maritime Organization (1MO) agreed on the need for an audit scheme to assess their effectiveness in implementing global shipping standards, with the adoption of an Assembly resolution on the subject at the 23rd I MO Assembly, which met at the Organization's

• • Container Market Pauses page: 15
  pablished in:
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  on December 2003

  Early last year, "experts" were warning of a prolonged slump in the box trades, fueled by reckless over-ordering by irresponsible carriers and shipbuilders offering special deals on price. Howe Robinson's Container Index had sunk to a low point of 451 in January and leading liner company exec

• • New Technology Melded to the North Atlantic Tradition Queen Mary 2 page: 24
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on December 2003

  Confounding the skeptics who said the 70.300-gt Queen Elizabeth 2 would be the last transatlantic liner ever built, the 150.000-gt Queen Mary 2 is set to make her service debut in January 2004, signifying a $780- million investment in a luxury passenger ship structurally engineered for the Nort

• • great ships of 2003 page: 19
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  on December 2003

  Name White Rose Builder Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. Owner Husky Oil Operation Type FPSO For many years now, contracts for ships and floating units to operate in an offshore environment have been much-prized value-added goals at Samsung. These include not only shuttle but drill ships,

• • Careful ... Your TBT May Be Showing page: 17
  pablished in:
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  on December 2003

  If you thought hull anti-fouling systems were boring (think Teredo worm), then you haven't been paying attention to the controversy surrounding use of organotin compounds on the underwater hulls of ships. Fouling has been a problem for ships since time immemorial. The Teredo worm (scientifi

• • Benjamin Vickers: 175 Years & Counting page: 89
  pablished in:
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  on November 2003

  One wonders if, when Benjamin Randall Vickers went into business in 1828 as an agent selling oils and soaps, he had the prescience to see the ever growing need for specialized lubricants as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace. He didn't have an easy ride. But he did have the guts, acumen

• • Optimizing Feed Rates For Crosshead Diesels page: 88
  pablished in:
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  on November 2003

  New program analyzes scrapedown oil as way to detect changes in the condition of an engine's cylinders ExxonMobil introduced a program to optimize cylinder oil feed rates in low-speed (crosshead) diesel engines. The "Feed Rate Optimization" program is designed to help minimize operating expense

• • E-Ship: The Paperless Trail page: 82
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on November 2003

  Paperwork is, and always has been a necessary and essential aspect of ship operation. Indeed, the Barcelona Maritime Code of 1258 required ships carry clerks specifically for this purpose releasing the master to concentrate on his primary duty, safely navigating the vessel. Unfortunately, su

• • New Aluminum Marine Alloy Specification Developed page: 58
  pablished in:
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  on November 2003

  ASTM B 928 "High Magnesium Aluminum-Alloy Sheet & Plate for Marine Service" The recent publication of the new specification - ASTM B928 High Magnesium Aluminum-Alloy Sheet & Plate for Marine Service - is the culmination of a cooperative effort between numerous parties involved in the marine

• • China: Growing Influence in All Matters Maritime page: 52
  pablished in:
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  on November 2003

  China's importance in the world maritime market has accelerated rapidly over the past decade, but it appears that current and near future growth will prove even more prolific. Chinese shipyards for 10 years have continued to dent the market share numbers of major shipbuilders in Japan. Korea

• • IBM PLM Offers New Shipbuilding Solutions page: 46
  pablished in:
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  on November 2003

  IBM and Dassault Systemes introduced Release 12 of their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions suite for the shipbuilding industry, featuring new applications for Structures and Compartment Design. Included in Release 12 is the latest version of CATIA Version 5, which continues to exp

• • Introducing Lean Shipbuilding to U.S. Yards page: 42
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on November 2003

  Lean times call for "leaner" boats and what better to employ than Lean Shipbuilding, which is known as a proven approach that shipyards can use to improve shipbuilding efficiency. It has the advantages of reducing defects while remaining responsive to change. How does this differ from the tra

• • Workboat Annual 2003 • Great Boats of 2003 page: 30
  pablished in:
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  on November 2003

  Name Normand Master Type AHTS Yard Ulstein Owner Solstad Normand Master, a massive 23.500-hp anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTS). was delivered March 28. 2003. Normand Master, hull no. 265. was designed by Ulstein Design AS (type A101) and was built by Ulstein Verft AS for Solstad Sh

• • NY Navigation Channels: The Really Big Dig page: 25
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on November 2003

  Boston can claim its new tunnel project as the "big dig", but the nearly $3 billion effort to dredge navigation channels in and around New York to 45 — and eventually 50 ft. — is the second largest USACE project; ever. - by Greg Trauthwein The initial thought while standing in the working

• • At Sea with U.S. Maritime Security page: 20
  pablished in:
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  on November 2003

  The U.S. Coast Guard issued its final regulations implementing the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (MTSA). These regulations replace the interim rules issued on July 1, 2003 and take into account comments received thereon. Few substantive changes, though, have been made. The majo

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