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- Carnivals New Spirit page: 44
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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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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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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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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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on May 2001Few marine incidents have vexed the collective international marine community as much as the recent situation with the damaged product tanker Castor, a ship, which experienced a near fatal deckplate crack in mid-voyage and then was denied safe harbor for fear of the ship splitting open and sp
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- EAR Takes Lead In RoPax Market page: 14
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on May 2001IZAR, the new Spanish shipbuilding consortium formed with the combination of the former Astilleros Espanoles and Bazan, has delivered to Stena Line its brand new ferry Stena Hollandica, which entered service in the Hook of Holland-Harwich route. In October 2000 Stena Line had already introduc
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on May 2001Vision, a unique VLCC built by Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) in that it features twin-engines and twin-propellers, was recently christened at the Ulsan Shipyard. Concordia Maritime AB's new ultra-large 315,000-dwt VLCC was christened by Mrs. Karen Fidler, wife of the presi
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- New Dimension for Hapag-Lloyd page: 8
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on May 2001Although long in the vanguard of containership technology, Germany's Hapag-Lloyd did not feel compelled to join the early rush towards vessels of wider-than-Panamax gauge. Once the prudent Hamburg company decided to embrace the concept, however, it opted for one of the largest and most power
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- Finland: Cradle of Marine High-Tech page: 75
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on April 2001The Finnish maritime market continues to serve the high-tech, high-value end of the marine business with a plethora of engineered solutions and continually evolving marine technology. As the brunt of "series production" shipbuilding (ie. bulkers and tankers) is now firmly embedded in the Far Ea
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on April 2001On February 14, the world's largest high-speed ferry catamaran Stena Discovery took off from Belfast, after a planned drydocking, and about one hour out at sea on the captain's command the waterjet control was switched over to steering by a retrofitted Humphree Interceptor Steering System. Whil
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- Technology, Image Top Inland Agenda page: 66
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on April 2001The North American inland marine market is neither technologically archaic nor as environmentally hazardous as many individuals outside of the marine market may think. These two issues dominated a recent meeting sponsored by the Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP) held in early March a
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- Wartsila: Smokeless by Common Rail page: 64
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on April 2001There are two main ingredients to common rail fuel injection, one being the freedom to choose injection pressure and timing totally independently of the engine load. The other is computerized control, which makes it possible to consider several engine parameters and optimize the injection and
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- The FPU Market Is Primed To Produce page: 33
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on April 2001According to a study just completed by IMA, 121 floating production systems are in operation or available. This is an increase of approximately 90 percent over the number of units in operation five years ago. About one-quarter of the units are operating off Northern Europe, another quarter off
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on April 2001Two employees of the COMSAT Mobile Communications (CMC]) Land Earth Station in Southbury, Conn., were recognized recently by the United States Coast Cuard (USCG) for coordinating life-saving satellite communications for the Coast Guard, the maritime vessel Ocean Wolf and four rescue ships.
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- GLM Poised For A Strong 2001 page: 46
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on April 2001Global Marine (GLM) is a holding company that provides offshore contract drilling services on a dayrate basis and offshore drilling management services on a dayrate or fixed-price basis. The company has an active fleet of 31 mobile offshore drilling rigs and two ultra deep-water drillships un
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on April 2001Seacor — through an unprecedented string of strategic and financially sound acquisitions — has emerged as one of the world's premier operators of a fleet of vessels that provide marine services to the oil and gas exploration and pro- duction industry, and oil spill response services in the U.
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- A Leg Up on the Competition page: 40
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on April 2001To Tim Domke, the new MA' Dixie Legacy (pictured on the cover), is much more than simply the largest, most advanced lift boat in the world. To Domke, the Dixie Legacy is personal, the culmination of a career built sailing onboard these unique vessels with the last four years spent shoreside, ov
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on April 2001Holding on to its 128-year -dam tradition, Holland America unveiled two new additions to its fleet — tns Zuiderdam and ms Oosterdam — at the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention. Measuring 951 ft. (289.8 m) each, the duo, which will mark the beginning of the five-ship Vista Class Series, will be
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on April 2001The Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") has issued proposed regulations under section 863 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), providing new rules for determining the source of income from activities conducted in international waters for purposes of U.S. income taxa
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- The New Knowledge Brokers? page: 8
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on April 2001Increasing commercial pressures and structural changes in the maritime industries call for new approaches to better ensure vessel and equipment quality and improved safety, believes Lutz Wittenberg, Germanischer Lloyd's divisional director of projects and marketing. In a bold presentation lik