Long 2001 Articles

• • Frozen Gas Market Heats Up page: 50
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2001

  While seemingly miniscule in terms of deadweight tons ordered and delivered per year as compared to the shipbuilding business as a whole, the production of gas tankers, LNG and LPG, are high-value, high prestige orders that are likely to rise significantly in the coming years. Consistently high

• • Strong Market Continues page: 50
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2001

  In 2000, VLCCs obtained S53.000 per day. up from less than $20,000 in 1999. Old VLCCs reached $33,000 per day compared with only $11,000 in 1999. The freight market boom also had its effect on medium size crude carriers. After poor market conditions in 1999 with modern Suezmaxes obtaining $15,0

• • No Leg Left to Stand On - An Obituary for MarAd? page: 36
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2001

  Unless things change dramatically, I am writing as the last Deputy Administrator of the Maritime Administration (MarAd). At least the MarAd we have known, sometimes loved, but always needed for the last 50 years. As I look at the Administration's budget proposals to transfer management of the

• • U.S. Shipbuilding Industry: A Bright Future Tempered with Challenges page: 34
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2001

  Not since the heady days o:r the late 1970s has the outlook for shipbuilding in U.S. yards looked brighter, but that outlook is tempered somewhat by the threat of federal budget cuts that could jeop- ardize many present and future shipbuilding projects. The L.S.'s decision to unilaterally el

• • Camacho Returns to His Roots page: 30
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2001

  December 7, 1941, "A day that will live in infamy," is undoubtedly a defining moment in U.S. history. The day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor is again in the public eye with the recent release of Touchstone Pictures' epic Pearl Har bor this past Memorial Day weekend. While the movie provides

• • Galician Grit page: 8
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2001

  Independent Spanish shipbuilder Hijos de J Barreras has again showed its mettle by delivering two specialized vessels within the space of just a few days, and by landing a three-ship contract to take its orderbook into mid 2003. Three years after being spun-off from the former Astilleros Espa

• • Norway's Caretaker Protects Precious Cargo page: 50
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2001

  Imagine you're onboard a cruise ship and a fire breaks out and you realize that you are trapped in your stateroom — left to inhale the fatal smoke and gas wafting through the vents. Contrary to popular belief, more than 85 percent of fire related deaths occur, not from burns, but from this ty

• • Carnivals New Spirit page: 44
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2001

  The 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

• • Barging Ahead page: 38
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2001

  Barge 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.

• • New "Ax-Bow" To Increase Ships' Efficiency page: 30
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2001

  Considerable 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

• • N N S 1Q EPS Up 19% page: 27
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2001

  Newport 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

• • Castor's Downfall: Hyper-Accelerated Corrosion page: 18
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2001

  Few 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

• • EAR Takes Lead In RoPax Market page: 14
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2001

  IZAR, 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

• • "The Floating Volvo" HHI Builds Twin Engine V-Max VLCC page: 12
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2001

  Vision, 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

• • New Dimension for Hapag-Lloyd page: 8
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2001

  Although 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

• • Finland: Cradle of Marine High-Tech page: 75
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on April 2001

  The 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

• • Stena Discovery Performance Improved With Enhanced Steering System page: 54
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on April 2001

  On 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

• • Technology, Image Top Inland Agenda page: 66
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on April 2001

  The 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

• • Wartsila: Smokeless by Common Rail page: 64
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on April 2001

  There 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

• • The FPU Market Is Primed To Produce page: 33
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on April 2001

  According 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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