Long 2002 Articles

• • German Barging: Over the Divide page: 76
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  Roswitha Engert-Zoller and her husband. Capt. Albrecht Zoller, dream of riding a working towboat on the Mississippi River. But their life cruising through picturesque European villages aboard their family owned and operated power barge would be the envy of most North American mariners. The opp

• • Intertanko's Sustainable Challenge page: 72
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  Environmental Sustainable Development. It's a concept that has sparked a multitude of papers, essays and analysis, yet the notion of sustainable development has still to be fully recognized by the maritime world. Or has it? Invasive species, harmful anti-fouling paints and the dismantling of s

• • Ship Graveyard page: 68
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  Imagine earning $1.25 a day to wade through knee-deep mucky waters on a beach in Bangladesh, to dismantle enormous ships with little more than hand tools. This practice is conducted every day by Bangladeshi laborers who work as ship breakers. These vessels, many of which are cast-off single hull

• • Rear Admiral Pluta Redefines Maritime Security page: 64
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  Rear Admiral (RADM) Paul Pluta, the man in charge of ensuring the security of the 361 ports and 95,000 miles of coastline in the U.S., had to quickly shift gears in the hours following September 11. Hired initially to beef up environmental protection and passenger vessel safety, Pluta quickly r

• • Crisis Management and the Integration of Vessel Tracking Technologies page: 60
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  The implementation of Crisis Management Systems (CMS) designed to respond to situations in ports and waterways, and along our coasts, requires the availability of up-to-date information on the location of resources on-hand and those already deployed. The Crisis Management System (CMS) is a co

• • Answering the Call from Above page: 50
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  Selecting a "Technology-of-the-Year" for the June 2002 Yearbook edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News was no smal task, and a decidedly unscientific one, at that. There were no editorial boards, voting slips, gala dinners or plaques. Simply put. the editors of MR/EN arrived on Satell

• • World Shipbuilding to Fall Slightly page: 44
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  Last year was an active one for the international shipbuilding market. Although the order intake was significantly reduced from the order boom of the previous year, 46 million dwt, or 31.3 million compensated gross tons (cgt) of new ships were ordered. Part of this can be explained by the orde

• • Prospects Abound, But Where's the Money? page: 32
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  While the U.S. commercial shipbuilding industry outperformed the U.S. economy between 1992 and 2001, this period witnessed the construction of barely a dozen large ocean going vessels for our U.S. domestic trades with an aggregate cost of not much more than $500 million. In contrast, U. S. nati

• • Navy League Comes to NY for Centennial Celebration page: 28
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  More than 600 Navy Leaguers from around the world will be in New York City from June 28 to July 2, 2002, attending the organization's national convention and celebrating the Centennial of the Navy League of the United States (NLUS). The Navy League is a civilian organization that supports all

• • GL: Exporting German Precision page: 40
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  Mechanical engineer Till Braun of Germanischer Lloyd is passionate about precision. "If I was building a boat, any boat, I would want to have a classification society involved," he says. Till, Project Manager for the society's Diesel Engines and Emissions Department, is charged with certifyin

• • Matson Signs $220M Contract With Kvaerner Philadelphia page: 38
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  In a widely expected announcement, late last month Matson Navigation Company, Inc. signed a contract with Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard Inc. (KPSI) for two new containerships worth a cumulative $220 million. The 2,600-TEU diesel-powered vessels will be deployed in the company's Hawaii servi

• • Container & RoRo Tonnage — Non-Contiguous Liner Trades page: 35
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  The container and RoRo fleets of the established carriers serving Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico are aged. While none of these trades is experiencing rapid growth, the involved vessels are expensive to operate and increasingly expensive to maintain. Replacement plans are well underway by one of

• • OPA '90 - The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 page: 33
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  Crude Carriers & Product Tankers and Barges OPA '90 requires the complete replacement of single hulled tank ves- sels to be used in the U.S. petroleum crude and product carrier and related trades in five-year intervals at the end of 2005, 2010 and 2015. The current U.S. flag tanker fleet is

• • A Naval Architect's Look At Design Trends page: 24
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  Reading tea leaves on a boat underway is an exercise in frustration because just as the leaves start to settle, another wave comes along and changes the picture. Similarly, trying to foresee trends in the marine industry. Just as you see things shaping up, a change occurs and the industry is

• • Redundancy The Next Watchword? page: 20
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on June 2002

  The fact that the actual incidence of oil cargo spills as a percentage of global ship- ments is minuscule can never a r e a s o n any relaxation in the constant vigilance and unerring drive for risk minimization which must be practiced in all fields of tanker shipping. Certainly, there is

• • HHI: To Infinity & Beyond page: 52
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2002

  Thirty years ago when Greek shipowner George Livanos met with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) founder Chung Ju Yung met on a sandy beach on the tip of the Korean peninsu- la where the new HHI shipyard would stand, little did they know that 30 years later, HHI would have delivered 1,000 ships

• • EU to Develop Sulfur Strategy page: 43
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2002

  The EU is limbering up to set new restrictions on sulfur in marine fuels, if MARPOL Annex VI is not implemented quickly, explains Ian Adams, secretary general of the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA). At the same time, the European Commission aims to clarify its own directive on

• • FRP Pumps Offer Lasting Results page: 40
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2002

  There's hardly a marine application — onboard or ashore — where seawater pumps are not considered critical to a vessel's operation or purpose. The ability to pump seawater aboard most vessels represents only a part of their liquid pumping requirements; in many cases other liquids such as causti

• • Has the Fast Cat Come to A Halt? page: 15
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2002

  Long hailed for its innovative "fast cat" vessels that were developed by Robert Clifford and Phil Hercus in the 1980's Incat Australia delivered not a new cat last month, but news of an i m p e n d i n g bankruptcy. Could this be the end of the fast cats that have dominated the alumi

• • The GMD Group - A Young, Ambitious Team page: 33
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on May 2002

  Priding itself on its drydock capabilities in both New York and New Jersey, the GMD Group is comprised of a young, ambitious team of individuals, who work together to provide ship owners with the quickest turnaround possible on each job that comes into its yards. Comprised of GMD Shipyard in Br

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