Long 2002 Articles

• • Creating a Portable Dynamic Positioning System page: 46
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 2002

  Imagine being able to take something as a simple as a barge, and convert it into a highly sophisticated dynamically positioned vessel. Now, imagine this conversion being done dockside, in the water, in a week's time. Thrustmaster's deck-mounted Portable Dynamic Positioning System (PDPS) elimina

• • Australia is a Tough Testing Ground for Marine equipment page: 42
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 2002

  When heavy ships are maneuvered in rough waters with a small crew, or oil tankers are escorted through narrow confined channels, the strength and reliability of a tug boat's towiine is paramount to safety and efficiency. Tugboats require ship-assist ropes that are extraordinarily strong, yet li

• • Bridge of the Future page: 41
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 2002

  Seen by Audrey Vorobiev, Manager of the Navigation Product Unit, Transas In the light of the overall tendency in the industry towards the integration of information into single interactive solutions, Transas feels that integration technologies will also be dominant on the ship's bridge. Toda

• • Integrated Bridge Allows Cutting Edge Design page: 36
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 2002

  The integrated bridge system concept has steadily gained speed over the last decade, as much the result as a market driven phenomena with owners and regulators demanding safe, efficient and labor-saving bridge design, as the result of the tremendous level of consolidation among marine electroni

• • SENESCO -The People's Shipyard page: 34
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 2002

  In the fall of 1990, the Berlin Wall came clown, thus unifying Germany into one nation — and marking the end of the Cold War. One year following the fall of the Iron Curtain, U.S. President George Bush and Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev signed the START treaty, which stated that both nation

• • Money Talks page: 27
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 2002

  The American Shipbuilding Association has long bemoaned the level of U.S. Navy funding, arguing that the amount of spending on new ships would, in the future, leave the force woefully under-equipped to handle its duties of defense. Though the ASA is but the lobbying voice of the country's "Big

• • Entry of the Titans Delayed page: 18
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 2002

  After consistent annual growth of between seven and nine percent, the global containership market is experiencing severe conditions, with the collapse in charter rates and continuing, extensive capacity additions to the fleet at a time of stagnation in the world economy. The international trade

• • Competition for Princess Cruises Heats Up With Arison Entry page: 4
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 2002

  Despite the less-than-stellar performance by the cruise industry during the last part of 2001, the industry more than had its fair share of newsmaking events — aside from the September 1 1 terrorist attacks — which ultimately exposed the fraility of this leisure sector. Beginnning with the demi

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