Long 2003 Articles

• • Container Market Pauses page: 15
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  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
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  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:
  Maritime Reporter
  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:
  Maritime Reporter
  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:
  Maritime Reporter
  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:
  Maritime Reporter
  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:
  Maritime Reporter
  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:
  Maritime Reporter
  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:
  Maritime Reporter
  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:
  Maritime Reporter
  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

• • New Potency in Electronic Control page: 68
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on November 2003

  German predilection for technological advance permeates all areas of primary business and industrial activity, to the undoubted benefit of the competitive standing of its international market players. In the maritime domain, a clear appreciation of the long-term operating benefits promised by

• • Employees' Invention Improves Valve Process page: 83
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on October 2003

  Avondale Operations valve supervisor Bubba Thornton mounted and checked the 68 valves on Polar Endeavour, he set out to improve the process of installing and testing that many valves on such a huge ship. That's why Thornton joined 20 other Avondale employees to come up with a way to test the va

• • Walform M Plus: Leak Free pipe connections page: 82
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on October 2003

  For high pressure and low pressure applications The Walform M Plus pipe connector system developed by GKN Walterscheid in Germany and marketed exclusively in Great Britain by Stauff UK is designed to deliver a new dimension of safety and reliability to pipework systems for British Warships.

• • Urethane's Products Are Thick-Skinned page: 76
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on October 2003

  Proven in its field of monopile donut fenders, Urethane Products, based in Bellflower, Calif., provides Marine Guard Fenders Skin, which is a thick, tough protective polyurethane elastomeric skin material. Engineered by Urethane, this "skin" works as a capturing agent to hold the foam core o

• • Juniper's Hinges Go Low and High page: 68
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on October 2003

  Special Advertising Section for Juniper Industries • www.juniperindustries.com As a diversified company. Juniper Industries, which has been operating out of its headquarters in Middle Village, N.Y. since 1928, has been dubbed the premier independent m a n u f a c t u r e r and developer of

• • Long Beach Pilots Go Far Out With New Boat page: 72
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on October 2003

  Jacobsen Pilot Service Inc., Long Beach Calif. Received a new 54-ft. (16.4-m) welded aluminum pilot boat from Hike Metal Products Ltd. in Wheatley, Ontario, Canada this past July. Hike Metal was approached in the early summer of 2002 after Jacobsen Pilots services owner Tom Jacobsen had conduc

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