Medium Maritime Reporter 2000 Articles
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- Double act for the Baltic page: 10
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on August 2000Finnish innovation in ice-going tanker technology will have a major application in the country's own mercantile fleet, albeit with ship construction assigned to the Orient. The pair of 106,000-dwt crude oil carriers booked by Helsinki-based Fortum Shipping, part of Finnish energy group Fortum C
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- Net gains for yards page: 10
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on August 2000In today's tightly competitive, global shipbuilding environment, every opportunity has to be taken to squeeze cost out of the system, notwithstanding the considerable advances already achieved, especially over the past five years, in efficiency and productivity. Each percentage point gain
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- Behemoth in the offing? page: 8
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on August 2000Attuned to the liner shipping industry's unerring drive for economies of scale, classification society Lloyd's Register (LR) has developed a conceptual design of container vessel incorporating a 12,500-TEU capacity. Although some 55-60 percent greater in slot capacity than the biggest cellu
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on August 2000SNAME announced its ninth triennial Propeller and Shafting Symposium. The two-day event is scheduled to be held at the Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, Va. on September 20 and 21, 2000. The symposium is held once every three years and is organized by the M-16 Panel of SNAME. The last symposium
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on July 2000Bollinger Shipyards of Lockport, La. launched the USS Tornado, the U.S. Navy's newest Patrol Coast Ship. The 14th member of the Cyclone Class to be built by Bollinger under a sole-source contract with the Navy, it is the first to include design modifications, equipment and armament upgrades as
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- Mack Powers Into Maritime Market page: 48
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on July 2000In the era of consolidation on the maritime diesel engine market, it is refreshing to report news of a new competitor. Mack Trucks - well known and regarded for the quality, durability and life-cycle performance of its products in land based markets - has created a new business unit, MackPowe
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on July 2000The software side of the newest MasterSHIP version has now been released. MasterSHIP 2000 contains many improvements and a new module, Surface Tools, for the creation of developable and double-curved surfaces. A large number of templates has been added to the Parametrics module and it is now
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- FGH moves to get house in order page: 41
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on July 2000Those searching for tangible effects of a dramatic offshore drawdown need look no further than Friede Goldman Halter. The company, which was riding a crest of business powered by key acquisitions in the mid-90s, saw its plan thwarted when a host of factors conspired to drive oil prices into t
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- RINA Sets New Green Standards page: 15
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on July 2000Italian classification society RINA — under the gun of late due to its role in the Erika oil spill disaster — has launched Green Star, a new environmental standard for shipping, and the 82,000 gt Costa Atlantica, due for delivery from Kvaerner Masa yard at the end of June, will be the first s
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- A podded future page: 10
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on July 2000One of the most notable aspects of the new generation of RoPax ferries, which could secure the immediate future of shipbuilding in Northern Ireland is the selection of electric propulsion using podded drives. Furthermore, unlike the vast majority of pods ordered to date for cruise liners, off
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on July 2000Subsequent to the departure of Holland America's Statendam in April, Cascade General took in Crystal Cruises' Crystal Harmony for a 10-day stopover in May. The 10-year-old ship underwent maintenance and overhaul work below its waterline, extensive interior remodeling and steel replacement for
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- New Book Examines Undersea Combat page: 88
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on June 15, 2000This year the U.S. Navy celebrates its submarine centennial. On April 11, 1900, the first USN submarine was purchased in Groton, Conn., from the company that would later be known as Electric Boat. In the past quarter-century, the range of submarine weapons moved from a few hundred meters to
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on June 15, 2000The new ARCO Millennium Class Tankers are designed to meet or exceed the latest ABS rules with double bulkheads and twin-engine rooms with a continuous bulkhead from the keel to the top of the stack and twin rudders. Each engine room is designed and equipped as a separate, independent space.
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- Bollinger Delivers Two Barges page: 25
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on June 15, 2000Bollinger Marine Fabricators was able to formulate the plans for two 356 x 54 x 13 ft. (108.5 x 16.4 x 3.9 m) double skin asphalt barges for American General Transportation, Mobile, Ala. Studying the influence of barge design and operations by various industry pro- fessionals, Normond J. McAll
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- South African Navy Taps GE page: 21
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on June 15, 2000GE Marine Engines will install its LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines in a combined diesel and gas turbinewaterjet and refined propellers (CODAG-WARP) configuration on four of the South African Navy's innovative MEKO® A-200 corvettes. Each Blohm + Voss-constructed A- 200 will utilize one LM2
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on June 15, 2000The Instituto Espanol de Comercio Exterior, ICEX, (Spanish Export Institute) will bring together more than 50 companies in the Shipbuilding, Machinery & Marine Technology International Exhibition (SMM Hamburg), in the biggest ever Spanish representation in a tradefair of the marine sector. S
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on May 2000Fleet Technology Limited concluded an option study for the Canadian Navy's proposed Logistics Support Vessel. The study, which was performed under contract to the Navy, examined various vessel types and mixes to satisfy the current Naval requirements, seeking a variety of capability and cost
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- Icy Wasteland Or Shipping Utopia? page: 55
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on May 2000Controversy between the U.S. and Canada regarding the rights to the Northwest Passage became a frontburner item recently, based on the deployment by the U.S. of an icebreaker on a rare trip through Canada's disputed Arctic waters. The U.S. Coast Guard's new polar icebreaker Healy is schedule
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on May 2000The aim of any shipowner is obviously to keep a vessel in shape and operating for as many revenue-generating days as possible per year (cargo rates willing, of course). Singapore - which is one of the world's busiest ports - was the sight of a unique repair j ob on a Panamanian tanker. A thr
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- MDI: Shipyard Production Expertise page: 34
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on May 2000Maritime Design, Inc. (MDI) offers a wide range of technical services, but director of marketing & sales. Bob Rogaski stresses MDI's shipyard experience to ship owner prospects. "Maritime Design, Inc. demonstrates a long line of experience with the medium size shipyard and possesses strong ta