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- B+V Wins Passenger Ship Contract page: 88
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on November 2004Germany's Blohm + Voss Repair GmbH (B+V) signed a contract with Norway's Red Band AS. Oslo, for the repair and extensive alteration work onboard the 28,670-grt passenger ship Black Watch. The 1972-built vessel will arrive at B+V during April 2005, the first time she has visited the yard since
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on November 2004Tidewater said that certain provisions of the newly enacted "American Jobs Creation Act of 2004" could have a significant positive effect on its future earnings and cash flows. The Act. which has been approved by both the United States Senate and House of Representatives, was at press time
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- Xantic Offers New Web-Based Tool page: 79
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on November 2004At the SMM exhibition in Hamburg, Xantic displayed many new products and services aimed at making marine communications more seamless and cost-effective. A new web-based tool designed to make it easier for ship managers to manage vessel mailboxes from the office. It can be used anywhere inter
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- New AIS Targets U.S. Workboat Market page: 80
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on November 2004Nauticast presented an AIS solution specifically targeting the U.S. workboat market at the recent SMM exhibition in Hamburg. Nauticast Navigationssysteme GmbH has been diversifying its AIS business throughout the past year, based on the success of the X-Pack DS - the SOLAS Class A Transponder.
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on November 2004Bureau Veritas launched VeriSTAR Newbuildings, designed to be a one-stop project management tool which allows BV clients, yards, owners, equipment manufacturers and BV surveyors and offices to manage the design review, product certification and survey at site of all aspects of a newbuilding p
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- Transas Demonstrates New Tech at SMM page: 77
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on November 2004Transas, as is its custom, rolled out new technology at SMM, technology aimed at its core mission to increase Safety of Navigation. Two central items November 2004 on display comprised three new ergonomic consoles, with multi-functional workplaces allowing visitors to operate Navi-Sailor 300
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- MAN B&W Records Busy Hamburg Show page: 77
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on November 2004According to the company, more than 5,000 guests visited the stand of the MAN B&W Diesel Group at the SMM trade fair in Hamburg. "The high number of visitors and the great interest in professional advice proved once again that the SMM is one of our most important windows to the world," said Dr.
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on November 2004In close cooperation with the Norwegian system integrator. Offshore & Marine ASA, Vacon will deliver four liquid-cooled 2.5-MW AC drives to an accommodation support unit with a capacity for 400 persons, to be stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. Vacon AC drives will control four azimuth thruster
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on November 2004A&P Tyne re-delivered the FPSO Haewene Brim to Holland's Bluewater following an extensive upgrading to its process plant and hull maintenance period refit. The vessel will now return to the Pierce Field in the U.K. sector of the North Sea under charter to Shell U.K. The contract was won in a
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on November 2004Singapore's SembCorp Marine Ltd. has announced a long-term contract from Australia's North West Shelf venture (NWS) to provide dry-docking, refit, and other marine services, for their fleet of LNG ships. This breakthrough contract signifies the first time that a major LNG consortium has commi
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on November 2004After more than 25 years of indirect involvement in Japan, International Paint has now formally joined the Japanese marine community. At an inauguration ceremony held in Tokyo. David French, Sub-Business Unit Manager for Japan, Australasia and Korea, announced that International Paint Japan
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on November 2004Onboard-Napa has released the upgraded user interface for the Onboard-NAPA tanker version. The new version is now ready for delivery for chemical, product and crude oil tankers. Onboard-NAPA is a software system for onboard load planning, damage stability analysis and decision support. The sys
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- Wider Remit for Dutch Matchmaker page: 58
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on November 2004Owned by its member shipyard companies, Groningen-based sales, marketing and design firm Conoship International (CI) encapsulates the spirit of the industry in the Netherlands' northernmost provinces, where the maritime cluster continues to demonstrate resilience and an ability to innovate. C
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- The Will for Business page: 58
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on November 2004new chapter in Hyundai Heavy Industries' development of its position among the top echelon of producers of gas tanker tonnage is set to unfold with the anticipated delivery before the end of 2004 of the yard's first membranetype LNG carrier. Building on its track record in LPG carrier and Mo
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on November 2004An alliance between Norwegian ener- gy group Statoil and shipowners Leif Hoegh of Oslo and Teekay Shipping of Vancouver has given fresh momentum to the drive to foster the development of ships for the carriage of compressed nat- ural gas(CNG). The technical clout and competitive influence exe
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- Record Spend on Propulsion? page: 54
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on November 2004With commercial shipbuilding output expected to top 40-million gt in 2005 and 2006, attended by a shift to higher installed powers, the global spend on marine propulsion systems is set to hit record levels. A new report from analysts Douglas-Westwood forecasts that the value of the propulsion m
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- Milestone Reference with MAN B&W page: 58
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on November 2004September saw the keel laying at Ulsan of the first of Hapag-Lloyd's nascent generation of 8,600 TEU containerships, embodying a beam some 30 percent greater than the maximum for Panama Canal transits, and installed with a colossal 93,360-bhp (68,640-kW) of propulsive power. At 1,099 ft. (335
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- Extra Value in Chinese Construction page: 53
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on November 2004While the Chinese shipbuilding industry is exhibiting expertise across a widening range of ship types and sizes, it is also taking care to enhance its technical competitiveness in the most populous categories of mercantile trader. As a microcosm of the whole, New Century Shipbuilding of Jianj
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- VT Halter Launches PCTC page: 44
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on November 2004VT Halter Marine launched MV Jean Anne, the first Pure Car Truck Carrier (PCTC) to be built in the U.S. Built at its Pascagoula, Miss., facility, it is one of the largest vessels to be launched by a U.S. mid-tier shipyard. "Today marks the successful launching of the first modern PCTC to be b
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- The New Wartsila 46F page: 41
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on November 2004Wartsila 46F is the latest in the marine engine series launched in 1987. Though visually similar to the original Wartsila 46, with similar bore and stroke, the Wartsila 46F is a new engine with the latest technology applied to all major components, including common rail injection and scaleabl