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on March 2004NorseMerchant Ferries is to upgrade its Heysham — Belfast service to three sailings per day in each direction with effect from March 1. 2004. This increase in sailing frequency closely follows the restructuring of the company, which was completed in December, said NorseMerchant Ferries' Manag
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on March 2004The Board of Kvaerner Masa-Yards has appointed Yrjo Julin (46) as new CEO of the Finnish shipbuilding company. He was scheduled to start in his new position on February 16,2004. Julin has more than 20 years experience within the metals and shipbuilding industries. Since May 2002 he has headed
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on March 2004The U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a Notice stating that is delaying indefinitely implementation of the change to the "shipper" element of the advance manifest filing requirement as provided for in its December 5. 2003 rulemaking under the Trade Act of 2002. The ch
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on March 2004Heavy transport shipping company Dockwise Shipping B.V. took delivery of the M/V Blue Marlin after her conversion into the world's largest semisubmersible heavy transport vessel able to carry heavy cargoes up to 73.000 tons. After a conversion of three months at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Blue
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on February 2004Dubai Drydocks Afloat Repair Division (DDARD) is now ensconced in it's new purpose-built 12,000 sq. m. workshop and offices alongside the actual shipyard, the workshop also having another 500 sq. m. of specialized workshops divided into five disciplines. The workforce has increased to some 87
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on February 2004Northern Norway has a large fleet of small and mid-size boats for commercial operations, for example, passenger boats, car ferries and a multitude of fishing boats. These are boats that operate year around and that at regular intervals need to replace their engines. The high-speed passenger
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on February 2004East Isle Shipyard, Prince Edward Island's largest shipbuilder, recently won a $16 million contract to build a pair of tug boats (hull #82 and hull #83) for Atlantic Towing, Ltd., which already has three tugs on order from the yard. The deal was sealed with an innovative financing plan that i
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- Boosting Deepsea RoRo Capacity page: 25
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on February 2004A major new stage in the reorientation of the Wilh Wilhelmsen fleet has been implemented with the January 2004 arrival in China of the first of five Mark 1 deep-sea, combined RoRo container (ConRo) vessels for reconstruction. Five ships of the Tourcoing class, dating from 1978 and 1979, are t
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on February 2004K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. has acquired the 140,000 barrel capacity double-hulled barge S/R New York and the 8,000 h tugboat S/R Everett. This integrated tug barge unit, built in 2000, had been leased by SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, from a financia
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on February 2004Shell Gas & Power has accepted delivery of the first oil-free Thor-Lube stern tube bearing system built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) of South Korea. This second generation oil free Thor-Lube stern tube bearing system developed by Thordon Bearings features TL3G, a ne
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on February 2004The second part of Wartsila's business analysis, started last autumn, has now been finalized. In addition to reductions in capacity already decided, the company also plans to discontinue engine manufacture at its Turku factory. The manufacture of large engines will be centered at Trieste, Ita
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- Teekay Orders Aframax Tankers page: 15
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on February 2004Teekay Shipping entered two agreements to construct a total of six 105.000 dwt high specification Aframax tanker newbuildings. Four conventional Aframax tankers and two purpose-built lightering ships have been ordered from Hyundai Heavy Industries and Tsuneishi Corporation, respectively. The
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- New Ferries for Hawaii? page: 11
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on February 2004Hawaii Superferry and Austal USA last month signed an agreement that could result in new passenger-vehicle catamarans for Hawaiian waters to create a commercial high-speed interisland ferry service. Hawaii Superferry plans to use Austal USA-built, high-speed, RoRo vessels to create "Hawaii's
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on February 2004Last December Izar Gijon Shipyard delivered to Jan De Nul the suction dredgers named Taccola and Francesco di Giorgio each of which boasts a 4.400 cu. m. capacity. With a total of eight dredgers delivered in two years. Izar consolidates its position in the construction of these technologicall
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on February 2004Northrop Grumman Corporation's Ship Systems sector commemorated delivery of its 19th U.S. Navy Aegisguided missile destroyer, Pinckney (DDG 91), during a ceremony onboard the ship at the company's operations along the west hank of the Pascagoula River. In naming Pinckney, the Navy honors Nav
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on January 2004C-MAPhas been appointed an Official Distributor of Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC) produced by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) Hydrographic Department. This announcement was made after C-MAP Norway signed an agreement with the MPA. The MPA has been a pioneer in the deve
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on January 2004Severn Trent De Nora will supply its Omnipure marine sanitation device and UltraDynamics ultraviolet disinfection system for Rigdon Marine's new fleet of 10 64-m offshore supply vessels (OSV) being built at Bender Shipbuilding in Mobile. Ala. The equipment is part of the complete onboard sewa
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on January 2004VT Halmatic completed production of the world's tallest yacht mast, which will be fitted on the Mirabella V under construction by parent company VT Shipbuilding. The 90 m hollow carbon epoxy mast, which has a maximum cross section of 1.6 m and structural thickness of up to 40mm, will support
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- Image Marine to Build New True North page: 22
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on January 2004Image Marine will build a liveaboard adventure vessel for North Star Cruises. North Star Cruises took delivery of its first live-aboard, the Image Marine-built True North, in January 1999. With capacity for 28 passengers in 14 cabins, the 34.5 m vessel has proved successful cruising the remo
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- BV Backs Double-Hull Bulker Designs page: 10
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on December 2003Bureau Veritas has given preliminary approval to three designs for double-hull bulk carriers that are expected to meet future revisions to IACS and IMO regulations. The designs, two for Capesizes and one for a Panamax bulk carrier, will all withstand the flooding of each individual cargo hold