Maritime Reporter 2002 Articles
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- Cargo Handling's New Force page: 22
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on June 2002A bold investment policy by TTS Technology of Bergen has hoisted the Norwegian group into the world's top three equipment suppliers in its specialized market segments. In many minds, the TTS name is synonymous with shipyard production systems and design, which remains an important part of its
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- Fares Al Salam Parts The Red Sea page: 14
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on June 2002Austal Ships has delivered the 184-ft. (56-m) vehicle/ passenger ferry. Fares Al Salam, to its Saudi owner The Maritime Co. for Navigation and Egyptian ferry operator, El Salam Maritime Co. of Egypt. The vessel arrived in Jeddah in April with a combined crew of Austal and El Salam Maritime Comp
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on June 2002United Defense Industries has agreed to acquire closeiy held United States Marine Repair, Inc., a provider of non-nuclear ship repair, modernization, overhaul and conversion services to the United States Navy, for $316 million. Based in Norfolk, Va., United States Marine Repair serves defense and
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on June 2002Viken Shipping in Norway has ordered a 6S70ME-C electronicallycontrolled engine from MAN B&W Diesel A/S. The engine, which was ordered for a highly specified Suezmax "shuttle light" tanker with upgraded specification, will be housed in this vessel that will be delivered from Samsung in Korea
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on June 2002Wartsila has been awarded a contract from BP to deliver an integrated package of auxiliary diesel generators totalling 15.3 MW for the Thunder Horse offshore project in the Gulf of Mexico. The power plant will be installed on the production, drilling and quarters platform Thunder Horse PDQ bei
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- GL: Exporting German Precision page: 40
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on June 2002Mechanical engineer Till Braun of Germanischer Lloyd is passionate about precision. "If I was building a boat, any boat, I would want to have a classification society involved," he says. Till, Project Manager for the society's Diesel Engines and Emissions Department, is charged with certifyin
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on June 2002In a widely expected announcement, late last month Matson Navigation Company, Inc. signed a contract with Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard Inc. (KPSI) for two new containerships worth a cumulative $220 million. The 2,600-TEU diesel-powered vessels will be deployed in the company's Hawaii servi
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on June 2002The container and RoRo fleets of the established carriers serving Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico are aged. While none of these trades is experiencing rapid growth, the involved vessels are expensive to operate and increasingly expensive to maintain. Replacement plans are well underway by one of
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on June 2002Crude Carriers & Product Tankers and Barges OPA '90 requires the complete replacement of single hulled tank ves- sels to be used in the U.S. petroleum crude and product carrier and related trades in five-year intervals at the end of 2005, 2010 and 2015. The current U.S. flag tanker fleet is
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on June 2002Reading tea leaves on a boat underway is an exercise in frustration because just as the leaves start to settle, another wave comes along and changes the picture. Similarly, trying to foresee trends in the marine industry. Just as you see things shaping up, a change occurs and the industry is
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- Redundancy The Next Watchword? page: 20
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on June 2002The fact that the actual incidence of oil cargo spills as a percentage of global ship- ments is minuscule can never a r e a s o n any relaxation in the constant vigilance and unerring drive for risk minimization which must be practiced in all fields of tanker shipping. Certainly, there is
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on June 2002A keynote agreement was signed in Oslo, between Jotun A/S (Jotun) and NOF Kansai Marine Coatings Co.. Ltd. (NKM). The new company, which will be known as SeaStar Alliance will serve the worldwide marine and offshore coating market. NKM is a joint venture between Kansai Paint Co. Ltd. And BAS
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- Bidding War Comes to an End page: 6
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on June 2002The heated bidding war for what was left of American Classic Voyages' Delta Queen Steamboats abruptly came to an end at the beginning of May with Delaware North Companies sealing the deal for the vessel pair. As originally reported in the May 2002 issue of MR/EN, (see Delta Queen Makes A Comeba
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on June 2002Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., Lockport, La., signed a contract, pursuant to approval of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, to acquire the assets and operations of Halter Marine from Friede Goldman Halter, Inc. If approved, Bollinger contemplates acquiring substantially all of Halter's operating assets, pr
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- Maritime Industry Remembers Nealis page: 97
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on June 2002On March 24, 2002, Charles Nealis passed away at the age of 76. Nealis' accomplishments were the co-conception, testing and first at sea of a commercially viable demonstration of a blended residual fuel system for aero derived gas turbine engines. In addition, he served as the Owner's Repres
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- Austal USA Enters Repair Market page: 96
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on June 2002Following an accidental collision by a large OSV while in port, the Seba'an was taken to the Austal USA facilities in Mobile, Ala., for an extensive but quick repair. The damage was to the starboard side at window height breaking all of the windows and damaging some of the fitout and interna
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- Titan Re-Floats IMaersk La Guaira page: 96
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on June 2002On March 7, 2002 the 19,520-dwt, 515 x 78 x 42 ft. (157 x 23.7 x 12.8 m) Maersk La Guaira, fully laden with containers, lost power and ran aground while entering Guayaquil Harbor in Ecuador. Titan Maritime immediately responded with a two-man survey team from Panama, who boarded the vessel
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- Owners Approve White Rose Oilfield page: 91
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on June 2002Husky Oil Operations Limited, operator of the White Rose oil field project and its co-venturer, Petro-Canada have decided to proceed with the development of the White Rose oilfield located offshore the East Coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The White Rose development plan is focuse
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on June 2002Halifax Shipyard has laid the keel for the first of two large Offshore Supply and Anchor Handling Vessels for Atlantic Towing Ltd. Known as hulls 88 and 89 for the yard, the vessels have been identified as UT 722 L type, and are similar to Atlantic Eagle and Atlantic Hawk - both of which wer
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on May 2002Effective maintenance of hydraulic equipment operating near marine environments represents a doubletough challenge. Pumps and equipment must be protected from the wear and corrosion caused by excess moisture, but safeguards have to be in place to prevent leakage into fragile aquatic habitats an