Maritime Reporter 2004 Articles
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- Asleep at the Wheel page: 11
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on October 2004On the morning of June 29, 2003. the general cargo vessel JAMBO grounded off the Summer Islands on the west coast of Scotland. The primary cause of the grounding and subsequent total loss of the ship was that the chief officer on watch fell asleep and missed his intended change of course. He wa
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on October 2004The engine room has, is and will always be the heart of safe, efficient marine and offshore operations. As tragedies of the past have proven, investing a little more from the start usually reaps big dividends in terms of running and maintaining a safe and efficient operation. One company tha
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on October 2004Running a superyacht in 2004 is just not as easy as it used to be - if it ever was. Classification society regulations, crew qualifications, port and flag state rules, safety and security issues are a few of the newest responsibilities owners, or more likely, captains have to manage. These a
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- Utopia: Real, Not Imagined page: 38
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on October 2004The largest Feadship to date has just been completed by the De Vries Shipyard, a 235 ft. (71.6-m) vessel named Utopia, which is currently being offered for sale. Utopia was initially part of a two-Feadship order placed in 2001 by a repeat owner, who passed away before the projects could be co
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- Burger Boat's on a Binge page: 36
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on October 2004Burger Boat Company of Manitowoc. Wis., has emerged as a premier builder of U.S. megayachts, with a number of projects in the pipeline, most notably the Mirgab V (pronounced meergahb). In fact, history was made when the company announced Mirgab V. as at 144-ft. (44 m), the Tri-Deck vessel is
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- The M-147 Megayacht Makes its Debut page: 34
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on October 2004Blohm + Voss GmbH in Hamburg, which has built ships of all variety, shape and size for more than 125 years, has a tradition building megayachts since the mid-1980s. The latest project from its burgeoning stable is the M-147. a 482-ft. (147-m) long luxury yacht, which aims to set new standards
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on October 2004The MV Union Manta, operated hy the URS Towage & Salvage Union, Ltd., is designed to assist offshore lifting platforms in the construction of oil drilling rigs, oil and gas production plants, storage spars, and other related at-sea construction. The vessel was delivered on March 21, 2003, and c
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on October 2004Q: What makes the M-147 so unique? A : It goes without saying that part of the uniqueness of the M-147 is due to its grandeur and aesthetic beauty. It would have been easy to rest at that however. I did not set out to create another beautiful boat with good design except on a larger scale. Fo
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- The New Name of Finnish Shipbuilding page: 32
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on October 2004The announced merger of Kvaerner Masa-Yards and Aker Finyards — both members of the Aker Yards Groups — draws to a conclusion nearly a decade of change within the Finnish shipbuilding community, while providing the technically talented and market capable company with a clear vision for the fu
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- AIS: Getting it Right from the Start page: 24
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on October 2004The Automatic Identification System (AIS) technology has received its fair share of critics up to present, mainly due to poor made installations and lack of training. The problems are currently taking the focus from the positive side where is has proven to be a most useful tool in enhancing s
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- New Debis Clearing Vessel Design page: 22
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on October 2004Alan C. McClure Associates (ACMA) completed its contract from the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) to design and supervise the construction of a 32-ft. barge that will remove debris from the Blanco and Guadalupe rivers and their tributaries as they flow through south and southeast Tex
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on October 2004Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) plans to continue its newbuilding program. Having already designed, built, owned and operated almost 70 new generation offshore vessels servicing the deepwater oil and gas industry over the past decade, the company plans for 11 new vessels, with options for an ad
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on October 2004SeaArk Marine. Inc. has delivered three distinct mission-specific patrol craft to the Baltimore City Police Marine Unit. Missions include patrolling Baltimore's Inner Harbor, providing search and rescue, recovery and law enforcement. These enclosed cabin boats upgrade the marine unit's fleet
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on October 2004Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. delivered the first of two new design offshore supply vessels to L&M Bo-Truc Rental Inc., of Golden Meadow, La. M/V Cheramie Botruc 38 the first of two identical offshore supply vessels was delivered early this summer and the second vessel, Cheramie Botruc 39, was to
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- BC Ferry Contract Stirs Controversy page: 14
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on October 2004A contract to build three double-ended RoRo Ferries for the Canadian Shipping Company British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. has been won by Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft. The total value of the contracts is approximately $325 million Canadian. The new ships are called "Super Cclass" type
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on October 2004ABS surveyors, onsite at Junoverken AB yard in Uddevalla, Sweden, monitor and inspect the fabrication of industry's first offshore LNG deepwater port buoy, designed by Advanced Production and Loading AS of Norway (APL). The port buoy will be ABS-classed as an XA1 Single-Point Mooring (SPM).
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- NASSCO Starts Second T-AKE Ship page: 8
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on October 2004National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) has begun construction on the second ship in the TAKE program, a new class of combat logistics force ships designated the Lewis and Clark class. Mrs. DeAnne Sutton, wife of U.S. Navy Commander George Sutton of the NAVSEA Program Office, made t
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- "Ship Design and Construction" page: 81
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on September 2004SNAME publishes many good textbooks on naval architecture. All the more we can welcome the completely revised new edition of "Ship Design and Construction" published by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. In 1980, the "Taggart" (editor) third edition became quickly a standar
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on September 2004During a recent 10-day project in the Gulf of Mexico for a major E&P company, the use of inertial navigation technology reportedly reduced vessel time by three to five days over the course of the deployment and positioning of seismic data acquisition modules. Prior to this sea-trial, precise unde
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on September 2004A report issued earlier this year from ABS indicates that larger ships, driven by the latest generation of very highpowered diesel engines, are particularly susceptible to alignment problems on the bearings supporting the propulsion shafting as well as the main engine bearings. Hull girder de