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- Great Ships of 2000 page: 33
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on December 2000Vessel Name Black Marlin, Blue Marlin Type Heavy Lift Ship Owner Offshore Heavy Transport Shipbuilder CSBC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan The Marlin class heavy lift ships — Black Marlin and Blue Marlin built at CSBC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan — are the largest of their kind in the world. While the latter
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on December 2000The crew of Royal Caribbean International's Splendour of the Seas was honored for its heroic efforts in rescuing 11 crew members of a sunken cargo ship in stormy seas. The crew received the New York Council Navy League's AMVER Award (Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System) at the L
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on December 2000Carnival Corp. has finalized a contract with France's Alstom Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard for the construction of the Queen Mary 2, a new 150,000-ton "liner-style" vessel for its Cunard Line unit. The largest ocean liner ever constructed, Queen Mary 2 will have a basis-two capacity of 2
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- STN Atlas Debuts PPB System page: 40
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on December 2000STN Atlas Marine Electronics has introduced a new Primary Power Bus (PPB) distribution system designed for ships of all types, and conforming to major classification society standards. The system — which is operational in an introductory variant version aboard Star Cruises' Norwegian Sun — feat
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on December 2000Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) has already established a name for itself with its finite element analysis (FEA) work that has enhanced designs on a variety of vessels on a broad-spectrum range — from passenger vessels to offshore oil platforms. The Seattle-based design firm recently set its
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on December 2000Cammell Laird has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to drydock and upgrade the RFA helicopter support ship Argus. This award follows the successful refit of the RFA Fort Rosalie earlier this year. The RFA Argus is designated as a helicopter support vessel and plays a vital role in t
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on December 2000GE Marine Engines will install LM2500+ aeroderivative gas turbines in Combined Diesel And Gas (CODAG) turbine configurations on four Grand Princess-class cruise ships currently on order from Princess Cruises. One LM2500+ gas turbine will be used on each vessel in conjunction with medium-speed
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- DH Tanker Launched page: 19
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on December 2000Exxon Mobil Corp. announced that M/T Kestrel, a new double-hull very large crude oil carrier (VLCC), was delivered for leasing to a Trust established by Marcare Shipping Co., a joint shipping venture among subsidiaries of ExxonMobil, the Onassis Group and Petros J. Goulandris Sons Group. Kes
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- CSO Deep Blue Launched page: 16
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on December 2000CSO Deep Blue, an ultra deepwater pipelay and subsea construction vessel being built in Korea at Hyundai Mipo Dockyards in Ulsan for Coflexip Stena Offshore, was launched late this summer and is expected to begin operations in mid-2001. The vessel's laying system is designed around a powerfu
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on December 2000As the world's two major cruise lines, Carnival and Royal Caribbean International, wage a continual battle to increase market share and draw additional passengers, the real war is waged in the board rooms of these and all other major cruise companies to increase revenue per passenger and decr
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- A Pointer to the Future page: 8
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on December 2000Developments in vessel powering, propulsion and related systems over the past decade, in particular, have had a fundamental bearing both on maritime technological advance as a whole, and on the ultimate efficiency and competitiveness of shipping in its manifold forms. Marine engine designers
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- The SatCom Shakeout page: 95
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on November 2000The satellite communications sector of the marine market has not been immune from the corporate consolidations that have swept all other corners of the industry, and while this particular niche has been widely regarded as fragmented, it is yet to be seen what the end effect will be for the co
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on November 2000Wartsila Corp. diesel engines were selected to power a pair of 106,000-dwt Aframax icebreaking tankers of the revolutionary new double-acting concept. The two tankers were contracted by the Finnish energy group Fortum Oil & Gas for building at Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. in Japan with deli
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on November 2000Maritime business commerce has changed rapidly over the last decade. In order to stay competitive, companies are increasingly inventing more efficient ways to conduct business. The advent of the Internet has created new tools to negotiate and complete business transactions for all major indus
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- Cornering the ULCC Niche page: 8
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on November 2000For an independent tanker owner to undertake a newbuild fleet development program amounting to 3-million tons of crude oil carrier capacity in itself demonstrates a high degree of business verve. But to emphatically put one's own stamp on the design, construction and equipping of such tonnage
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on November 2000Explorer of the Seas was delivered by Kvaerner Masa-Yards' Turku shipyard on September 28 to Royal Caribbean in time for its dedication and naming ceremony, which was held in New York on October 21. The second member of RCCL's Project Eagle series, the vessel follows the successful delivery o
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on November 2000A page was added in the history books of U.S. shipbuilding on October 11 when the keel was laid for a new 1,900- passenger United States Lines' ship the largest ever to be constructed in a U.S. shipyard. The ceremony marked the groundbreaking partnership between the Line's parent company, Ame
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on November 2000Kvaerner, the Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction Group, has elected Ronald J. McAlear, as CEO of its Philadelphia Shipyard. He replaces Baard Bale, who has been acting CEO of the yard since June, and will be returning to Kvaerner's international headquarters in London in December. Mc
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on November 2000Responding to the need for a presence and to assist in the professionalization of the U.S. marine salvage and firefighting response, nine U.S. salvors have joined together to form the American Salvage Association (ASA). The initial group has participated in a vast amount of all of the signifi
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- Klyne Tugs Orders AHTS From China page: 52
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on November 2000Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd. signed a contract with Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China to build a powerful anchor handling tug/supply vessel (AHTS). The 221 x 51 x 20.3 ft, (67.4 x 15.5 x 6.2 m) vessel will be built to a Rolls Royce Ulstein UT 719-2 design, Lloyds Class + 100+LMC, UMS, FiFi 1, a