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on January 2015A ferry being built for Sweden’s Rederi AB Gotland will be fueled by LNG, featuring a Wärtsilä integrated solution which includes a complete LNG powered propulsion- and fuel storage and supply system, as well as comprehensive project services. It will be the first Swedish flagged LNG powered passeng
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- First Container for LNG Hybrid Barge page: 56
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on January 2015The HUMMEL (bumblebee) LNG Hybrid Barge will enable Becker Marine Systems to supply low-emission power to cruise ships lying at port in Hamburg. The first container with LNG fuel has arrived in the Hanseatic City. The barge works like a floating power plant and uses LNG to supply environmentally-fri
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- Dometic Debuts New Product Line page: 56
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on January 2015Dometic Marine, a division of Dometic Group, launched a range of new equipment at the Workboat Show. Among the new products on display were the Dometic Cup Cooler, the marine industry’s first thermoelectric cup holder; the Smart Touch Integrated Intelligence Control (STIIC) software for remote monit
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on January 2015Clean Seal, Inc. launched a new division, Clean Seal Molded Specialties, a division consisting of stock and custom designed molded rubber products. Clean Seal’s molded rubber products are designed for a broad range of industries and products, leveraging the company’s 35+ years of experience serving
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- New Gasket from Victaulic page: 56
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on January 2015Victaulic developed a new nitrile gasket for the maritime industry: the Grade T “Type A” gasket, designed for use with specific Victaulic couplings and flange adapters, and designed to simplify gasket specification and offers superior fire-resistant performance. The nitrile Grade T Type A gasket can
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- Next Generation Bridge Concept page: 57
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on January 2015Rolls-Royce, VTT team on new Ship Intelligence Vison For decades the maritime industry has long-theorized of emulating the “airline model” in uniformity and technical capability of its own ship and boat integrated bridge platform. But the term “integrated bridge” itself is somewhat of a question
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- New YANMAR EPA Tier III Engine page: 56
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on January 2015YANMAR America introduced its new EPA Tier III compliant commercial marine diesel engine. Rated at 755 mHP and 1,900 rpm, the new 20.38-liter 6AYAM-ET uses a full mechanical control system. The class-approved four-cycle, in-line six-cylinder 6AYAM-ET offers low fuel consumption and a continuous rati
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on January 2015VapCor Inc. distributor of unique products for the marine industry introduced the Lindemann Marine Products. Lindemann provides over 30 years of experience in research and development of quality stop leak, repair and preventive maintenance products. Designed for use in the marine, offshore, cruise a
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on January 2015Volvo Penta introduced the first two models of its next-generation sterndrive marine gasoline engines. The new 4.3-liter catalyzed V6 engines, rated at 200 and 240 hp, will supplement Volvo Penta’s current V6 product line. Volvo Penta will roll out the complete new family of next-generation V6 and V
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- Transas: The Bridge to Tomorrow page: 54
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on January 2015Transas was founded in 1990, by a group of former navigators and engineers, who at that time envisioned ways in which computers could revolutionize maritime safety, communications and security. In the ensuing 25 years Transas has pioneered navigational technology across a wide sector, developing int
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- BICERA Explosion Relief Valve page: 53
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on January 2015Sometimes it seems cliché to repeat that a product or system “protects equipment and saves lives,” but in the case of valve manufacturer Penn-Troy, which recently unveiled a new crankcase explosion relief valve that boasts lower exhaust temperatures, more engine internal clearance and a lighter weig
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- The Art of Propeller Making page: 44
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on January 2015The world’s biggest propellers have their cradle in the North of Germany. MMG – Mecklenburger Metallguss GmbH – has manufactured for more than 65 years propellers for ships, including the biggest and fastest, in the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. With the manufacture of propellers up to 130 tons,
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- Beyond the Black Box page: 50
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on January 2015Using the VDR as the Ship’s Data Clearing House provides budget-minded operators with the means, the bandwidth and the economy to monitor critical systems. Go on: dip your toes in the big data water. Big Data. It’s all the rage across the full spectrum of the maritime world. Th
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- Lindner Sees Strong 2015 page: 48
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on January 2015On the last day of what proved to be a busy Workboat show in New Orleans, Mikael Lindner, President, Scania North America, sat with Maritime Reporter & Engineering News to reflect on the current and future direction of the power company’s marine business in North America. As the marine market follo
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on January 2015U.S. System Approvals are Key; Detailed Pre-Planning Urged Ten years on, there’s little certain about ballast water management regulations that the industry can chart a course around other than that it will be expensive – possibly the most costly marine retrofit to date. With install estimates run
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on January 2015The growth trend continues in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry, a trend that has been relatively constant during the last five year. While shipbuilding is ‘ship shape,’ the reality of the Brazilian ship repair industry is somewhat muddled, populated by only a few dedicated repair yards as the foc
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- Chemical Tanker Turned OSV page: 26
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on January 2015With innovation in its Norwegian DNA, Uksnoy Shipping took a chemical tanker and made it into an Offshore Service Vessel with an innovative propulsion system. The conversion of a Turkish-made chemical tanker and its retrofitting with a promising new energy-saving propulsion system in 2013 sugge
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on January 2015Dynamic positioning is a vessel capability provided by integration of a variety of individual systems and functions to automatically maintain a vessel’s position and heading by use of the vessel’s propellers and thrusters, and has been in use, particularly in the offshore oil and gas exploration
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on January 2015Passenger vessel safety isn’t just a third world problem. It’s a worthy challenge to take up in 2015 and at the same time, a completely sobering way to ring in the New Year. As the clock ticks down on yet another year, I couldn’t help but take note of the new cruise ship passenger drill requirem
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on January 2015With age comes perspective, and in my 20 plus years reporting on this industry I have seen my fair share of regulation that has served to ‘raise the hackles’ of ship owners. It is quite simple really; new regulation often means new procedure, new design, new equipment and new costs. With the possibl