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on December 2004Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.. Ltd. (HHI) will deliver a 140,000 cu. m. LNG carrier to Golar LNG of Norway in December 2004. Golar Viking is 918 x 141 x 85 ft. (280 x 43 x 36 m) with a designed draft of 37.4 ft. (11.4 m). Equipped with four Mark membrane cargo tanks, the ship is of flush decker
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- Meeting the Ballast Water Challenge page: 31
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on December 2004Increasingly, environmental demands from governments and groups - large and small - will continue to shape the way in which the marine business is conducted. Pressure on ship and boat owners to keep the waters in which they work as pristine as possible has been building for years, but has built
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on December 2004The 8,200 TEU class containership CMA CGM HUGO built at Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) was delivered to Conti Reederei, Germany on July 29. 2004. The vessel is the first of five 8,200 teu container ships and has an overall length of 1095 ft. (334 m), width of 140.4 ft. (42.8 m) and depth of
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- Mark Your Calendar page: 15
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on December 2004On the heels of success in Washington, D.C., the SNAME Annual Meeting & International Maritime Exhibition is set to expand to 200 booths and is scheduled for October 20-21 in Houston, Texas. Watch these pages in the coming months for new developments regarding this crucial maritime event, or visi
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- Continuous Flooding Simulation page: 14
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on December 2004Due to a number of severe accidents involving RoRo ferries in recent years, there is an increased interest in modeling continuous flooding within marine vessels. For many years, safety regulations have been prescriptive rather than being based upon individual vessels. This is changing. Within
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on December 2004Heavy lift specialist Jumbo enters its heavy lift vessel MV "Jumbo Javelin" newbuild into service this week after having been mated with cranes successfully and passing final sea trials in the North Sea. With its 1,600 tons lift capacity, a hold space of 19,000 cu. m. and a main deck of 2,65
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on December 2004Izar Sevilla delivered the ferry Tassili II to Algeria's Entreprise Nationale de Transport Maritime de Voyageurs (ENTMV). Tassili II is the first of the two sister vessels for ENTMV, with the second, dubbed El Djazair, scheduled for delivery in May 2005. The 475-ft. (145 m), 2,900-dwt ship is
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- Electronic Charting Aboard APL China page: 93
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on November 2004Guiding a giant containership over an arduous, 35-day Trans-Pacific trade route is serious business, as American Ship Management, LLC (ASM), which operates 11 large high-speed containerships on behalf of APL, Ltd., knows too well. To ensure the journies are conducted in a safe, efficient manner,
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on November 2004Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., Lockport, La., signed a contract to design and build five 297.5-ft., 30,000-barrel (BBL), double hull, hot asphalt tank barges for Horizon Maritime LLC. Houston. They are being built at Bollinger's Marine Fabricators (BMF), Amelia, La., with deliveries planned for
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- B+V Wins Passenger Ship Contract page: 88
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on November 2004Germany's Blohm + Voss Repair GmbH (B+V) signed a contract with Norway's Red Band AS. Oslo, for the repair and extensive alteration work onboard the 28,670-grt passenger ship Black Watch. The 1972-built vessel will arrive at B+V during April 2005, the first time she has visited the yard since
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on November 2004Tidewater said that certain provisions of the newly enacted "American Jobs Creation Act of 2004" could have a significant positive effect on its future earnings and cash flows. The Act. which has been approved by both the United States Senate and House of Representatives, was at press time
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on November 2004James (Jay) A. Harkness was appointed Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Rigdon Marine. Harkness is responsible for the financial management of the company, including fiscal controls, insurance placement and claims management and financial reporting. "Jay is a very capable individ
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on November 2004Jamestown Metal Marine Sales, Inc of Boca Raton, Fla., has awarded Industrial Power Systems, Inc. of Jacksonville. Fla., a contract for the Main and Propulsion System Switchboard, Emergency Switchboard, Propulsion Motors, and Propulsion Drive Systems for the New Blue Chip Casino Vessel in Mi
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on November 2004SSAB Laminated Steel AB now presents two types of PVC-free alternatives, called Dobel 2000 and Dobel 2005. Dobel 2000 is steel sheet, painted with a thin layer of Polyest er paint laminated with a printed polyester film and thus both light and PVC-free. While being competitive in price and,
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- Hepworth Makes a Good Show at SMM page: 80
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on November 2004Hepworth Marine, which now encompasses Wynn Marine, has reported excellent order results from SMM 2004. This was the first time the two companies shared stand space at a marine exhibition since they merged in June 2004. "SMM was the perfect venue to show the industry the united front of Hep
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on November 2004Confronted with high exhaust temperatures and emissions on the Alco engines of its Polar Class icebreakers, the U.S. Coast Guard turned to ABB for a solution. The answer was quickly found: In a similar case the year before, retrofitting a tug's engines with ABB turbochargers had reduced the ex
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on November 2004In 1967 a Brazilian ocean freighter delivered 7,000 sacks of unroasted coffee beans to the cargo docks at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge for Community Coffee Company. That cargo was the first of many shipped into the capital city port by the company founded in 1919 by Cap Saurage. In 1968 Comm
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on November 2004After a comprehensive tour of shipyards building crew/supply boats, it is clear the construction of these speedy aluminum vessels is the one bright spot in the offshore vessel building market. Other than the work at Bender Shipbuilding in Mobile. Ala., on the Rigdon Marine order of 10 supply
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- Demystifying Parametric Roll page: 20
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on November 2004An ABS research project deflates the mystique surrounding parametric roll, a rare but dangerous phenomenon particularly threatening to containers/lips. In October 1998, a large, post- Panamax containership limped into the port of Seattle, a victim of the largest ever loss of containers while
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- Shipboard Training Comes of Age page: 17
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on November 2004Technical innovation continues to revolutionize the maritime industry, touching almost every aspect of life at sea. The trend for larger vessels - in particular cruise, container and LNG ships - and the desire of the vessels' operators to bring them into smaller ports in more remote waters im