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on November 2004Singapore's SembCorp Marine Ltd. has announced a long-term contract from Australia's North West Shelf venture (NWS) to provide dry-docking, refit, and other marine services, for their fleet of LNG ships. This breakthrough contract signifies the first time that a major LNG consortium has commi
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on November 2004According to many specialists electric propulsion is the best to have but worst to buy, with the argument that the investment is too high and the system does not pay itself back. Therefore a challenge and an opportunity for development to prove otherwise. Former investigations show an ongoing m
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on November 2004The European Intership initiative to breathe new life into Europe's flagging ship construction industry could provide a pointer for repair yards in the region, some believe. The seven yards in five countries have secured €19 million in EU funding and will stump up the same amount between them
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on November 2004After more than 25 years of indirect involvement in Japan, International Paint has now formally joined the Japanese marine community. At an inauguration ceremony held in Tokyo. David French, Sub-Business Unit Manager for Japan, Australasia and Korea, announced that International Paint Japan
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on November 2004Denmark's A.P. M0ller-Maersk Group, one of the largest shipowning groups in the world, has established a dedicated company to handle all of the technical purchasing requirements of its extensive fleet. Maersk Procurement, the new company, is now responsible for all coordinated purchasing for
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- ACBL Makes Appointments page: 59
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on November 2004American Commercial Barge Line announced the following appointments: Larry Cornett. Keith White and Reuben R. Bush have joined ACBL as Fleet Managers in the Planning Center; James Benjamin Chandler, Theus Slemmons and Jackie Hansford have been named Dispatcher in the Logistics Department; Do
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on November 2004Citing his "outstanding leadership and vision in new ship design and construction," American Master Mariners named Matt Nichols, "Maritime Man of the Year." The award was given to Nichols, CEO of Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, by the Port of Seattle/Pacific Northwest Chapter. He was presente
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on November 2004Onboard-Napa has released the upgraded user interface for the Onboard-NAPA tanker version. The new version is now ready for delivery for chemical, product and crude oil tankers. Onboard-NAPA is a software system for onboard load planning, damage stability analysis and decision support. The sys
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- Wider Remit for Dutch Matchmaker page: 58
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on November 2004Owned by its member shipyard companies, Groningen-based sales, marketing and design firm Conoship International (CI) encapsulates the spirit of the industry in the Netherlands' northernmost provinces, where the maritime cluster continues to demonstrate resilience and an ability to innovate. C
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- The Will for Business page: 58
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on November 2004new chapter in Hyundai Heavy Industries' development of its position among the top echelon of producers of gas tanker tonnage is set to unfold with the anticipated delivery before the end of 2004 of the yard's first membranetype LNG carrier. Building on its track record in LPG carrier and Mo
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on November 2004An alliance between Norwegian ener- gy group Statoil and shipowners Leif Hoegh of Oslo and Teekay Shipping of Vancouver has given fresh momentum to the drive to foster the development of ships for the carriage of compressed nat- ural gas(CNG). The technical clout and competitive influence exe
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- Record Spend on Propulsion? page: 54
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on November 2004With commercial shipbuilding output expected to top 40-million gt in 2005 and 2006, attended by a shift to higher installed powers, the global spend on marine propulsion systems is set to hit record levels. A new report from analysts Douglas-Westwood forecasts that the value of the propulsion m
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- Milestone Reference with MAN B&W page: 58
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on November 2004September saw the keel laying at Ulsan of the first of Hapag-Lloyd's nascent generation of 8,600 TEU containerships, embodying a beam some 30 percent greater than the maximum for Panama Canal transits, and installed with a colossal 93,360-bhp (68,640-kW) of propulsive power. At 1,099 ft. (335
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- Extra Value in Chinese Construction page: 53
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on November 2004While the Chinese shipbuilding industry is exhibiting expertise across a widening range of ship types and sizes, it is also taking care to enhance its technical competitiveness in the most populous categories of mercantile trader. As a microcosm of the whole, New Century Shipbuilding of Jianj
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- A Future in Composites page: 52
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on November 2004Initially developed to provide impact resistant plating for offshore structures and ice islands in the Beaufort Sea. Sandwich Plate System (SPS) technology has seen a steady evolution over the past 10 years, with a growing uptake in the commercial marine field as well as in civil engineering.
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on November 2004Earlier this year, the USNS Impeccable and the USNS Stockham recognized the need to make repairs and enhancements on many of the ships' multi-cable penetrations. Reminded about the importance of fire prevention, the ships were looking for a solution that could reliably protect the vessels ag
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on November 2004For more than a hundred years, the Pacific Northwest has ranked as a center for vessel design, construction and preservation. Beginning with the advent of the Pacific cod fishery in the 1880s, utilizing the raw material afforded by the vast Northwest forests, Seattle-area boat builders began cr
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on November 2004As part of the ongoing effort by the aluminum industry to eliminate potential problems in the selection of aluminum alloys for the marine market. The Aluminum Association has reserved the HI 16 and H321 tempers for wrought products in the 5xxx series having a nominal magnesium content of 3 pe
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- VT Halter Launches PCTC page: 44
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on November 2004VT Halter Marine launched MV Jean Anne, the first Pure Car Truck Carrier (PCTC) to be built in the U.S. Built at its Pascagoula, Miss., facility, it is one of the largest vessels to be launched by a U.S. mid-tier shipyard. "Today marks the successful launching of the first modern PCTC to be b
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- The New Wartsila 46F page: 41
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on November 2004Wartsila 46F is the latest in the marine engine series launched in 1987. Though visually similar to the original Wartsila 46, with similar bore and stroke, the Wartsila 46F is a new engine with the latest technology applied to all major components, including common rail injection and scaleabl