2001 Articles
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- N a v y Honors Propeller Expert page: 28
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on May 2001Senior naval officers and government officials will recognize the career of Dr. William B. Morgan in a naming ceremony April 27 at the U.S. Navy's Large Cavitation Channel (LCC). This unique engineering test facility will bear the name of the former head of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, C
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on May 2001Considerable effort, particularly following the oil embargo of the 1970s, has been placed on reducing the fuel oil consumption of ships, a task readily handled by a series of improvements in hull shapes, the fitting of energy savings devices, and improvements to the performance of main engine
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- N N S 1Q EPS Up 19% page: 27
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on May 2001Newport News Shipbuilding reported net earnings of $24 million, or $0.75 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2001. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) for the quarter were $51 million, up from $47 million last year. "We are pleased to start 2001 with a continuation of our very s
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on May 2001Unauthorized welding on laundry room equipment triggered a fire aboard the cruise ship Ecstasy off Miami in 1998, injuring 22 people and causing more than $17 million in damages, U.S. safety investigators concluded. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that sparks from the we
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- Cathedral Power page: 8
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on May 2001After a rash of containership design and propulsion system initiatives aimed at extending the reach of the most potent engines already in production, the industry has now been presented with a powering option offering an unprecedented output from a single-engine plant. Wartsila Corporation has
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on May 2001The transit between Long Beach and Catalina Island will be reduced to "well under" one hour when the "Jet Cat Express" joins the Catalina Express fleet. "This will take place before Memorial Day," according to G r e g Bombard, president of the California company. The 381-passenger, 145-ft. (
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- N e w ATB Joint Venture Is Formed page: 16
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on May 2001Richard Bludworth, CEO of Bludworth Marine LLC, and John Cook formerly with Odyssea Transportation, Inc. and Marine Specialty Company, have formed a new joint venture, Bludworth Cook Marine, to design and manufacture an updated pad style articulat- ed tug and barge connection (ATB) system provi
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on May 2001The long-running feud regarding shipbuilding subsidies is far from complete, and word is that the EU is proposing to subsidize its embattled shipyards in a long-standing dispute over what it views as unfair competition from South Korea. The EU will reportedly make the proposal to an EU indust
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on May 2001Few marine incidents have vexed the collective international marine community as much as the recent situation with the damaged product tanker Castor, a ship, which experienced a near fatal deckplate crack in mid-voyage and then was denied safe harbor for fear of the ship splitting open and sp
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- EAR Takes Lead In RoPax Market page: 14
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on May 2001IZAR, the new Spanish shipbuilding consortium formed with the combination of the former Astilleros Espanoles and Bazan, has delivered to Stena Line its brand new ferry Stena Hollandica, which entered service in the Hook of Holland-Harwich route. In October 2000 Stena Line had already introduc
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on May 2001Vision, a unique VLCC built by Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) in that it features twin-engines and twin-propellers, was recently christened at the Ulsan Shipyard. Concordia Maritime AB's new ultra-large 315,000-dwt VLCC was christened by Mrs. Karen Fidler, wife of the presi
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- New Dimension for Hapag-Lloyd page: 8
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on May 2001Although long in the vanguard of containership technology, Germany's Hapag-Lloyd did not feel compelled to join the early rush towards vessels of wider-than-Panamax gauge. Once the prudent Hamburg company decided to embrace the concept, however, it opted for one of the largest and most power
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- Finland: Cradle of Marine High-Tech page: 75
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on April 2001The Finnish maritime market continues to serve the high-tech, high-value end of the marine business with a plethora of engineered solutions and continually evolving marine technology. As the brunt of "series production" shipbuilding (ie. bulkers and tankers) is now firmly embedded in the Far Ea
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on April 2001American Bureau of Shipping, Det Norske Veritas and Lloyd's Register have developed a series of initiatives to further improve the safety of international shipping. The three leading classification societies have agreed on 10 actions that will strengthen the classification profession and m
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on April 2001Wartsila and Marioff, agreed earlier this year to cooperate within the area of emission control technologies for reciprocating engines. Marioff is a specialist in creating humidity, while Wartsila needs humidity for reduction of NOx in diesel, and perhaps gas engines. The introduction of wate
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- Voith Adds To Its Innovative Range page: 58
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on April 2001Voith Schiffstechnik has introduced a pair of new technologies to its already innovative range of Voith Schneider propulsion products. The Voith Turbo Fin is a rotating cylinder at the leading edge of the stabilizing fin which influences the flow acting on a tug's hull. According to Voith, th
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on April 2001On February 14, the world's largest high-speed ferry catamaran Stena Discovery took off from Belfast, after a planned drydocking, and about one hour out at sea on the captain's command the waterjet control was switched over to steering by a retrofitted Humphree Interceptor Steering System. Whil
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- Technology, Image Top Inland Agenda page: 66
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on April 2001The North American inland marine market is neither technologically archaic nor as environmentally hazardous as many individuals outside of the marine market may think. These two issues dominated a recent meeting sponsored by the Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP) held in early March a
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- Wartsila: Smokeless by Common Rail page: 64
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on April 2001There are two main ingredients to common rail fuel injection, one being the freedom to choose injection pressure and timing totally independently of the engine load. The other is computerized control, which makes it possible to consider several engine parameters and optimize the injection and
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on April 2001Seven Seas Voyager, the new 50,000-gt cruise ship under construction by T. Mariotti at its Genoa yard for delivery to Radisson Seven Seas in 2003, will be among the first ships to be equipped with the new Dolphin podded propulsion system, a system which was jointly developed by STN ATLAS Marine