2003 Articles
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on November 2003Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN) announced a new time-charter contract for the Aframax Olympia with a major European charterer. The two-year contract begins in November 2003 upon the expiration of Olympia's current contract. The rate obtained for the new time charter will positively imp
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- IZAR Enters Fast Ship Project page: 17
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on November 2003The U.S. based Fastship initiative received a boost with the addition of Spain's IZAR to its team. Fastship. which for years has been trying to bring from drawing board to the waterways its innovative - door-to-door from the U.S. to Europe - maritime cargo transport project, signed an agreeme
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- Signet Martime Inks Garrett Contract page: 16
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on November 2003Signet Maritime Corp. and Garrett Marine, Inc. executed agreements August 29. 2003, for charter and purchase of Garrett's Aransas tug business, finalizing plans that originated in 2002 to expand Signet's presence in the Aransas Pass/Ingleside region. Every Signet seagoing person will undergo
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- Shipbreaking in the Spotlight at ILO page: 14
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on November 2003Existing international and national regulations do not specifically address shipbreaking, widely regarded as one of the world's most hazardous occupations. Some sites where shipbreaking takes place are referred to as 'time bombs' as they hold potentially dangerous longterm effects for public
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on November 2003Dutch owner V.O.F. Scheepvaartbedrijf van de Guchte & zn is having the finishing touches put on a new 110-m double-hulled tanker at the Veka Shipyards in the Netherlands. With an 11.45 m beam and a 3.5-m molded depth, the vessel's hull was built in two parts at the Centromost Shipyard in Poland
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- Clean Seal Celebrates 25 Years page: 91
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on November 2003Clean Seal recently celebrated its 25th year. Started in 1978 by Juanita Moore, the company has seen continuous growth in the marketing of extruded rubber sealant products. Although Mrs. Moore passed away in 1997, the company has continued to grow. "The growth has required us to move into la
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on November 2003One hundred years ago, German master boat builder Wilhelm Hatecke founded a shipyard in Dornbusch on the banks of Germany's Elbe River. In the early days, work focused on repairing and building wooden boats. Today, Ernst Hatecke's freefall lifeboats are saving lives on ships and off-shore oil
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on November 2003In the invention devised by Langh Ship, steel coils are transported on tweendecks that are equipped with integrated cradles. The method was granted a Finnish patent in 2001 and it has now passed the European Patent Office's inspection, which ascertained that the innovation's novelty, inventiven
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- LCS Hull Concept Tests Move Ahead page: 80
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on November 2003The Lockheed Martin-led Littoral Combat Ship team is continuing the development of its semi-planing seaframe design through a new series of tank tests that will prove the efficacy of several significant design improvements. The scaled hull model test program underway at the Naval Surface Warfar
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on November 2003Xybernaut Corporation has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to a system that detects corrosion on maritime vessels. This patent, U.S. 6,633,820, describes a broad array of potential military, commercial and recreational applications. Called "System for asse
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on November 2003FAST Laser (Flow Accelerated Screen Technology) from Hypertherm, Inc. is a new platelaser cutting technology from Hypertherm, a company that has been a leader in the advancement of plasma cutting technology for over 35 years. FAST Laser technology broadens the company's technology leadership p
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on November 2003Corrosion causes damages amounting to billions each year. The existence of chlorides makes the maritime climate particularly aggressive, whereas the ballast tanks of seagoing vessels are endangered the most. The most recent accidents — such as those of the Erika and the Prestige — have made us
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- Research as the Building Block page: 70
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on November 2003An absence of complacency over its position as the global market leader in newbuild construction is demonstrated by Hyundai Heavy Industries' increasing plough-back of earnings into research and technological development. The raised level of annual expenditure on R&D, coupled with the group's
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- New Potency in Electronic Control page: 68
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on November 2003German predilection for technological advance permeates all areas of primary business and industrial activity, to the undoubted benefit of the competitive standing of its international market players. In the maritime domain, a clear appreciation of the long-term operating benefits promised by
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on November 2003A 153,500 cu. m. LNG carrier ordered by Gaz de France from Chantiers de 1'Atlantique - reported to be the largest ever LNG carrier - will be classed by Bureau Veritas and is due for delivery in 2005. The order includes an option for a second vessel. The vessels feature a long list of innovati
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on November 2003Drewry Shipping Consultants' latest report "Annual Container Market Review and Forecast 2003/04" highlights that despite economic uncertainty, the war in Iraq and the outbreak of the SARS virus, 2003 will be a good year for liner shipping companies as trade volumes, especially to and from Chi
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on November 2003Taking a page from OPA 90, the European Union has officially adopted its unilateral plan for accelerated phaseout of single-hull tankers. The regulation was published in the October I edition of the Official Journal of the European Union and came into effect on October 21, 2003. It provides f
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- Costa Victoria in for a Facelift page: 11
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on November 2003Radical changes are imminent for Costa Victoria, one of the nine members currently comprising the Costa Crociere fleet. On January 6, 2004, at the end of her New Year's Eve cruise, the ship will leave the port of Savona bound for Bremerhaven in Germany, where it will arrive after five days at
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- New High-Pressure Pumps page: 83
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on October 2003Versa-Matic has teamed up with Blagdon to offer a complete line of high-pressure pumps. The new series includes three models that address a full range of highpressure applications. The VM E2HP 2-in. Standard Flow pump is made from stainless steel and delivers up to 200 lb./sq. in. of pressure,
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on October 2003Avondale Operations valve supervisor Bubba Thornton mounted and checked the 68 valves on Polar Endeavour, he set out to improve the process of installing and testing that many valves on such a huge ship. That's why Thornton joined 20 other Avondale employees to come up with a way to test the va