2004 Articles
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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
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- Air Emissions from Ships page: 14
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on November 2004Environmental advocacy groups have alleged that ships are major contributors to air pollution. Such groups have also brought suit - albeit unsuccessfully - against the federal government, alleging insufficient regulation of air emissions from ships. Avoiding the issue of the possible merits (
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on November 2004Austal has launched what it is claiming to be the largest aluminium ship ever built, the 417 ft. (127 m) trimaran ferry Benchijigua Express. Benchijigua Express is the outcome of collaboration between Fred. Olsen, S.A. and Austal involving more than three years of R&D to produce a new vessel
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- Kramek, Liu Snare Top SNAME Honors page: 97
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on November 2004The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) awarded its Admiral "Jerry" Land Medal for outstanding accomplishment in the marine field to ABS President and COO Robert Kramek at the society's Annual Banquet during the SNAME Marine Technology Conference and Expo in Washington,
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on November 2004The shipbuilding and repair industry faces many challenges given the mission- critical complexities of maritime projects, as well as some misperceptions. The industry faces a challenge: how to find more efficient ways to build new ships as well as to repair and upgrade aging ships. One leadin
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on November 2004Capt. Fred Kosnac was the first tugboater I ever met. If a career can be considered in spiritual or symbolic or abstract terms to be "a life," then Fred Kosnac would rightly be called the patriarch of mine, as a writer and photographer and admirer of tugboaters and tugboats. The matriarch was
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- A High-End Global Satcom Presence page: 82
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on November 2004The marine satellite communication business has many earmarks suggesting it is set to expand rapidly, with a recent run of corporate consolidations and a seemingly endless offering of new products and services designed to emulate the speed and reliability of landbased services at sea. Marine
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- Xantic Offers New Web-Based Tool page: 79
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on November 2004At the SMM exhibition in Hamburg, Xantic displayed many new products and services aimed at making marine communications more seamless and cost-effective. A new web-based tool designed to make it easier for ship managers to manage vessel mailboxes from the office. It can be used anywhere inter
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- New AIS Targets U.S. Workboat Market page: 80
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on November 2004Nauticast presented an AIS solution specifically targeting the U.S. workboat market at the recent SMM exhibition in Hamburg. Nauticast Navigationssysteme GmbH has been diversifying its AIS business throughout the past year, based on the success of the X-Pack DS - the SOLAS Class A Transponder.
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on November 2004Bureau Veritas launched VeriSTAR Newbuildings, designed to be a one-stop project management tool which allows BV clients, yards, owners, equipment manufacturers and BV surveyors and offices to manage the design review, product certification and survey at site of all aspects of a newbuilding p
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- Transas Demonstrates New Tech at SMM page: 77
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on November 2004Transas, as is its custom, rolled out new technology at SMM, technology aimed at its core mission to increase Safety of Navigation. Two central items November 2004 on display comprised three new ergonomic consoles, with multi-functional workplaces allowing visitors to operate Navi-Sailor 300
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- MAN B&W Records Busy Hamburg Show page: 77
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on November 2004According to the company, more than 5,000 guests visited the stand of the MAN B&W Diesel Group at the SMM trade fair in Hamburg. "The high number of visitors and the great interest in professional advice proved once again that the SMM is one of our most important windows to the world," said Dr.
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on November 2004American Superconductor Corp. announced that its prototype 5- megawatt (MW) High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) ship propulsion motor has been demonstrated successfully at full load, under steady state operational conditions, at the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) at Florida State