2013 Articles
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- Jotun Debuts New Eco Antifouling page: 56
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Maritime Reporter
on December 2013Jotun Hull Performance Solutions (HPS) launched the HPS Newbuilding Solution, which is aimed at yards delivering vessels with eco-design and who want to maximize the energy efficiency at both speed trial and in operation. The foundation of the HPS Newbuilding solution is SeaQuantum X200, Jotun’s to
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- Regal Motors Win Russian OK page: 56
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Maritime Reporter
on December 2013Regal has won type approval for its RN and RF series marine motors from the Russian River Register, one of the biggest classification societies in the world for inland waterway vessels. This complements approvals already granted from the other ship and vessel standard organizations including BV, ABS
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- New Monitoring System from Rexroth page: 56
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Maritime Reporter
on December 2013Whether workboat or yacht, for skippers and technically responsible people immediate access to vessel information and functions is elementary. The operator-oriented, adaptable user interface on Marex AMC provides a structured and clearly arranged access to all the information. The monitoring syste
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Marine News
on December 2013SmartVIEW allows Carlisle & Finch Products (NightFINDER Systems and Standard Searchlight Products), to be controlled from on board the ship, or from a remote PC ashore. The system includes Proportional-Speed Multi-Functional Joystick, Joysticks which “intelligently switch” from searchlight to search
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Marine News
on December 2013Videotel is pioneering a radical new form of training delivery, designed to respond to the demands of the post internet age. The ultimate in interactivity, Videotel uses gaming technology to put the learner into a real life scenario, enabling them to apply their knowledge to specific situations unde
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Marine News
on December 2013Wichita Clutch has added air cooled, spring-set, air released AirMaKKs SSB high torque brakes to its AquaMaKKs family of clutches and brakes. AirMaKKs SSB models utilize the basic, easy-to-maintain, pin-style, modular design of AquaMaKKs including the brake housing with torque plates installed inste
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Marine News
on December 2013Iskes Towage & Salvage has signed an agreement with VSTEP for the delivery of two NAUTIS Tug and Offshore Supply Vessel (OSV) simulators. These simulators are the first units purchased for the new Iskes / Damen Training Center in Amsterdam. VSTEP will provide a 360-degree NAUTIS Full Mission Tug Sim
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Marine News
on December 2013Raymarine’s LightHouse User Interface is the ninth release of Raymarine’s multifunction display user interface, and has been redesigned to give owners a simpler, more user-friendly experience. Users will notice the new home screen with easy-to-read icons for all their favorite apps; now enhanced by
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- We Need to Save Our Ships page: 30
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Marine News
on December 2013The United States of America’s Navy is arguably the most powerful in the world, and the most immediate threat it faces may not be from China, Russia or Iran, but U.S. Congress. The use of sequestration as a budget reduction tool has resulted in a clumsy cost-cutting approach that will continue to ha
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- What’s New with Floating Production? page: 50
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Maritime Reporter
on December 2013Currently, 319 oil/gas floating production units are now in service, on order or available for reuse on another field. FPSOs account for 65% of the existing systems, 75% of systems on order. Another 24 floating LNG processing systems are in service or on order. Liquefaction floaters account for 1
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Maritime Reporter
on December 2013‘LEGO’ FOR PROFESSIONALS If there is one thing that we hear time and again in the maritime world is that the manufacture of boats, ships and maritime structures in general is not as efficient as found in larger, mass market transportation modes because of the unique peculiarities of each differe
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- Great Ships of 2013: Hydra Voyager page: 48
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on December 2013Hydra Voyager was delivered by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. to Almi Tankers in 2013. The vessel has a continuous upper deck without forecastle, a raked stern with bulbous bow, a transom stern with open water type stern frame, a semi-balanced rudder and a fixed pitch propeller di
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on December 2013Oceanex Connaigra is Oceanex Inc.’s 210-m custom-designed container/roll on roll off (Con/Ro) ice class 1A ship that was built at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. (FSG) shipyard in Flensburg, Germany. According to FSG, it will be “one of the longest, most innovative, environmentally
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on December 2013Eastern Shipbuilding Group delivered M/V HOS Red Rock (Hull 202) to Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC. Hornbeck’s first vessel, the HOS Red Dawn (Hull 201), was delivered on June 21, 2013 and is currently servicing offshore drilling operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Hornbeck’s third vessel the HO
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- Great Ships of 2013: Bow Pioneer page: 46
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Maritime Reporter
on December 2013The world’s largest chemical tanker, Bow Pioneer, was built for Odfjell SE by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, designed with two longitudinal corrugated bulkheads with lower stools and transverse corrugated bulkheads with lower stools to have 10 sets (P&S&C) of cargo tanks, and 11 tanks for
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Marine News
on December 2013WatchStander LLC has introduced a fully automated system designed to prevent pirates and other unwanted individuals from boarding ships. The video and data from all incidents will be archived for subsequent transmission to the shipowner and WatchStander for training and evidential purposes. The full
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Marine News
on December 2013Roughly 8 million annual passengers travel New York Harbor on N.Y. Waterway ferries, protected by an extensive, state-of-the-art video surveillance system. The system includes hundreds of Interlogix IP and analog cameras, transmitted from moving ferries to a land-based security command center via a
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Marine News
on December 2013ChartWorld eNtM delivers digital Notices to Mariners (NtMs) on a weekly basis. The service includes paper chart tracings and corrections for all other publications previously delivered in the paper NtM format. eNtM is integrated with ChartWorld’s digital chart catalog ChartBrowser. The user-friendly
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- Computer Gaming & Maritime Training page: 86
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Maritime Reporter
on November 2013Videotel is incorporating a new form of training delivery, designed to respond to the demands of the post internet age. It is moving to the ultimate in interactivity, by using gaming technology for serious purposes. Using serious games technology, Videotel is putting the learner into a real life
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- Raymarine Autopilot page: 86
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Maritime Reporter
on November 2013Raymarine’s new Evolution EV-2 drive-by-wire autopilot system has been certified for use with SeaStar Solutions’ Optimus EPS and Optimus 360 electronics steering systems. Optimus EPS systems provide effortless electronic power steering, while Optimus 360 systems add 360-degree maneuvering capabi