2014 Articles
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- Boat of the Month: M/V HOS ACHIEVER page: 16
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on April 2014Accommodations, Features and Comfort combine with Safety. All are key for Offshore Housing missions. Deepwater operations are increasingly demanding more personnel offshore, often for longer periods of time, placing a greater emphasis on crew accommodation. Now, accommodation and special features j
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on April 2014This month’s editorial calendar has, in part, as its focus, oil pollution, prevention and response. Or, in other words, missions and matters that cut to the very heart of the American Salvage Association (ASA) and the goals of its considerable membership. This month, ASA President Paul Hankins weigh
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on March 2014VesselVanguard, the cloud-based maintenance management service, announced a new partnership with trawler yacht manufacturer, Kadey-Krogen Yachts. Adding value by simplifying and streamlining yacht management, Kadey-Krogen vessels will be fully provisioned with a one-year VesselVanguard subscription,
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on March 2014Iridium Communications’ Iridium GO! Is the first portable satellite hotspot that connects to any smartphone, extending voice and data coverage when out of range of cellular networks. Iridium GO! creates a satellite-backed Wi-Fi zone anywhere on the planet, enabling up to five smartphones to make cal
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on March 2014Ocean Safety has received the EC Certificate of Authorization from Lloyds Register, allowing the company to carry out all in-house certifications of gas cylinders. Ocean Safety is now authorized to pressure test many cylinders including composite, welded steel, seamless steel and aluminum gas. These
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on Q1 2014If the Federal Maritime Commission remains somewhat of an enigma to domestic maritime stakeholders, perhaps that’s because its scope of oversight reaches many sectors of maritime business; some more obscure than others. In February, we caught up with FMC commissioner William P. Doyle, who provided t
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on Q1 2014Managed medical care specialist Future Care is changing the way the maritime industry looks at mariner healthcare. The Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) has forever changed the way vessel operators look at healthcare for the world’s 1.3 million mariners. For some, it means simple compliance wit
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- Crowley’s “Commitment” page: 38
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on Q1 2014Crowley Maritime last year ordered two LNG-powered combination container – Roll-On/Roll-Off (ConRo) ships with VT Halter Marine. The ships are designed to travel at speeds up to 22 knots and carry containers ranging in size from 20-ft. standard to 53-ft.-long, 102-in.-wide, high-capacity units, alon
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- The Crowley Way page: 32
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on Q1 2014Walk in the front door at Crowley Maritime Corporation HQ in Jacksonville, Fla., and you learn nearly everything you need to know about the company. With your visitor’s badge, you are handed a “Safety and Evacuation” brochure, and the person you are there to meet – in our case Tom Crowley, Jr. – wal
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on March 2014Mean Green Industrial Strength Cleaner & Degreaser is now available in 275-gallon containers. This larger size provides maximum value to high-volume commercial and industrial users. Ideal for industrial process cleaning, dip tanks/soaking, industrial machinery and equipment repair or rebuilding, Mea
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- Dyena Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) page: 58
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on March 2014Dyena’s Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) is a compact rugged unit that will store up to 10 years of data, providing a detailed record of structural events. Sampling at 2400 times per second, the Dyena VMS continuously monitors the shock and vibrations received by the vessel structure and stores the da
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on March 2014Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE) has developed EnDura E90SR, a new EPDM elastomer material that provides outstanding high temperature steam resistance. EnDura E90SR is available as O-rings, T Seals and custom-molded geometries and is used in pumps, valves, turbines, geothermal tools and drilling
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on March 2014The new global leader in end-to-end search and rescue (SAR) and maritime domain awareness (MDA) solutions is McMurdo Group. Comprised of Orolia’s former Positioning, Tracking and Monitoring Division, it combines Boatracs, Kannad, McMurdo and Techno-Sciences into the industry’s first, single-vendor p
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on March 2014InSinkErator’s food waste disposers are being installed across various types of shipping vessels ranging from cargo vessels to cruise ships, including an ice breaking research vessel. The newly installed SS-300 is expected to help with recent guidelines on proper food waste disposal released by DNV.
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- Martek’s Network-Connected ECDIS page: 56
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on March 2014Martek Marine’s one-of-a-kind iECDIS integrates a GSM modem, offering automatic download and installation of charts, updates and notices to mariners, reducing administrative burdens associated with CD updates. The GSM modem uses mobile network signals to keep iECDIS up to date anywhere with mobile s
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on Q1 2014Early adopters use performance monitoring and condition-based maintenance tools to cut costs, head off breakdowns, find efficiencies and ensure compliance. The only thing harder than finding a needle in a haystack, is finding the sharpest points in a haystack full of needles, which is essentially t
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- Helicopter Refueling Systems page: 58
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on March 2014DGI is now supplying a full range of Helicopter Refueling Systems for the EMEA region. Wilmax is a leader in the Asia Pacific for Helicopter Refueling Systems. Started in 1999 with the design and manufacturing of HRS they have now supplied more than 250 systems world-wide. DGI/Wilmax has developed
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on March 2014Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions’ patented Unitor XFlow low pressure water mist fire fighting systems is being installed for two leading Norwegian shipowners. The contract includes a total flooding water mist system for the ship’s engine room and a local protection water mist system. The system covers
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- Omega Debuts New Transmitters page: 58
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on March 2014Omega introduced new potentiometer input to DC transmitters with the launch of the DMD4008 series of transmitters accepts a resistance input from potentiometer, slidewire, linear position, displacement or rotational devices and provides an optically isolated DC voltage or current output that is line
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- Engine Room Fires: Lessons Learned page: 58
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on March 2014“Lessons are still not being learned when it comes to preventing engine room fires.” This is the message from Graeme Temple, Regional Director for Braemar SA’s Far East operations, following a review of incidents taking place in 2013. At any one time in a modern engine room there can be thousands o