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December 2011www.marinelink.com 33boats in a ceremony held at Grandweld fa- cility in Dubai Mar- itime City. This marks Grandweld?s seventh delivery in 2011. Global Queen, an ad-vanced version of the 41m crew boat, is the 18th of its type to bebuilt from a series of sister vessels that were initially launched by Grandweld in2006. This vessel will represent the third generation of its series with enhanced de-sign and superior performance comparedto the two previous generations. The ves- sel has achieved speeds in excess of 26 knots and is equipped with external fire fighting, offshore crane, separate VIP pas- senger area, and security capabilities. TOLANI SELECTS MARIS VDS Tolani Shipping?s Singapore arm, Tolani Shipping (S) Pte Ltd, has opted to use theVoyage Decision Support system devel- oped by Maritime Information SystemsAS, Norway (MARIS). Tolani Shipping owns a fleet of bulk carriers ranging in size from 50,000dwt to 84,000dwt with anaverage age of five years. AMOS FOR GRIEG SHIPPING Grieg Shipping Group signed a contract with SpecTec Norway for the supply of AMOS software. Grieg Shipping Group owns 26 OHGC (open-hatch general cargo vessels) fleet, and it has just taken delivery of four new state-of-the-art open hatch vessels; the company has a current development program consisting of up to ten 50,000 dwt open hatch ships with anew crane design, together with two Supramax vessels. CLASSNK EARNS AUTHORIZA- TION FROM NORWEGIAN FLAG The Government of Norway officially rec- ognized ClassNK as its newest Recog-nized Organization (RO) at a special signing ceremony held at the Royal Nor- wegian Embassy in Tokyo on November 8, 2011. JOTRON CHOSEN BY NORDEN D/S NORDEN A/S selected the Norwe- gian-based Jotron Consultas AS as its fu-ture provider of fleet management software. The two parties have signed an agreement which includes rollout of latestv.4 of the Consultas Fleet Management software suite for fleet and office. The software suite covers the following appli- cations; C-Maintenance, C-Spares, C-Budget and C-Experience onboard, andC-Purchase, C-Budget C-Experience andC-Maintenance (Fleet version) for the office. The deal includes more than 30 ships operated and owned by D/S NOR- DEN A/S. The new v.4 of Jotron Consul- tas Fleet Management software represents a direction towards enhanced central de- cision making processes.MAN & MaerskInnovative Diesel Engine PartnershipMAN Diesel & Turbo announced the first order for its second generation EGR sys- tem, to be applied aboard a Maersk Line container vessel ? the 4,500-teu new build- ing #2358. The system will be fully integrated with the vessel?s main engine, a two-stroke MAN B&W 6S80ME-C9 type to be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries? engine & machinery division. The EGR system enables the meeting of the immi- nent IMO NOx Tier-III emission levels due to come into force by January 1, 2016. Søren H. Jensen, Vice President and Head of Research & Development at MAN Diesel & Turbo said: ?We have taken an important step forward in the development of exhaust gas recirculation with the release of this second- generation system. This configuration will mirror the final de- sign for our Tier-III NOx EGR engine programme. The main focus has been on integration of the entire EGR system into one unit which is a part of the engine as a charge-air cooler. The EGR unit comprises a cooler, a scrubber, a water mist catcher and a blower unit, and is designed to be fitted on the engine in the same way as a charge-air cooler. Since the first- generation EGR was tested in service, we have achieved sig- nificant techn ical advances as well as improvement in performance. We have optimised the performance of the EGR so that the system re- circulates 40% of the exhaust gas so as to meet the Tier-III reduction criterion.? The new building #2358 from Hyundai?s shipbuilding division is in the C-class se- ries of 22 container vessels ordered by the Maersk Line and will be delivered in early 2013. Graphic of thesecond-genera- tion EGR system(orange) inte-grated with itshost engineJamal Abki, GM,GrandweldMR Dec.11 # 4 (25-33):MR Template 12/7/2011 10:59 AM Page 33