Dry Bulk Carrier
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- MarAd Contract Let For Development Of Standardized Carrier Maritime Reporter, Dec 1977 #7
A $281,203 contract for the Development of a Standardized U.S.
Flag Dry Bulk Carrier has been awarded to M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 350 Broadway, New York, N.Y., by the Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration.
M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc. has formed a team with H.P. Drewry (Shipping Consultants) Ltd., London, England; Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Baltimore, Md., and Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa.
The 10-month contract will provide a market analysis of dry bulk trades, a review of existing standard ship designs and the selection and adaptation of one or more designs to serve as a Standardized U.S. Flag Dry Bulk Carrier (s).
The contract, to be performed in two phases, will assess the requirements for a Standardized U.S. Flag Dry Bulk Carrier by identifying cargo opportunities, analyzing the competitive environment, developing vessel performance requirements, identifying design alternatives, and selecting one or more designs. A second phase will provide preliminary design (s), an analysis of c o s t - c u t t i n g opportunities, and recommendations for research and development areas to further reduce construction costs and improve U.S.-flag operational competitiveness.
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- Bulk Carrier 'Pride Of Texas' Delivered By Levingston Shipbuilding Maritime Reporter, Jul 1981 #38
by the American Bureau of Shipping and certified by the U.S. Coast Guard for unlimited ocean service. The Pride of Texas is said to be the first dry bulk carrier to be built in the United States specifically for U.S. foreign trade, and also the first to be built with the assistance of construction differenti
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- Levingston Launches U.S.-Flag Bulk Carrier 'Pride Of Texas' Maritime Reporter, Jun 15, 1980 #12
Levingston Shipbuilding Company recently launched the motor vessel Pride of Texas at its Orange, Texas, shipyard. The 36,000-dwt dry bulk carrier was christened by Mrs. Valerie Nemirow, wife of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs Samuel B. Nemirow, in the presence of some 750
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- World And U.S. Bulk Shipping Maritime Reporter, Sep 15, 1978 #46
. The purpose of each two-day Seminar is to provide both a comprehensive picture of the trades, costs and revenues of world and U.S. tanker and drybulk cargo shipping and a forum for the study of the volatile nature of shipping costs and revenues and U.S. shipping problems. A further aim is
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- Prudential, Stanwick Develop Shipboard Maintenance System Maritime Reporter, Apr 15, 1977 #19
basic shipboard M&R system design and the first prototype now undergoing evaluation onboard the highly automated, diesel-powered dry-bulk carrier M/V Sugar Islander. For additional information on the prototype maintenance system, write to Richard W. Kelly, The Stanwick Company
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- The Many Modes of Hinge-Ship Maritime Reporter, Sep 2000 #42
meet a variety of needs in a safe, efficient and costeffective manner. The following are details of the vessel types designed to date. m Dry Bulk Carrier Each cargo hold has a large hatch with hydraulic operated hatch covers. In deep draft condition, the hatch openings are parallel to baseline
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- $80-Million Order For Bulk Carriers Signed By Alcoa And Hitachi Maritime Reporter, Oct 1980 #6
of Aluminum Company of America, has signed a contract with Japan's Hitachi Shipbuilding & Engineering, Ltd. for three combination liquid/dry bulk carrier vessels. The contract, valued at more than $80 million, calls for the first of three vessels to be completed in December 1981. The second vessel
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- World Bulk Fleet Expected To Increase Moderately For Next Few Years Maritime Reporter, Apr 1991 #16
tons by January 1994, from a figure of 489 million dwt last month. The tanker feet may increase from 246.4 million tons to 271.3 tons, and the dry bulk carrier fleet from 211.1 million tons to 214.4 million tons. The combination carrier total could decrease slightly from 31.5 million tons to 30.9
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- Papers On Containerships, Bulkers Presented By SNAME California Sections Maritime Reporter, Dec 1981 #60
, president of Seaboard Shipping Co. Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, presented a paper entitled "The Development of the Specialized Dry Bulk Carrier." It traced the evolution of this vessel type f r om the earliest steel ships of the 1890s to the contemporary designs specialized to carry
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- NOL Reports First Half Profit of $1M Maritime Reporter, Oct 2001 #4
. "We are on track to have an entirely double-hulled fleet as planned by 2003." None of the current fleet is single-hulled. "We disposed of another dry bulk carrier during the first half of this year, leaving four modern Panamax bulk carriers," Kwok said. "Our intention is still to exit this business over
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- Converting and Repowering One Very Big Ship Maritime Reporter, May 2004 #38
Largest Bulker in for Fix Machine Support B.V. recently completed an stern tube alignment job on what is touted to be the world's largest dry bulk carrier, Berge Stahl, which is a 1,125-ft. (343 m) long and 213.2 ft. (65 m) wide ship that can hold 360,000 tons of iron ore. The carrier is fully
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- Unmanned Ships Now a Reality Maritime Reporter, Feb 2014 #49
Navigation through Intelligence in Networks) is investigating potential concepts for a fully or partially unmanned merchant vessel. The case ship is a dry bulk carrier of handymax size, operating on routes between Europe and South America in the beginning. The project is being partly funded by the EU in pursuit
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42, and the launch of a new high amperage subsea connector se- ries, the 225 Amp BIRNS Meridian line. The Meridian line, a robust, custom engineered dry-mate connector series is open face rated to 6km, and is well-suited for battery packs and thrusters for crewed and uncrewed subsea vehicles that re- quire
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35. ing one generally involves some measure of trade-off. ? Lithium Polymer (LiPo): A lower cost version of the Lithium-ion battery. A LiPo battery uses a dry, thin electro- ? Battery Packs: Soldering directly to batteries may lyte polymer separator sheet laminated between the anode damage the cell. Batteries
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41operator Tokyo Kisen. Oldendorff Carri- for 2024, including return customers faced by their watchkeepers at sea. In the ers, one of the world’s leading dry bulk looking to roll out Groke Pro across their future, we are planning to build guidance owners and operators, has also joined us. ? eet. We see
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27place. We’re replenishment oilers, with more on the way. We have 14 Lew- hoping that makes things easier for our people, and that it is and Clark class dry cargo and ammunition ships that deliver will help us to retain them. Unfortunately, we can’t guaran- ammo, food, parts and fuel. We have two big fast
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18MARKETS & gas activity returns, we anticipate that supply of the vessels The Question of Emissions to offshore wind projects will reduce, driving demand for ad- Given that SOVs and CSOVs operate in a segment target- ditional CSOVs. ing reduced emissions, and many operate in the North Eu- Outside of China
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 13re- want to make sure that that renewal cycle goes smoothly quirements which then leads to different interpretations and ef? ciently, that the process of dry docking and all of and different outcomes. We appreciate the Coast Guard that goes ef? ciently and, again, with a risk-based approach. taking steps
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 37PTI/PTO "In a typical LNG carrier, permanent magnet technology improves ef? ciency by 2-4% compared to synchronous machines." – Dr. Jussi Puranen, Head of Product Line, Electric Machines, at Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch The Switch’s shaft generators start from <1MW and range up to 12MW+.
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36fuel prices (far less for new fuels). Michael D. Chris- ery and an optimized hull and cargo design, the company’s two tensen, VP Global Sales, Dry Cargo Vessels at ABB, is seeing newbuild self-discharging bulk carriers were projected to cut greater take up on bulker newbuilds, but not yet across
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35PTI/PTO 30 years ago shaft generators with PTI capability kept container ships sailing at top speed. That purpose gone, PTI/PTO is making a new comeback in more cargo shipping segments, this time for reducing emissions. By Wendy Laursen etro? tting a shaft generator is not an insigni? - the ef? ciency
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31, it was the overriding bearing material migrating through the lubrication system. theme at Sea Asia.” Rudder, propeller and shaft needed to be removed in dry dock However, insurer Gard remains concerned about EAL fail- before the required repairs could be completed. ure, and company analysts voiced them
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 29AMERICAN ROLL-ON ROLL-OFF CARRIER (ARC) operate a US ? ag ship just for the MSP customer through that global network. As an example of “clarity and con- stipend. It’s a cargo driven industry, and We are certainly a unique business unit sistency,” Ebeling points ? rst to “the those cargoes help to
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28COVER FEATURE times of con? ict or in other national said Ebeling. “If you look at Iraq and tors bring to the table, all provided by emergencies, and the program also Afghanistan, 98% of those cargoes the MSP ? eet, and it would cost the provides DoD access to MSP partici- were transported to the
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27AMERICAN ROLL-ON ROLL-OFF CARRIER (ARC) “MSP really only works when it’s hand in glove with the cargo preference laws. Those are the laws that generate the cargo that moves on US ? ag vessels. Really, it’s cargo – those preference cargoes – that’s the key incentive for US ? ag operators in internatio
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 26COVER FEATURE ARC KEEPING THE CARGO ROLLING With a ? eet of nine U.S.-? ag RoRo ships, American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group (ARC), is the U.S.’ premier commercial RoRo carrier of U.S. government and military cargo. As the world becomes an increasingly contentious place, Eric P. Ebeling, President
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20MARKETS FPSO technology dominates the region’s FPS demand. duction and storage of low and zero emission energy carriers, In all, 18 countries in West and East Africa are expected such as methanol and ammonia. One exciting development to receive new FPSOs, FLNGs and FPUs between 2024 and leverages
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14coating is then studied to determine Greensea IQ van used if any scratching or other mechanical damage has occurred, for remote operations of and the dry ? lm thickness is calculated and compared against EverClean robot ? eet. the readings following application. With this information, shipowners can
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS M A R I N E L I N K . C O M s the world increasingly HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor becomes a geopolitical New York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 quagmire, with Russia’s Awar in the Ukraine soon CEO John C. O’Malley entering year three and disparate
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 40catamaran from Gladding-Hearn ZF model 8000. Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation for passenger service be- The ferry will be tween Key West and the Dry Tortugas National Park. The new equipped with an vessel will replace Yankee Freedom III, a 250-passenger cata- Atlantic Detroit maran built for the
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33four of its 18 Ohio-class SSBNs and They can also operate without the wires, These weapons are launched over the side converted them to conventional cruise using their own active or passive sensors. of surface ships with the ubiquitous MK missile carriers. The ? rst four Ohio- They are programmed to
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 32SUBSEA VEHICLES DEFENSE USS Baltimore (SSN 704) served for just 15 and a half years in 2004, and the newest, USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795) of active service. joining the ? eet in October of 2023. Newer versions will be Los Angeles-class submarines carried MK-48 heavyweight ? tted with the Virginia
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 28. Like plosive ordnance disposal community. Echo Voyageur, Orca is 51-feet long, but features modular The Razorback UUVs were designed to operate from a dry construction to allow for the insertion of an additional 34-foot deck shelter or from a craft of opportunity. Razorback is based payload module.
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41In the Shipyard Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs Van Oord Upgrades Heavy-lift Gulf Craft, Incat Crowther an Oord’s heavy-lift installation vessel Team on Virgin Island Ferry VSvanen will receive a major upgrade: the gan- try crane will be extended by 25m, making the vessel ready to handle the
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 40In the Shipyard Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs Vard Inks $450M to Build Cable Layers ARD won a $252m contract for the design and con- struction of a third cable laying vessel for Italy’s Prysmian Group: Monna Lisa is still under construc- V tion; Leonardo da Vinci was delivered in 2021. The new
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36expected from the IMO’s guarantees signi? cantly lower carbon emissions compared to MARPOL review. This sludge is typically discharged over- conventional drying and incineration systems with no harmful board untreated. However, most new zero discharge cruise emissions into the atmosphere, as there is no