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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND With COVID, we had to make some hard choices for our Do your CIVMARs have upward mobility? mariners because we couldn’t rotate. Many of our mariners The Navy has Sailors who become “Mustangs,” and work found other employment, and were able to use their skills
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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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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: 36HYBRID 2-stroke controllable pitch propeller PTO powertrain Source: MAN Energy Solutions how the system is intended to operate, says Oskar Levander, VP Strategy & Business Development, Kongsberg Maritime. For example, a primary shaft-driven PTO rotates whenever the engine is running; a secondary one
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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: 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: 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: 25Feature Passenger Vessel Safety Interestingly, in the Flagship docu- certain passenger vessels. growing commuter traf? c. “In addi- ment, PVA acknowledges and thanks • Crew shortages have caused tion,” he added, “several small U.S. the USCG for its help in developing a operators to change schedules.
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 23Passenger Vessel Safety occur on a sightseeing vessel or an Ohio River dinner cruise? This contrast between speci? c – sometimes very speci? c – and general comes to mind when considering the numerous safety advisories pertaining to recent amphibious DUKW boat tragedies or the 2019 Conception dive boat
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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 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41the lin, La., to design and deliver a new USCG Subchapter-K gantry extension, the upgrade program includes an upgrade of Iapproved, 104-ft. (32-m) passenger ferry for the govern- the lifting hooks, which will increase the lifting capacity of the ment of the U.S Virgin Islands. Construction of the new ferry
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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: 18TECH FEATURE A New Era for Great Lakes Freighters with Modern Marine Epoxies By Justin Peare, Marine Coatings Representative, Great Lakes Region & Matt Heffernan, Commercial Marine Business Manager, North America, Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine he Motor Vessel Mark W. Barker – the ? rst U.S.
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 8Siemens Energy Big Ships & a Fuel Cell Future Fuel cells have the potential to play a big role in decarbonizing the maritime sector. Siemens Energy and Advent Technologies recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on an integrated fuel cell energy solution that combines Advent’s
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 20EYE ON THE NAVY NATO GAINS EXPERIENCE WITH UNMANNED SYSTEMS All photos courtesy NATO By Edward Lundquist allies and partners have taken Messenger is in its second year. Both are conducted at the Navy advantage of recent demon- Operational Experimentation Centre in Tróia, one of two Por- NATO strations
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39EAGLE VELLORE EAGLE VELLORE AET delivered its newest vessel, the ? rst of three Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) powered by dual-fuel lique? ed natural gas Photo courtesy AET (LNG) engines, on long-term charter to Shell Tankers (Singapore) Private Limited. The Malaysian-? agged Eagle Vellore was
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 38G REAT of BERLIN EXPRESS HIPS S 2023 Photo courtesy Hapag-LLoyd BERLIN EXPRESS SERI DAMAI Hapag-Lloyd welcomed Berlin Express into its ? eet, the MISC welcomed two of its latest new generation of Lique- ? rst ship of its new Hamburg Express class and the ? rst of a ? ed Natural Gas (LNG) carriers
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 31CHALLENGER type. While Shofu Maru has been operating since October gineering of the system, planning for larger scale production. 2022, Makoto Yamaguchi said that “We are collecting and Makoto Yamaguchi could not disclose the total additional analyzing data. The sail is performing as we expected both
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 30G REAT of HIPS S SHIP OWNER/OPERATOR Ship Owner Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. 2023 Shipbuilder Oshima Shipbuilding LOA 235m Breadth 43m Deadweight About 100,422 tons Flag/Port of registry Japan/Port of Noshiro WIND CHALLENGER SPECIFICATIONS Height Up to about 53 m (4-tier) Width About 15 m Sail