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April 2024 - Marine News page: 39There are ? ve major paint catego- lenges in shipyards is managing small building is a multifaceted endeavor ries in new construction shipbuilding: parts, which are prone to surface rust that demands integrative systems before installation. Optimizing the planning, as well as adoption of new 1.
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 38Tech File Optimizing Blast and Paint Processes in New Construction Shipbuilding By Colin Gallagher, Director of Shipyard Optimization, BlastOne International The ef? cacy of surface preparation and coating appli- 1. Raw material entry cation in the new construction shipbuilding industry is 2. Painting
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 2Marine News April 2024 • Volume 35 Number 4 Contents Features 20 Navigation and Wind Farms 20 Competing ocean uses are raising existential questions. As the U.S. offshore industry continues to ramp up, many topics still need to be resolved By Tom Ewing 26 2024 U.S. Shipbuilding Report If
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 402,000 Bhp and roll. Top speed will be over 28 knots, with a dead- at 1,600 rpm and turning Ni-Br-Al propellers. The twin weight of 29.5 tonnes. US Virgin Islands Ferry foot vessel will service the tourist and commuter route be- tween Red Hook on the island of St. Thomas, and Cruz Bay on the island of
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 8future activity, ? rst power have been generated licitations for New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and from both Vineyard and South Wind, and Coastal Virgin- Massachusetts, which seek to commit as much as 9 GW of ia is building up an inventory of monopiles in Portsmouth capacity, with contracts that provide
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 41Deliveries, 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 next gen- eration
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 33Feature Hybrid Propulsion s the world looks to renewable energy sources tering the vessel, giving CTV owners vying for contracts a to combat climate change and reduce reliance competitive advantage when implementing hybrid solu- on fossil fuels, offshore wind has emerged as a tions that optimize fuel
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20Smart Shipyard Technologies ABS Introduces Guide for Certifying Smart Shipyard Technologies By Gareth Burton substituteallorpartofahuman he adoption of smart technologies is accelerating in tion equipment or computers to substitute all or part of a human the shipbuilding industry. From virtual/augmented
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August 2023 - Marine News page: 42Tech File Shipyard Tools jects of rust, paint and contaminants to bare metal. lando, Fla.-based Laser Photonics, a provider of patented However, for operators, exposure to corrosive acids and industrial grade CleanTech laser systems for cleaning and noxious chemical fumes is inherently dangerous.
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August 2023 - Marine News page: 40Tech File Shipyard Tools Clean Technology Lasers: A New Tool to Remove Corrosion and Scale Laser systems quickly remove corrosion and scale from metal surfaces with less preparation and mess than traditional techniques. By Del Williams In the maritime industry, corrosion and scale (where but also
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August 2023 - Marine News page: 9telescopic crawler crane. Division, of Havelock, N.C., will receive $86,649 to train Fincantieri Marine Repair, LLC, of Jacksonville, Fla., and certify employees in three required disciplines to en- will receive $874,079 to support the purchase of a water hance productivity in vessel repairs. blast and
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June 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39PROFILE: ARDMORE SHIPPING A Unique Test of Marine Coatings According to Garry Noonan, Director, Innovation, Ardmore Shipping, an essential fuel and emissions reduction tool is coatings. “When we look at hull coatings, paint is expensive; but when you compare it to the life cycle of the paint, it's
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June 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 818 5,757 Princess Cruises 15 4,842 Celebrity Cruises 13 3,837 Disney Cruise Line 5 1,537 Edison Chouest Offshore 175 2,713 Holland America Line 11 2,544 Virgin Voyages 3 1,782 Noble Corporation 33 2,381 International Seaways 59 2,151 US Owned Fleet, by Value Type # of Vessels Value ($) Cruise 162 33
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June 2023 - 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 HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor New York, NY 10010 USA T +1 212 477 6700 Scan the QR Code CEO John C. O’Malley to take the MarTID [email protected] 2023 Survey. President and Chief Operating Of? cer Publisher & Editorial
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May 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 54TECH FEATURE ARMACH ROBOTIC HULL CLEANING Armach’s Robot Hull Cleaning All images courtesy Armach Robotics Service Takes Next Steps Toward Commercialization Maritime Reporter recently caught up with Karl Lander, Director of Regulatory Compliance and Outreach at maritime tech startup Armach Robotics
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May 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 40GREEN MARINE We are no longer a coating supplier that applies paint and waits for the next maintenance event. We are there all the time. We look at [our customer's] ships on our screens every day, and we partner with them on managing operations as well, from our lens.” Alexander Enström, EVP
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May 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28GREEN MARINE The belief that nuclear power is somehow unsafe and dangerous is a myth not born out by facts of science.” Dr Rory Megginson, Head of Analytics, Core Power Bluntly, there is no short-term option to hydrocarbons as a NEW STRATEGIES means of fueling the planet. So the challenge becomes
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May 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 16The Path to Zero – Sponsored EverClean The always clean hull solution Collaborations Foster Innovation to Manage Biofouling anaging biofouling on ship hulls has been a topic sailboat racing, and has long recognized the value of clean of interest since the ancient Phoenecians 3300 hulls. Serious racers
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April 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14Back to the Drawing Board Prying Gas Stoves from Dead Fingers Copyright alexanderuhrin/AdobeStock By Rik van Hemmen hen Greg Trauthwein offered me a column in Mar- as life is not actually a dream. But allow me to proceed within itime Reporter & Engineering News, I received my dream in a rational fashion.
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April 2023 - Marine News page: 36to the Signol has been moving into maritime after its start in the Signol web app, where they could review and re? ect upon aviation industry, saving Virgin Atlantic more than $6 mil- their own individual performance. lion in fuel costs and 24,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions “Signol recognizes that captains
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April 2023 - Marine News page: 31we need to get it. $384.4 million in grant awards to 23 projects in 11 states The supply chain is just tough in general. Building series of and the U.S. Virgin Islands to expand and improve the boats is always nice because you have that long backlog. But nation’s ferry service, as well as accelerate the
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February 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 15other countries as well. (attach, navigate, clean, detach, return to pier) on a vessel in Concurrent to all of this, there is signi? cant effort world- Virginia. Inclusion of this capability on the HSR will further wide ongoing to ensure that any in-water hull cleaning is per- increase operational ? exibility
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February 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 13far as it went. I might have come down the losers don’t. To quote another good For each column I write, MREN has the mountain, but it turned out there was one: Don’t paint yourself into a corner agreed to make a small donation to a charity of my choice. For this column I really no one there.
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January 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 36LANDER LAB #6 SPLICING UNDERWATER ELECTRIC CABLES Figure 6 Figure 7 Wrapping Scotch? ll over the splice. Start in the center to build up the diameter to the original jacket OD, then one last wrap that covers the splice plus an inch over each cable end. The completed cold splice, capable of working in