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- GE Wins $11-Million Spanish Ship Control System Contract Maritime Reporter, Jun 15, 1980 #20
The General Electric Company, Simulation and Control Systems Department, Daytona Beach, Fla., has been awarded an $ll-million contract to furnish central control systems for four new Spanish Navy ships. The equipment provided under the contract will control the shipboard propulsion, electrical, auxiliary and damage control systems.
The contract was awarded by Empresa Nacional Bazan De Construcciones Navales Militaries of El Ferrol, Spain. In a major effort to update its Naval forces, the Spanish Government has commissioned the El Ferrol Shipyard to build three guided missile frigates (FFG) and one aircraft carrier.
The FFGs are similar to U.S.
Navy FFGs which use General Electric Control Systems. The aircraft carrier, which is designed for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft, is the first ship of its type to use the GE Control Systems.
Commenting on the award, Dr.
Charles E. Cheeseman, manager of General Electric's Digital Control Systems Business in Daytona Beach, said: "This award is the result of many months of work by our GE team with the Spanish Government and representatives of the El Ferrol Shipyard. Our experience and good program performance with similar systems for the U.S. Navy put us in a good position to win this contract.
We will be working closely with the shipyard and will have people on site in Spain as delivery of the hardware starts in 1982." The central control systems will be produced at the Simulation and Control Systems Department in Daytona Beach. The department broke ground on January 18, 1980, for a new 65,000-square-foot; production facility. Current employment is now about 1,300. This contract has been anticipated by the department's current expansion plans and will not require additional employees to complete.
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- A Change in Course Maritime Reporter, Sep 2003 #18
single hulled tonnage in the months ahead. Just look at the scale of the lawsuits bouncing backwards and forwards across the Atlantic between the Spanish Government and the American Bureau of Shipping. No major corporate, forced to take whatever tonnage it can get in a tight market, would want to find
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- IZAR: Hoisting More Than a New Image Maritime Reporter, Mar 2001 #20
With a combined sum of two and half centuries of shipbuilding experience, the new Spanish shipbuilding conglomerate, IZAR — billed as shipbuilding's new one-stop shop — is hardly a neophyte entering the highly competitive world of international shipbuilding. Comprised of the assets of the former Bazan
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- Spanish Maritime Industry Prospects Maritime Reporter, Sep 2015 #50
in 2004 came from wind energy. For example, in Tarifa (Andalusia) over 5,000 wind turbines have been installed within 10 km of the coastline. The Spanish government has recently adopted measures to speed up and promote the installation of offshore wind farms, to harness the potential Spanish coast offers
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- Promoting A Modal Shift Maritime Reporter, Nov 2002 #12
Europe's freight transport system from an environmental perspective. The Marco Polo initiative provides an important backcloth to a new, Anglo- Spanish project, which blends highspeed vessel design and construction know-how with powering arrangements based on the latest marine derivative of aero
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- Interview: Germán Carlos Suárez Calvo, CEO of Astican & Astander Shipyards Maritime Reporter, Aug 2015 #42
to perform any type of repair and/or conversion in any type of ship or rig. The shipyard is part of the group since 1989 as before it was run by the Spanish Government. Also, in 1999 our Group took over Astander shipyard in Northern Spain. Both were part of a public entity called “Astilleros Españoles” Group
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 45BUVI Greensea IQ, announced the signing of BUVI Scandinavia (BUVI) to join its international sales team, which follows another recent signing of the Spanish sales representative Uniformidad Y Suminstros De Proteccion (USP). Cumu- latively these are milestones in Greensea IQ’s continuous global expansion
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39Tech Files Latest Products, Systems and Ship Designs “Wall Climbing Robot” Danish Pilot calls gets ClassNK Nod LEGO Model "A tribute build to a work life at sea" Image courtesy MOL, Sumitomo Heavy Industries lassNK granted its Innovation Endorse- Image courtesy Espen Andersen/DanPilot ment for
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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: 25RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND Photo by Brian Suriani USN Military Sealift Command From a global supply chain perspective, What makes MSC so vital to the we’ve learned a lot about dealing with Navy’s ? eet and our military disruptions. COVID delivered a big forces around the world? wake-up
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21ROB LANGFORD, VP, GLOBAL OFFSHORE WIND ob Langford has worked in the offshore industry ABS. “We are growing and evolving our services across all for more than three decades, ‘cutting his teeth’ offshore infrastructure along with our continued support to the in a UK design ? rm working in the North Sea
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 27Feature Shipbuilding Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast Guard focus), which require very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 26Feature ECO Edison, the ? rst U.S.- Shipbuilding built wind farm service operations vessel. Ørsted U.S. SHIPBUILDING REPORT By Barry Parker If nothing else, building vessels in the U.S. is a com- handle), handling “…government and commercial work, plicated business. primarily newbuilds, but also
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 19• Investment in Infrastructure and Onshoring Man- sharing best practices. Additionally, given the global nature ufacturing: The administration is committing over $20 of maritime operations, international cooperation is essen- billion towards U.S. port infrastructure over the next tial for establishing
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 16OpEd Shipbuilding U.S. Commercial Shipbuilding and Repair Industry Ensures American Strength at Sea By Matthew Paxton, President, Shipbuilders Council of America As Senator Roger Wicker force, the U.S. is falling behind. China, Korea and Japan of Mississippi once said, “Growth in commercial ship-
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 11Q&A Increasingly, cyber security has been gaining focus as an area of concern across maritime supply chains, and recently the Coast Guard has been tasked with creating and enforcing maritime cyber standards. What do you hope to see from these standards as they are drafted and put to use? Two key
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 6Marine News April 2024 • Volume 35 Number 4 Contributors 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 1 Tom Ewing 5 Barry Parker is a freelance writer specializing in marine, energy and envi- of bdp1 Consulting Ltd provides strategic and tac- ronmental issues. He contributes regularly to this magazine. tical support, including
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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: 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: 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: 33Regulatory Update MARAD converted the program to a government loan pro- Title XI support. In short, the tests that measure that the gram with the Federal Financing Bank as the lender.” borrower has ‘a reasonable prospect’ of repaying the debt The repayment term and interest rates available under have
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 32Regulatoy Update Changes to MARAD’s Title XI: Good News for Offshore Wind? By Eric Haun The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Ad- U.S. shipowners to obtain new vessels from U.S. ship- ministration (MARAD) in December issued a ? nal rule yards cost effectively through long-term debt repayment
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 29Feature Offshore Wind Ørsted now has some signi? cant challenges. In? ation is de? nitely one of them,” said Jan Sloth Møller, offshore site manager at Ørsted. But he noted that the goals and ambitions held by federal and state governments could create an openness to reevaluate funding arrangements for
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 21Column Washington Watch 2 project had also been terminated. Notwithstanding the rather Equinor and BP will look to recompete for a new contract’s termination, GLDD’s Jones Act-compliant Sub- NYSERDA OREC Agreement in 2024 (of course, with a sea Rock Installation Vessel (SRIV) remains under con- substantial
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 16Column Going Green For Ferries to Go Green, Governments Will Need to Provide the Green By Kaiya Levine, Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Arup Whether it is from international organizations ? ve nautical miles or less, meaning they have relatively low or state government agencies, there is growing
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 14Insights to the organization’s team of more than 75 expert instruc- without paying that price in blood and oil.’ They get to do tors. “We bring in the specialists who know the material things they would not normally get to do, and then they can through and through.” re? ne those skills in what we know
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 6Marine News February 2024 • Volume 35 Number 2 Contributors 3 1 24 6 5 7 8 1 Tom Ewing 5 Edward Lundquist is a freelance writer specializing in marine, energy and envi- is a retired naval of? cer who writes on maritime and ronmental issues. He contributes regularly to this magazine. security
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 60SHOW PREVIEW OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2024 All images courtesy Oceanology International • ANB Sensors, developers of revolutionary, calibration updates on information, meeting customers, meeting poten- free pH sensors for ocean monitoring; tial suppliers, hearing what’s happening in the industry – you •
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 59All images courtesy Oceanology International participants and to deliver another packed three days of exhi- Oi24 Events and Features bition and conference activity, features, workshops and one- Oceanology International is able to capitalize on the advan- to-one meetings.” tages of ExCeL’s expansive 18