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- Danish Two-Stroke Bastion Maritime Reporter, Oct 2000 #8
As part of the drift of heavy industrial activity from Europe to the Far East, production of two-stroke diesel propulsion machinery has become the province of the leading national players in newbuild construction. However, close to the northern tip of Jutland, MAN B&W's Alpha Diesel division has restored a substantial Danish capability for low-speed engine manufacturing, to the extent that its Frederikshavn works has emerged as a bastion of European two-stroke production.
The extension in the market reach of the already diversified plant, renowned for its integrated propulsion packages based on four-stroke drives, is a clear endorsement of the substantial investments made by MAN B&W in dedicated facilities in recent years. It is no less an expression of industrial and commercial will.
Since the preponderance of MC-series low-speed machinery designed by MAN B&W's Danish arm is constructed by licensees, and predominantly those in the Far East, the Alpha operation has added value in providing a group-owned window into the production-related aspects of engine design. Moreover, it provides a basis for better honing practical skills associated with the after-sales support function, an ever-more important aspect of business for engine licensors and makers.
After some years of building the minibore models in the MAN B&W twostroke range, the Alpha factory made its debut in the 500 mm-bore category in July 1998. when the first 6L50MC unit was rolled-out of the extended production facilities in Frederikshavn. The plant investment effectively raised the scope of the works to meet the propulsion needs of vessels of Panamax size, in the case of single-engine installations, and larger tonnage where twin-engine layouts are involved. In fact, within the past two years. Alpha Diesel's deliveries have included the twin propulsion engines for two of the first three Millennium- class crude carriers under construction at Avondale. Each 30.030-bhp installation for the milestone tanker program comprises a pair of 7S50MC-C low-speed units.
Another link with the U.S. shipbuilding industry has now been established through an order for the same type of engine, a seven-cylinder S50MC-C, to be supplied to Friede Goldman Halter's Pascagoula yard. This will provide the propulsive power for a 13,000-dwt pure car/truck carrier (PCTC) destined to operate in the U.S. West Coast/Hawaii trade under the banner of Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines.
The S50MC-C also figures prominently in a clutch of new orders from the Turkish market, where Alpha claims to be the leading supplier of two-stroke propulsion plant. Significantly, most of the engines figure as part of complete propulsion package contracts. While other areas of the European diesel engine building industry have rationalized the product flow from individual factories, MAN B&W has invested in a broader offering from Alpha, as concerns both its integrated propulsion systems supply capability, as well as fourstroke and two-stroke engine lines.
Accordingly, the future for engineering production at Frederikshavn clearly rests in a wide remit of engines, gearboxes, controllable pitch propellers and monitoring systems.
Underscoring its growing international profile as a two-stroke producer, some 186,000-bhp of MAN B&W Alpha's total order intake of approximately 237.000-bhp of new engines between January and August this year entailed two-stroke models.
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- Cornering the ULCC Niche Maritime Reporter, Nov 2000 #8
For an independent tanker owner to undertake a newbuild fleet development program amounting to 3-million tons of crude oil carrier capacity in itself demonstrates a high degree of business verve. But to emphatically put one's own stamp on the design, construction and equipping of such tonnage is an
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- Two-Stroke Milestones Maritime Reporter, Feb 2001 #8
Eastern seaboard operator Gypsum Transportation provided a beacon for the industry when it nominated a camshaftless, electronically controlled Sulzer diesel engine for its 50,000-dwt-bulker newbuild project. Now, the interests behind a Mediterranean reefership scheme have also endorsed the concept
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- The New Knowledge Brokers? Maritime Reporter, Apr 2001 #8
Increasing commercial pressures and structural changes in the maritime industries call for new approaches to better ensure vessel and equipment quality and improved safety, believes Lutz Wittenberg, Germanischer Lloyd's divisional director of projects and marketing. In a bold presentation likely
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- Galician Grit Maritime Reporter, Jun 2001 #8
a compact pure car carrier (PCC), intended for the buoyant vehicle export trade out of Spain, a prominent and growing European auto manufacturby David Tinsley, technical editor er. The vessel was closely followed down the mountain-fringed Ria de Vigo by the first of a new breed of RoRo passenger (RoPax)
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- Podded Propulsion Goes Beyond the Cruise Realm Maritime Reporter, Jul 2001 #44
Compelling design and operational arguments in favor of podded electric drives can be expected to transcend any negative impressions formed from the recent clutch of problems and complications experienced with such systems in certain cruise ship and ferry applications. Experience has shown that techn
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- Now the Carousel Ship Maritime Reporter, Oct 2001 #8
Technical proposals for the shipment of natural gas under compression rather than in the refrigerated, liquefied state have surfaced from time to time over the years, but have received a lukewarm response from the marine industry. The considerable cost of the shipboard containment methodology has
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- High-Tech Service Initiatives From Deltamarin Maritime Reporter, Oct 2001 #32
Finnish technical consultancy Deltamarin, in characteristically innovative style, is breaking new ground with the development of new computer-based services encompassing safety simulation and risk assessment, knowledge management and life-cycle support. Its latest endeavors form the basis of what
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- IZAR Races Ahead With New Transmed Ferry Maritime Reporter, Nov 2001 #12
Testament to the Spanish state-owned group's determination to raise performance throughout the organization, IZAR is on track to deliver a high-grade R0R0 passenger ferry only 20 months after contract signing. The launch of the 6,300-dwt Murillo a month ahead of schedule has also underscored the
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- Spain: Finding Strength in Specialization Maritime Reporter, Mar 2002 #51
As the powerful entity created from the merger of Empresa Nacional Bazan and Astilleros Espanoles at the end of 2000, IZAR has underscored a commitment to design and engineering technology development, in conjunction with efficient production, in its drive for business in the specialized vessel
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- Molding the five-deck Trailership Maritime Reporter, Jul 2002 #18
Having emerged in recent years among Europe's top echelon of builders of RoRo vessels, Flensburger Schiffbau- Gesellschaft (FSG) has put down a newmarker for the industry by anticipating demand for a future generation of RoRo ferries incorporating a capacity for 6,000 lane-m of freight. Closely
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- Vosper Thornycroft Takes A "Bite" Out of Technology Maritime Reporter, Aug 2002 #20
Demonstrating a long-term commitment to its U.K. industrial base. Vosper Thornycroft is scheduled to start production next spring at a new, £40-million ($60-million) shipbuilding facility being created within the Portsmouth Naval Base. The technologically advanced, undercover yard will cut its teeth
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 11assist in identifying mines and act as a neutralization device. About the Author Bottom mines pose even greater chal- David R. Strachan is a defense analyst and founder of lenges. Unlike contact mines, bottom Strikepod Systems, a research and strategic advisory mines utilize a range of sensors to
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 8INSIGHTS SUBSEA DEFENSE Copyright RomanenkoAlexey/AdobeStock WHEN THE SHOOTING STOPS: BLACK SEA MINE CLEARANCE WILL FEATURE ADVANCED TECH, CONOPS By David Strachan, Senior Analyst, Strikepod Systems ince the beginning of the war in Ukraine, mine warfare mines have been the weapon of choice for both sides
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 6and Mechatronics at Villanova University and a Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering and Project Management from Cornell University. Strachan David R. Strachan is a defense analyst and founder of Strikepod Systems, a research and strategic advisory focusing on autonomous undersea Lundquist Wigen syste
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4members sent to speci? c events.. Celia Konowe We have media serving the global maritime, subsea, offshore energy, ports and logistics Edward Lundquist David Strachan markets, which in this context means that we attend a lot of exhibitions and conferences. Since we started attending ‘live’ again in 2022
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 2/ Rebekah Parsons-King 8 Subsea Defense Black Sea Mines When the shooting stops in the Ukraine, the tough work of clearing mines will commence. By David Strachan 12 Gliders Slocum Sentinel 22 Teledyne Marine debuts the Slocum Sentinel Glider. By Shea Quinn 22 Instrumentation Volcano Hunter 28
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 48Corporation, 280 Lincoln Street, SONAR TRANSDUCERS Texas 77087 , tel:(713) 644-1183, fax:(713) 644-1185, Hingham, MA 02043-1796 , tel:(781) 749-4800, [email protected] [email protected] Massa Products Corporation, 280 Lincoln Street, Hingham, MA 02043-1796 , tel:(781) 749-4800, INERTIAL SENSING
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 58, on-water technology thought leaders will discuss meeting future ocean technology demonstrations on the Royal Victoria Dock just outside the needs. Sir David King, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Uni- exhibition hall, conferences and social gatherings – all events versity of Cambridge, will speak at the
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 52.H. Sawa, A. A. O. Taya and L. Winston Zhang; The Department of Mechanical Engineering, National About the Author University of Singapore, Singapore Dr. David Sundin is Founder and 2. “Thermal Management of Lithium-Ion Battery Systems”, David Sundin, Ph.D. En- gineered Fluids, Inc.; © IEEE Open Journal
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 50TECH FEATURE BATTERY SAFETY BATTERY THERMAL MANAGEMENT IN SUBMARINE APPLICATIONS Dr. David Sundin, Chief Scientist, Engineered Fluids, Inc. evelopments in battery technology have yielded into the hull of the vessel, or heat can be transferred directly compact energy storage systems that output higher
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 30undersea vehicles (UUVs), with staff from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII). Photo By David Stoehr Specialist 2nd Class Gregory A. Pickett II 30 January/February 2024 MTR #1 (18-33).indd 30 1/31/2024 8:46:34 A
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 11than the surface or air domains, but they will continue to fall, and it is certainly About the Author possible that a determined actor could David R. Strachan is a defense analyst and founder of construct its own poor man’s submarine Strikepod Systems, a research and strategic advisory force. Even a
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 8INSIGHTS SUBSEA DEFENSE SILENT, MOBILE, DEADLY: THE RISE OF COMBAT AUVS Copyright Jesper/AdobeStock By David Strachan, Senior Analyst, Strikepod Systems rone warfare has come into its own. The war in targeted by warship point defense systems and helicopter gun- Ukraine, what many analysts are calling
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 6? cer. She is the president of the board of directors for the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS). Strachan David R. Strachan is a defense analyst and founder of Strikepod Systems, a research and strategic advisory focusing on autonomous undersea Lundquist Sundin syst
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4, essentially a small, uncrewed Celia Konowe Edward Lundquist military submarine that is designed to stay at sea for up to six months at time to complete David Strachan as many missions that can be loaded into its considerable payload bay. In fact, “The sky’s the limit in terms of payloads that can be brought
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 2XLUUV delivered by Boeing to U.S. Navy Image courtesy Boeing 8 AUVs 22 The Rise to Combat Silent, mobile and deadly, the subsea drone wars arrive. By David Strachan 14 Research Paving the Way NOC charts a path in science research management. By Dr. Eleanor Darlington 26 UUVs Force Multipliers
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 14well as the broader opera- Timing (PNT) attacks (e.g. GPS spoo? ng), which can result tional and strategic challenges they will present. About the Author David R. Strachan is a defense analyst and founder of Strikepod Systems, a research and strategic advisory focusing on autonomous undersea systems. 14
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 12CYBERSECURITY SUBSEA DEEP DATA: CYBERSECURITY IN THE SUBSEA DOMAIN By David Strachan, Defense Analyst and Founder of Strikepod Systems rogue nuclear program is sabotaged by a highly threat vectors that can be used by malicious actors to inject cy- advanced computer worm. Malware targeting an ber payloads
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 6issues. He is a well as ISOs and RTOs. regular contributor to Maritime Reporter Gullick and MTR. Strachan Huw Gullick is Associate Director at NOC David R. Strachan is a defense analyst Innovations. His role involves ? nding Paradise and founder of Strikepod Systems, a real life application for
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4technology and people, and it is Celia Konowe Edward Lundquist the latter that I found most interesting in our recent interview. Through our channels, we David Strachan talk relentlessly about the innovations, the technology that make this industry special. But behind technology are people, and today there