West India

  • The Bellinger Shipyards, a division of Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc., recently delivered the M/V Inagua Island to West India Shipping Company, Inc. of West Palm Beach, Fla.

    The heavy-lift, roll-on/roll-off, landing vessel is 267 feet by 60 feet by 16 feet, with a deadweight of 2,226 long tons. Propulsion power is supplied by three D 398 Caterpillar diesels of 850 shp each for a speed of 13 knots.

    The design by Rudolph F.

    Matzer and Associates, Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., features a bow visor and ramp, a stern ramp and bow thruster. Classed by Bureau Veritas, the vessel will join the West India Line fleet, which specializes in handling large, heavy equipment on a worldwide basis. The unique design and capabilities of these vessels have also been utilized in North Sea pipelaying operations.

    The Bellinger Yard, a subsidiary of the Fruehauf Corporation, is currently constructing another vessel for West India, which will be 320 feet by 70 feet by 20 feet.

    Projected for delivery in December, the vessel will be the largest ever built at the Bellinger facilities.

    The Bellinger Shipyards, 13911 Atlantic Boulevard, Jacksonville, Fla. 32225, also operates extensive repair facilities for all types of vessels up to 500 feet in length. Three floating drydocks are available, the largest of which provides a lifting capacity of 2,800 tons and a clear width of 57 feet. The yard is located eight miles from sea on the Intracoastal Waterway.

  • Sound. It is the largest vessel of its kind to ever be drydocked in Houma, La. This shoal draft vessel is one of a fleet of 15 which is owned by the West India Shipping Company, Inc., based in West Palm Beach, Fla. The ABS-classed vessel has a distinctive bow visor which opens to allow loading or unloading

  • in the ice trade, and was truly a pioneer of the tug-barge combination. The vessel was bought from Cornell Towing in 1912 and formed the West India Trading Co. as a joint venture. It was decided to employ the vessel to tow a massive barge loaded with molasses between Cuba and New Orleans,

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    Photo courtesy Global Ocean Design Figure 7 A 35Ah AGM lead-acid battery is tested using the West Mountain Radio CBA to show the effect of simply ? lling the battery voids with mineral oil as a compensating ? uid. The CBA is programmed to cut-off at a voltage of 10.50v. The top line (red) shows the

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    LANDER LAB #10 Photo courtesy West Mountain Radio Photo courtesy of Clarios/AutoBatteries.com Figure 6 The West Mountain Radio Computerized Battery Analyzer (CBA V) attaches to a Figure 5 laptop by a USB-B cable, and to a battery by Powerpole® Connectors. Exploded view of an AGM lead-acid battery.

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    will advance with succeeding charging cycles, presumably due to gas generation during recharge. A battery capacity test, described below with the West Mountain Radio CBA V, can be done to replicate this experiment yourself. (See Figure 7.) ? Gel cell Sealed Lead-Acid (SLA) batteries substitute a

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  • MR Apr-24#39 Tech Files
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    Tech 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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    MARKETS 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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    vehicles (ROV), a spacious issues”. Gulf Island then sued Hornbeck, claiming the two moonpool and accommodations for 102 personnel. Yankee Freedom IV Key West, Fla.-based Yankee Freedom has ordered a new gearboxes will be 300-passenger, high-speed catamaran from Gladding-Hearn ZF model 8000. Shipbuilding

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    believe in this type of training,” Gianelloni said. “To quote casualties be loss of life, loss of vessel or major environ- one of our instructors on the West Coast, Captain Christine mental incident,” Gianelloni said. “We aim to be a part of Klimkowski, ‘It gives us the ability to exercise our mariners

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    the main issues of fabrication, assembly, as well ning include Europe, which represents 60GW of potential;. as the issues with very deep waters on the West Coast of the Asia Paci? c and its 81GW of potential; and then North Amer- United States where we have one kilometer or more. [The ica, where we’re

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    team took ? eet,” said Campe. northern Europe, the Mediterranean, a marinized Volvo Penta engine and As word started to get out, Campe North Africa and West Africa. modi? ed it so that it would be compli- and his team were ? elding inquiries The general cargo vessel, designed ant with class and ? ag

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    ? ll broader ocean intelligence gathering gaps. “Technologists are not always connected to their users and engineers and are not always marketers,” said West. “I think the valuable part of Synchro is that we’re working on that product market ? t, so someone is not working in a silo and that prototype stays

  • MT Nov-23#26 . Henry Ruhl, Director, and Amy West, Program Manager of Synchro)
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    been fraught with hurdles and sinkholes. Synchro is a new co-designed testbed to synchronize and evolve tech solutions. Henry Ruhl, Director, and Amy West, Program Manager of Synchro discuss with the possibilities for technology developers. – By Greg Trauthwein s anyone in the subsea sector can attest

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    techniques are chosen, and the right ing. Machine learning in particular requires a large amount conclusions drawn. It’s very easy to get into a “Wild West” of “training” data or observations which we often don’t of people throwing around algorithms and data and coming have. The training step can be

  • MT Nov-23#4  Ruhl and 
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    our interview with Massa starting on page 30. The other story I found of particular interest was my interview with Henry Ruhl and Corporate Staff Amy West of Synchro. Synchro is a program designed to help take subsea technology Manager, Marketing Mark O’Malley from the workbench to commercialization

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    gas (GHG) emissions about 5% on a Japan-Aus- Makoto Yamaguchi, Chief Technical Of? cer Director tralia voyage and about 8% on a Japan-North America West General, Headquarters of Technology Innovation, MOL, Coast voyage, compared to a conventional vessel of the same 30 Maritime Reporter & Engineering

  • MN Nov-23#30  News, “We now serve the U.S. West 
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    currently operates a large tug and barge ? eet, de- ployed primarily in the U.S. Gulf and along the East Coast, told Marine News, “We now serve the U.S. West Coast and are consistently transiting the Panama Canal Kirby’s new plug-in hybrid electric inland towing vessel Green Diamond will be time chartered

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    participant in the long-term charters of a trio of Tier 4 tugs, which will be serv- U.S. maritime sector, discussing its efforts, has said that: ing the West Coast. The boats use a design from Vancouver, “Testing out alternative fuels, ? nding operational ef? cien- B.C.’s Robert Allan Ltd., and were built

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    to dress to the UN. disappear from the minds of the people and the govern- A driving force behind the ability to continue the re- ments of the East and West, there are certain steps that search beyond the opening forum is the development of can be taken now”. Small Module Reactors (SMR). On September

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    tug.” “One thing that I’m big on here, just from my experi- In addition to its primary business building tugs, DMI ence, and being in yards up and down the West Coast, is also has a repair division as well as a marine services arm developing the next generation of shipyard workers,” Man- Diversi ed Marine

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    , TX, Paducah, KY, and Seattle, WA) and per- complex systems. It’s exciting to sit down with customers, un- sonnel located in key U.S. maritime hubs on the West Coast, derstand their speci? c needs, and con? gure an optimal propul- Gulf Coast, East Coast, and Inland Waterways. sion system solution for their

  • MR Nov-23#61  supplied by the three dominant west-
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    installed in U.S. waters by 2035, lantic segment, we see states with clear ambitions to increase which are expected to be supplied by the three dominant west- the use of renewable energy, reduce the amount of imported ern OEMS: Siemens, GE and Vestas. hydrocarbons, setting offshore wind procurement targets

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    , Devon, UK President/CEO: Matthew Quartley # of Employees: 112 www.valeport.co.uk Valeport is a manufacturer of oceanographic and hydro- land’s South West coast, the new technique is a collaboration graphic instruments. Based in the UK, the privately owned, of Valeport and HydroSurv, working with the