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Lubmarine Debuts New Cylinder Lubricant

TOTAL Lubmarine has developed a new lubricant specially designed for use with low-sulphur fuels. The lubricant, TALUSIA LS 40, has successfully completed in-service tests and is now approved by MAN B&W and WARTSILA Sulzer designs. TALUSIA LS 40 is now available in the major European ports and will be available in selected ports worldwide in 2005. Low-sulphur fuel will be compulsory in certain waters from May 2005 following the ratification of MARPOL Annex VI. TALUSIA LS 40 is designed for engines operating continuously with low-sulphur fuel. Advantages include: * Minimal piston ring and liner wear * Maximum cleanliness * Longer periods between overhauls * Reduced engine maintenance costs * High design safety margins, allowing for safe feed rate optimisation Claude Ouvrier-Buffet, head of TOTAL Lubmarine's Technical Department, says, "TALUSIA LS 40 retains the same levels of detergency, anti-wear properties and thermal stability that operators have come to expect from our well-known TALUSIA HR 70, but has been designed especially for low-speed engines burning low-sulphur fuel. TALUSIA HR 70 has already proven in service that it is possible to reach low lube oil feed rates with perfect security, and the same possibility - and potential cost saving - is offered to our customers with the new TALUSIA LS 40." When a low-sulphur fuel is burnt there is less acid production, so the lube

Navy Signs NLOS-LS Integration Contract

Navy and Army officials held a contract signing ceremony at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. On August 28 to signify the cooperation between the services in the joint procurement of the Netfires Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS). The Navy is procuring the NLOS-LS for use on Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) surface warfare mission module. Netfires LLC of Grand Prairie, Texas, was awarded a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract August 25 for $54.8m (as part of an estimated $1

Unmanned Surface Vessel – Second by Textron Systems

Textron Systems successfully demonstrate its second Fleet-class Common Unmanned Surface Vessel (CUSV) Textron Systems Advanced Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, announce that its second Fleet-class Common Unmanned Surface Vessel (CUSV) completed a successful in-water demonstration in New Orleans following vessel modifications at the Textron Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS) shipyard.

A Japanese Space Mission for Rickmers

Space may be the final frontier but in this instance, the craft setting out on a momentous voyage was not the starship Enterprise but Rickmers New Orleans, one of nine identical ships maintaining Rickmers-Linie’s bi-weekly Round-the-World Pearl String service for heavylift and project cargo. On board was the Experiment Logistics Module - Pressurized Section (ELM-PS), which forms part of the Japanese Experiment Module Kibo (meaning ‘hope’)

This Day in Coast Guard History – August 6

1878- The last true sailing cutter built for the Revenue Service, Chase (Salmon P. Chase) was completed on 6 August 1878 at the shipyard of Thomas Brown of Philadephia.  Barque-rigged, Chase displaced 142 tons and served as a cadet "practice vessel" for nearly 30 years before being decommissioned and transferred to the U.S. Public Health Service. 1918-The first American lightship to be sunk by enemy action, Lightship No. 71, was lost on her Diamond Shoals station

MES Completes the World’s Largest Diesel Engine

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) has completed the world’s largest class diesel engine (MITSUI-MAN B&W 1198MC type: 69,920kW) at its Tamano Works and delivered the engine to Imabari Shipbuilding co., Ltd. in October 2001. The engine has been installed on a 6,000 TEU container carrier. The second 11K98MC type was also completed for the same shipbuilder in December 2001. MAN B&W Diesel A/S developed the K98MC type diesel engine series as a highly efficient main engine for

MMT Collects Sub-bottom Profiler Data

MMT (Sweden) completed a survey which includes collection of parametric sub-bottom profile (SBP) data with a Kongsberg TOPAS PS 40 system. The system was hullmounted on MMT´s survey vessel Triad. The survey covered an area of 6000 km2 in the Baltic Sea with an extensive amount of data. The SBP data was collected during a hydrographic survey for the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) where high resolution bathymetric data will be used to update sea charts

LCAC 25 Gets a Turnover

WASHINGTON, DC --The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Amphibious Warfare Program Executive Office announced that LCAC 25, the first of 73 Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) undergoing a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP), reached a major production milestone -- the hull turnover -- at Textron Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS) in New Orleans, La. on May 2, 2002. TM&LS, the current Navy prime contractor, hosted the hull turnover ceremony at its main LCAC production facility to mark the

LevelSeas Adds Key Clients

Internet ship-brokerage Levelseas said that seven of the world's biggest commodity traders and three key shipping players had signed up to its system, LSX, allowing them to fix transport deals directly from mid-September. At the click of a button, traders like BP, Cargill or BHP Billiton will for the first time be able to book their cargoes of oil or grain directly onto a ship, a process that was once the almost-exclusive domain of shipbrokers.

'Survival Craft Inspectorate' Signs Middle East Agreement

UK-based 'Survival Craft Inspectorate' signs deal to provide for Qatar's onshore & offshore energy sector LS equipment needs. Survival Craft Inspectorate has signed an agreement that will see it establish an operational presence in the Middle East for the first time. The UK-based business has established formal links with Qatar-based IRM Offshore Services in the latest extension of its network of international bases.