Gungen News

Marlink said it has been selected by Turkish tanker operator Güngen Denizcilik ve Ticaret A/Ş (Gungen Maritime & Trading) to provide Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress service on four of its six vessels. The agreement was concluded through Marlink’s local partner Ozsay Satellite which worked with the company to provide a high quality package of enterprise and crew welfare services.Gungen will use the high throughput Ka-band service together with Marlink’s voice service provided via XChange for Fleet Xpress.

The reduction in the new 2016 Worldscale flat rates  of Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC) has led to spot rates increasing as owners look for equivalent 2015 returns, says tanker market assessments from the Baltic Exchange. Thus we are now seeing rates for long east of around WS 107.5/110 on 270,000 tonnes with rates to the US Gulf hovering in the very low WS 60s. Brokers are saying rates remain under pressure here as charterers work quietly and for those who can take either new-buildings, ex-drydock or tonnage over 15 years old a discount is achievable. In West Africa, rates to China eased due to pressure on Middle East Gulf tonnage with WS 100 just concluded, representing a drop of 7.5/10 points from the start of the week.

Oceansaver achieved a milestone for the ballast water treatment industry with the commissioning of the first treatment system to include filters on a crude oil tanker in Korea. The 159.000 DWT Suezmax tanker, Ottoman Integrity, is being delivered from a Korean shipyard for Turkish owner Gungen Maritime & Trading, and the installed OceanSaver system is capable of treating ballast water at a rate of 2 x 2.500m3/h. OceanSaver’s Mark I technology has been installed, which includes filtration, cavitation, disinfection and nitrogen super saturation. The filter and cavitation units are installed in the vessel’s pump room with the disinfection unit and nitrogen system in the engine room and casing area, respectively.

SpecTec and Gungen Maritime and Trading A/S recently announced the signing of a contract for the migration of their AMOS BS system to the latest version of AMOS2 Enterprise Management. After a series of fruitful meetings, last June the two companies renewed their long term mutually beneficial collaboration through the agreement which will lead the Turkish Shipping Company to the acquisition of the latest product of the AMOS Suite for its offices in Ankara and Istanbul as well as onboard the Vessels of the fleet. The provision set into the contract will be then extended to the two newbuildings soon to be delivered. The contract will see the two parties involved in the activities for implementing the AMOS2 system for the management of maintenance operations…

OceanSaver announced signing a major contract with Hyundai Heavy Inudstries in Korea for the delivery of two ballast water management (BWM) systems for Gungen, a leading Turkish owner and operator of high-spec SUEZMAX crude-oil tankers. Valued at $4m, the Gungen BWM agreement follows OceanSaver’s six VLCC BWM system deal with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company just four weeks ago and now escalates OceanSaver’s total order book up to $32m. The Gungen contract covers the supply of two 2,500 m3/h BWM systems to be located inside the Zone 0 area of the tanker pump room. Zone 0 represents the strictest gas hazardous class as gas or vapor may be present.

Kongsberg Maritime has successfully completed a Site Acceptance Test  (SAT) for the delivery of an innovative Suezmax Cargo Handling  Simulator (CHS) interfaced to the Kongsberg K-Chief-500 marine  automation system, to the Turkish shi owner Gungen Maritme & Trading A/S. The Suezmax CHS is designed to integrate seamlessly with the K-Chief  500, which is identical to the automation system installed aboard Gungen's newest Suezmax tanker, Ottoman Equity; a 150 DWT Hyundai Suezmax. The unique interface between the two systems makes a complete training environment where the K-Chief system works as the cargo control room while the CHS represents the vessel system outside of the control room, fully controlled from an instructor station.

Kongsberg Maritime has successfully completed a Site Acceptance Test (SAT) for the delivery of an innovative Suezmax Cargo Handling Simulator (CHS) interfaced to the Kongsberg K-Chief-500 marine automation system, to the Turkish ship owner Gungen Maritme & Trading A/S. The Suezmax CHS is designed to integrate seamlessly with the K-Chief 500, which is identical to the automation system installed aboard Gungen's newest Suezmax tanker, 'Ottoman Equity'; a 150 DWT Hyundai Suezmax. The unique interface between the two systems makes a complete training environment where the K-Chief system works as the cargo control room while the CHS represents the vessel system outside of the control room, fully controlled from an instructor station.

U.K.-based software house Marine Software Ltd has successfully delivered its DNV type approved Marine Planned Maintenance system on QinetiQ’s Trimaran demonstrator vessel R.V. Triton . concept triple-hull design. QinetiQ, formerly known as the Defense Evaluation and Research Agency ( DERA ), took delivery of the R.V. construction by Vosper Thorncroft at Southampton and is now being operated by QinetiQ as a commercial research vessel available for charter. maintained. team, using our Office Planned Maintenance for Windows. base. Ankara - Turkey.