Manual Tools News

Effective shoreline clean-up efforts are on-going, Saturday, along Mustang, South Matagorda and North Padre islands in response to the Texas City oil spill. As of sunset Friday, response workers have removed a total of 200,775 pounds of oiled sand and oiled debris from the shorelines of Mustang, North Padre and South Matagorda islands. These figures include 102,700 pounds of oiled material from Mustang Island, 93,550 pounds from South Matagorda and 4,525 pounds from shoreline around Bob Hall pier.

Online crew management software provider CrewInspector.com signed an agreement to supply Russian crew manning agency Seawhale Co Ltd with its proprietary crew management system. The contract includes full replacement of manual tools for crew management previously used by Seawhale Co with online platform developed by CrewInspector Ltd, integration of crew managers and agents based in Arkhangelsk, Petrozavodsk, Saint-Petersburg and Vladivostok in Russia and Odessa in Ukraine. CrewInspector.com will also provide ongoing IT development and system maintenance to ensure highest standards of effective and secure crew management are met, followed by implementation of custom requirements anticipated by Seawhale Co Ltd.

Monitoring diesel engine performance by traditional, manual methods is time-consuming and inherently imprecise. The limitations of those methods make it difficult to identify and pinpoint performance problems reliably. In addition, preventive maintenance routines adopted to compensate for lack of adequate data inevitably incur unnecessary costs-while the engine can still suffer from problems and imbalances that occur and remain undetected between scheduled overhauls. Ship owners and operators in fast-growing numbers are turning to automated combustion analysis to eliminate the costs of reliance on manual monitoring. In the span of a few minutes, an automated system can provide a complete, accurate picture of what is actually happening during the combustion process in each cylinder.