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ClassNK in Joint Ship Design Project
ClassNK Starts Joint Research Project with Shipyards on Upgraded Design taking into consideration Ship's Performance in Actual Seas. ClassNK (Chairman and President: Noboru Ueda) has started full scale ship tests to develop a feedback scheme on the design for ships performances in actual seas in collaboration with IMABARI SHIPBUILDING CO.,LTD (President and Representative Director: Higaki Yukito) and SAYONAS SHIPBUILDING CO. (President and Representative Director: Ueda Takashi).
USCG Issues Policy Letter
Subj: ALTERNATE PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE SETTINGS ON VESSELS CARRYING LIQUEFIED GASES IN BULK IN INDEPENDENT TYPE B AND TYPE C TANKS. 1. PURPOSE. To provide policy for alternate pressure relief valve settings for ships carrying liquefied gases in bulk in independent type B and type C tanks. 2. ACTION. USCG Headquarters Units and Offices and Districts and Sector Commanders shall use the guidance in this policy letter to ensure compliance with U.S. statutory and regulatory requirements.
DOJ: Second Indictment for Somali Pirates
More Charges for Alleged Somali Pirates Indicted for Attack of the USS Ashland. A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia has returned a second superseding indictment, charging five men from Somalia with engaging in piracy and related offenses pertaining to the attack on the Navy ship, the USS Ashland. Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, made the announcement.
New World Record for Highest Freefall Lifeboat
Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has set a new freefall lifeboat record with its new generation FF1200 boat. The boat was successfully dropped from a freefall height of 60 metres. The world record drop was conducted as part of the certification tests of the boat. “The FF1200 managed this height in an excellent way,” says Geir Arne Veglo, CEO of Umoe Schat-Harding Equipment AS. “The FF1200…
Grandweld Delivers Two Tugboats to ADPC
Grandweld Shipyards has commemorated the delivery of the two new 55 Tons Bollard Pull Escort Tugboats in a special ceremony held at Khalifa Port on August 6, 2012. The new tugboats are specially designed to assist in marine and Harbour operation at Khalifa Port including escorting & towing, mooring/unmooring, and fire fighting operations. The vessels are also equipped with state of the art machinery including 4700 BHP medium speed engines…
Topaz Wins New Charters, Acquires Two AHTS
Topaz signs over $65 million of new charters and announces the acquisition of two AHTS. Renaissance subsidiary, Topaz Energy and Marine (“Topaz”), a UAE-based oil field services company…
China Aids its Shipowners with Leasing Plan
China initiates a trial program in Shanghai designed to help the nation’s beleaguered shipowners. Under the new policy by the Ministry of Transport, ships leased…
Brazil's New Ocean Patrol Boat Heads for Home
First of three BAE Systems built patrol boats for the Brazilian Navy, departs the UK for Rio de Janeiro. Amazonas has completed a rigorous sea-training program under the eye of the Flag Officer Sea Training with the Royal Navy off the South coast of England, and is homeward bound. Supported by a team from BAE Systems, the crew’s extensive training programme included navigation and duty watch training…
Shipbuilding Apprentices Move Up, Start Work at Ingalls
Nearly 300 new Ingalls Shipbuilding employees receive a right royal welcome into the workforce. The new employees were welcomed by Governor Phil Bryant, Ingalls…
Indian Port Set to Develop Mega-container Terminal
Container ship traffic: Chennai Port in SE India is going all out to regain top position. Work on the Chennai Port Mega Terminal Project is expected to start shortly…
GE to Acquire Norwegian Subsea Monitoring Provider
GE to acquire Naxys, supplier of leak detection & condition monitoring sensors for subsea applications. Naxys, is a Norway-based provider of subsea leak detection…
China Begins Work on its SATNAV Test Network
China to build a test & certification network for its Beidou satellite navigation system over the next three years. An authoritative testing and certification system…
Cableship Blaze off Skeleton Coast Forces Abandon Ship
France Telecom-Orange announce abandonment of its cable ship 'Chamarel' off the coast of Namibia. A fire broke out on the cableship Chamarel while returning from a repair operation on the Sat3-Safe cable off the coast of Namibia in the Atlantic Ocean. Despite the crew's efforts to control the fire, the decision was made to abandon the ship and all 56 crew members were safely recovered by a Namibian fishing vessel without injury or incident.
Hurricane Season Stakes Raised by NOAA
NOAA raises hurricane season prediction despite expected El Niño, updated outlook calls for near- or above-normal Atlantic season. This year’s Atlantic hurricane season got off to a busy start, with 6 named storms to date, and may have a busy second half, according to the updated hurricane season outlook issued by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service. The updated outlook still indicates a 50 percent chance of a near-normal season…
China Shipyard Christening for Two RoRo's
Two Pure Car/Truck Carriers (PCTC) for GCC named at the Nantong Mingde Shipyard. At the christening ceremony of the two vessels at the Nantong Mingde Heavy Industry shipyard, godmothers , Ms. Agnes Blystad from Norway and Mrs Shishido a director of MOL, Japan named the RoRo's Viking Ocean and Viking Sea respectively. Mr Ji Fenghua, the Board chairman of Mingde , Mr Shinobu Shishido ,the Board chairman of Japanese MOL…
AHTS Contract for Solstad Offshore
Solstad Offshore ASA (SOFF) contracted by a large oil company for its 5500 bhp AHTS 'Nor Tigerfish'. The duration of the contract is for one year firm, and with two by three months options. The new contract will commence during August 2012. Total value for the firm contract is approximatly US$ 9,5-million.
What's Inside that Container?
US Dept of Homeland Security develop a 'Container Security Test Bed' to facilitate research on container surveillance. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and its Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL) in Atlantic City, NJ, have developed a way to test technical solutions to the need to find out quickly what's in a container. The Container Security Test Bed (CSTB) – an outdoor “laboratory” allows researchers and developers from government…
US Warship Collides with Tanker
Navy destroyer 'USS Porter' and a Japanese-owned tanker collide near the Strait of Hormuz. The impact tore open the destroyer’s starboard side but left both crews unharmed, 5th Fleet said in a news release. The circumstances of the collision — whether the collision was in the channel, the relative speeds at impact, or which ship had right of way — remain unclear. Porter had just completed an inbound transit through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf, said 5th Fleet spokesman Lt.
Alabama Shipyard to Build GulfMark PSV's
BAE Systems' Alabama Shipyard contracted to build Platform Supply Vessels for GulfMark Americas. GulfMark Americas, Inc. has selected BAE Systems’ shipyard in Mobile…
LNG Exports from US Will Grow Says Analyst
LNG Exports: 'Not Huge, Not Soon,' but with geopolitical impact forecasts market analyst. Ken Medlock, a Baker Institute energy fellow at Rice University in Houston…
