Month: October 2003

High speed shipbuilder Austal Ships is basking in the glow of one of Australia?s most sought after defence contracts, the Royal Australian Navy?s (RAN) contract to supply twelve 56 m aluminium patrol…

There are more rules and regulations governing passenger ships due to come into force during the next three years than ever before. "More importantly, some of these rules are risk-based rules, not…

The demands that deepwater operations place on deck-mounted cranes has forced manufacturers to offer a wider choice of cranes. Arne Riple, vice president of sales and marketing at TTS Marine told The…

The growth in containership orders and sizes of vessels appears to be relentless. There has been a flood of orders this year for new vessels, including vessels of over 8,000 TEU and…

Now that all the commotion has died down over tankers the focus is again on bulk carriers. The IMO and IACS are bringing in new regulations for implementation such as water ingress…

Queensland based ship design and consulting company, Sea Transport Solutions (STS) will design a ?virtually uncapsizeable? vessel for Tanzanian Shipping company, Speke Shipping. The ro-ro passenger quadruple-screwed catamaran will carry 800 passengers…

Ship operating manuals have been around for many years in one form or another and to varying degrees of usefulness to the people on board, whether as a collection of ?crib-notes? at…

A further step in the evolution of multipurpose, shallow draft work-vesselsDuring the last twenty years or so, the ?Multi-purpose work vessel? has enjoyed an evolution that now sees it positioned as an…