Month: October 2004

The Victoria-class submarine HMCS Chicoutimi, nee HMS Upholder, suffered two separate fires while cruising northwest of Ireland, on its maiden voyage as a Canadian boat after a formal handover last weekend. The…

Emergency Towing Systems (ETS) are not yet mandatory on ships other than tankers greater than 20.000 t dwt as proposed in the IMO DE 47 document, however, the Italian owner of container…

Norwegian specialist Kongsberg has introduced a new bearing temperature monitoring system for two-stroke engines. The development of BearingMaster follows the April 2004 launch of GB-100 Sentry, a new wireless monitoring system for…

Hundreds of sunken ships ranging from large freighters and tankers to small tugs and dhows are blocking access to Iraq's principal seaports and threatening the marine environment of the northern Gulf, shows…

Volvo Penta Brazil has received orders for auxiliary engines and complete genset systems from two shipyards in Rio de Janeiro which build and refit ships under contract to Companhia de Navega??o Norsul,…

To meet the future legislative emission limits with today?s medium and high-speed diesel engines, all engine manufacturers have to consider electronic controlled injection systems, which allow optimised combustion and engine control close…

On 12 September 2004, ESAB celebrated its centenary. "The world is now a vastly different place than the one Oscar Kjellberg, ESAB?s founder, knew at the start of the last century," says…

Two SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) vessels, designed by BMT Nigel Gee and Associates, a subsidiary of British Maritime Technology (BMT), and built in Holland at the Vlissingen yard of the…