Month: October 2004

Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has introduced its Shipboard Routing Assistance System (SRA) to help ship officers react promptly to heavy weather and, when necessary, sail round it.With SRA, the seaway data measured onboard…

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has won an order to build eight LNG carriers for BP Shipping of the United Kingdom. The gas carriers will be in the 155,000 cubic meter class and…

A&P Tyne has announced record sales in the first half of 2004 with turnover in excess of £30m, an increase of 50% on the first half of the previous year (2003). This…

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…

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…

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…

Proper operation of marine propulsion machinery requires the shafting to be correctly aligned in all ship operating conditions. Modern propulsion technology has raised the demands made on analysis of the ship?s shaft…

In recent years there have been a growing number of reports emerging from all sections of the maritime community about damage or accidents caused by the inadvertent use of imitation ship machinery…

The first of six innovative river cruise vessels is currently under construction at Neptun Stahlbau GmbH in Rostock-Warnemuende, a subsidiary of Meyer Werft Papenburg, and scheduled for delivery end of May 2005.…