Vessels News – Page 96
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NewsNew tractor tug arrivals strengthen Svitzer’s fleet
In another significant item of news in this edition concerning innovative tugs, Svitzer has announced the addition of two new tractors for its European fleet.
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NewsValdez tug fleet prepares for action
Edison Chouest Offshore is readying a fleet of tugs and oil response vessels as it prepares to take over towage and associated support duties at Valdez Marine Terminal.
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NewsDamen’s new reverse stern drive tug on tour in Italy
Damen has started an introduction tour of European ports including Italy showcasing its ‘revolutionary’ new RSD Tug 2513 Innovation.
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NewsA new approach to icebreaking Finnish style
Family-owned Finnish tug owner Alfons Håkans is taking the use of tugs for icebreaking to a new level using a separate powered ice bow.
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NewsFuel usage monitoring system uses oval gear meters
Recently Bell Flow Systems was tasked to supply a fuel consumption system on an ex Danish Navy patrol boat. Innovative marine engineers, NAVA. are currently re purposing The ‘Spirit of Samsø’ into a luxury yacht. They required a monitoring system installing, in order to measure the fuel consumption of ...
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NewsVeth Integrated L drive first sea trial
The first Integrated L-drive has been delivered to Damen Shipyards’ ‘Volt Processor’ fish farm service vessel and early sea trials have been hailed a success.
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Australian-French research collaboration on marine propeller technologies
Researchers from Flinders Centre for Nanoscale, Science and Technology and Centre for Maritime Engineering, Control and Imaging will be joining Centrale Nantes’ world leading researchers on projects focused on Additive Manufacturing, and Naval hydrodynamics and simulator development.
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NewsMoteurs Baudouin - a century powering commercial marine
French marine engine manufacturer, Moteurs Baudouin, is renowned for its range of robust, durable and efficient engines and will be represented at this year’s Seawork International by UK and Ireland Distributor Proteum.
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Feeling the wind of four million outboards
On 11th January 2018 Tohatsu Marine Corporation, Tohatsu Corporation’s manufacturing plant in Japan, reached the cumulative production figure of 4 million outboard engines since manufacturing started in 1956.
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News23m CTV is first reference for Namjet’s latest shallow water jets
Built by Neptune Shipyards in Aalst, and launched recently at Maasluis, The Netherlands the 23m ‘SC Sapphire’ is the first CTV to be equipped with NAMJet’s TJ611HH high thrust waterjets.
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BMW diesel engine could power new diesel outboard
Semcon has been working in cooperation with Cimco Marine to complete a successful pilot study looking at converting BMW’s popular twin turbo, three-litre diesel engine for marine use. This will make it the world’s first three-litre diesel outboard engine with an output in excess of 200 horsepower.
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NewsDelivery and order round-up (May 2018
Eight tug deliveries and one order are reported this month including news of four and fifteen vessel series orders for operation in the Caspian Sea and Indonesia.
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NewsTraining tug masters in the modern era
With increasingly sophisticated and higher-powered tugs operating in safety conscious environments training is moving on from the traditional approach of simply learning from the previous generation.
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NewsSanmar stocks up on Rolls-Royce thrusters
In what is described as a ‘novel supply agreement’ Sanmar Shipyards has agreed a multiple order for thrusters and winches with Rolls-Royce.
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NewsMeercat announces its biggest workboat yet
Southampton UK-based Meercat Workboats has revealed the latest addition to its portfolio, an 18m multipurpose workboat becoming the largest such in its range.
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NewsUS maintenance contract success for Wärtsilä
Helsinki-based technology group Wärtsilä continues to grow its global footprint following extension of a tug maintenance contract in the US.
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NewsBukh acquires Marinediesel AB VGT engine series
Denmark-headquartered small diesel specialist manufacturer Bukh A/S has announced the acquisition of Sweden-based Marinediesel AB´s production of VGT series marine engines, taking over the production and development of the powerful GM based V8 Diesel.
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NewsNew waterjets large and small from Castoldi
Italian company Castoldi has been in the waterjet business for close to 40 years and to celebrate the company has added two new jets to its range, writes Dag Pike.
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NewsInvestment means drive train testing up to 15MW for The Switch
Yaskawa Corporation is making a multimillion-euro investment to strengthen the R&D capabilities of The Switch and purchase new equipment at the company’s factory in Lappeenranta, Finland. The investment will enable drive train testing of up to 15 MW.
