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Tropical ships adopting seawater lubricated shafts

Tropical ships adopting seawater lubricated shafts

by Satzuma-Creative | Jun 1, 2017 | Archive

Thordon Bearings’ Jacksonville-based distributor Coppedge Marine has secured an order with Tropical Shipping for the award-winning COMPAC seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearing system. The COMPAC systems destined for two 300TEU environmentally-compliant box ships...
Hydrex repair prevents unscheduled drydock in Rotterdam

Hydrex repair prevents unscheduled drydock in Rotterdam

by Satzuma-Creative | Jun 1, 2017 | Archive

When the classification society told the owner of a 144m tanker that cracks in the welding seams of both rudder cover plates required immediate repair to prevent the pintle nut from corroding, an unscheduled visit to drydock seemed the only option. Hydrex Underwater...
New Modular Approach for retrofitting scrubbers from Damen

New Modular Approach for retrofitting scrubbers from Damen

by Satzuma-Creative | Jun 1, 2017 | Archive

Damen Green Solutions (DGS) in partnership with Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC) and AEC, the scrubber supplier, is trialling a new technique for retrofitting scrubbers. Designated the Modular Approach, this new process is designed to cut the time that a...
ACO Marine supplies 100th Clarimar waste water system

ACO Marine supplies 100th Clarimar waste water system

by Satzuma-Creative | Jun 1, 2017 | Archive

ACO Marine has supplied its 100th Clarimar MF wastewater treatment system in a development that confirms market acceptance of a new technology introduced little more than two years’ ago. ACO Chile will supply the 100th unit, a Clarimar MF-3, for retrofit installation...
Cammell Laird reaches nine-month milestone on RRS Sir David Attenborough build

Cammell Laird reaches nine-month milestone on RRS Sir David Attenborough build

by Satzuma-Creative | Jun 1, 2017 | News

Cammell Laird shipyard announced today, MAY 30, at the Nor Shipping Trade Fair in Oslo that it has reached the nine-month milestone in its project to build the UK’s new polar research ship the RRS Sir David Attenborough. The Merseyside-based engineering services giant...
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Carbon fisher gets seawater bearings

Sep 11, 2019

Thordon Bearings has successfully completed the commissioning of a set of water-lubricated SXL propeller shaft bearings to what is widely considered the world’s largest all-carbon sports fisher. Four SXL bearings were retrofitted to the 39.5m (129ft) maxi sportfish...

New anti-fouling comes with fuel-saving guarantees

Sep 5, 2019

A new fouling defence system released by Hempel claims to bring 14% fuel savings over traditional anti-fouling, and comes with an impressive performance guarantee including fouling protection for up to 120 days of idle time. At a press launch for the system in London,...

Corvettes of Ecuadorian Navy upgraded with Roxtec multi-cable transits

Sep 4, 2019

Shipyard ASTINAVE specified Roxtec cable transits instead of cable glands when modernizing the corvettes Manabí and Loja for the Ecuadorian Navy. The change to Roxtec cable transits solved three issues: Roxtec seals allow more cables in each opening than cable glands...

Underwater reinstallation avoids delay for container vessel

Sep 4, 2019

A month after Hydrex divers removed the bow thruster of a 300-meter container ship they once again mobilized to Italy. They reinstalled the overhauled unit underwater with the use of the company’s flexible mobdock technique. The available time window for the removal...

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