by Satzuma-Creative | Sep 18, 2019 | News
Remote diagnostic contract ABB has won a contract to supply ABB Ability Remote Diagnostic Systems for Marine to eleven Sovcomflot vessels operating in the Arctic and Russia’s Far East, helping optimise safety and performance through 24/7 remote support. Sovcomflot’s...
by Satzuma-Creative | Sep 11, 2019 | News
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...
by Satzuma-Creative | Sep 4, 2019 | News
BOKA Vanguard is the largest semi-submersible ship in the world, capable of carrying cargoes of up to 110,000t. Built to facilitate the transport of ever-larger floating oil rigs, it lifts through the flooding and emptying of movable buoyancy casings, which can be...
by Satzuma-Creative | Sep 4, 2019 | News
Since 2002, diamond mining operations in Namibia have taken place in larger volume offshore than onshore, as gemstones washed into the Atlantic Ocean over millions of years are dredged and processed. It’s an expanding market, generating over a hundred million carats...
by Satzuma-Creative | Sep 4, 2019 | News
Between July and October this year, ACO Marine, a division of the US$1 billion ACO Group, was awarded contracts to deliver Lipator grease separators for newbuild and retrofit installation to several vessels. Unusually, the contracts were placed via system integrators...
by Satzuma-Creative | Sep 4, 2019 | News
ABB has entered new market segment with order to install Azipod® electric propulsion on board two dry bulk carriers from Germany’s largest bulk carrier company Oldendorff Carriers Two self-unloading dry cargo transshipment units will be the first bulk carriers in the...