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The latest issue of DryDock ship repair magazine
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What’s lurking below?
Vessel owners, operators and charterers reacting to a sharp reduction in demand due to COVID-19 are soon to face an additional operational challenge in the form of accelerated hull fouling as more and more vessels lie idle at anchor or provide floating storage for...
How the pandemic has changed Rolls-Royce
The Corona pandemic has turned the world upside down. Business trips have become the absolute exception, while working from home and digital meetings are suddenly the rule. At Rolls-Royce too, a lot is being done differently, with the help of creative input, digital...
First global standard for ship hull cleaning essential for marine ecosystems
BIMCO, the world’s largest shipping association, has moved a step closer to finishing a global set of guidelines needed to protect the marine environment from invasive species and reduce CO2 emissions. Currently, there is no common global standard for cleaning ships’...
Strict COVID-19 measures enables work to continue at A&P
A&P Group has deployed a strict programme of Covid-19 measures to ensure it can maintain its support to the maritime community as it emerges from the pandemic. Over the last eight weeks, A&P has deployed a number of stringent measures at all three of its UK...
Business as usual at Multimarine
“Multimarine Shipyards has been fully operational during the COVID-19 lockdown,” says Pavlos Phokas, Commercial Director at the yard. . During the period between March-April-May, Multimarine completed three important drydocking projects (Bourbon Diamond, Nor Naomi,...
Force Majeure resolution during the Coronavirus pandemic
Over the last weeks, many companies may have issued or received force majeure notices suspending performance where permitted by force majeure clauses in the relevant contracts based on the COVID-19 outbreak. As the crisis continues with deepening business disruption,...
Namdock has resumed full operations
“Namdock has resumed full operations with effect from Tuesday 5 May 2020, in accordance with the inception of stage 2 of the lockdown, which has seen the partial easing of restrictive measures thanks to the recent flattening of the infection curve,” explains Heritha...
Restart your business with BV – a service for passenger ships
Bureau Veritas (BV), a world leader in testing, inspection and certification (TIC) services has developed a new service and a new label – ‘Safeguard’ - to help businesses world-wide resume operations with appropriate health and safety standards. ‘Restart Your Business...
Share your company’s experiences of what you are doing to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic
What is your company doing to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic? Share with SeaFirst your company's experiences of how you maybe looking to new markets, or offering new products or services, to aid your company's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Have an opinion...
Simultaneous repairs in South and Central America
During one week in early April, Metalock Brasil carried out simultaneous repairs on three vessels in three different countries in South and Central America. On an oil tanker, moored in Cristóbal, Panama, a Metalock cold stitching technician inspected an auxiliary...
SMM 2021: A new impetus for maritime transformation
Every two years SMM brings together industry stakeholders from around the world. Because of the Coronavirus crisis, the leading international maritime trade fair has been postponed until 2-5 February 2021. Not surprisingly, the effects of the pandemic were the main...
New exhaust gas cleaning systems (marine scrubbers) partnership
Damen Shiprepair Harbour & Voyage (DSHV) has signed a joint partnership cooperation with Verolme Special Equipment for the provision of services to exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS), widely known as Marine Scrubbers. The agreement arose from a mutual...
Evac Evolution ballast water management system chosen for Irish Lights vessel
The Evac Evolution ballast water treatment system (BWMS) will be installed on the ILV Granuaile, an aids to navigation vessel operated by the Commissioners of Irish Lights. The vessel’s primary function is to place and service 150 offshore buoys, which warn mariners...
Oresund DryDocks in Sweden continues working through the COVID-19 pandemic
Oresund DryDocks in Sweden has continued to work through the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have been working with business as usual since the outbreak in February,” states Magnus Malmström, CCO of Oresund Drydocks AB. “We are working at full capacity, according to the size...
An integrated steam solution for supporting sulphur-compliant fuel use
Seaspan Ship Management has selected Alfa Laval to help resolve steam balance and redundancy issues connected to sulphur-compliant fuels. The comprehensive solution – an integrated steam boiler plant comprising oil-fired steam production, waste heat recovery, advanced...