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Weld America announces leadership transition
Weld America, a subsidiary of Colonna’s Shipyard, Inc., (CSI) announces the appointment of Jeff Bristow as Executive Director and Vice President, effective immediately.
Antifouling System wins ATEX Approval
Sonihull, the world’s leading ultrasonic anti-fouling system, has just been certified in compliance with 94/9/EC ATEX Approval, the regulation applied to all equipment intended for use in explosive atmospheres. With this approval, Sonihull becomes the first ultrasonic...
Ports revoke open-loop scrubber bans
The Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 (CSA 2020) has received written approvals and no-objection letters from several Port Authorities around the world indicating they have no intention of banning the use of open-loop scrubbers in their waters. Following successful...
Metal Rebuilding Window Profiles on a $58 Million Catamaran Yacht
A design change in the choice of window glass during the recent building of a luxury yacht (designed by a top sports car manufacturer) has been solved by Belzona. The window profiles, which with had already been built, were not compatible with the glass thickness....
Ten years of the Becker Mewis Duct
Since its introduction in 2008, the Becker Mewis Duct has been successfully improving efficiency and reducing emissions for ships. Here's a look at its impact over the past decade. What is the Becker Mewis Duct? Within ten years, the Becker Mewis Duct® has become a...
Chevron Marine Lubricants Publishes New 2020 Global Sulphur Cap White Paper
Chevron Marine Lubricants has released the second in a series of new white papers focusing on innovations and developments impacting the fast-changing shipping industry. This latest white paper, entitled ‘The 2020 Global Sulphur Cap and the role of cylinder oil...
Thai Aluminum: Shape and Weld
By Alan Haig-Brown When Khun Namchai Sakunchoknamchai was seven years old he like cars. So he built himself one out of wood. Decades later, he was building those big beautiful custom tour buses that are a feature of Thai roads. When he wanted a 30 million baht machine...
Odyssey III: Refurbish and Re-engine on the Potomac
By Alan Haig-Brown There are many fine and elegant places to dine in Washington DC, but few offer the comfort and opulence to match the M/V Odyssey III. Her sleek, low profile superstructure designed to pass under the Potomac River bridges contains enough space to...
Old-style yard: Thai Teak and Cummins Diesel
By Alan Haig-Brown From the early 17th to the mid 18th century the Dutch maintained a post on the Chao Phraya River near the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya. Today little remains of the old Dutch buildings but a fine new museum has been built on the site, Baan...
Extended engine life offered by new monitoring and control system
A new approach to extending the life cycle of engines has been developed by CMR Group, automation and control system specialists for marine and energy applications. E-Pulse is a new control system that can be installed on medium and high-speed engines operating in...
Afloat pipe repairs completed on cruise ship in Uruguay
Diver/technicians from Hydrex carried out a pipe repair on a 238-meter cruise ship during her stop in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. The vessel was suffering a leak as a result of corrosion damage to the pipe and a swift on-site solution was suggested by the company’s...
Revolutionary propeller technology reduces underwater noise
A revolutionary new technology capable of substantially reducing the underwater radiated noise (URN) generated by ships’ propeller cavitation has been developed by Strathclyde University and Oscar Propulsion, a UK-based innovation and technology transfer company. The...
The Imitation Game: false economy of counterfeit parts
Counterfeit parts and poor quality servicing have always been a major problem, and is of particular concern to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). These parts can not only have a significant detrimental effect on the running of equipment, but in some cases can...
Damen Marine Components to make its winch range available on the open market
Damen Marine Components has been producing winches on a commercial scale since 2010, however for many years prior to that date Damen Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam had been maintaining and building highly-regarded winches for its fishing vessel clientele. Eight years...
BIO-SEA technology optimised for reduced holding time in all waters
BIO-UV Group has completed successfully the testing of an enhanced BIO-SEA ballast water treatment system designed to reduce further the time in which treated water has to be held onboard prior to discharge overboard. Holding time is the minimum period between the...
Damen Verolme Rotterdam completes refit of drilling rig Stena Don
Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) has completed a major refit of the Stena Drilling-owned 5thgeneration, semi-submersible drilling rig Stena Don. The vessel arrived at DVR in October 2018 and departed for her new contract off the UK’s Shetland Islands in February 2019....