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New floating dock at BLRT
An official ceremony held on August 8 at Tallinn Shipyard, a ship repair facility operated by BLRT Grupp, marked the commissioning of a new floating dock
Bolideck® Glow puts ‘wow’ factor on deck
Bolidt, has launched a unique and ‘world-first’ glow-in-the-dark decking solution for the cruise industry whose luminosity by night harvests solar energy stored during the day. The decking and flooring specialist has released Bolideck® Glow to coincide with Seatrade...
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Expanded Alfa Laval test and training centre opens
A major expansion has been copmpleted at Alfa Laval's Test & Training Centre in Aalborg, Denmark for gas technology testing. The expansion, which extends the testing space to five times its original size, makes it the world’s most advanced test centre for...
Dredger bearing as good as new after ten years
After ten years and more than 100,000 operating hours dredging up silt, sand, rocks and stones in some of the toughest marine environments imaginable, the Thordon Composite bearing installed on the Al Mirfa’s dredge cutter head shaft has emerged unscathed. In drydock...
A&P GROUP appoint HSEQ Manager
Global ship repair, conversion and marine specialist A&P Group has appointed its first Group HSEQ Manager. Kevin Peart is promoted from his role as Quality Manager at A&P Group’s Falmouth facility and now assumes responsibility for Health, Safety, Environment and...
New ship-to-ship compensation system widens offshore load transfer windows
MacGregor has launched a new crane compensation system for offshore ship-to-ship load transfers, offering substantially larger operating windows as well as safer and faster load transfers. "This robustly-tested technology can offer considerable commercial advantages...
Damen reorganisation at three yards
Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC) has announced a reorganisation at three Dutch yards within its group. Staff members of Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam (DSR), Damen Shiprepair Van Brink (DSVB) and Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSVl) were informed that the overall number...
A BWT retrofit case study
Regent’s Seven Seas Voyager, launched in 2003, entered the shipyard in Marseille for a full system update in October 2016. While drydocked, the vessel was equipped with new, state-of-the-art wastewaster treatment systems from Evac. The Evac MBR (membrane bioreactor)...
First collaboration for Sydney City Marine and Damen
Sydney City Marine has completed its first maintenance docking of a Damen vessel since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Damen Shipyards Group last year. The works signify the successful cooperation between Damen Services in the Netherlands, the...
LISNAVE report positive performance for 2016
LISNAVE achieved good positive results although 2016 was a difficult year for the shiprepair activity - strongly affected by the crisis in the maritime transportation sector, which suffered a sharp reduction in freight rates as a consequence of the increase of the...
Guest Editorial: long-life servicing
by Rene Bertelson, Global Sales Manager, Wartsila Seals & Bearings Alignment & Other Services Today, the marine market is moving rapidly towards a long-life service model familiar from the car industry. Instead of going ‘quarterly’ to the workshop, the car industry...
Guest editorial: Smarter Lashing Decisions
By Matt Tremblay, ABS VP of Containerships The current shipping market is driving owners and operators to look for every opportunity to build in savings and find new operational efficiencies. Looking for ways to cut costs and improve performance is not a new concept...
On Site Alignment increase international capabilities
On Site Alignment (OSA) has formally opened its 3rd international operational office in Singapore. The office is in the Tuas area of Singapore, which is perfectly placed to access the extensive shipyards and road networks servicing the surrounding area. The new...
“Boaty McBoatface”: Cammell Laird chooses hard coating for Sir David Attenborough hull.
Subsea Industries’ Ecospeed hull protection system has been selected for RRS Sir David Attenborough, the polar research ship under construction at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, Liverpool, UK. The £150 million contract to build the vessel, which Cammell...
Odense Marine say online cable and pipe design four times faster
Odense Maritime Technology A/S in Denmark say that using Roxtec's online design tool for cable and pipe transits saved them up to 80% time. Chief Process Officer Niels Ammundsen at OMT explains how important the web-based application Roxtec Transit Designer is in...