At the recent Windforce 2013 exhibition in Bremerhaven (Germany) Windea Offshore Group signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) with Damen Shipyards Group for a new Fast Crew Supplier, a Twin Axe catamaran for the Offshore Wind industry. A typical feature of the FCS 2610 is the double Damen Sea Axe bow which creates a large [...]
Australian ferry builder Incat Tasmania’s world first high speed dual-fuel vehicle and passenger ferry is now officially fast with a lightship speed of 58.1 knots – (107.6 kilometres an hour) and a thrill for the designers of the 99 metre high speed vessel Francisco (Incat hull 069). This is certainly the fastest ship in the [...]
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Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) of Vancouver, Canada announced that long-time customer NAVIS, of Iceland, continues to upgrade their Autohydro Pro hydrostatics & stability software as demand rises for their exceptional naval architecture work. NAVIS has been in charge of the design of various kinds of newbuildings such as stern trawlers, purse seiners, pelagic trawlers, fish [...]
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The 50th Flex crewboat named ‘Kirrie’, built for the FEMCO Group for deployment off Russia’s Sakhalin Island, has been completed by the Penguin Shipyard. The vessel based on Penguin’s new Flex-38 hull form is a stretched, re-engineered and optimised version of the Flex-36, the industry-leading multi-role crewboat. In addition to an optimised hull form and [...]
The first half of June 2013 has been pretty eventful for Macduff Ship Design Ltd. Mark Rowse from Rowse Fishing, Cornwall ordered a design from Macduff for a 16.4m Vivier crabber. The order is based on an exact repeat of the successful “Emma Louise”, built by CToms in 2012 for Mark Rowse, the design features [...]
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After successful trials and delivery, M.V. Alice, Hull Nb. 415 went into service for Erik Thun A.B. on June 6th 2013. The maiden voyage for Alice went ballasted from Delfzijl to Antwerpen, where she loaded for Heroya, Norway. During her first loaded voyage the ‘energy saving mode’ of the propulsion plant was tested and fine-tuned. [...]
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Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by Arklow Shipping to upgrade 12 container vessels with VisionMaster FT Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) to enable paperless navigation. Northrop Grumman’s Sperry Marine business unit will install all of the systems by the end of 2014. The VisionMaster FT ECDIS will replace existing NaviECDIS that utilises [...]
Maersk Line’s newest vessel, the first of the Triple-E series, was named last Friday in a ceremony at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo, South Korea. Ane Mærsk Mc-Kinney Uggla, who is the chairman of the Moller Foundation, had the honour of naming the first vessel. The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller is [...]
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The final section of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of two new aircraft carriers being built for the UK Royal Navy, has left BAE Systems’ shipyard at Scotstoun today to embark on a 600 mile journey to Rosyth. The Aft Island, also known as Upper Block 14, is the air traffic control tower of the [...]
Compact, modular and performance-optimized – that’s how the new generation of SCHOTTEL Rudderpropellers (SRP) and Twin Propellers (STP) can briefly be characterized. The thruster housing, e.g. has been optimized using CFD techniques and model tests. SRP and STP are available with a variety of reduction ratios to suit all common input speeds regardless of whether [...]
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