Lloyd’s Register (LR) has issued a gas technology report, addressing some of the challenges found in safe bunkering and port operations as well as in ship design, the classification society said. ”It has been a big year so far for gas in shipping,” commented Luis Benito, LR’s global marine marketing manager. “We are seeing robust [...]
Peter Filcek, Senior Principal Surveyor in the Lloyds Register, Technical Investigation Department, gave his award winning lecture on diesel engine failures to the branch at the National Grid Offices in Warwick. This was the last lecture of the 2012/13 lecture season and it was well attended, including by a number of members of the neighboring [...]
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Last month saw the naming ceremony for the 82,000 DWT Kamsarmax bulk carrier Nissaki, owned by St Michael Shipping of Greece. This vessel marked a significant milestone in the development of the shipbuilding capability of Vietnam, and is the biggest ship built to date in the country to Lloyd’s Register class. The vessel was built [...]
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On Friday in Copenhagen, Lloyd’s Register presented Clipper Fleet Management with ISO 50001 certification issued by LRQA, Lloyd’s Register’s provider of independent business assurance. “To us, the ISO 50001 certification is a valuable recognition and documentation that we’re doing the right things within fuel efficiency and energy management,” says Kristian Morch, Group CEO, Clipper Group. [...]
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With the heightened expectations of stakeholders in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon incident, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has listened to its drilling operator clients and designed a new generation of drillship. The new 80k class, heavy duty, wide beam drillship design, HD12000, can drill up to depths of 12,000 feet. It has greater versatility, [...]
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Lloyd’s Register has provided approval in principle (AIP) for the new ‘Clean Sky’ bulk carrier design incorporating an LNG-as-fuel system. COSCO, Golden Union and Lloyd’s Register started the project in June 2011 to investigate the potential to develop a commercially viable bulk carrier design based on an existing COSCO conventional design but employing gas powered [...]
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In view of the latest developments on the market concerning a dire need for increasing efficiency of ships, optimising energy consumption and cutting CO2 emissions to meet ever more stringent environmental requirements, we have contacted one of the leading market players, namely Lloyd’s Register to discuss some of these topics. Hereby, we are bringing you [...]
Lloyd’s Register is overseeing the world’s largest floating offshore facility which will operate in north-western Australia’s Browse Basin. The Prelude facility being built by the TSC at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, Korea will measure 488 meters from bow to stern and weighing around 600,000 tones when fully loaded. It will be moored [...]
Lloyd’s Register has released ‘LNG fuelled deep-sea shipping – Outlook for LNG bunker and fuelled newbuilding demand up to 2025’, a study it undertook to better understand the future demand for LNG as a fuel and to help refine and deliver its innovative portfolio of gas-technology services. In August, the organisation’s marine experts offered industry [...]
Principals of Rethymnis & Kulukundis Ltd., the UK-based shipbrokers and agents, have taken delivery of the first vessel built at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s (DSME) new shipyard at Yantai, Shandong, China. The 58,518 dwt Astra Centaurus, built to Lloyd’s Register class, is the first of two DSME-designed supramax bulk carriers constructed by DSME Shandong [...]
