From the awards ceremony
Leading towage and salvage specialist Multraship and its innovation arm, Novatug, have won the prestigious Maritime KVNR Shipping Award 2018 for their ground-breaking Carrousel RAVE TUG (CRT) design.
The award was presented to Leendert Muller, managing director of Multraship, on 12 November in Amsterdam during the Maritime Awards Gala, an annual event organised by the Stichting Maritime Awards Gala foundation representing Netherlands Maritime Technology, The Royal...
Lesley Robinson
Winners of the prestigious DAME Design Award 2018 were announced today with British designed and manufactured products receiving over 40% of the accolades presented, including Overall Winner. At the leading global design competition for new marine equipment and accessories, creativity from UK companies beat off stiff competition with revolutionary design and ingenuity.
Overall, members of British Marine, the trade association for the UK leisure, superyacht and small commercial...
Arrival of the SCAMP Workboat Palencia II at the Gibraltar Berth after attending to a full cleaning of a 285m commercial vessel.
Gibraltar, 12 November 2018– HullWiper Ltd, in partnership with global provider of ship fuel conservation and underwater services SCAMP, is now offering an affordable, safe and eco-friendly hull cleaning solution for vessels transiting the Strait of Gibraltar.
The agreement marks the latest expansion under HullWiper’s global leasing programme, introduced in 2017, to...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/12/hullwiper-network-expands-into-gibraltar-with-scamp/
Last month a hydrex team removed a bow thruster from a 300-meter container ship. This was done during a stop in Italy. The unit needed to be overhauled and the operation had to be carried out within a very short window that would fit the tight schedule available to the vessel’s charterer.
Together with all the necessary equipment, hydrex team mobilized from the Antwerp fast response center to the vessel’s location. After they set up a monitoring station, the divers started the operation with a...
http://mfame.guru/underwater-bow-thruster-removal-adapted-to-the-vessels-schedule/
CARGOTEC CORPORATION, 30 OCTOBER, 2018 AT 2.30 PM EET
MacGregor and China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) on strategic cooperation. The LOI was signed on 29 October, 2018 at an executive level meeting in Beijing led by Lei Fanpei, the CSSC Chairman and Michel van Roozendaal, MacGregor President.
MacGregor sees that this cooperation will further strengthen its presence in Asia and specifically in China, the world’s biggest shipbuilding market. CSSC is...
Mark Ford
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has launched an updated suite of question sets in issue 11 of thee CMID and issue 4 of the eMISW vessel inspection report forms. It has also rewritten IMCA M 167 to serve as single reference point on the inspection process and correct use of...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/30/imca-launches-ecmid-11-and-emisw-4-question-sets/
At 1137 on 4 May 2017, the UK registered container ship CMA CGM Centaurus made heavy contact with the quay and two shore cranes while under pilotage during its arrival at Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. The accident resulted in the collapse of a shore crane and 10 injuries, including one serious injury, to shore personnel.
The accident occurred because the ship was unable to attain a sufficiently high rate of turn into a basin in preparation for berthing. The pilot was unaware of the...
http://mfame.guru/pilot-and-bridge-team-mis-communication-grounds-vessel/
The specially designed unique bow design of the trawler enhances efficiency. The 121 metres long factory trawler will also be capable of processing fish from other vessels.
Wärtsilä Corporation, 26 October 2018 at 12 noon EEST
The technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide the ship design for a state-of-the-art factory fishing trawler. The vessel will be unique in having the combined capabilities of twin trawling for many different fish species, having both conventional winching as...
Shin Funuta
Daikin Reefer has been central to the evolution of the refrigerated container market since the very beginning, becoming one of the first major manufacturers in 1968. As global populations and average salaries grow, and free trade agreements enable products to be transported between more countries than ever before, Daikin’s reefer technology ensures that consumers worldwide have access to quality, perishable produce that has travelled long distances.
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/25/daikin-reefer-50-years-of-innovation/
The largest order of refrigerated containers featuring Carrier Transicold’s XtendFRESH controlled-atmosphere technology is being fulfilled for MSC.
MSC Enhancing Perishable Commodity Shipping with Record Order of 5,000 Carrier Transicold XtendFRESH™ Systems