Five Maersk Line vessels are getting a ’nose job’: having their bulbous bows retrofitted to improve fuel consumption. For one of these, the operation involved moving the new ’nose’ from Asia to Europe – on a container vessel, of course. Saurabh Khanna works for Maersk Line Ship Management in Singapore as Senior Technical Project Manager. [...]
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LNG as a fuel is a promising, but new technology. To ensure that the safety, security and operational challenges of such a move is handled in a responsible manner, Washington State Ferries has partnered with DNV, a risk management company with extensive experience of LNG fuelled ships and the infrastructure they demand. DNV has taken [...]
As fuel costs and emissions’ levels come under more scrutiny, paper logbooks and noon reports are no longer the most effective means of monitoring and communicating fuel consumption and emissions data, according to NAPA, the leading software house for ship design and operations. Currently bunker fuel readings for most international vessels are taken as daily [...]
Macsea’s Fuel Vision announces that its system now works with KRAL rotary displacement flow meters for high-accuracy fuel monitoring. By combining Dexter Fuel Vision with the KRAL flowmeter, fuel data acquired aboard ships can be displayed in real-time throughout the vessel and also sent ashore to track fleet-wide energy conservation and emissions reduction efforts. Energy [...]
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The anchor tenant of Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad), Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) has received its first shipment of fuel delivered by sea at its dedicated berth at the adjacent Khalifa Port. The fuel, pumped through an EMAL pipeline to storage tanks, will be used as a back-up supply to ensure that the industrial Emirati [...]
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In advance of International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) ship energy efficiency management plan (SEEMP) legislation becoming mandatory from January 2013, Finnish shipping company Bore has announced the results of its trial of electronic SEEMP software, which has verified a 5.8% reduction in fuel consumption. The company’s 89-day sea trial of the NAPA for Operations SEEMP software, [...]
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![Svitzer to Remove Fuel Oil from Sunken Baltic Ace]()
The oil removal operation from the sunken Baltic Ace will be performed by marine salvage and response company Svitzer, based in the Netherlands. Baltic Ace, a car carrier built in 2007 which sank on December 5th in the North Sea after collision with containership Corvus J, was carrying about 466 tonnes of heavy fuel [...]
A survey conducted by NAPA Group, the leading software house for ship design and operations, into preparation levels for the upcoming IMO ship energy efficiency management plan (SEEMP) has revealed that a majority of respondents were unaware of scope of potential fuel savings the plan could trigger. The survey completed by over fifty ship owners, [...]
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The Council adopted today 1 a directive amending directive 1999/32/EC as regards the sulphur content of marine fuels (PE-CONS 31/12). Emissions from shipping due to the combustion of marine fuels with a high sulphur content contribute to air pollution in the form of sulphur dioxide and particulate matter, which harm human health and contribute [...]
Søren Christian Meyer, Global Sales Director, OW Bunker, considers the finer details of fuel management, and explains why collaboration is key to overcoming financial and regulatory hurdles There has been a lot of ‘big picture’ talk about the impact of the ratification of the 2015 and 2020 sulphur regulations. Quite rightly, various factions of the [...]
