ULSTEIN is currently customizing their innovative Chain type Stinger Handling system concept for three different companies on three different continents. The compact system improves both the vessel design and pipe-lay operations, and as acknowledgment on April 16th 2013, the equipment has won the bi-annual IRO Innovation Prize. The participants casted their votes for the 4 [...]
Gangavaram Port, the deepest and the most modern port in the country today achieved yet another historic milestone by handling the 100th Cape-size vessel at the port. The cape-size vessel “MV Collonges” carrying 1,40,609 MT Coking Coal was berthed at the port on account of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL). Cape-size vessels are the largest [...]
Cargotec has secured a new contract from an international owner for a comprehensive MacGregor module handling equipment package. The equipment is destined for an offshore vessel and is scheduled for delivery next year. It will be designed, manufactured and tested in Kristiansand, Norway, in accordance with Det Norske Veritas (DNV) rules and regulations. The system [...]
The hive of industrial development in Samalaju is creating opportunities for players to cater to increasing demand for cargo handling in the immediate to long term for both the Samalaju and Bintulu ports, consequently benefitting Bintulu Port Holdings Bhd. The two ports are expected to see increases in cargo demand of 13 million to [...]
SMIT announced the addition of a further two large vessels to its anchor handling tug fleet. Union Sovereign and Union Princess are rated at 180 tonnes bollard pull. The vessels are managed from SMIT’s Antwerp office and are manned by well trained, highly experienced crews with excellent SHE-Q records. These powerful anchorhandling/tugs are ideal for: [...]
TTS Group ASA, through its subsidiary TTS Handling Systems AS, has signed two contracts of ship handling systems with a total value of approximately NOK 50 million – one with Samho Ltd. in South Korea and the other with Pella Shipyard in Russia. The contract with Samho Ltd. is for two shiplifts. The shiplifts will [...]
The highly automated HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) introduces combined loading and discharging to ship dispatching. By the end of the year, the CTA will have implemented the innovative handling procedure Dual Cycle – as the first terminal worldwide, also in terms of transport between container gantry crane and block storage. No way for nothing [...]
GE has developed a new head block coupling system that enables double hoist ship-to-shore (STS) container cranes to handle different container weights rapidly and easily. Up to four containers with completely different nominal loads now can be handled simultaneously. In addition, the automatic coupling or decoupling of the freely suspended spreaders will be possible at [...]
Kongsberg Evotec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has been contracted to supply a complete Back Deck handling system for ‘Sanco Sword’, Sanco Shipping’s second 16 streamer vessel under construction at the Kleven Maritime Myklebust Shipyard. The vessel will be operated by Dolphin Geophysical of Bergen, and is the second in the ST324 series [...]
Certificates awarded to KONGSBERG liquid cargo handling training simulators. Kongsberg Maritime’s Neptune Cargo Handling Simulator has been approved to the latest Det Norske Veritas (DNV) standards. The Class A approval, received early March 2012, covers the ship models available within the system and joins recent DNV certification for Kongsberg Maritime’s Engine Room and Navigation Simulators. [...]
