The Navy’s new carrier has successfully carried out its first refuelling in the water – in miniature. Two highly-accurate one-tonne scale models of HMS Queen Elizabeth and future tanker RFA Tidespring have been tested in Europe’s largest indoor water tank in Gosport to determine how the two ships can sail safely in company. Key to [...]
![Shipowners to Benefit from Energy Management Strategy Using ISO 50001]()
With the focus on rising fuel prices, Lloyd’s Register provides an effective energy management approach that will help owners identify suitable options and opportunities when choosing technologies, operational parameters and fuel types. Increasing energy prices, the patchwork of emissions regulation and question marks over untested technology, are all giving shipowners a headache when it [...]
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![Somali Pirates Continue Attacks Using Different Tactics]()
Somali pirates are switching back to using smaller cargo and fishing boats as motherships, hoping to evade detection as maritime security is stepped up to foil their attacks on merchant vessels, industry and navy sources say. With the prospect of ransoms worth tens of millions of dollars, Somali pirates continue to threaten vital shipping [...]
Marine safety concern, BCB International, has warned world leaders to consider the dangers of using armed guards on board vessels, which may have tragic and unintended consequences. The leaders are due to meet next month in Kenya at an anti-piracy conference. Some commentators believed that the use of armed personnel could spark a dangerous escalation [...]
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![Denmark: DMA and Partners Examine Possibilities of Using LNG as Fuel for Ships]()
In the recent year, the Danish Maritime Authority has cooperated with several partners in examining the possibility of using liquefied… Read more Source: DMA, October 24, 2011
![USA: STAR Center Expands its Services into DP Training Market Using Kongsberg K-Pos DP22 Systems]()
STAR Center, located in Dania Beach, Florida, is launching into the Dynamic Positioning (DP) Training market, expanding its comprehensive world-class simulation training services to the offshore, cable laying and cruise ship markets in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. In a contract signed with Kongsberg Maritime Simulation through its Mystic, CT, USA office, STAR [...]
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![U.S. Coast Guard Finishes 25,000th Search, Rescue Mission Using General Dynamics’ System]()
General Dynamics C4 Systems announces that the U.S. Coast Guard completed the 25,000th Rescue 21 search and rescue mission in Sector San Francisco, a major milestone for the system that has helped to save hundreds of lives since it was activated in 2005. Currently comprising 26 command centers, 179 towers and covering approximately 37,000 [...]
![Hallin Wins Lamnalco Diving System Order]()
Subsea diving system and ROV manufacturer Hallin has won a contract to design and build a surface mixed gas diving system. The order has been placed by the Middle East based Lamnalco Limited, who provides terminal support services worldwide. The mixed gas diving spread will comprise an A frame launch and recovery system, a containerised [...]
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