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First Freefall Drop

Leading lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has completed the first freefall drop with its new design of lifeboat for the offshore sector, the FF1200 which, according to the manufacturer, sets new standards for freefall boats. Schat-Harding CEO Ove Roessland: ”We were acutely aware that, in order to satisfy regulations applying to the Norwegian offshore...

Wave Piercing Offshore Design

Wave piercing technology is a well-proven concept for high-speed catamarans and trimarans. Now, Rolls-Royce is bringing the benefits of this to the offshore market, with the new UT 790 CD vessel design. Rolls-Royce Chief Design Manager – Offshore Svein Kleven said: “With the UT 790 CD, we can support offshore exploration and production further...

Wärtsilä Combines Ship Design Units

Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, is to combine all its ship design units into a single entity, to be known as Wärtsilä Ship Design. The units involved in this re-organization include the naval architect companies Vik-Sandvik of Norway, Conan Wu & Associates (CWA) of Singapore, and SCHIFFKO of Germany, as...

Major Grundfos Pump Order

Grundfos A/S has received an order from Zhejiang Yangfan Shipyard in China to deliver 126 pumps for six 9,500 dwt multi-purpose cargo vessels for Clipper in Denmark to be delivered in 2009 and 2010. This USD 675.000 Grundfos order is the first ever placed by a shipyard, signifying a major step forward into the...

Radio Holland Opens Oakland Office

Radio Holland Group has officially opened a new service and sales office in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. This will be the 62nd office in the Radio Holland Global Network and the 12th office in the USA. Radio Holland Oakland will provide sales and service of marine electronics in the entire Bay Area...

Hatlapa’s Strongest Winch

The UOS Atlantis was the first vessel out of a series of twelve Anchor Handling Vessel – built by Fincantieri for Hartmann Offshore – to be fitted out with Hatlapa‘s anchor handling and associated winches. It has been operating off the coast of Egypt for BP since March. The remaining ships will all be...

Simulation-Driven Design

Friendship Systems has released an upgrade of its simulation-driven design software Friendship-Framework. Release 2.0 provides enhanced functionality and further operational refinement for convenient, time-saving and better engineering of energy-efficient ship hulls, propellers, turbines, pumps and other units. Improvements have been made in tool integration, feature modeling and visualization technology. Coupling external programs and in-house...

Marine Scotland

Aberdeen Harbour played host to fishery protection vessel the FPV Hirta this week to support the launch of Marine Scotland. The vessel, which entered service in 2008, docked in Aberdeen for two days, where scientists and researchers from Aberdeen’s Marine Lab had the opportunity to view the on-board facilities, marking the consolidation of Fisheries...

New IJmuiden Premises Wärtsilä

With a move of some 100 m down the road, Wärtsilä Netherlands BV last Friday officially opened its new 3,000m2 modern premises in IJmuiden, the Netherlands. “Compared to the previous premises of 560 m2, we have made a huge improvement in space. This means that from this service location, we can offer so much...

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