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November 2, 2020, 3:50pm
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New Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina is getting ready for sea trials:
New Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina will shortly be ready for sea trials, with progress on the internal fit-out and systems testing of the ship almost complete, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
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She will then head to the Arctic for ice test.
(If they can find enough ice to test her)
ombugge
November 2, 2020, 4:18pm
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More mega container ships on order:
Hong Kong’s Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has entered into shipbuilding contracts with two yards belonging to parent, Cosco, for the construction of seven 23,000 teu mega containerships. Three of the vessels will be built at Nantong Cosco KHI...
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ombugge
November 8, 2020, 9:39pm
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ombugge
November 11, 2020, 10:11pm
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Cable layer Aurora Nexus had appeared out of the building hall:
ombugge
November 22, 2020, 1:53pm
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Shortsea tanker delivered to Thune TankersBV:
She will be on long term charter to Geos Group and mainly used in UK coastal trade, especially in ports with large tidal difference.
Here is what the Naabsa means:
ombugge
November 22, 2020, 2:05pm
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The new ARC4 Cargo/Pax vessel under construction at Nevsky Shipyard is out on sea trials:
ombugge
November 23, 2020, 4:46pm
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VARD has signed a contract to design and build 8 marine robotic vessels for Ocean Infinity:
The vessels will be built at Vard’s shipyard in Vung Tau, Vietnam but the design work will be done here in Ålesund and at other Vard facilities in the district.
This is part of Ocean Infinity’s planned Armanda Fleet:
Largest fleet of unmanned surface robots and most environmentally sustainable company in the industry. Ocean Infinity is excited to announce the launch of a new pioneering marine technology and data company, Armada. Armada, with a focus on combining...
BTW; Ocean Infinity is headquartered in Austin, Tx. but operate worldwide:
ombugge
November 25, 2020, 10:47pm
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New ship repair yard under development in Mexico:
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed a letter of intent with the Ministry of Economic Development and Labour of the Yucatán State in Mexico for the design and construction of a new ship repair, conversion and maintenance yard. The...
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More details on the planned Shipyard in Yucatan:
ombugge
November 30, 2020, 9:53pm
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The Yara Birkeland has been delivered from Vard Brattvåg:
She will now get the autonomous system tested before entering service, initially with some crew on board and with remote control.
ombugge
December 1, 2020, 12:17pm
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More on the new Ocean Infinity autonomous vessels and some thought on the legal implications that may arise:
‘This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error’ – Hal 9000, 2001, A Space Odyssey. Russell Hodge from surveyors Pirie & Smith assesses where we are in the autonomous shipping drive and the rules and...
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Unlike the Yara Birkeland these vessels will operate in international waters, thus international maritime Law, rules and regulations comes into play:
Fall back may, in a technical sense, be acceptable to fully autonomous control in communication failure, but how does a vessel under its own control stand legally from a salvage or liability point of view?
How does a vessel seek to return to remote control and who is responsible for its actions during the period that it is seeking return to remote command?
Who is responsible if the autonomous vessel runs aground, allides with another vessel, drilling rig or an offshore storage facility? Generally, liability is dependent upon the determination of who was at fault in the incident under consideration. Under the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law with respect to Collisions between Vessels, 1910, the proportion of liability is based upon the determination of the level of fault on the part of the respective vessels – can we blame a computer or does the fault, and liability, lie with the programmer ? Now, that would be a very interesting loophole to explore.
ombugge
December 3, 2020, 3:55pm
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Vard to design and Colombo Dockyard to build a new Cable ship for Orange Marine:
Orange Marine, a subsidiary of telecoms giant Orange, is contracting Colombo Dockyard and Vard to build a new cable ship. The new vessel will be the first cable ship of its generation specially designed for the maintenance of submarine cables, both...
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ombugge
December 7, 2020, 12:23pm
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In June AWILCO cancelled the contract for the first of two 6G Semisub under construction by Keppel FELS, Singapore:
Norway’s Awilco Drilling has served notice to Singapore yard Keppel FELS that it has terminated the newbuilding contract between the two companies for semi-submersible drilling rig Nordic Winter. Awilco says it has exercised its contractual...
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Now Keppel has cancelled the contract for the second rig ordered in 2019:
Singapore’s Keppel Corporation has announced that subsidiary Keppel FELS has terminated the contract with Norway’s Awilco Drilling for semi-submersible drilling rig Nordic Spring. Keppel issued the notice because it says Awilco will not be able to...
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Tit-for-tat??
ombugge
December 7, 2020, 12:52pm
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Scrubber equipped VLCC priced at USD 88.4 Mill. each at S.Korean yards:
What would it cost if anybody should order one at a US yard??
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December 7, 2020, 1:59pm
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More VLCC orders for S.Korean yard:
Steamer
December 7, 2020, 3:11pm
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General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co, San Diego, Calif., has been awarded a $100,040,336 contract for the execution of the a Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45) fiscal
I wonder if that includes fire protection services?
ombugge
December 8, 2020, 10:27pm
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Larsnes Mek. Verksted to built yet another large Live Fish Carrier. This time for a Chilean company:
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These little shallow draft, go dry at low tide, tankers would be perfect for Alaska.
Steamer
December 10, 2020, 4:13am
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Yes, a modern version of the old power scows that were built during WW2 for the Alaskan mud flats.
ombugge
December 10, 2020, 12:55pm
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RRS SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH has been delivered from the yard after 4 years under construction:
Cammell Laird has achieved its final milestone for the RRS SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, formally handing over Britain’s new polar ship to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Operated by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the new polar ship will transform UK research in the polar regions. Its missions will be critical for understanding and making sense of our changing climate. The 15,000-tonne vessel departed Cammell Laird’s Birkenhead facility in October 2020 to embark on sea trials. It was the culmination of a complex four-year build programme that involved more than 1300 local personnel, 70 apprentices and many hundreds of specialist subcontractors and suppliers. David McGinley, Chief Executive Officer of Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders and Atlantic and Peninsula Services said: “This handover is the final milestone in what has been the most ambitious project in Cammell Laird’s recent history and we are proud that a vessel built here in the UK will contribute so much to our understanding of climate change. We wish RRS Sir David Attenborough good luck and bid her a very, very fond farewell.” The RRS SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH is pictured here arriving in Holyhead.
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December 10, 2020, 3:37pm
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There is a fiasco in the UK regarding the construction of two new ferries, they were initially due to enter service in 2018 but now won’t until at least 2022. Initially the two were meant to be built at a cost for £97m ($130m) but costs are now spiraling, now expected to be at least £207m ($275m).
The whole project has been a disaster so far due to gross incompetence from high-ranking decision makers. Part of the problem is that the ship yard has never built any LNG fueled vessels before so lacked the expertise, these ferries will be dual fulled. They wanted LNG power as it is ‘greener’, In addition to the cost of the ferries the government will still have to spend many millions upgrading the remote Scottish ports for LNG bunkering.
For the price they are paying it would have been much cheaper to order electric powered ferries with diesel back-up generators like Finferries recently ordered for Åland.
MV Glen Sannox is a dual-fuel car and passenger ferry for Caledonian MacBrayne, currently under construction at Ferguson Marine in Port Glasgow on the Clyde. There have been increased costs and lengthy delays, as of 9 September 2020 delivery is expected in 2022, between April and June.
MV Glen Sannox is to be the first of two Scottish ferries capable of operating on either marine diesel oil or liquefied natural gas (LNG), with benefits of a marked reduction in carbon dioxide, sulphur and nitro...
