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Uses existing technologies to meet owners needs "The focus has been on reducing the fuel consumption while giving owners different options to meet the future expected environmental regulations. The concept design is ready for the owners' preferred choice, whether that it is to run on heavy fuel oil using emission treatment systems or to switch to low sulphur fuels or LNG," says Hu Jin-Tao, the president of SDARI.The Green Dolphin concept design is a five-cargo-hold CSR double-hull bulk carrier that meets current and future expected air and water emissions regulations. The design aims to be fuel-efficient and maintenance-friendly, with high operational flexibility."Recognising that there is more to profitable shipping than just compliance, we have consulted widely with owners and yards to ensure that Green Dolphin can be tailored to suit individual operational needs," continues Hu Jin-Tao.Green Dolphin's main dimensions also suit the majority of the world's ports which receive Handysize bulk carriers.The hull design has been a combined effort by SDARI and DNV. The hull is designed to provide improved overall performance at different loading conditions, speeds and sea states. The propulsion efficiency is increased through the fitting of a wake equalising duct in front of a large-diameter, slow-rotating propeller. ...

Through a modern inspection program An operational hull planned maintenance system will improve asset management and give more predictable maintenance costs. regular, scheduled inspections mean that potential problems may be discovered at an early stage.The inspections can be carried out when time allows and compartments are available. Trained seagoing officers with well established programmes and inspection manuals can conduct the inspections during long sea passages. A working record-keeping system containing photographs and acceptance criteria is a necessary feature. Good record-keeping and documentation onboard empowers the personnel to stay one step ahead. the management office keeps the cross-fleet overview revealing fleet trends and sister ship experience.Such system enables operators to manage bulk carriers in an easier, safer and more profitable way. This cost efficient way of managing hull maintenance is getting more focus from the bulk operators in times when therates are low.Hull integRity Management DNV's Hull integrity Management (HiM) service aims to aid ship owners and managers keep continuous and cost effective control of vessels hull condition through a planned maintenance system.The services consists of competence training, hull inspection manualsand nauticus Hull integrity Software.Training By DNV The training of seagoing and office personnel is provided by DNV. This can be ...

Winning the Niche Market Through Perfection On May 29, before launch of the Posidonia 2012 in Greece, leading shipbuilding enterprise SINOPACIFIC Shipbuilding Group held an introductory meeting and social gathering in Athens. It highlighted the promotion of the CROWN 63, CROWN MHI 82 and CROWN 121 ultimate fuel-saving and environment friendly bulk carriers which aim at the segmented markets for 60,000 DWT, 80,000 DWT and 120,000 DWT bulk carriers respectively. As the Posidonia 2012 continues, leading industry players gathered in Athens and about two hundreds of ship owners, bankers, brokers attended the activity as well as Simon Liang, the Board Chairman and CEO of SINOPACIFIC.The three products are all based on the design concept of "energy-saving and environment friendly". Guided by the strategy of "perfection in simple products", the SINOPACIFIC design team has continued in its goal of perfection by improving the environmental protection and fuel efficiency indicators to the highest possible level.At a service speed of 14.3-knot, the fuel consumption of CROWN 63 Ultramax bulk carrier is reduced to 25.8 tons/day, reduced by 13% compared to the CROWN 58 (58,000DWT) bulk carrier. The design team spent nearly three years achieving this breakthough on hull forms and propulsion system after ...

Presentation of bulk carrier

After drifting for several days in the Coral Sea off Far North Queensland

How to better regulate ship traffic through the Great Barrier Reef Environmentalists are hopeful an international report will give the Queensland government ideas on how to better regulate ship traffic through the Great Barrier Reef.Bulk carrier ID Integrity lost power off the far north Queensland coast on Friday and narrowly avoided being run aground on Shark Reef.It passed safely over the reef and will likely be towed to Townsville on Monday, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority says.The Wilderness Society's northern Australia campaigner Gavan MacFadzean said he was hopeful UNESCO would detail some options about shipping regulations when it releases a report on the state of conservation in the Great Barrier Reef.'We look forward to seeing some recommendations which make traversing the reef by bulk carrier safer,' Mr MacFadzean told AAP on Monday.'(We hope they) make specific recommendations about how we're going to handle this big increase in ship movements and port developments.'The report, due to be released next week, will make recommendations about whether the reef should be listed as a World Heritage site in danger.UNESCO last year rebuked the Queensland and federal government for failing to inform it about two major liquefied natural gas projects on Curtis Island.Mr MacFadzean ...

Focus on innovations in bulk carrier safety The Hellenic Technical Committee of international classification society RINA focused on innovations in bulk carrier safety at its recent meeting on Wednesday 9 of May 2012 at the Golf Club of Glyfada.Biagio Pugliese, Team Leader of Innovative Services at RINA, gave a presentation on the safe carriage of dangerous products like Nickel Ore in bulk carriers and the results of RINA studies into the problems of the transportation of such products. He highlighted the technical solutions proposed by RINA in that respect and the newly introduced class notation for cargoes likely to liquefy.Andreas Papalimneos, Manager of the Piraeus Training Center of RINA Hellas, announced the calendar of courses offered in Greece by his team and explained the long tradition of RINA in training and the human element through IMaPhil, RINA Academy and SOGEA. Under the chairmanship of Mr Akis Tsirigakis and Mr Theo Baltatzis, RINA's Hellenic Technical Committee is made up of the most prominent Technical Managers of well-known Greek shipping companies, as well as distinguished guests like NTUA professor Dr. Nikos Ventikos. At the recent meeting the RINA General Manager for Greece, Africa and Middle East, Stefano Bertilone, presented the re-organization of ...

Capable of operating for 95% to 99% of the time on LNG fuel A new, almost totally LNG-powered dry cargo inland waterway vessel will be operating on inland waterways in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and France.This will be the first ever medium speed, dual-fuel, mechanically driven inland waterway vessel capable of operating for 95% to 99% of the time on LNG fuel, with a minimum of pilot marine gas oil (MGO) used for ignition - although the engines are also capable of operating fully on MGO. In addition to two 6-cylinder Wärtsilä 20DF dual-fuel medium-speed engines, Wärtsilä is to supply two fixed pitch propellers in a nozzle, the coldbox, and the LNG tanks.The 135m vessel has come about through a consortium of Koedood Dieselservice, Combi Group BV, Reederei Deymann, TNO, DST and Hochschule Emden-Leer with Wärtsilä Netherlands BV as the co-ordinating partner.The vessel is the first of three inland vessels that will serve as pilots for innovative, environmentally sound power systems (engines and propulsion) for inland shipping. All three vessels will be designed, tested and implemented within the ECO2 Inland Vessel project, part of a larger initiative known as MariTIM (Maritime Technologies and Innovations Model), sponsored by the EU.Source: ...

MV Flinterspirt went too close to the east side of North Uist A captain is facing criminal charges after a cargo ship MV Flinterspirit ran aground on rocks in the Western Isles.The MV Flinterspirt went too close to the east side of North Uist while heading south down the Minch on March 19.The 4500-tonne Dutch bulk carrier was on its way to Belfast from Sweden with a cargo of wood when it hit rocks on Flodday Mor on the very south east tip of North Uist around 10.45pm.Captain Konstantin Golubev is accused of failing to maintain a proper lookout and prevent the grounding while he was the master responsible for the vessel.The Russian is also accused of failing to alter course as required to prevent the ship suffering serious damage.In a separate incident, the 40-year-old skipper is also accused of being drunk in charge of the ship at Stornoway harbour three days after it grounded.It is alleged that he recorded an alcohol reading of 121mcg, more than three times higher than the legal limit of 35mcg.Golubev appeared at Stornoway Sheriff Court on Tuesday and was released on bail.None of the ten crew were injured when the vessel grounded last week.The ...

In the Sound of Mull, on 9 August 2011 MAIB issues report regarding Grounding of CSL THAMES, in the Sound of Mull, on 9 August 2011 as follows:At 1026 (UTC +1) on 9 August 2011, CSL Thames, a Maltese registered selfdischarging bulk carrier, grounded briefly in the Sound of Mull while on passage from Glensanda to Wilhelmshaven. The vessel sustained bottom damage to her hull, including a 3-metre fracture to one of her water ballast deep tanks, which flooded. There were no reported injuries or pollution.The MAIB investigation found that CSL Thames ran aground after the third officer had altered the vessel's course to starboard of the planned track to avoid another vessel. He did not notice that the alteration would take CSL Thames into shallow water, and the audio alarm on the electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) that should have alerted him to the impending danger was inoperative.Further, the master's and other watchkeepers' knowledge of the vessel's ECDIS was insufficient and therefore no-one within the bridge team questioned the absence of the ECDIS audio alarm, or recognised that the system's safety contour setting was inappropriate for the planned voyage.Alfa Ship & Crew Management GmbH has taken a ...