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six-ship series will all be equipped with the MES. The ships will be named Stena Superior and Stena
The system is manually operated by two crew Supreme and they will both be deployed in the Stena
meaning there is no need for hydraulics or electrical Sonangol Suezmax Pool. The tanker pool, which
supply. When the chute deploys crew will evacuate into has operated for the past five years, currently has 15
65 and 10 person life rafts directly. vessels within its remit and this will be expanded to
“All components are made of marine aluminium. 25 ships over the next three years.
The system container is bolted to the deck of the vessel
and designed to hold the launching ramp and chute in Business
a deployed position. The container door is opened by
means of two gas cylinders. When the container door
Dutch and Qataris
is in the open position, the launching ramp and chute
in Ras Lafan deal
are ejected and lowered into the deployed position in a
controlled manner,” said Brude. IQatar Gas Transport Co (Nakilat) and Dutch firm
Damen Shipyards Group are to jointly operate a
shipbuilding facility at the Qatari port of Ras Laffan,
Ulstein SX124 design Polarcus Nadai seismic vessel. the companies said.
Nakilat, the world’s largest shipper of liquefied natural
gas (LNG), and Damen have agreed to establish a joint
venture 70% of which will be owned by the Qatar Gas and
30% by Damen to run the shipyard, a statement said.
Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar, the 15-hectare
(37.1 acre) shipyard built on reclaimed land in the
expanded port of Ras Laffan, will begin operations in
the first quarter of 2010. Neither company gave the
value of the deal.
The shipyards will produce commercial vessels, naval and
coastguard ships and luxury yachts of up to 120m long.
Environment
Samsung to go
Newbuilding
green
DSME secures first
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has announced that
2010 orders
it will build only environmentally friendly vessels
from 2015, that is vessels that achieve a 30% reduction
In one of the first contracts for the New Year Daewoo on greenhouse gas emissions.
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) has The company said: “As the first step of its journey, the
received orders for two VLCC, including one option, Company aims by 2015 to design the optimal shape of
and two bulk carriers from the Thessaloniki-based ships that will maximize fuel efficiency, and to develop
Greek owner Angelocoussis Shipping Group. diverse technologies to improve energy efficiency,
The oil tankers will be 320,000dwt and the bulk including heat recovery devices and low-temperature
carriers will be 180,000dwt each and will be the combustion devices, in order to reduce the greenhouse
standard DSME designs. All the ships are expected to emissions of its ships.
be delivered by the end of 2012. In particular, the Company has set a goal of building
the world’s first eco-friendly ship by developing LNG and
Newbuilding hydrogen fuel cells, super-conduction electricity-powered
Samsung order for
motors and cables, and CO collection technology, jointly
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with universities and private research centres.”
two suezmaxes
SHI has, in addition, designed a 13,000TEU container-
ship and the company has run simulations of the vessel
Stena Bulk has ordered two 158,700dwt suezmax that show a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
tankers with an option on two similar vessels from the “Experts predict that companies that enter the green
Samsung Shipyard in South Korea. The two options technology shipbuilding market early will lead the
must be declared by the spring of this year. shipbuilding and marine transportation industries in the
The ships will be 274m in length with a 48m beam future,” said SHI.
and will be delivered in 2011. Stena said that it will Samsung pointed to its experience of leading the field
invest US$7million in state-of-the-art technology in its development of double-hulled oil tankers in 1992
that will mean the tankers consume 10% less fuel than and electricity-powered LNG carriers in 2001, both of
comparable suezmax tankers of today. which were world firsts.” NA
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