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Date: 2008-02-06
Technical Manager for the UND ships is Bluewater Marine, which has participated in their design and building. The company stresses the importance of building for long-term operation.
SHIP TYPE: Any SIZE (grt): Any YEAR OF BUILD: Any
The new UND ro-ros from Flensburg are powered by MaK M 43 engines, produced by Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG in Germany. They are proving to require only simple maintenance, fulfil the IMO Emission requirements and have low fuel consumption.
Safety at sea concerns everyone, but preventative measures lie in the hands of yards, shipowners, authorities and classification societies.
When DNV was established in 1864, its main task was to safeguard life and property on board ships. Development of the offshore industry added a third principle for DNV: safeguarding the environment.
The performance of DNV-classed vessels in Port State Control (PSC) continues to be the world’s best.
Short-sea coastal shipping is on the agenda in the EU as Europe attempts to decide how to handle the increasing transportation problems threatening to congest the system.
Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) shipyard in Germany is speeding up the production of ro-ros by making use of sophisticated design tools. In 2001 the yard achieved the ShipPax Award for its “outstanding ro-ro concept” on the new vessel UND Ege, one of six sister ships built for Turkish shipowner UND.
The volume of DNV’s new product Manufacturer Product Quality Assessments (MPQA) has more than doubled over the past 12 months. Assessors worldwide have carried out a total of 112 such assessments.
8 August, DNV Software signed a multimillion dollar software licensing and distribution agreement with the American software house Intergraph. DNV Software will exclusively market and distribute Intergraph’s next-generation shipbuilding design applications to the shipbuilding industry.
According to Hasan Pehlivan, technical manager of the UND RoRo Shipping Company, the vessels are operating according to plan.
Owners are recommended to secure satisfactory documentation upon first docking due to the new Anti Fouling Systems TBT ban.
Five Panamax container vessels under construction at the Samsung shipyard in South Korea are being transferred to DNV class upon delivery to the owners.
The quality of thickness measurements on board ships has long been questioned. IACS has now taken action to introduce new procedures requiring the attendance of a surveyor during gauging.
The shipping industry can benefit from the Internet. The MariNet project, a cooperation of Norwegian companies dealing with shipping, is challenging technology suppliers to show the benefits web-based solutions can bring.
