Maritime Reporter, January 2014

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on Domestic MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS Littoral Combat Ships Ship Repair A Rebirth in Mobile Marine Fuel Report Offshore Update Floating Production Grows Government Update Sonar & The USCG By Greg Trauthwein By Jim McCaul By Rien De Meij By Dejan Matic, Bill Clark & Ganesh Venkatesan By Greg Trauthwein By Greg Trauthwein By Greg Trauthwein By Patricia Keefe By Greg Trauthwein IN THIS EDITION COVER STORY eg T PUBLISHERS Associate Publisher & Editor EDITORIAL PRODUCTION CORPORATE STAFF CIRCULATION SALES Vice President of Sales & Marketing INTERNATIONAL SALES REPRESENTATIVES NEW YORK was the fi rst of the Emergency By Peter Pospiech FROM OUR ARCHIVES THE COVER SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Subscription Information Download our App Jim McCaul of International Maritime Associates EDITORIAL GO DIGITAL Shipping, the Indian Maritime Administration, for lack of Chairman of Mazagaon Dock and Independent Director Maritime Revival Within Reach New Norm for Jones Posted by Martin Rushmere, December Get the Maritime Professional App for MARITIMEPROFESSIONAL.COM Seakeeping Basin WSF: One Step Closer to LNG Propulsion KMP Acquires Tankers American Petroleum Tankers (APT) and of The Blackstone Group and Cerberus NEWS OFFSHORE UPDATE Floating Production Growing Number of Floating Production Units Redeployment Prospects for Available FPSOs BY JIM MCCAUL, IMA Backlog of Planned Floater Projects Where Planned Projects are Located The Author Vice President, General Manager Repair Yard Manager, Dry Dock Master R ead the C ase Study OFFSHORE UPDATE Photo: Shell EYE ON DESIGN Voith Schneider Propulsor BY RIEN DE MEIJ, MARIN Crowley Orders LNG-Powered ConRo SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS Submarine Manuevering Simulations GOVERNMENT UPDATE Sonar & The USCG Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service Repair & Conversion Coexist SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION By Greg Trauthwein New Emphasis on Newbuild Nils Kristian SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION Chief Executive to By Greg Trauthwein YOU KNOW IT WHEN YOU SEE IT SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION OFFERS A COMPLETE LINE OF The Authors Virginia Ship Repair Association, is a MULTI-MISSION, DUAL DESIGN, SINGLE FOCUS Littoral Combat Ship of two new Littoral Combat The Ships Sean Stackley, Assistant Secretary of the By Greg Trauthwein The Yards Strategic Facilities Development, Austal eg T Perciavalle, Austal USA President, on MMC: Investment in Minds and Matter Marinette Marine Corporation is a Our Yards Welcome Your Skills Goddard, President and CEO, Marinette ive me Liberty, or give me Revolutionary War, got a the war ful Winston Churchill: American Merchant Marine Museum at Less is More By Patricia Keefe ty Ship, The V od Cooper Laying the Foundation American VULKAN Corporation A Revolution in Design Modern Shipbuilding ty Ship) The Liberty Ships From Stem to Stern Welding came with its own set of Post War Fleet Disposal Francisco, and is run by The National From Sea to Shining Sea Fairfi eld Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland Liberty Ships Built by Locality State Number The Liberty Ships Liberty Ships at a Glance British Merchant Shipbuilding Mission The Mother of Invention Sources: American Merchant Marine at Liberty Ships and Associated Designs By The Author Meet the Gas Cruise Ferry Stavangerfjord ing to Stavanger and Bergen and then FUEL TECHNOLOGY FOCUS By Peter Pospiech, Germany LNG is a Alternative FUEL TECHNOLOGY FOCUS Main Particulars MV Stavangerfjord Life Saving Equipment: The Propulsion Proven Environmental Technology Bunker Procedure FUEL TECHNOLOGY FOCUS According to Fjord Line CEO Ingvald Stavangerfjord won the IMO’s Energy Tungsten Explorer Main Particulars VESSELS Drillship Tungsten Explorer Bravante’s New PSV VESSELS NYPD Receives First of Five LPG Newbuild MHI to Build for Astomos Energy Russian Icebreaking Rescue Vessel Navy Takes Two esa Internacional) PROPULSION UPDATES WWW.MARITIMEPROPULSION.COM Carnival Selects MAN Power for CPP, Waterjets, Hybrid Drives GE Powers India’s First Aircraft Carrier Upgraded MaK Engine Gets Power Boost Power Generation LNG/Diesel MicroTurbines Obit: Herb Repass, Founder, New England Ropes Austal USA Names New O’Brien VP Sea Star Line, TOTE Leadership Changes Carnival Appoint Burke First CMO Bader Joins Martek Duncan Joins BMT Designers & Planners Maersk Training Appoints Bowyer O’Brien PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS Cuccias to Succeed Edenzon as Ingalls President Nolan Bader Volvo Penta Appoints New Caribbean Dealers Weston Appointed Manager at Survival Craft Aloha Foss Maritime Farris, JA Moody Declare Sales Partnership Inmarsat to Acquire Globe Wireless Valez Joins Hawaiian Ocean Transport MacGregor Receives Huge Order from HHI Crowley Scholarships Support Industry’s Future Crowley Scholarships to Two USMMA Cadets NEW PRODUCTS & TECHNOLOGIES: FUELS & LUBRICANTS Total Debuts Talusia New Ferry Reederei Cassen Eils Safety Guidelines for Gas Fuelled Ships as part of TT-Line’s New Marine Cylinder Oil Schottel: Two New Facilities Powerful Direct Drive Bosch Emission Systems EGCS for VLGCs Clean Marine Hyundai Heavy Large Gas Carrier Nano Fossil Fuels Technology Successful MX-Scrubber Testing FleetWeather Fleet Decision Support New ECDIS-E ter FT Electronic Chart Display and Information now with Class D DSC Fixed PA/Hailer and New Portable Combustion Gas and Emissions Analyzer New Engine Room Simulator WWW.MARINEELECTRONICS.COM Great Lakes Shipyard Commissions New Cutting Great Lakes Shipyard the Plate Pro Extreme K-Sim DP of K-Sim DP, a Iris Launches NightRunner Camera System Iris Corporation NightRunner Dual Payload Thermal Imaging/Daylight Jeppesen Simplifi es Routing, Chart Management Photo: Kongsber Photo: Lowrance Six Thrusters Launched from Thrustmaster Six Thrustmaster MTU Diesel Engines to Power Singapore’s New Naval Fleet Pushbutton Propulsion Order Twin Disc Propulsion Packages to ADSB Noise Insulation Product Range Marine Firebatt Dyena Acceleration Recorders Kappel Propeller Retrofi t for Tanker BUYER’S DIRECTORY Job Location: Angola Amy Patureau USA Job Location: Angola Amy Patureau USA VESSEL COOK Job Location: USA Amy Patureau Job Location: USA, Houma, La Jeremy Chaisson LeBoeuf BrothersTowing RINE DIESEL ENGINES WA ANGELA BAUER Email: ANGELA@TRANSMARINE.ORG New Opportunity Shipyard Manager Needed MR Naval Architects and Marine Engineers NAVAL ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS MARINE ENGINEERING PRODUCTION ENGINEERING TOOLING DESIGN BOKSA Marine Design MR ABS Approved Ambient Environmental Testing Noise & Vibration MARINE FENDER & DOCK SYSTEMS UNDERWATER LIFT & SALVAGE BAGS D-SHAPE, WING & TUGBOAT FENDERS SHIP LAUNCHING MARINE AIRBAGS BLUE OCEAN TACKLE INC MR MR MR MR License Software Freelance Software West Bank of Michoud Canal at New Orleans off Gulf Intracoastal Waterway east of Inner ADVERTISER INDEX PROPELLING EXCELLENCE REINTJES Marine Transmissions are Azimuth Thrusters Marine Transmissions Controllable Pitch Propellers and Tunnel Thrusters GULF COAST