NEWS Order Strategic Marine
expands reach Australian shipbuilder Strategic Marine has sold two aluminium offshore crew boats currently in construction and “on spec” at its Singapore shipyard. The new order from Malaysian offshore servicing
company Dinastia Jati Sdn Bhd is for two 40m utility vessels that will have top speeds in excess of 25kts. The crew boats, which have top speeds in excess
of 25kts, are scheduled for delivery in July and September 2009. Strategic Marine announced in June 2008 that
it was planning to build a total of eight crew boats, two of which were ordered by Samson Maritime of Fremantle. The crew boats are due for delivery in May and June 2009. Of the four remaining craft, two are 40m vessels;
these are due to be constructed in Singapore. The other two vessels are 52m in length and are due to be built at Strategic Marine’s Mexican yard at Mazatlán. The hulls for the two vessels on order from
Singapore company Marfield Ltd are currently under construction and the work is already well advanced. Strategic has now signed a contract to carry out the electrical and mechanical installation, HVAC and outfitting for the first of the Marfield vessels. Strategic Marine has doubled the size and capacity of its Singapore yard to 2400m2
to enable it to begin
construction of six speculative 40m crew boats. Meanwhile Strategic Marine has been awarded a
contract to outfit one of two 143m steel dive support vessels (DSV) under construction at its sizeable yard at the Dong Xuyen Industrial Zone in Vietnam. The company has been busy of late with orders
received for 139 vessels over the last two years with a total contract value of US$283 million. If contracts are signed for the four remaining “on
spec” crew boats, the total value of the company’s contracts will rise to more than US$300 million. Strategic Marine Director, Ron Anderson, said:
“Offshore market demand currently far exceeds supply, coming third in terms of vessels on order globally behind tankers and cargo ships, and making up about 21% of
the international shipbuilding
industry’s business.” Partnership
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industry project Kongsberg Maritime and a group of leading ship operators have joined forces with the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) to form
the SPA (Service Performance Analysis) joint industry project that is aimed at optimising ships’ fuel efficiency and therefore reducing fuel costs and emissions. MARIN is coordinating the SPA joint industry
project, which commenced in 2006, after an earlier project, STA (Sea Trials Analysis), had laid the founda- tions. SPA is partnered with ship operators such as Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, Stena, Wallenius, Wagenborg, UECC and Stolt-Nielsen, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard, suppliers like Kongsberg Maritime and major classification societies Germanischer Lloyd, DNV, Bureau Veritas and Lloyd’s Register. At today’s unpredictable oil prices, fuel can amount
to more than 50% of the overall costs associated with ship operation. For ship operators, cost cutting is synonymous with cutting fuel consumption. Ship design is often seen as being the biggest factor
in improving fuel efficiency but the SPA project was devised to concentrate on optimising fuel efficiency for existing vessels. The focus of the project is new software that plots a ship’s speed against the power applied to the propeller shaft, after accounting for a host of factors such as draught, trim, shallow water, currents, wind, and waves. Joint industry project partner, Kongsberg Maritime,
is contributing both its monitoring and display equipment, and its expertise. It is among a few of the suppliers that, by providing systems for the project to turn data into crew-friendly displays, will incorporate the software into future product offerings. This joint industry project could not be timelier for
Kongsberg as it recently announced its Green Ship strategy at SMM 2008 in Hamburg. The outline of the company’s strategy is to maximise engine performance through vessel optimisation. Kongsberg Maritime’s Vice President, Offshore and
Marine, Morten Hasås said: “Our integrated systems play an important role in optimal ship operation, including improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions, but projects such as this will help us to develop an even greener product portfolio that will not only help ship operators reduce fuel cost, but will also lessen the impact of shipping on the environment.”
Business Name change for
Aker Yards Leading cruise and offshore vessels builder Aker Yards, headquartered in Oslo, has changed its name to STX Europe, as part of a planned buy-out from South Korean-based STX Business Group that occurred in the third quarter of 2008. STX Europe specialises in the design and building
of advanced cruise ships and purpose-built vessels Ship & Boat International November/December 2008
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