Dubai, UAE, May 18th, 2009: Dry docks World - Dubai, the ship repair, conversion and building subsidiary of Drydocks World, has added two new berths to its facility, significantly increasing its conversion capacity. Completed recently, Berths 9 and 10 are now fully operational and have recently accommodated the 380-metre long TI Asia, Abuzar and Spring Bow for conversion works. The announcement comes ahead of Drydocks World’s participation at Nor-Shipping 09, in Oslo, June 9th–12th, where the company’s yard capabilities in the Middle East and Southeast Asia will be highlighted. The new FPSO Quay is located on the lee face of the main breakwater, with a total length of 668m and a dredged depth of –11m DMD (Chart Datum) over a length of 630m Each new berth is more than 59m wide and is projected to increase Drydocks World-Dubai’s Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) conversion capacity by two vessels per year. Bob Normand, Director of Infrastructure Development, and Drydocks World, said: “We are proud to have successfully completed another expansion project at our shipyard.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Drydocks World-Dubai expands yard space with new FPSO Quay
Two 59-metre wide berths increase FPSO conversion capacity.
Dubai, UAE, May 18th, 2009: Dry docks World - Dubai, the ship repair, conversion and building subsidiary of Drydocks World, has added two new berths to its facility, significantly increasing its conversion capacity. Completed recently, Berths 9 and 10 are now fully operational and have recently accommodated the 380-metre long TI Asia, Abuzar and Spring Bow for conversion works. The announcement comes ahead of Drydocks World’s participation at Nor-Shipping 09, in Oslo, June 9th–12th, where the company’s yard capabilities in the Middle East and Southeast Asia will be highlighted. The new FPSO Quay is located on the lee face of the main breakwater, with a total length of 668m and a dredged depth of –11m DMD (Chart Datum) over a length of 630m Each new berth is more than 59m wide and is projected to increase Drydocks World-Dubai’s Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) conversion capacity by two vessels per year. Bob Normand, Director of Infrastructure Development, and Drydocks World, said: “We are proud to have successfully completed another expansion project at our shipyard.
Dubai, UAE, May 18th, 2009: Dry docks World - Dubai, the ship repair, conversion and building subsidiary of Drydocks World, has added two new berths to its facility, significantly increasing its conversion capacity. Completed recently, Berths 9 and 10 are now fully operational and have recently accommodated the 380-metre long TI Asia, Abuzar and Spring Bow for conversion works. The announcement comes ahead of Drydocks World’s participation at Nor-Shipping 09, in Oslo, June 9th–12th, where the company’s yard capabilities in the Middle East and Southeast Asia will be highlighted. The new FPSO Quay is located on the lee face of the main breakwater, with a total length of 668m and a dredged depth of –11m DMD (Chart Datum) over a length of 630m Each new berth is more than 59m wide and is projected to increase Drydocks World-Dubai’s Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) conversion capacity by two vessels per year. Bob Normand, Director of Infrastructure Development, and Drydocks World, said: “We are proud to have successfully completed another expansion project at our shipyard.
Leading edge practice success for British Energy
British Energy demonstrates safe, competent control and robust management of their nuclear infrastructure through independent PAS 55 assessment provided by Lloyd's Register EMEA
Government policy is encouraging a low carbon economy where nuclear energy along with other low carbon energy sources such as renewables, have a critical role to play in providing a balanced energy mix for the UK's energy needs. The recent acquisition of British Energy by EDF provides a strong commitment to the nuclear new build program, and a need to demonstrate to stakeholders and the wider community, that current and planned nuclear assets are managed safely and appropriately. In a process lasting two years, British Energy benchmarked its business against the BSI Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS 55-1:2008) for asset management, a specification recognised for leading edge practice in managing physical assets.Read More
Government policy is encouraging a low carbon economy where nuclear energy along with other low carbon energy sources such as renewables, have a critical role to play in providing a balanced energy mix for the UK's energy needs. The recent acquisition of British Energy by EDF provides a strong commitment to the nuclear new build program, and a need to demonstrate to stakeholders and the wider community, that current and planned nuclear assets are managed safely and appropriately. In a process lasting two years, British Energy benchmarked its business against the BSI Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS 55-1:2008) for asset management, a specification recognised for leading edge practice in managing physical assets.
Sohmen honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award
London: Dr Helmut Sohmen, the chairman of tanker and offshore giant BW Group, was honoured last night with Seatrade’s most prestigious prize, the Lifetime Achievement Award
Sohmen was presented with the hand-blown glass trophy at a gala dinner bringing a flourish to proceedings at the 21st Seatrade Awards held at London’s 900-year-old Guildhall. Sohmen has had a varied career, including running an airline and dabbling in diplomacy. When he took over from legendary WorldWide tanker owner, Sir YK Pao, his father-in-law, he took on management of one of the world’s largest tanker fleets at a time of awful freight rates. He proceeded to scrap huge volumes of ships. In his 30-plus tenure of the company though he has brought the firm back so that it has even surpassed Pao’s tonnage levels. Sohmen bought out many firms, most notably Bergesen in 2002 for $1.5bn, which led to the company being rebranded BW. Controversially, he shifted operational headquarters from Hong Kong to Singapore in the 1990s. The multi-award winning group now has wide interests including FPSOs, LNG, tankers and VLOCs. This year Sohmen became the first shipowner to speak at the Singapore National Maritime Lecture, following on from Lee Kuan Yew in 2007 and IMO head Efthimios Mitropoulos in 2008, the latter of whom was once again a judge and an ever present at the London ceremony yesterday. Mitropoulos described last night’s event as the best yet in the awards’ 21-year history, while Sohmen warned the audience to act prudently and above board in these tough times.Read More
Sohmen was presented with the hand-blown glass trophy at a gala dinner bringing a flourish to proceedings at the 21st Seatrade Awards held at London’s 900-year-old Guildhall. Sohmen has had a varied career, including running an airline and dabbling in diplomacy. When he took over from legendary WorldWide tanker owner, Sir YK Pao, his father-in-law, he took on management of one of the world’s largest tanker fleets at a time of awful freight rates. He proceeded to scrap huge volumes of ships. In his 30-plus tenure of the company though he has brought the firm back so that it has even surpassed Pao’s tonnage levels. Sohmen bought out many firms, most notably Bergesen in 2002 for $1.5bn, which led to the company being rebranded BW. Controversially, he shifted operational headquarters from Hong Kong to Singapore in the 1990s. The multi-award winning group now has wide interests including FPSOs, LNG, tankers and VLOCs. This year Sohmen became the first shipowner to speak at the Singapore National Maritime Lecture, following on from Lee Kuan Yew in 2007 and IMO head Efthimios Mitropoulos in 2008, the latter of whom was once again a judge and an ever present at the London ceremony yesterday. Mitropoulos described last night’s event as the best yet in the awards’ 21-year history, while Sohmen warned the audience to act prudently and above board in these tough times.
First RAstar 3200 Tugs from Robert Allan Ltd.
In late February, 2009, the RAstar 3200 Class tug Monterrey was delivered to the Owners Servicios Maritimes de Baja California, S. de R.L de C.V. of Mexico by the builders Union Naval Valencia (UNV) of Valencia, Spain.
Servicios Maritimes de Baja California, S. de R.L de C.V. is a joint venture between Moran Towing of the USA and Grupo Boluda of Spain. This tug is the first of four expressly designed to work at the Costa Azul LNG terminal on the north-west coast of Mexico, at a terminal exposed to fully developed Pacific swells. The basic requirements for the tug design stipulated that the tug and its winch must be able to sustain a line pull of 75 tonnes throughout the entire terminal approach in a +2 metre significant swell. The resulting winch, described in detail later, is massive and extremely powerful; accordingly it dominated every aspect of the vessel design. In addition, the Owner's required that the entire design be less than 500 GRT which certainly put a cramp on the intended vessel configuration.Read More
Servicios Maritimes de Baja California, S. de R.L de C.V. is a joint venture between Moran Towing of the USA and Grupo Boluda of Spain. This tug is the first of four expressly designed to work at the Costa Azul LNG terminal on the north-west coast of Mexico, at a terminal exposed to fully developed Pacific swells. The basic requirements for the tug design stipulated that the tug and its winch must be able to sustain a line pull of 75 tonnes throughout the entire terminal approach in a +2 metre significant swell. The resulting winch, described in detail later, is massive and extremely powerful; accordingly it dominated every aspect of the vessel design. In addition, the Owner's required that the entire design be less than 500 GRT which certainly put a cramp on the intended vessel configuration.
Royal Australian Navy deters pirate attacks
The Royal Australian Navy Frigates, HMA Ships ‘Sydney’ and ‘Ballarat’, went to the aid of the merchant vessel ‘Dubai Princess’ on Sunday May 17, after she raised distress signals in the Gulf of Aden
The ‘Dubai Princess’ claimed it was under attack from pirates, who were reported to be firing rocket-propelled grenades and attempting to board the vessel by force. The incident occurred in international waters approximately 170km south of Yemen. ‘Sydney’ and ‘Ballarat’ responded to the distress signal while transiting though the Gulf of Aden as part of their Northern Trident 2009 deployment around the world. As the situation developed, another merchant vessel, ‘MSC Stella’, was also harassed by small vessels in the same vicinity. The Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, said the measured response by the two passing Australian ships provided security to the merchant vessels and stabilised the situation.Read More
The ‘Dubai Princess’ claimed it was under attack from pirates, who were reported to be firing rocket-propelled grenades and attempting to board the vessel by force. The incident occurred in international waters approximately 170km south of Yemen. ‘Sydney’ and ‘Ballarat’ responded to the distress signal while transiting though the Gulf of Aden as part of their Northern Trident 2009 deployment around the world. As the situation developed, another merchant vessel, ‘MSC Stella’, was also harassed by small vessels in the same vicinity. The Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, said the measured response by the two passing Australian ships provided security to the merchant vessels and stabilised the situation.
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