Marine Log - February 2008 - (Page 14)

Update INLAND • COASTAL • OFFSHORE • DEEPSEA New Iberia, a hotbed for crewboats ew Iberia, La., is busy with the construction of crewboats this year, with Neuville Boat Works and Island Boats both filling orders. Neuville Boat Works delivered the Greater Scott, a 158 by 30 ft boat to Texas Crewboats, Freeport, Tex. It’s powered by four Cummins KTA38 M2 engines, which each produce 1,350 hp at 1,950 rev/min, that turn Twin Disc MG6650 gears. The boat is fitted with a 75 hp electric over hydraulic 24 inch tunnel bow thruster. The boat can seat 66 passengers, holds 21,000 gal of fuel and 38,000 gal of rig water. Island Boats is building a pair of boats for both Rigdon Marine and Southern States. Rigdon Marine’s order is for two 175 by 32 ft vessels. Both will be built to ABS class and AMS, DP1. One of the two boats will be foreign-flagged and will have four N Cummins KTA50 engines, while the U.S.-flagged vessel will have Tier 2 QSK50 engines. The boats are expected to be delivered by the fall of 2008. The two 165 ft by 32 ft Southern State boats are being built to ABS Loadline and will be powered The Greater Scott, delivered by Neuville Boat Works to Texas Crewby Cummins boats, is powered by four Cummins KTA38 M2 engines, and can QSK50 engines. seat 66 passengers Each will have two Cummins 6CTA8.3 powered 99kW genera- State vessels is the fourth quarter in 2008 and tors. Expected delivery for the Southern first quarter of 2009, respectively. Maersk Line to shed up to 3,000 jobs Maersk Line, Denmark, the container shipping division of the A.P. Moller Maersk Group, is set to cut its global organization by 2,000 to 3,000 jobs. The job cuts are expected to reduce complexity and cost, and by reducing regional organizations into smaller teams, Maersk will be focused more closely to its customers’ CEO, Maersk Line, needs. Maersk Eivind Kolding Line's structure will also be reduced from 14 to 11 regions to further simplify the global organization. A new management team has been established to take responsibility for the delivery of the strategy, headed by Eivind Kolding, CEO, Maersk Line, who said “The reality is that a leaner and simpler business requires fewer people and this means there will be fewer positions in Maersk Line, mainly in the middle management layer.” The reorganization is expected to be completed by April 2008. Rolls-Royce to test “permanent lubricant” coating on naval propulsion systems Rolls-Royce will test a nickel-boron coating on naval propulsion systems under a $7 million U.S. Navy research contract. Rolls-Royce has secured an exclusive long-term license for the nickelboron coating, called UltraCem, from UCT Coatings, Inc., Stuart, Fla., for a wide range of commercial and naval marine equipment. Rolls-Royce expects the UltraCem coatings to have the capability of changing the hydrodynamic performance, cavitation characteristics and sea-growth fouling of propellers and waterjets. Performance, reliability and time between repairs of marine equipment can also be increased by reduced friction and wear. According to UCT Coatings, UltraCem effectively replaces multiple platings with a single coating, increasing performance and reducing friction on dry parts to the point of being considered “a permanent lubricant.” The surface finishing techniques developed by UCT Coatings utilize an autocatalytic deposition process by submersion of the part in a liquid bath. Plating of UCT coatings is not a line-ofsight technology, unlike many other platPropellers and thrusters treated in UltraCem have shown improved performance,reliability and time between repairs ing technologies. All surfaces exposed to the plating bath are coated with an even thickness including inside and outside corners and blind holes, ensuring uniformity of properties on all surfaces. UltraCem can be used on most metal alloy substrates--everything from ferrous alloys, such as carbon and stainless steel, to non-ferrous alloys such as bronze and aluminum to specialized alloys such as powered metal and exotic alloys. www.marinelog.com 14 MARINE LOG FEBRUARY 2008 http://www.marinelog.com

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