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With rockets and grenades

With rockets and grenades

Gepostet von | 19 Jan 2021 | , , | 0

The Dutch Navy has been using the Goalkeeper close-range defence system since the early 1990s. What was state-of-the-art at the time is no longer state of the art today. It is only thanks to a modernisation programme that the systems installed on various ships can still be kept in service. Goalkeeper is a so-called Close-in Weapon System (CIWS), which is used for defence against various airborne threats at close range. These include anti-ship missiles, but also small targets on the surface of the water. In the meantime, drones have also been added to the targets against which defence was to be established at the time. In recent years, the missiles to be defended against have been increasingly...

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LNG for car transporters

LNG for car transporters

Gepostet von | 18 Jan 2021 | , | 0

The Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Line) aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by building LNG-powered ships and expanding its LNG bunkering business as part of its "Environmental Vision 2050". Its LNG bunkering vessel Kaguya recently carried out the first ship-to-ship bunkering in Japan, making a piece of Japanese shipping history. The environmentally friendly fuel was used to fill the tanks of the new car carrier Sakura Leader, which has space for 7,000 vehicles and was delivered to the shipping company Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) by the shipyard Shin Kurushima Toyohashi Shipbuilding shortly afterwards. The 81.7-metre-long Kaguya, which only entered service in 2020 and is measured at 4044 GT, was...

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Rolls-Royce supplies mtu gas engines for world's first LNG tug with hybrid system

Rolls-Royce supplies mtu gas engines for world's first LNG tug with hybrid system

Gepostet von | 18 Jan 2021 | , | 1

This is the world's first LNG hybrid tug powered by mtu gas engines. The LNG hybrid tug was designed by LMG Marin (Norway), part of the Sembcorp Marine Group, for the delivery of 65 tonnes of ABS-class bollard pull and is expected to be completed later in 2021. The tug's main propulsion system consists of two 16-cylinder mtu Series 4000 gas engines, which together will deliver a total power output of 2,984 kilowatts at 1,600 revolutions per minute (rpm).

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Christmas and New Year on the hunt for plastic

Christmas and New Year on the hunt for plastic

Gepostet von | 15 Jan 2021 | , , | 0

Research vessel SONNE investigated the path of plastic waste in the ocean The research vessel SONNE spent a month travelling the Atlantic on the trail of plastic waste. Now the ship from the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research has arrived back in Emden. It is well known that millions of tonnes of plastic waste end up in the ocean and its marginal seas every year. Where the rubbish ends up, however, is not. An expedition by the German research vessel SONNE has helped to find out more about the path and effects of plastic in the sea. The team on board reported on their work in the blog of the JPI Oceans research project HOTMIC - and on unusual holidays on the...

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