Features: - Tanker Operator

SMM PREVIEW
Furuno will be introducing its training
facility.
2005. The sole aim of the training centre is to
educate the seafarers on the correct operation
of the navigation equipment installed on their
vessels - both during ordinary day-to-day
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operation and under extreme conditions. The
training center offers ECDIS education, bridge
management training and product/ system
training.
To ensure and maintain a high level of
quality in the ECDIS training, the education
programme has been audited and certified by
DNV SeaSkill. This allows Furuno to issue
official ECDIS certificates in compliance with
IMO STCW 95 and course code 1.27, which
are accepted by the maritime authorities.
Also, the new VSAT and FleetBroadband
systems will be presented.
Hatlapa Marine Equipment will be
presenting its range of steering gear, which
has been further enlarged to meet the
requirements of the newest 13,000-teu
containerships, which have rudder torques up
to 10,000 kNm.
After several European company buyouts,
Hatlapa now claims to be the only non-Asian
manufacturer of large ram-type steering gears.
All its competitors are Japanese makers who
operate mainly as licensors in South Korea
and China.
In addition, Hatlapa has further developed
its range of small compact steering gears,
starting at rudder torques of 30 kNm ideally
suited for smaller vessel types.
With the start-up of Hatlapa-Korea in early
2007, the ability to serve the Asian and
especially the South Korean shipbuilding
market has been extended still further.
Hatlapa's co-operation with rudder supplier
Becker Marine Systems (BMS) represents a
valuable addition. The companies are aiming
at extending their knowledge range through an
intensive exchange of experience, to provide
Ballast water solutions - one of the highlights of the show
Many of today's ballast water
systems will be on show at
SMM, due to the new IMO
regulations on ballast water
management, which have
motivated manufacturers to
come up with a series of
innovations.
Some of these will be presented for the first
time at the SMM 2008. All new vessels will
be required to filter all ballast water before
taking it on board and before discharging it
again soon.
Along with the 12 bill tonnes of ballast
water taken on board every year, vessels also
carry an armada of stowaways to other parts of
the world - including plankton, invertebrates,
fish larvae, plants, and also pathogens.
According to the environment protection
agency World Wide Fund for Nature
(WWF), there are more than 4,000 different
species being carried in ballast water to new
shores, sometimes with disastrous
consequences.
To back the arguments for the IMO ballast
water regulations, the BSH (Federal
Maritime and Hydrographic Agency)
conducted an analysis as early as 2004
showing the costs for fishery, aquaculture,
coastal facilities, etc resulting from this
transportation of organisms. For example,
the shipworm has caused Eur50 mill worth
of damage in the Baltic Sea since 1993, and
the Chinese mitten crab between Eur73.5
mill and Eur85 mill.
The 'International Convention for the
Control and Management of Ships' Ballast
Water and Sediments' put forward by the IMO
in 2004 aims to put an end to uncontrolled
migration of organisms to foreign waters.
From 1st January 2009, ballast management
will be introduced on ships, preventing
uncontrolled exchange of water.
By 2016 all ships, both new and old, will
have to be fitted with a cleaning system - a
lucrative market in view of the 44,500 ships
of more than 300 gt trading today, according
to figures of the ISL (Institute of Shipping
Economics and Logistics, Bremen).
Bremen-based ROW, a member of Veolia
Water Solutions & Technologies, will
showcase its new CleanBallast system at
SMM. Following extensive onshore testing,
the system has now been delivered to a
shipowner for a live application. The system
comprises DiskFilters and the EctoSys®
electrolysis system for disinfection, treating
the ballast water inline at full flow rate, and
guaranteeing compliance with the IMO
Performance Standard D-2.
The northern German concern Hamann, a
manufacturer of marine purification systems,
will presents its three-part Sedna system.
Hamann started to develop this system as
early as 2001 and has IMO final approval
and more recently from the German flag
administration. The system works with
cyclones and filters. Any remaining
organisms are killed by means of a chemical
in the third cleaning stage.
Envio Water will show its EnvioMar®
system, which kills micro organisms in
ballast water after a hydrocyclone has
removed the suspended particulates. This
system can handle up to 5,000 cu m of
ballast water per hour. The results of the onshore
test will be available at SMM.
Mahle NFV will have its
OceanProtectionSystem OPS for
mechanical/physical ballast water treatment
on the stand. It is another system that will be
show cased for the first time at SMM. The
approval procedure has just started.
Alfa Laval has a lead in this field - the
Swedish company already has IMO approval
for its new development PureBallast, a
chemical-free ballast water treatment system,
and took the first order for it in August 2007.
In total, Alfa Laval already has orders for 20
systems. Alfa Laval received its certification
from DNV on behalf of the Norwegian flag
administration.
In October 2007, the NEI Venturi
Oxygen Stripping (VOS) system was issued
with type approval certification by the
Liberian Bureau of Maritime Affairs. This
included a technical review by ABS.
The IMO Convention requires type
approval certificates from flag
administrations but not class.
Earlier, Alfa Laval and Hamann had IMO
G-9 Basic and Final Approval for their
active substances. However, the IMO G-9
Approval process does not apply to VOS
because it does not use an active substance,
according to NEI.
NEI will be exhibiting at SMM with its
German agent DVZ-Services. �
TANKEROperator � August/September 2008