Gear Archives - Baird Maritime

April 6, 2020

GEAR | Teignbridge supplies propulsion for world’s largest aluminium OPV

Written by Baird Maritime Gear Editor on April 6, 2020. Posted in Engines & Propulsion Systems.

Teignbridge contributed to the propulsion system onboard the largest aluminium OPV built in the world. Designed and built by OCEA in France, the vessel was built for the ..

MEPS WEEK

This vital part of the ship and workboat market seemingly reveals technical advances on a weekly basis. Lower fuel consumption, lower emissions, less maintenance, greater ..

March 13, 2020

C-Job to open new office in Athens

Written by Baird Maritime on March 13, 2020. Posted in Dredging and Land Reclamation, Dry Cargo World, Ferries, Fishing Boat World, Harbour Tugs and Operation, Naval Architecture & Design, Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Wind.

Dutch naval architecture firm C-Job is set to open a new office in Athens this coming spring. Nikos Papapanagiotou, who will head C-Job’s Athens office, said that ..

MEPS WEEK

April 6, 2020

GEAR | Cummins repowers tug Gretchen H

Written by Baird Maritime Gear Editor on April 6, 2020. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Gear & Services, Engines & Propulsion Systems.

As sometimes happens with boats in the maritime world, the recent repower of a tug shone a light on a pair of well known independent companies. The tug Gretchen H (ex ..

April 6, 2020

Boomsma Shipping to equip vessel with wind-assisted propulsion

Written by Baird Maritime on April 6, 2020. Posted in Dry Cargo World, Engines & Propulsion Systems.

Netherlands-based Boomsma Shipping is set to install a wind-assisted propulsion system on one of its existing dry bulk vessels. The eConowind-designed propulsion system ..

March 12, 2020

Seawork 2020 to focus on commercial marine jobs

Written by Super User on March 12, 2020. Posted in Conferences & Exhibitions.

Thursday, June 11, the final day of Seawork 2020, is designated Maritime Skills Day. It will feature exciting new initiatives such as a commercial marine “reality ..

MEPS WEEK

April 6, 2020

GEAR | Schottel to propel Washburn and Doughty tug

Written by Baird Maritime Gear Editor on April 6, 2020. Posted in Engines & Propulsion Systems, Inland Tug Operations.

Schottel has been selected to equip a newly built harbour tugboat for the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) with medium-sized azimuth thrusters. The ..

POLLUTION RECOVERY WEEK

March 17, 2020

REMINISCENCES | Oil in the wrong place

Written by Michael Grey on March 17, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Dry Cargo World, Fuels, Lubricants & Bunkering, Pollution/Rubbish Cleanup, Port World, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

Wonderful stuff, oil, just as long as it stays in the right place. Half a century or so ago we tended to think like that, before the age of the superspill and well before ..

FISHING/AQUACULTURE WEEK

March 11, 2020

GEAR | Zenith Engineering supplies genset to new mussel harvester

Written by Ausmarine on March 11, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Gear, Engines & Propulsion Systems.

Zenith Engineering recently supplied a 70kVA keel cooled genset to Q-West’s 30-metre mussel harvester Vanguard. The generator will give continuous 70 kVA and was load ..