ABS announces the appointment of Todd Grove to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer of the society’s Pacific Division. Previously Chief of Staff at the classification society’s Corporate headquarters in Houston, Grove is relocating to the Pacific Division’s principal office in Singapore. With more than 1,000 employees, the Pacific Division is the largest of the three operational and administrative divisions within ABS.

Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has received an order for plate heat exchangers from a company in the growing Russian power industry. The order value is about SEK 50 million. Delivery is scheduled for 2009.

DNV Petroleum Services has tested 6 samples from Barcelona with sediment content exceeding the maximum Total Sediment Potential (TSP) level of 0.10% m/m specified in ISO 8217:2005. The levels varied between 0.11% m/m and 0.19% m/m. The fuels were bunkered between 4th August and 13th August 2008 and there was one supplier involved.

The Week at a Glance
Beach Report...
A nice "breeze" seems to have made its appearance, as consumers and investors worldwide felt it, with oil prices remaining a little steady in the region of USD 110 to 120 per barrel. This, however, may not be enough in order to inverse the economic climate, which is evident in most developed countries....

As a result of a strong commitment to respond to nations' growing demand in coastal surveillance systems, FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD. And Thales have signed a worldwide agreement in order to develop and market hybrid surveillance systems designed to detect and track small surface targets.

By introducing a removable truncation, FORCE Technology is able to increase the versatility of their wind tunnel facility and thereby ensure a fast turnaround on all their wind tunnel projects including buildings, bridges, ships and offshore platforms.

State-of-the-art preservation of historic buildings and monuments: The Volkerschlachtdenkmal (‘Monument to the Battle of the Nations’) in Leipzig is considered to be Europe’s largest memorial.
Its construction required a total of 120,000 m³ of tamped concrete and 12,500 m³ porphyroid granite.

Bodies were found floating inside a capsized ferry in the Philippines Tuesday as rescuers dove into turbulent seas in a desperate search for hundreds of missing in one of the country’s worst maritime accidents. “Most of the bodies were floating inside,” Navy spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Edgard Arevalo said. “They were trapped when the ship suddenly tilted and capsized.”

Tanker Will Be the First in the U.S. with Advanced EPA Tier II Compliant Engines.
Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, a leading U.S. commercial shipyard, launched Hull 009, the fifth in a series of 12 product tankers to be completed by the yard in 2011 and sold to American Shipping Company, formerly Aker American Shipping.

Shanghai, 8 August 2008 - Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries Co., Ltd strengthens its contacts with leading classification societies. The shipyard signed a Strategic Technical Cooperation Agreement with the Hamburg based classification society Germanischer Lloyd. The Strategic Technical Cooperation Agreement covers further cooperation in the fields of Panamax and Post-Panamax Container Ship designs.

A draft design index to measure a vessel's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions proposed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has been criticized by Europe's shipyard industry.
CO2 design index found lacking.........

Sea & Land was established in Piraeus, Greece in 1988 by the Kollia's brothers following twenty years experiance in the refrigeration industry, with the prime objective of remanufacturing compressors according to the exact specifications set down by the original manufacturer.