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Rolls-Royce today announced that it has secured a US$15 million contract to provide project management and integrated propulsion and control systems package to Jackson Offshore Operators , for...
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SeaChange Group of Cumberland, Maine, USA, has secured an award of loan and grants for product validation testing of low emission fuels it describes as Eco-Hybrid Fuels. SeaChange and...
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MAN Diesel & Turbo has released findings of efficiency comparisons for its ultra-long-stroke G-type engine - along with announcement of new orders for it more efficient diesel marine...
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Wärtsilä, the Helsinki, Finland, based marine propulsion compnay is to supply gas powered propulsion machinery and gas storage and handling systems for a new passenger ferry in...
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Extracted from a Lloyd's List interview last month - Stena chief slams 2015 sulphur emission rules - as reported in Interferry News - Dan Sten Olsson, chief executive of Stena...
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A report by Harry Valentine in The Maritime Executive suggest an efficient and cost-competitive gearless mechanical power transfer technology adapted from the era of steam may have...
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In an interview by Wendy Laursen for The Maritime Executive, "Can fuel cells powered by LNG be used for propulsion?" Professor Zuomin Dong of the University of Victoria, Canada, said...
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ABS , the Houston, Texas, based provider of classification services to the marine and offshore industry, has release a new Energy & Environmental Manager module within its NS5 Enterprise...
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Rolls-Royce , the power systems company, has signed an agreement with Italian company Lauro Shipping to design LNG powered ferries based on the Environship concept. This will be first...
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At a company event last week, Danish heat exchanger, separator, pump and valves manufacturer Alfa Lavel presented an overview of its marine business. It also announced new products,...
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DNV, the Norwegian risk management consultancy has produced a "scenario analysis" on global shipping over the next 8 years predicting a possible shift towards risk-based regulation...
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On 5 November, the CMA CGM Group took delivery of the largest vessel in its fleet and currently the world’s largest (capacity) containership, the CMA CGM MARCO POLO capable of carrying up...
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The speed sailing boat Vestas Sailrocket 2 has become the world’s fastest wind powered craft, smashing the previous Outright World Speed Sailing Record, in Walvis...
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In its third quarter 2012 report Nordic American Tankers (NAT) said it is implementing measures to reduce energy use across its fleet of tankers, especially for the main engines. It...
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According to a report by Reuters , there has been a rush of orders for new fuel-efficient tankers, which it is suggested, may exacerbate a current glut of ships that carry refined crude oil...
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Jeppese , the Boeing subsidiary that specialises in navigational information, operations management solutions and flight training products and services, had won a contract to supply BP...
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In a call to arms for the UK government to take a greater account of the strategic and economic importance of the marine supply chain , Lloyd’s Register CEO Richard Sadler strongly...
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With its strong dependence on gas-turbine engines for propulsion, the US Navy is looking to improve the fuel consumption of these engines. One potential method The US Naval Research Laboratory...
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With increasing use of composite materials in the transport and naval sectors the Eurocomp Project is researching ways to enable the recovery of part of the economic value of composite waste . ...
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The Council Of The European Union yesterday adopted a directive amending directive 1999/32/EC regarding the sulphur content of marine fuels . Implementing International...
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Siem Offshore has ordered an installation support vessel from Ulstein featuring a diesel electric propulsion system and two Voith Schneider Rudder ECS propeller units for...
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Rolls-Royce , is to develop a new, highly efficient water jet to propel unmanned surface craft for the US Navy . The new water jet will be the smallest Rolls-Royce design to date, with a...
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"I've seen the future of naval propulsion, and it's electrifying" was GE Power Conversion's Mark Dannatt bold prediction at this week's Euronaval exhibition and...
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MAN Diesel & Turbo has received an order from Chevron Corporation , the American multinational oil company, for two lightering vessels powered by an MAN B&W 6G70ME-C9.2 prime mover...
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According to a recent north American meeting of the martime classification society Germanischer Lloyd’s (GL), the challenge of improving vessel efficiency heads the agenda of every ship...
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Wärtsilä , the Helsinki-based marine solutions and services provider, has released details of its new, more efficient, Aframax tanker design , intended to meet...
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Rail
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As with passenger and freight railways, mining is looking to innovate to decrease costs and increase safety. One route, reported at reuters.com and described on the website of...
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KTN Personal blog
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According Tolve, the telematics business is fragmented among content and app providers, data aggregators, infotainment system manufacturers, safety and roadside assistance specialists, personal navigation device suppliers, real-time map and traffic-update purveyors, fleet management providers, insurance telematics device manufacturers … etc. etc, which leads to a prevailing assumption of likely consolidation as these technologies becomes more mainstream.
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It's something of novelty to see economists arguing for green taxation, but a policy paper by Professor Michael Jacobs published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy claims that carbon pricing can help European countries to raise revenue and reduce their fiscal deficits more effectively than other taxes.
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The report ‘ Less pain, more gain: the potential of carbon pricing reduce Europe’s fiscal deficits’, published yesterday reviews analysis by Vivid Economics (a London based consultancy) on the potential impact of energy and carbon taxes, as well as changes to the European Union Emissions Trading System, in several Member States, and finds that they could raise as much revenue as other forms of taxation while having less damaging side-effects on economic growth and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Nokia has launched a new versions today of its global maps and navigation app for Apple's iOS devices, called Here maps -built on its Navteq database of locations and traffic reports.
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The app uses the same database as Nokia's previous maps product, and is a free download for iPhone and iPad that lets users look up points of interest, calculate routes from their current location (determined by GPS, or triangulation based on Wi-Fi) and see live traffic information.
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Limited offline caching of maps, so you can save maps for when there is no connectivity, is also supported.
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Like a modern day Howard Hughes, South African born Elon Musk is happy to take on incumbent interests in two industries and think he can win. Having made his fortune from PayPal - defeating the banking industry online - he is now operating along with Boeing as the sole US cargo provider to the Space Station with his project X space programme, and has a brand new Tesla electric vehicle on the market.
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Speaking last night at a James Martin School event ' The Future of Energy' and Transport' at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, he was introduced by Professor Ian Goldin - who provided the link as both went to the same high school in Pretoria. Also there were University Vice-Chancellors, the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and Richard Dawkins.
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Elon Musk, the Founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and Chairman of SolarCity, is to give a talk on his experiences at the forefront of technology and innovation The Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, this Wednesday evening.
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"Change comes when we live up to this country’s legacy of innovation, by investing in the next generation of technology and manufacturing."
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On 30 August 2012, DfT published a new official statistics release, Local area walking and cycling: England 2010/11. The release included statistics on the prevalence of walking and cycling amongst adults, at local authority level, during 2010/11.
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The release was based on data from the Active People Survey, a household survey conducted by telephone with more than 166,000 respondents which is run by Sport England Sport England’s annual Active People Survey.
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To avoid getting too unberable meta by posting a review of this site on the main site, I point from here to a report dated yesterday by David Shirres in The Rail Engineer.
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Having just written about one British company's ambitious plans for with new hard-edged lightweighting developments in sports car engineering using Titanium, and previously other even stiffer applications of Carbon Fibre for weight saving and strength, there's reassuring contrast provided by another UK workshop making, and showing how to make, bicycle frames from bamboo and hemp.
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Car makers may wish their vehicles to be a platform for which they maintain control, but they will have a struggle to match the pace of development of device manufacturers in terms of features and usability for the driver. It would be an obvious costs saving to enable a car to be a seamless part of our connected lives, and harder to justify duplicating the functions that consumers want, with custom driver interfaces that may struggle to compete.
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The Middle Kingdom is increasingly claiming its place as the centre of gravity of the automotive world.
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An absolute motherlode for London travel data lies with must be Transport for London’s (TfL's) Travel in London report 4 the annual report on travel behaviour and transport system performance.
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Here's a couple of transport related podcasts that I've recently subscribed to, both available in iTunes and other channels, that might be of general interest...
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According to BMW, the proposed electric scooter can be fully charged in less than three hours and has a range of up to 100 kilometres. The e-scooter has storage capacity in its the battery of 8 kWh, claimed as the best level among e-scooters. The battery is charged via the integrated charging device, either at a regular household socket or a charging station.
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With the London 2012 Olympic Games opening in just 16 days time, for my first blog post for Transport KTN, I thought I’d ease myself in with a discussion about rowing.
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Bear with me. This, and cycling, is perhaps Britain’s most successful Olympic sport in recent Games. I’ll be stretching sporting metaphors quite a bit for a transport blog, but the flinging about of links in values and performance between Olympians and big business, looks set to be in open season from here on in.
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