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Ship emissions have local regional and global impacts. Pollution and atmospheric scientists rely on various emissions inventories to quantify the potential environmental impact. Marine diesel engines are among the most fuel-efficient combustion sources for moving global resources and products. Nonetheless these inventories and model results identify international shipping as a significant source of air pollution and a contributing factor in global climate change. Marine vessel inventories show that ship emissions cannot be neglected in assessing environmental impacts of air pollution although significant uncertainty in these inventories remains. This uncertainty is addressed by using a bottom-up estimate of fuel consumption and vessel activity for internationally registered fleets. Model bias in previous work is identified which assumed internationally registered ships primarily consume international marine fuels. Updated results suggest fuel consumption is around 1.75 times the quantity reported as international fuel. This increases previous ship emissions inventories for all pollutants; global NOx emissions (around 5.98 Tg N) are nearly doubled. The implications for assessing ship emissions impacts are discussed.

For some time the delicate step of converting ENCs (electronic navigational charts) into a SENC (system ENC) onboard has been perceived as a weak link in the overall ECDIS (electronic chart display and information system) concept. ENCs are very complex have poor consistency originating from a variety of official sources and are cumbersome to handle. To overcome these drawbacks ECDIS manufacturers users and data distributors have identified the simple solution of converting S-57 ENCs into a SENC format BEFORE they go out to ships. A practical implementation of this approach is described.

The rolling motion of ships can be controlled in a number of ways including the use of a fin stabiliser. The effect of the steering method and controller adjustments on fin stabiliser efficiency is considered. A mathematical model of a ship's motion with a fin stabiliser is presented. A digital simulation was used to evaluate the effect of control methods on ship resistance. A classical controller is shown to be more effective than an optimal controller although it can generate a bigger fin angle of attack and an increase in ship drag can be seen as a result.

The problems of the design process of both the ship hull and the technical systems on board ships is presented. It is shown that the design process for production in shipbuilding leads to such problems as interdependencies at several stages of design and production. An account is given of the importance of structured knowledge on the way to decompose the complex design process of a ship. In order to make problems visible it is necessary to have a better understanding of the system. The application of functional analysis techniques can help to decompose even very complex systems. In order to find the most appropriate technique for application to a particular system with a particular objective the advantages and disadvantages of different techniques must be considered.

Modern ships in operations generate a multitude of data that can be of crucial importance for the owner the management company or the charterer. Such is the sheer amount of data that those who are interested in following what the ship is up to have to set up a data management strategy to store filter and analyse the information. The faxing or e-mailing of special reports to interested parties generates much work onboard. An integrated solution for the data management and report generation allows the seafarers to concentrate on the safe and economical transportation of the cargo from port to port. This paper examines the different ways of data collection onboard as well as how such data can be analysed. It also describes different ways of distributing the analysed data practically. The main focus of the paper is log book data fuel management and the recording and reporting of emissions.

Articles Alston Kennerley, 'Global Nautical Livelihoods in the late nineteenth century: the sea careers of the maritime writers Frank T Bullen and Joseph Conrad, 1869 - 1894' p3 Anthony J Arnold, 'Investment decisions and the signalling effects of financial information flows: Vickers shipyard 1913 - 1924' p25 Nicholas Coni, 'A tale of two ships: the Spanish Civil War reaches the British coast' p44 Yrjo Kaukiainen, 'The role of shipping in the 'second stage of globalisation' p64 Henrik Sornn-Friese and Martin Jes Iversen, 'The establishment of the Danish International Ship Register (DIS) and its connections to the maritime cluster' p82 Forum John B Hattendorf, Naval History p104 John K Walton, Tourism and maritime history p110 Ingo Heidbrink, Whaling, disheries and marine environmental history in the International Journal of Maritime History p 117 Malcolm Tull, Port history in the International Journal of Maritime History (1989-2012) p123 Hugh Murphy, Shipbuilding and the International Journal of Maritme History p130 Gelina Halaftis, Merchant Shipping in the International Journal of Maritime History p139

Book produced to publish papers that were presented as part of the Jubilee 40 years Anniversary meeting for the Netherlands Ship Model Basin. Papers as follows: 'The NSMB - 40 years of scientific industrial service in marine technology'; 'Contributions on some current problems of ship resistance'; 'On wind resistance'; 'Recent developments in marine propeller hydrodynamics'; 'Cavitation and its detrimental effects', 'Applied mathematics in ship hydrodynamics'; 'Fish propulsion'; 'Manoeuvrability, state of the art'; Some recent advances in the prediction of ship motions and ship resistance in waves'; 'Retrospection on 15 years NSMB seakeeping activities'; 'Ocean technology'; 'Some developments in the area of strength and vibrations of ships'; 'Propeller vibratory shaft forces affected by design and environmental conditions', 'Computer-aided ship production, management and control' and 'Design and operations'.

Papers from symposium held on 21-22 April 1997 in Hamburg. Day 1: US shipping policy: towards a deregulation - Creel Deregulation of ocean shipping - Van de Merwe Labor unions go transnational - Heylman Towards a liberalization of trades and services - Latrille Liner market development - Ralph Strategy of polish land and sea transit - Nowakowski Challenges in shipper-shipowner relations - Mansell Objectives and functions of south Asian shippers councils - Deora The future role of ship agents - Schilling Day 2: European strategies for a road-to-sea development - Zachcial Asian regional feeder systems - Chan Tuck Hoi North European feeder systems - P Bohnsen Promotion of transshipment activities - Battistello A new generation of high speed container feeder ships - Topel The role of ports in intermodal transport - Taddeo Short-sea shipping in the Baltic - Krzyanowski Shippers' strategies in transport logistics - Wigen Shippers' requirements of ports - Ericsson Supply-side economics and its mechanisms - Yamada Concentration and co-operation in liner shipping - Casjens The need for co-operative arrangements in liner shipping - Arena Development prospects for China's ocean liner fleet - Zhongming Strategies for an independent carrier - Morgenstern

Int Conf held in Arlington VA USA June 5-7 1989 Papers include Weapon performance enhancement aboard a surface effect ship The effects of motion induced surface wave generation on SES vertical plane motions in incident waves Experience with the KAMEWA water jet propulsion system Large scale model tests on Royal Schelde SES A technical evaluation of the 60 foot SWATH ship HALCYON to determine utility in Coast Guard operations Applicability of SWATH ships The Bylo maritime distribution system - concept and design Some advanced marine vehicles and their applications An automatic control system for a recreational hydrofoil Hybrid hydrofoil - a concept whose time has come Stress distribution in the joints of sandwich composite structure Fast Ferry transport system decisions under uncertainty - a comprehensive case Finite modelling of vessels constructed with foam core composite materials A test method to determine shear in sandwich core composite beams Hull design methodology for high speed endurance craft Advanced submarine concepts Spherical submersibles with static-pressure hull trust - an optimum combination of structural and propulsion efficiencies Underwater vehicle evolution in Canada

Lightweight high-speed craft are not passenger ships in the conventional sense and the Code of Safety for Dynamically Supported Craft (DSC code) resulted to enable administrations to approve of these novel craft. IMO encouraged governments to adopt the code but neither the UK nor Hong Kong has done so. This paper studies the legal problems associated with the application of conventional passenger ship regulations to high-speed craft and the reasons why many countries have been reluctant to legislate for the code. It speculates on the likely response to the revised code for high-speed craft and gives opinions on the legal and insurance implications of not keeping the rules of novel craft abreast of their designers.

The Sulzer RTA96C low-speed two-stroke marine engine was announced in December 2004 to meet anticipated market demands for a higher-powered prime mover to propel large fast container liners. It was the latest in a succession of Sulzer large-bore engines which had been successfully employed in container ships. This engine entered service in October 1997. Its service experience is reported. Problems encountered in service have largely been remedied. These problems are outlined together with the remedies developed and the improvements introduced. The single most important benefit - the change to common-rail fuel injection - has brought benefits in operational flexibility fuel economy slower minimum running speeds smokeless operation at all speeds and better control over other exhaust emissions.

Three NATO MILOC (military-oceanographic) exercises were held in 1996 1997 and 1998 to demonstrate rapid environmental data collection product generation and product dissemination. These exercises called RR (rapid response) preceded NATO war-fighting exercises that were supported by products developed during RR. NAVOCEANO participate in all three RR exercises with survey assets personnel and products. The premier product delivered to the war fighters each year by NAVOCEANO was a STOIC (special tactical oceanographic information chart). This was built based on historical data and then was rapidly populated during RR with data collected by NATO survey ships aircraft and satellites. Numerous problems were encountered in working with data sets from different nations including lack of metadata formats file sizes and communication pathways. These lessons as well as those learned in merging various hydrographic data sets are discussed.

The need for good escape lighting is well recognised. However a number of incidents resulting in deaths brought into question the effectiveness of existing emergency lighting techniques. Generally the maritime community is extremely safety conscious and has often reacted rapidly to incidents with the introduction of new resolutions to improve safety. Unfortunately there was still clean evidence to suggest that further improvements were required in providing the best conditions for safe egress in emergencies such as fire. A number of emergency lighting specialists had recognised the limitations of mounting luminaries (lighting fittings) on the ceiling to provide escape route lighting especially in the presence of smoke. Various research projects were undertaken and the data indicated that lighting mounted on or close to the floor below any smoke layer offered significant improvements in escape potential. When this information was made available to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) a task force was set up and a new Resolution (A752/18) was prepared for Low Location Lighting (LLL) to be installed in all ships carrying more than 36 passengers.

Contains tables that are intended to be used in the design of ship structure where the plate is considered acting as one of the flanges of the attached member. Part 1 covers stiffener and plate combinations using commercially available shapes. Part 2 covers combinations using flanged plates whose dimensions are beyond those of commercially available angles and channels. The information was developed primarily for the use of the shipbuilding industry but is of value to the structural industry as a whole, when it is desired to take advantage of the weight-saving which results from the elimination of the faying flanges of stiffening members by the welding of webs directly to plating.

This text is part of the series Marine Engineering Practice, Volume 1, 11 unique books bound together in one volume. The transmission of power by some form of hydraulic drive is well established in every field of engineering and some of the earliest equipment produced was for marine applications. As well as considering the specific equipment in use in modern ships and the criteria governing the design and maintenance of hydraulic systems, a few fundamental concepts regarding fluid power are reviewed and some elementary mathematical equations are presented describing the main parameters of any system, e.g. flow pressure, torque, speed and power.

Since deck officers are concerned primarily with the response of ship systems, and modern ships are characterised by the interaction of power plant and measurement and control systems, the aim of this book is to encourage a broad view of the systems concerned which is not obscure by inappropriate attention to detail. This approach is particularly relevant to cadet and junior engineer officers, and marine electronics officers, who require a board introductory approach to marine systems as a prerequisite to further studies in depth, which are a requirement of their particular development of competence. Contents include: Introduction: The systems approach; Energy conversion systems; The principles of measurement and control systems; Shipboard systems; Firefighting systems; Engineering calculations; Reliability of marine systems; Appendix – specimen examination questions.

The P&I system of mutual non-profit making clubs providing indemnity insurance to shipowners and charterers for third party legal liabilities arising from the operation of their ships is described: an overview of typical claim types (cargo personal injury damage to third party property collision pollution) and their respective financial implication is included. The role of the expert in the legal processes inherent in this system can change from adviser to witness and is examined with reference to a typical cargo claim and to Mr Justice Cresswell's definition of the duties and responsibilities of an Expert Witness. The adaptation of P&I clubs to perceived future demands is considered with discussed with attention to sources of expertise and the impact of electronic data interchange and working practise. P&I clubs

Sir Thomas Crapper invented the gravity water closet in the late 1800s. Today's marine industrial demands have greatly increased the performance requirements of the waste water system. The first vacuum toilet system was installed around 1956. The marine industry began to use vacuum sewage systems in the early 1960s because gravity plumbing is generally not feasible at sea due to the constant change in position movement rocking starting stopping etc. Today vacuum toilets and interface valves are well known throughout the marine industry and they continue to grow as a method of sewage collection. Worldwide vacuum sewage systems are used in commercial marine vessels as well as in Navy and Coast Guard ships. The vacuum system is compared to the gravity-pressure system. The vacuum system is described.

Major challenges confronting class societies are addressed. Statistically only a tiny proportion of ships cargo and seafarers are lost but this is not good enough. Some suggested changes in the manner in which the maritime industry functions are put forward. The process has traditionally been one of incremental change but the view is expressed that this is no longer the appropriate response. The circumstances of the last great tanker building boom of the early 1970s are compared with today. Consideration is given to how class needs to remake itself for the modern world if it is to remain relevant stressing the need for a jointly developed plan and outlining some specific issues the plan must address.

Contents Douglas G Bennet, 'Schooners' Sunset' (part 9) p.5 Ivor Smart, 'Maritime Dartmouth, SelectiveList of Ships Built 1855-80' p.81 Captain Lester Newman, 'The Log of the Hilda' p.97 Julia Creeke, 'Commander Lester Newman, OBE, SGM, RD, RNR' p.115 Dale Thomas, 'A Lifetimes Log - Captain James Murdoch of the Raymond' p.121 John Kinross, 'Blockade Runners of Bermuda' p.163 Ian Andrews, 'Poole and Newfoundland' p.169 John Claro, 'Introduction of Navigation Lights and the Rule of the Road' p.181 Index of contents of previous journals p.189