Maritime Industry Articles

TheNavalArch Interview Series: Mr. Balakrishna Menon

Mr. Balakrishna MenonEngineering Director Mooreast (Asia) Pte Ltd  TheNavalArch's Interview Series is an endeavor to get insights from the best engineering and business brains in the industry, and present them to its users for the larger...
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Floating Rice Fields, the quest for solutions to combat drought floods and rising sea levels

by Lim Soon Heng, BE, PE, FSSS, FIMarEST Founder President, Society of FLOATING SOLUTIONS (Singapore) Abstract Amazing as it seems, there is a case for growing rice on floating platforms in the sea. The capital expenditure to develop this is offset by the opportunity...
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CAPSIZE OF LIFTBOAT IN TRANSIT

This paper was originally presented in the 27th Offshore Symposium, February 22nd, 2022, Houston, Texas Texas Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers It has been reproduced here for the readers of TheNavalarch INTRODUCTION In 1989 a Class 105...
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Preparation for Dry-docking of an oil tanker: A Chief Engineer’s approach

Introduction Dry-docking of a vessel is required at every 5 yearly intervals to carry out inspection of hull, propeller and other components which are normally submersed in water all the time. This is a requirement by ship’s classification societies. However, some...
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CAPSIZE OF LIFTBOAT IN TRANSIT

CAPSIZE OF LIFTBOAT IN TRANSIT

This paper was originally presented in the 27th Offshore Symposium, February 22nd, 2022, Houston, Texas Texas Section...