It is vital to measure the cargo volume with absolute precision on LNG carriers, as imprecise measurements will result in incorrect billing, which can further lead to financial disputes and a lack of trust between buyers and sellers. Radar technology is a proven...
A MarineLink article, Out-casting and Outlasting the Competition, answers the question, “So what do competitive commercial fishing, a cable TV series and automation technology have to do with each other?”
A Marine News article, Reeling in the Benefits of Upgraded Boat Controls, shares the story of how AVENTICS boat control technology improved the competitiveness of a commercial fisherman featured in the TV series, Wicked Tuna.
Heavy fuel oil and marine gas oil are used in many marine applications. Wikipedia relates the term bunkering: …to storage of petroleum products in tanks (among other, disparate meanings.) The precise meaning can be further specialized depending on context. Perhaps the...
Making an operational step change in a production process involves a clear vision and people, processes and tools to execute the vision. A July/August 2014 Tank Storage magazine article, Automating terminal operations, highlights the story of Vopak transforming their...
Anything that can reduce the turnaround time for marine vessels in port improves their overall operational efficiency. In an earlier post, More Accurate Marine Fuel Measurement, we highlighted how bunker fuel measurements could be improved with mass flow measurements....
A large component to global trade is commercial shipping operations. Like accurately filling and paying for the gas that goes in your car, these ships require accurate custody transfer from the supplier of the fuel used to propel them over great distances. I caught up...
In earlier posts, we've highlighted the use of bunker fuel for marine vessels. With the global trend for increased supplies and decreased costs of natural gas and tightening environmental regulations, marine transportation companies are looking at cleaner burning...
We discussed the challenges in measuring bunker fuels on marine vessels in prior posts. Last week, you may have seen the news item Emerson introduces remote fuel consumption and bunkering monitoring system. The news from the release: Emerson Process Management, in...
The trend for process manufacturers to globalize production over the last few decades has created large distances between production and consumption, and increased the need for shipping to close these distances. The Lloyd's Register blog shares in a post, Heavy fuel...
I just saw in Neal Ingram's Micro Motion Community blog the news about marine bunker measurement shared at last week's 2011 Nor-Shipping Exhibition and Maritime Conference in Norway. This topic is something we highlighted a while back in a post, Accurate Measurement...
Emerson's Steve Jones, part of the Micro Motion Coriolis flow and density measurement business, recently wrote an article on bunker metering for Bunkerspot magazine. Entitled, Critical Mass in the Bunker Industry, it describes the importance of accurate measurement of...
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