UK's Largest Submarine Artificial

: KOMPAS.com - Britain will launch its newest submarine, Thursday (16/12/10) at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. Submarine-cost £ 1200000000, or around Rp 22.5 trillion, it is claimed as the largest submarines ever built Britain.

Submarine named Ambulance has size 50 percent larger than its predecessor, Swiftsure and Trafalgar. Approximately 291 feet in length, equivalent to the length of a football field.

Remarkably, the submarine was able to turn sea water into oxygen and clean water so as to maintain the 98 crew members still alive. In addition, the submarine also nearly silent so as not easy to detect the enemy.

Submarine sonar and radar to detect other ships Ambulance, a distance of 3000 nautical miles (5556 kilometers). So, if you are in the area of sea that separates England and France, these submarines be able to detect ships in New York, United States.

These submarines do not need to refuel and can attack using missiles as far as 1,000 miles (1609 kilometers). The biggest, the submarine's mission is usually only 10 weeks, but in theory these submarines can stay underwater without needing to surface in his life, 25 years old.

Ambush will carry 38 missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles which have a cruising range up to 1240 miles (1996 kilometers). In addition, the submarine will be equipped with a heavy weight to destroy torpedo boats and other submarines.

Nuclear-powered engines that could propel the ship at speeds of up to 20 knots, allowing ships to travel 500 miles (805 kilometers) per day. So great, said nuclear energy could feed the entire town of Southampton.

Ambush will be officially launched and named by Lady Anne Soar, wife of Chief of Naval Commander Sir Trevor Soar. In addition, the size of 7400 metric ton submarine will be tested. Just for the record, this submarine can carry 98 crew.

In addition, the Ambulance also features a warehouse that can store food for the needs for three months, consisting of 18,000 sausages and 4,200 packs of cereal Weetabix.

Insa Rejects Revised Shipping Laws 28th Dec 2010

: The decline-INSA Shipping Law Revision December 28, 2010. Taxation policy is considered hamper the implementation of sabotage TULARJI BY Bisnis Indonesia JAKARTA. Executing write to the Minister of Transportation for shipment of Law 17 / 2008 on the voyage not revise, but only by revising Regulation of the Minister of Transportation No. KM.26/2006. They believe the revised regulation entitled Simplifying Procurement Procedures and Use of Replacement Ship / Vessel Flag is one of the legal loophole that can be used to accommodate ships of unprepared offshore  in group C according to the cabotage or the use of the flag. According to Law no. 17/2008, the C-rig jack-up vessel, MODU (mobile off shore units drilling), boat drill, 3D seismic, and Construction-sabotage ships must comply with the provisions no later than May 7, 2011.

Satjipto W. Johnson, Chairman of Indonesian National Ship-owners' Association (INSA), said one proposal is to revise the Regulation of the Minister of Transportation. "Revision is not the only option. There are other ways that can be done so that the ships can be accommodated in group C," he told Business Yesterday. He said clearly, many other ways the government can do to ensure the ship be able to operate in group C. To achieve the target of lifting the oil, without having to violate the principle of sabotage. Chairman of Liquid Transport Sector Board INSA Widihardja Tanudjaja said his organization since the beginning rejected the proposed revision of the Shipping Law. Regarding reason to raise the target to save him, the reason the oil lifting target could be at risk because implementation of the sabotage is not empirically proven, but there are other causes that become the dominant factor in the failure of achieving the target of lifting.

Elimination of State Income Tax Cut Shipping Costs

29 December 2010 JAKARTA
: Elimination of value added tax (VAT) from upstream to downstream in the shipping industry will cut production costs by about 10% are believed to promote the competitiveness of national shipyards. Director general of the commodity-Based Industries. High Technology Industry Ministry Budi Darmadi said the government is now aggressively trying to increase the role of national shipyard to prioritize the construction of ships for the oil and gas and shipping needs as optimal as possible. He admitted for purposes of national shipyards faced with problems of competitiveness due to higher production costs expensive compared with international shipyards, such as China and South Korea, so the price is higher than the supply ship at dock. With the same specification, LPG carrier vessel dwt weighted 3500 China produced more cheaply to U.S. $ 5 million compared with domestic production. "One is because China's own advantage only get about 13% subsidy to ship their exports, "he said.For currently reduces the difference in price, the government promised to immediately complete the discussion on the abolition of the imposition of VAT shipyard.

Budi said the Ministry of Industry together with the related departments are now discussing the VAT exemption for the upstream to downstream activities of the national shipping industry. "We proposed the exemption of VAT in particular. Now shipping VAT is not recoverable because it is free so that the shipyard is borne VAT If released from upstream to downstream it.'ll Cut costs 10%," he said. However, Budi explained, although the national shipyard offering price is still higher than foreign, are still profitable in the long term. Because the cost of procurement of foreign shipyards do not consider post-purchase service account which normally provide precise requirements burdensome.

"For example the Chinese ship, the maintenance guarantee which must be repaired if damaged ship in China. Fare to get there how much? If produced in the country could be improved here, " he said, independence is an important consideration of government in supporting the development of national shipping industry." Shipping is supportive of all sectors, including oil and gas and shipping. If we are not independent, I will need it later because we will be depressed. Independence was expensive at the beginning, but in the long term more sustainable and less expensive".