A Shell study launched today is proposing a roadmap of solutions to help the industry meet the IMO's ambition to reduce carbon emissions. The study, which was jointly produced with Deloitte Netherlands and Deloitte UK, drew on interviews with senior shipping executives to identify industry priorities on decarbonising the shipping sector....

Eurotank Service Group is extending its full spectrum of fuel system maintenance and installation services to the fleet fuelling sector with the launch of Europump Maintenance for commercial customers....

Early reports on the variable quality of very low-sulphur fuel oils confirm research highlighting the need for robust cylinder lubrication when using the new fuel blends....

Total Lubmarine has opened a new Diagomar Plus Laboratory in Chicago, extending the global reach of its technical support services....

Product tanker owner Eletson Corp has simplified its lubricant procurement processes by switching to an e-commerce purchasing solution....

Total Lubmarine received an approval from MAN Energy Solutions for its Talusia Universal cylinder oil on 19 May, indicating the firm’s confidence in the product....

Dream Cruises’ ‘Explorer Dream’ has become the first cruise ship to receive the Certification in Infection Prevention for the Maritime industry (CIP-M) from classification society, DNV GL....

Berg Propulsion will invest in the centralisation of all manufacturing operations for controllable pitch propellers, azimuthing and transverse thrusters, and associated control systems to a single campus location in Sweden....

The Van Aalst Group has set up Nortek Services in Kristiansand, Norway to provide maintenance and workshop services for clients operating worldwide in the offshore oil, gas, marine and renewables industry....

Danish shipowner J. Lauritzen A/S is to operate its gas and bulker arms as independent companies, the shipowner announced on Wednesday....

Furuno Electric Company has acquired Danish company EMRI with effect from 1 July 2020....

Investigations into the 2019 loss of 345 containers from MSC Zoe have indicated that the vessel's high stability was a contributing factor, and other vessels may face similar risks...

Yanmar Holdings and its subsidiary Yanmar Power Technology have announced the development of a hydrogen fuel cell system for maritime applications based on fuel cell technology for automobiles....

The hydrogen economy is gathering momentum with plans to take a green hydrogen plant into operation as early as 2023....

Kaj Portin, General Manager, Fuel & Operational Flexibility, Wärtsilä Marine, discussed progress in developing solutions to use hydrogen vectors, such as ammonia and hydrogen...

A Japanese consortium is collaborating in a project to develop ships designed to use ammonia as fuel, using a MAN ES ammonia-fuelled engine as the prime mover....

New data on the global availability of methanol will be hosted on the DNV GL Alternative Fuels Insight (AFI) platform, reports the Methanol Institute (MI)....

Brunvoll has won a large contract for thrusters from Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in South Korea. The Norwegian propulsion specialist also noted that it had extended its product portfolio in 2020....

German propulsion specialist Schottel has launched a retractable variant of its rim thruster (SRT). The solution is available in a retractable (SRT-R) variant, in which no additional flow resistance is generated when withdrawn, as well as an RT variant, in which the unit can be used as a transverse thruster while withdrawn....

Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract to design and equip two zero-emission battery powered ferries for Norwegian operator Boreal Sjö that will be built at Holland Shipyards in the Netherlands....

Wärtsilä has won the contract to provide a fully integrated main propulsion system for a new multi-purpose cargo vessel being built for Mauritius Shipping Corporation (MSCL) at the Huanghai Shipyard in China....

German propulsion specialist Voith has launched its new electric Voith Schneider Propeller (eVSP) propeller drive. The innovative solution uses a permanent-magnet synchronous motor as its main drive, and represents a significant advance in Voith's electrification of its drive technologies....

Engine efficiency has been limited by the need to avoid potentially damaging peak pressures. But supposing you could alter those pressures on the hoof, adjusting for load while the engine was operating?...