General News 13-18 – Page 93
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NewsInvesting in a greener future
Imtech Marine has signed up to keep its Energy & Automation Lab at the RDM Innovation Dock in Rotterdam for the foreseeable future.
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Major milestone for AkzoNobel carbon credits
The Gold Standard Foundation has reached a major milestone after formally registering the first project from AkzoNobel’s “ground-breaking” carbon credits methodology.
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NewsCarbon War Room retrofit grants available
The Carbon War Room (CWR) has issued a request for proposals to shipowners and charterers to apply for a grant that will help finance a single-vessel retrofit helping them to achieve fuel savings of 10 to 15%.
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NewsFifteen years to ‘technomax’ ships
Lloyd’s Register has outlined its vision of the technology advances that will shape the shipping industry in 2030, in a major report launched at London International Shipping Week (LISW) 2015.
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MHI spin-off companies named
The two new companies established by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to focus on ship construction and manufacture of hull blocks at its Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works Koyagi Plant, have been named.
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NewsInmarsat joins autonomous ship project
Satellite communications specialist, Inmarsat, is taking part in a Rolls-Royce led project that aims to make autonomous ships a reality.
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NewsAction plan outlined for UK growth
A unified industry voice and a cross-government maritime working group are core recommendations in a Department of Transport-commissioned study into growing the UK maritime market, published at the start of London International Shipping Week (LISW).
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NewsDubai woos Greek shipowners
The Dubai City Authority (DMCA) has held a special seminar for Greek shipowners and operators in line with its efforts to promote its maritime sector’s global competitiveness.
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Lloyd’s Register develops cargo capacity technology
Class society Lloyd’s Register (LR) has developed new design methodology for designing container stows that it says will extend cargo-carrying capability on ultra-large container ships (ULCSs).
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Britain and the Sea conference
As London International Shipping Week 2015 draws closer, so does the ‘Britain and the Sea Conference’, taking place at the Royal Society of Arts on Tuesday 8 September.
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Glosten acquires Noise Control Engineering
Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering company Glosten has acquired acoustics specialist Noise Control Engineering.
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Thordon takes Meriaura Coasters order
Thordon Bearings is to supply and install its COMPAC seawater lubricated propeller shaft bearing systems for two general cargo ships being built at Royal Bodewes shipyard for Finland’s Meriaura Group.
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NewsPieter Dijkstra: Don’t leave it halfway
It’s a common mistake to assume that “if you take a midway position on technological development you get the best of both worlds,” says Pieter Dijkstra of Visedo Marine.
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NewsMathieu de Tugny: Technology ‘is only the entry permit’
Mathieu de Tugny of Bureau Veritas admits that in the beginning he was a little insulated from commercial realities, assuming “like most engineers” that technology trumps everything. He talks to Stevie Knight.
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NewsData intelligence is king
As the global maritime industry wrestles with the implications of ‘big data’, Peter Mantel, managing director of BMT SMART, examines how shore-based fleet and vessel performance management – and intelligent analysis of the data provided - can deliver operational and technical improvements far beyond individual ship monitoring.
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NewsDNV GL enhances bulb optimisation service
DNV GL is enhancing its ECO retrofit service to support shipowners and operators tailoring retrofit projects for a more energy efficient future fleet.
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ABS invests in academic research
ABS says advances have been made in technology that will impact the role of classification in the future, and its academic research aims to help the industry benefit.
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NewsDITAS adopts ECO Insight performance management
Turkish ship management company DITAS Marine Operations and Tanker Management Co is to employ DNV GL’s ECO Insight fleet performance management solution for its ten tankers.
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Maritime investors take over Imtech
Imtech Marine is set acquired by Pon Holdings and Parcom Capital – a move that Imtech says will enable it to realise its growth ambition.
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NewsKinder Morgan acquires four LNG tankers
US-based Kinder Morgan Inc is expanding its fleet of Jones Act product tankers after signing an agreement worth US$568m with Philly Tankers LLC to acquire four new 50,000 tonne Tier II tankers.
