General News – Page 109
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NewsLNG bunker vessel to be Bureau Veritas Classed
Classification society Bureau Veritas says that it has been chosen to class a large LNG bunkering vessel which will be built at Hanjin Heavy Industries, Korea, under an agreement between Japan’s NYK and Mitsubishi and France’s GDF-Suez.
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NewsSCR test for Fairplay tug
Rolls-Royce brand MTU and Fairplay will test an SCR exhaust system on an MTU diesel genset on board a harbour tug in order to verify compliance with IMO Tier III emission requirements that come into force in 2016.
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NewsRolls-Royce launches new medium speed engine range
Rolls-Royce has unveiled the first of a new family of medium-speed engines for the marine market that will include versions powered by both diesel and gas.
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NewsDual fuel X-series two-stroke engine order for Wärtsilä
Wärtsilä has announced that two new large, 180,000m3 LNG carriers being built by the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in Korea are to be powered by six-cylinder X62DF two-stroke dual-fuel engines.
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NewsCaterpillar launches new MaK engine platform
Caterpillar Marine has announced the launch of its Mak M 25 E engine platform, aimed in particular at offshore supply ships, with up to US$250,000 claimed fuel savings.
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Lloyd’s Register streamlines its Type Approval process
Classification society Lloyd’s Register is now offering what it describes as a faster and easier type approval service for its clients’ products.
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ABS gets ethane carrier class contract
US classification society ABS is to class a series of very large ethane carriers (VLECs), which it says is the world’s first contracted series of such vessels.
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Cylinder oil for 2015 ECA 0.1% sulphur distillate fuels
Marine lubricant supplier Total Lubmarine has announced the launch of its Talusia LS 25 low alkaline cylinder lubricant specifically designed for slow speed two stroke engines running distillate fuels with 0.1% sulphur content.
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Engine jacket heat harnessed to produce power
Calnetix Technologies of the US says it is introducing a new system that produces up to 125kW of power for the ship’s electric load from heat recovered out of the engine’s jacket water.
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NewsTwo-stroke cylinder oil intended for ECA operation
Shell Marine Products (SMP) claims to have become first to the market with a two-stroke cylinder lubricant formulated specifically for the needs of ships operating in ECAs.
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NewsContainer ship order for low pressure dual fuel two-stroke engines
Wärtsilä’s gas-fuelled two-stroke engine has picked up another order, this time for a series of four container ships for German shipowner GNS Shipping which will be built in China.
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Copenhagen shore power proposal
Copenhagen City Council are apparently considering a proposal that the 400 cruise ships that dock its port each year should be offered shore side power in the future.
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Three Greek tankers docked at Gibdock
Piraeus-based Aegean Maritime Petroleum Network Inc (AMPNI) recently contracted Gibraltar yard Gibdock to carry out repairs to three of its tank vessels.
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NewsEngine designer gives OK to BN100 cylinder oil
ExxonMobil says that its Mobilgard 5100 BN100 cylinder lubricant has received an interim No Objection Letter (NOL) from Wärtsilä for use in engines in the RTA, RT-Flex and X-series engines running on HFO.
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Balpure BWMS for STX newbuilds
Severn Trent De Nora is to supply its Balpure ballast water management system (BWMS) for crude oil tankers being built by STX Offshore and Shipbuilding in Korea.
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NewsNew 2015 release for ShipConstructor software
SSI of Canada has announced the latest release of its ShipConstructor CAD/CAM software package, ShipConstructor 2015, for the ship design and shipbuilding industry.
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ABS bags its first Japanese-flagged ship
ABS, the Houston, US-based classification society, reports that it has become the first foreign class society to include a Japanese-flagged ship in its fleet.
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NewsOptimarin BWT system for IMR vessel
Optimarin is to supply its ballast water treatment (BWT) system for the Institute of Marine Research’s (IMR) new NOK 450m (US$72.3m) flagship, ‘Dr Fridtjof Nansen’.
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NewsNanotechnology applied to fuel emulsion to cut NOx and PM
A UK company, SulNOx Fuel Fusions, says that application of nanotechnology to emulsified fuel could cut emissions of NOx by 50% to 60% and particulates by up to 90%, as well as “slash the emissions of green house gases”.
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NewsFlow meter benefits for shippers
Marine fuel distributor, OW Bunker, says that quantifiable financial benefits have been shown as a result of the use of a Coriolis Flow Meter on board the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore barge, the ‘Marine Noel’ and they’re significant.
