General News – Page 160
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NewsLatest North Sea IMR ship is named
Ulstein of Norway, and joint owners Subsea 7 and Eidesvik Offshore, unveiled and named the inspection maintenance and repair (IMR) ship ‘Seven Viking’ on 30 January.
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NewsDamen launches new PSV for Norway
Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania has launched the ‘World Diamond’, the first of a series of six fully equipped Platform Supply Vessels for Norwegian offshore company, World Wide Supply (WWS).
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NewsABB wins Star Cruises service contract
Global power and automation technology group, ABB, has won a long term service contract from Hong Kong based cruise company, Star Cruises, to supply preventive maintenance of all ABB equipment onboard the ‘SuperStar Virgo’ for the next five years.
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NewsWärtsilä reports stable 2012
Global power solutions company, Wärtsilä, has reported a stable end to 2012 in its recently published ‘financial statements bulletin for December 2012’.
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NewsViking Grace – venue for Gas Fuelled Ships
Mercator Media’s venue for the fourth Gas Fuelled Ships Conference (11 to 12 September 2013) is a fitting one – the world’s largest passenger cruise vessel fuelled by LNG, the ‘Viking Grace’.
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NewsHurtigruten overhaul hat-trick for BREDO
German repair yard Bremerhavener Dockbetrieb (BREDO) has bagged routine repair and overhaul contracts on a trio of Norwegian ferries to prepare them for the coming season, Tom Todd reports.
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NewsSpurs Marine ownership change
Donald Govan, owner of US based line and net cutter manufacturer, Spurs Marine Manufacturing Inc, announced he has sold the company to two of its key managers.
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NewsFincantieri completes STX OSV acquisition
Italian shipbuilder, Fincantieri, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fincantieri Oil & Gas, reports that it has completed its acquisition of a 50.75% stake in offshore support vessel specialist STX OSV.
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Repeat orders validate scrubber technology
Wärtsilä says that it has received an order to provide a further hybrid exhaust gas cleaning and SCR system, from an unspecified repeat customer.
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NewsVolkswerft resumes work on DFDS newbuilds
Almost 11 weeks after production stopped, shipbuilding has begun again at the now insolvent Volkswerft facility of Germany’s P&S Werften, reports Tom Todd.
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NewsNew Ulstein IMR for Eidesvik
Norway''s Ulstein Verft, ship design and build specialists, has delivered a state of the art Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) vessel of SX148 design to Norway''s Eidesvik Offshore this week.
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New Mitsui tanker delivery
Japan''s Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd (MES) has completed a 56,000 dwt type bulk carrier at its Tamano Works and this week it was delivered to New Blossom Maritime S.A., Panama.
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NewsJapanese launch ‘BWTS in a box’
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) have jointly developed technology which they say will allow a ballast water treatment system (BWTS) to be contained in a standard-size freight container, saving on retrofit time and cost.
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NewsTyphon launches marine security service
Typhon, a marine security company set up by a group of British businessmen, has launched its new marine escort convoy service in a bid to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.
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NewsSteerprop propulsion for Russia and India
Finnish propulsion technology company, Steerprop Ltd, has received orders from Russia and India for its new generation ECO CRP propulsors.
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NewsNew year launches for Sovcomflot
Russia’s largest shipping company, the Sovcomflot Group, has seen the launch of two newbuilds so far this year – one a state of the art LNG carrier and the other a new tanker for its own operations.
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Japan authorises ABS certification
Global classification society, ABS, has been authorised by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, to serve as a recognised organisation of the State of Japan.
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NewsFirst with BV’s energy-saving notation
Bureau Veritas has issued the first of its new voluntary SEEMP notations to the 1,500-passenger ro-pax ferry ‘Cap Finistère’, operated by Brittany Ferries.
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DNV and KOGAS study Korean LNG bunkering
DNV and Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), Korea’s national gas company, are to cooperate on a feasibility study on the establishment of an LNG bunkering infrastructure in Korea.
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NewsWärtsilä power for MacBrayne ferry
Wärtsilä will supply the main engines and auxiliary generating sets for a new ro-pax vessel for Scottish operator Caledonian MacBrayne, being built at FSG in Germany.
