Industry News – Page 165
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Viking 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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Hurtigruten 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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Spurs 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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Fincantieri 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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Volkswerft 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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New 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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Japanese 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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Typhon 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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Steerprop 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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New 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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First 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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Wärtsilä 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.
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P+S to resume work at Stralsund
The insolvency administrator at German yard group P+S Werften, Berthold Brinkmann, says that production at Volkswerft in Stralsund will begin again on 21 January.
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Seaspan chooses Hyundai newbuilds
Canada’s Seaspan Corporation has awarded a contract for the construction of five 14,000 teu class newbuild containerships to Korea''s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd (HHI).
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IBIA appoints new board member
The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) has appointed Mustafa Muhtaroglu as a new board member. From 1 April 2013, he will replace IBIA chariman, Bob Lintott.
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Four-scrubber retrofit for cruise ship
Norway-based exhaust gas abatement company Green Tech Marine has announced a contract to deliver four scrubbers to Norwegian Cruise Line’s ‘Pride of America’.