Industry News – Page 392
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LR introduces environmental management standard
Using the expertise of its quality assurance business, LRQA, Lloyd?s Register has developed a shipping industry specific guide for the ISO 14001 environmental management standard to enable ship operators to establish and implement effective environmental management systems.The core is an environmental ?practical pack? for ship operators - a step by ...
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BERG Propulsion launches Singapore factory
Swedish company BERG Propulsion, a leading manufacturer of controllable pitch propellers (CPP) for the marine industry, recently launched its new production facility in Tuas, Singapore. The new plant is the first of its kind in South East Asia, and the first ever for BERG outside of Sweden. With the new ...
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First ?Comfort Conscious? VLCC
The National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), the leading Iranian tanker company, has recently taken delivery of its latest newbuilding, the 320,000 dwt Marbat, from Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. The ship is notable as being the first VLCC to have DNV?s highest ?comfort? notation ? COMF-V(1). This means that seafarers ...
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Keppel bags Brazilian semisub contract
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), has secured a $385 million repeat order to build a semisubmersible drilling rig for Brazilian oil and gas exploitation and production company Queiroz Galv?o Óleo e G?s (QGOG). This price excludes the drilling and subsea equipment which ...
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MAN Diesel expands service network in North America
MAN Diesel celebrated the official opening of service facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA, and is hereby expanding the MAN Diesel PrimeServ Network in North America. Over 200 customers, suppliers and business partners, including John E. McCormac, Mayor of Woodbridge, NJ, came to celebrate what is now the largest MAN ...
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SCI places LR-1 orders
State-owned Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has ordered six LR-1 product tankers of 60,000 DWT from STX Shipbuilding in a deal worth $371m for delivery from 2010 onwards. SCI has also received government approval to order two 4,400 TEU cellular container vessels from another shipyard to be finalised next month. ...
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MAN Diesel?s environmental milestone
MAN Diesel is relaunching its portfolio, making all its engines compatible with the limits established by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in its Tier II regulations. The relaunch is an historic milestone for the company, and one which preempts the January 2011 implementation of the new IMO NOx emission limits. ...
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Keppel bags Ensco semisub rig
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) in Singapore has won a contract to build a $537 million ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig from a subsidiary of Dallas-based Ensco International Incorporated (Ensco). This contract follows shortly after of the award of the fifth semisub, ?Ensco 8504?, that was announced on earlier last month. ...
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L&T to enter shipbuilding biz
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in India will enter into shipbuilding business with an initial investment of Rs 20 billion ($468 million) next year according to local reports. The shipbuilding project would start in April 2009 and the first L&T-built vessel will be out within two to three years. Moving ahead ...
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RINA launches ILO notation
Italy-based classification society RINA has introduced a new voluntary notation which will help shipowners meet the new international standards for crew accommodation. The notation, ILODESIGN will ensure compliance with the ship construction and accommodation layout and outfitting requirements of the new ILO Maritime Labour Convention 2006.Roberto Cazzulo, deputy director of ...
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Bureau Veritas focuses on access safety
The French classification society Bureau Veritas has developed guidelines intended to reduce the number of accidents to seafarers and surveyors during the inspection and maintenance of ships structures. The guidelines will help yards to design in safety indetail.Guidelines for the Design of the Means of Access for Inspection, Maintenance and ...
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K Line takes delivery of Unimax ore carrier
The 300,000 DWT type ore carrier ?Grande Progresso? of Kawasaki Kisen?s 100% owned foreign subsidiary was delivered at Ariake Shipyard of Universal Shipbuilding Corporation. The 327m long and 55m wide newbuilding with a draught of 21.40m is the first very large ore carrier dedicated for loading at Brazil and unloading ...
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Seaarland orders Suezmaxes
Amsterdam-based Seaarland Shipping Management has ordered three 165,000 dwt Suezmax tankers to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea, for deliveryin the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter 2011.
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Wärtsilä acquires German ship automation company
Wärtsilä has acquired the German company Claus D. Christophel Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH (CDC), which specializes in the design, delivery and service of automation systems for ship owners and yards. The company is based in Hamburg and has three business areas, which are maritime information technology, project engineering and customer ...
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IMO commissions Nigerian MRCC
A key link in the plan to provide effective search and rescue (SAR) coverage off the coast of Africa has been completed with the commissioning, by IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos, of a fully-equipped regional Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in Lagos, Nigeria - the third such commissioning in just ...
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Bunker industry going distillate
Rising crude oil prices and tighter environmental regulations are moving the shipping industry into an era of ever higher bunker prices, the Sustainable Shipping Forum in Singapore has been told. Robin Meech, Managing Director of Marine & Energy Consulting Ltd, made the predictions in his opening chairman's remarks on Thursday. ...
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New icebreaker launched
A new diesel-electric icebreaker, ?Sankt-Peterburg? has been launched at the Baltic Shipyard in Russia. The construction is carried out under the survey of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS). This multipurpose icebreaker is designed for piloting of large ships in the Gulf of Finland, towing of ships and floating facilities ...
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Maersk backs slow steaming
The world's largest container liner Maersk Line is backing slower steaming as a response to rising bunker costs. Slow steaming is an efficient way to reduce bunker consumption, lowering operational costs as well as cutting CO2 emissions, according to Jesper Praestensgaard, CEO Asia Pacific of AP Moller-Maersk. Bunker bills currently ...
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Rem?y orders two PX105s
Rem?y Shipping has signed a contract with Ulstein Verft for the building of two eco-friendly platform supply vessels (PSV) of Ulstein PX105 type designed by Ulstein Design with future oriented products and systems from Ulstein Elektro. The vessels are already set for long-term contracts with StatoilHydro upon completion. The vessels ...
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Hyundai Mipo bags two chemicals carriers
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard has won a 121 billion won ($117 million) deal to build two chemicals carriers for a European shipping company for delivery by December 2011.
