Industry News – Page 80

  • Clockwise from back left: Asbjørn Skaro, director digital & systems - Rolls-Royce; Remi Eriksen, group president and CEO, DNV GL; Henning Borgen, president, Sintef Ocean Ålesund; Hans Petter Hildre, chairman, NTNU
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    Project plans ship design simulation platform

    2017-07-03T10:27:00Z

    An open source digital platform for the design of ships – described as ‘a virtual test bench’ for ship concepts - is to be created under a multilateral project encompassing classification, research, academic and commercial organisations.

  • Fu Hongtian, general manager,SunRui (left) and Vincent Li, business development manager Greater China, DNV GL - Maritime
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    SunRui moves forward with SCR and scrubber

    2017-07-03T08:06:00Z

    Chinese manufacturer SunRui has revealed plans for further developments following the award of US Coast Guard (USCG) type approval for its ballast water management system.

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    Technology is favoured shipping investment

    2017-06-29T15:41:00Z

    25% of shipping industry professionals favour investment in new technology, up from 14% in 2016, a survey has found.

  • Intertrac Vision Lite aims to provide a new way to engage ship owners and operators in the hull coating selection process
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    AkzoNobel launches Intertrac Vision Lite

    2017-06-22T12:57:00Z

    AkzoNobel has launched a new app which offers a lite version of its Intertrac Vision software, the big data hull performance prediction tool.

  • DNV GL The Solitude
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    New code will certify unmanned vessels

    2017-06-21T08:58:00Z

    Lloyd''s Register (LR) has launched a code that assesses unmanned marine systems (UMS) against a set of safety and operational performance requirements.

  • The tug was controlled from a remote operation centre built by Rolls-Royce in Svitzer's headquarters in Copenhagen
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    Rolls-Royce and Svitzer in remote operation first

    2017-06-20T13:57:00Z

    A Svitzer tug with Rolls-Royce systems has completed what the companies claim is the first remote operation of a commercial vessel, in Copenhagen harbour “earlier this year”.

  • DNV GL Eco Insight
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    DNV GL opens two fleet performance centres

    2017-06-19T09:04:00Z

    DNV GL has opened digital fleet performance centres in Hamburg and Singapore which aim to help improve vessel efficiency by monitoring and optimising operations.

  • A new technical centre and committee in Athens will enable ABS to evolve industry standards
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    ABS opens Athens technology centre

    2017-06-13T06:13:00Z

    The American Bureau of Shipping has unveiled its Global Ship Systems Center in Athens, home to a new committee dedicated to developing standards used in ship design, construction and surveying.

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    DNV GL charts GHG emissions scenarios

    2017-06-13T05:39:00Z

    Class society DNV GL has published a report assessing the potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction from shipping towards 2050, based on a new computational model.

  • Wärtsilä will provide maintenance to Maran Gas Maritime's 21 TFDE LNG carriers
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    Wärtsilä Maran maintenance agreement

    2017-06-12T13:25:00Z

    Wärtsilä and Maran Gas Maritime (MGM) have extended their current LNG carrier cooperation with a five-year maintenance agreement.

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    Bourbon enlists Kongsberg for connected vessels

    2017-05-31T06:33:00Z

    Bourbon and Kongsberg Maritime have signed a strategic agreement of collaborative development on connected and autonomous vessels.

  • The Hyperloop could disrupt shipping, as well as Gresta's idea that "we choose who to love based on traffic"
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    Love, traffic and disruption at Nor Shipping

    2017-05-30T16:10:00Z

    Speakers at the Nor Shipping opening conference tackled the weighty topic of shipping disruption on the first day of the biennial exhibition.

  • Installation-free, cloud-based ship performance monitoring from NAPA relies on a database of more than 6.5 million voyages
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    NAPA launches installation-free performance monitoring

    2017-05-29T08:17:00Z

    Software and data house NAPA has launched a cloud-based performance monitoring solution that requires no installation.

  • Rolls-Royce will take charge of service and maintenance for equipment on NOr Lines' high-spec cargo vessels 'Kvitbjorn' and 'Kvitnos'
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    Nor Lines duo debut ‘power by the hour’

    2017-05-25T07:54:00Z

    Nor Lines has signed a contract with Rolls-Royce to monitor and maintain equipment – including engines - onboard two cargo vessels under a new, fixed-rate service agreement.

  • Olav Einar Rygg: “Attractive financing of retrofit equipment could make the investment less demanding for many vessel owners”
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    Norwegians to finance vessel retrofits

    2017-05-24T13:44:00Z

    Following the IMO ratification of the ballast water treaty and the decision on a global sulphur cap, one agency is reassuring shippers that there is help available to finance vessel retrofits using Norwegian solutions.

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    DNV GL offers asymmetric stern optimisation

    2017-05-16T16:19:00Z

    DNV GL has included asymmetric stern shapes in its Eco Lines hull optimising service for the first time, enabling vessels to reduce installed power.

  • Sergey Ogai (left), rector of MSUN, and Konstantin Dudarev, deputy managing director and OSV fleet team manager, Sakhalin branch, Unicom Management Services
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    ‘Floating lab’ to study electric propulsion

    2017-05-16T13:57:00Z

    A ‘floating laboratory’ onboard icebreaking platform supply vessel ‘Gennadiy Nevelskoy’ is to research electric propulsion and equipment performance in ice conditions, under plans drawn up by Sovcomflot (SCF) and the Admiral Nevelskoy Maritime State University of Vladivostok.

  • RAMLAB and Autodesk have already built a to-scale propeller and are now targeting class approval with Promarin, Damen and Bureau Veritas
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    3D printing project targets class-approved prop

    2017-05-16T13:56:00Z

    A consortium of five companies is cooperating to develop the world’s first class approved propeller made using 3D printing (or additive manufacturing) techniques.

  • An opening panel featuring Mitsui OSK Lines (Kenta Arai), Hapag-Lloyd (Wolfram Guntermann), Maersk Line (Ole Graa Jakobsen) and Carnival Corp (Tom Strang) epitomised strong ship owner and operator involvement
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    Strong shipowner turnout for Propulsion & Emissions conference

    2017-05-12T10:44:00Z

    Some of the world’s biggest fleet owners, charterers and tonnage providers have highlighted the technical challenges facing global merchant shipping at The Motorship’s 39th Propulsion & Emissions Conference in Hamburg this week.

  • The Yara Birkeland is expected to be the first autonomous, all-electric container feeder and will begin plying the Norwegian coast late next year
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    Yara and Kongsberg to build electric container feeder

    2017-05-10T07:26:00Z

    Yara is to work with Kongsberg Maritime to build what the companies say will be the first all-electric container feeder vessel, sailing between Yara’s facilities in Porsgrunn, Brevik and Larvik in Norway.