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NewsRO-RO BOOST TO BASS STRAIT TRADE
With effect from March 1, Australia’s leading transport company Toll Group has introduced two new ro-ro freight vessels to the Bass Strait service linking the mainland and the island of Tasmania. The Chinese-built, 12,000dwt sisters Tasmanian Achiever II and Victorian Reliance II bring a 40% advance in capacity and an ...
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NewsIMO “likely” to establish work item on scrubber discharge: DNV GL
The IMO’s 74th Marine Environment Protection Committee is likely to establish a work item around scrubber discharge regulation but work on the work item will begin at PPR 7 in February 2020, Eirik Nyhus, director of DNV GL’s Environment, Regulatory Affairs in Høvik told a meeting in London on 21 ...
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NewsDNV GL: Reasserting the primacy of safety
Leading classification society DNV GL’s CEO - Maritime, Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, stressed the need for maritime safety to be placed at the heart of the industry at an industry event in London on Thursday 21 March, adding that the recent focus on environmental concerns has "stolen some of the focus away ...
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NewsCEOs line up for Nor-Shipping conference
The chief executives of technology company Kongsberg and classification society DNV GL are the latest names to sign up for Nor-Shipping’s new Ocean Leadership Conference on 4 June.
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NewsFirst steel cut for Eesti Gaas LNG vessel
A ceremony has been held at Damen Yichang Shipyard in China to mark the start of cutting steel for the first of a series of short-sea liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker vessels to be built for Eesti Gaas of Estonia.
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NewsBureau Veritas and Kongsberg Maritime in remote survey first
MAC, a Bureau Veritas (BV) company and Kongsberg Maritime have successfully tested a new solution for DP system performance and redundancy audits deployed on a Bourbon vessel.
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NewsME-GI engines for six LNG containerships
Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping has exercised an option connected with an order for 5 × 15,000-teu boxships placed in November 2017 and requested another six vessels. All 11 engines involved in the order will be powered by MAN B&W-branded two-stroke engines.
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NewsInert gas production added to Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre applications
An Alfa Laval Smit Combustion system (FU type) has been installed at the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre in Aalborg, Denmark. The system extends the centre’s range of full-scale vessel applications to cover inert gas production. The installation ensures that Alfa Laval remains at the forefront of developing ...
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NewsWärtsilä proves remote service capability
Technology group, Wärtsilä, has successfully tested its remote guidance service allowing crew, engineers and shipyard personnel to communicate with shore-based experts anywhere in the world through augmented reality (AR).
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NewsHøglund awarded FGSS contract for Hurtigruten retrofits
Høglund, the marine solutions and system integration company, has been awarded a contract to deliver biogas-ready fuel-gas supply systems (FGSS) for six Hurtigruten passenger ship retrofits.
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NewsBunker methodology gains Lloyd's recognition
Lloyd''s Register has confirmed that Maersk Tankers'' bunker adjustment methodology conforms with industry quality standards.
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NewsBakker Sliedrecht develops CDG protection for DF DP2 vessels
Netherlands-based systems integrator Bakker Sliedrecht has successfully developed a generator protection system (CDG-protection) for dual fuel vessels which operate with a dynamic positioning system (DP) 2 and 3. The system has been successfully tested by classification society DNV GL.
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NewsMSC Cruises selects BIO-SEA as BWT supplier
The Montpellier-based ultraviolet water treatment company BIO-UV Group has signed a contract to supply its BIO-SEA ballast water treatment (BWT) system for installation aboard two MSC Cruises’ Worldclass cruiseships currently under construction at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard at St. Nazaire, France.
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NewsUPGRADED TWO-STROKE SERIES FROM MAN
In a further phase of design optimisation of its two-stroke range, MAN Energy Solutions has unveiled Mark 10 versions of its G-type 800mm- and 600mm-bore engines, designated the G80ME-C10.5 and the G60ME-C10.5, respectively.
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NewsNew LNG carrier for Anthony Veder
Anthony Veder has expanded its fleet with a 30,000 cbm LNG carrier that is currently being constructed by Zhejiang Xinle Shipbuilding in Ningbo, China.
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NewsWärtsilä designs advanced polar transport
Technology group Wärtsilä is to design and equip an advanced polar multipurpose transport vessel for Norway-based Aker BioMarine. The vessel, which is designed for operation in Antarctic waters, will be constructed at CIMC Raffles'' shipyard in Shandong province, China. As part of the contract, Wärtsilä will supply a package of ...
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NewsKairos supplies first LNG bunker in Baltic port
Leading LNG supplier Nauticor''s LNG bunker supply vessel, Kairos, has completed the first LNG refuelling in the Swedish port of Visby for the newbuild RoPax, Visborg.
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NewsEasyMax design endorsed by second contract
A second cargo vessel of the innovative EasyMax concept has been ordered in the Netherlands by Wagenborg Shipping from Royal Niestern Sander in the light of trading performance with the 2017-built first-of-class Egbert Wagenborg, writes David Tinsley.
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NewsSPAIN ENDORSES MEDITERRANEAN ECA
Speaking at a conference held in Madrid on 18 March, a Spanish ministerial representative announced that the Iberian country would support an application to introduce an emission control area (ECA) to limit sulphur oxides (SOx) from ships in the Mediterranean Sea.
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NewsWärtsilä hydrogen research bears fruit
Kaj Portin, Wärtsilä’s General Manager of Research & Technology Programs, Engines Technology, discussed progress in developing hybrid solutions to use hydrogen in gas or combustion engines.
