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    Stena starts building third E-Flexer RoPax

    2018-11-29T14:00:00Z

    Stena Line has reached a milestone in its new fleet investment programme with the steel cutting of a third E-Flexer RoPax ship to be deployed on its Irish Sea routes.

  • ‘Manchester Challenge’ was the first British cellular container ship
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    Glimpses of the future

    2018-11-29T11:43:00Z

    Reading the December 1968 issue of The Motor Ship, so much seems to belong to a later period that I had to look twice to see that I had the right date, writes Bill Thomson.

  • Roy Langseth, CEO of TeamTec owner IMS Group, with the Oceansaver BWTS
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    Back from the brink: Gently does it for Oceansaver

    2018-11-29T11:15:00Z

    Norwegian ballast water technology provider Oceansaver has been given a new lease of life following its bankruptcy and rescue by new owner TeamTec last year, writes Charlie Bartlett.

  • Failing to connect: one of the many ways BWMS installations may not meet the specs. Image: Cleanship
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    Ballast breakdowns: Don’t go with the flow

    2018-11-29T10:46:00Z

    Ship owners must take care if they are to avoid buying and installing ballast water management systems with high flaw rates. Stevie Knight explores recently exposed reliability challenges.

  • Opening of the new branch office of ABB Jiangjin Turbo Systems in Zhoushan Photo: ABB Jiangjin Turbo Systems
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    ABB extends China service capability

    2018-11-28T14:08:00Z

    Global company, ABB Turbocharging, has announced the establishment of a branch office of ABB Jiangjin Turbo Systems in Zhoushan, China.

  • Renault and Neoline are joining forces to build a wind-powered ship Photo: Groupe Renault
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    Renault and Neoline’s sustainable team-up

    2018-11-28T13:36:00Z

    Groupe Renault has announced a three year partnership with Nantes start-up, Neoline, to develop a wind-powered maritime transport system.

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    Global project to protect marine biodiversity

    2018-11-27T13:28:00Z

    An international project to combat the negative environmental impacts of the transfer of aquatic species through ships has been launched.

  • Ritz-Carlton’s new offering at the top end of the cruise market (credit: The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection)
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    First cruiseship for US hotel group

    2018-11-27T09:31:00Z

    Signalling the impending debut of a major US-owned hotel group in the ultra-luxury segment of the cruise business, a 24,000gt newbuild has been launched for Ritz-Carlton from the Vigo premises of Hijos de J.Barreras, in northwest Spain.

  • ‘Alf Pollak’ at launching from FSG’s covered slipway (credit: FSG)
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    Flensburger trailer ships for Italian trade

    2018-11-27T09:20:00Z

    Italy’s coastwise and shortsea traffic is set to gain two ro-ro freight vessels that will rank among the largest in the Mediterranean, writes David Tinsley.

  • Corvus Energy is building a new marine battery factory in Norway Photo: Corvus Energy
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    New Corvus battery factory in Norway

    2018-11-26T14:04:00Z

    Canadian energy storage specialist, Corvus Energy, has announced that contracts for a new maritime batteries factory in Norway have been finalised.

  • MAN is to provide the engine for a new Chinese dredger Photo: MAN Energy Solutions
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    MAN provides engine for Chinese dredger

    2018-11-26T13:10:00Z

    German diesel engine and turbomachinery company, MAN Energy Solutions, has won an order to supply the engine for a new dredger in southern China.

  • A powerful, dual-fuel icebreaker class is planned for Russia’s Northern Sea Route (credt: Aker Arctic Technology)
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    Russia advances icebreaker strategy

    2018-11-26T09:16:00Z

    Additional icebreaker capacity is planned by Russia in support of traffic growth on the Northern Sea Route (NSR), the country’s Arctic seaway. David Tinsley reports.

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    Oceans of opportunity

    2018-11-23T14:08:00Z

    Sofia Fürstenberg Stott has been an architect of Nor-Shipping’s evolution to embrace and enable new ocean business opportunities for its core maritime audience. Here she explains how adopting a broader ‘blue’ perspective can help maritime in its quest for both environmental and commercial sustainability.

  • Multiple fuel and cost challenges mean that fast diagnosis of engine trouble more important than ever (credit: ExxonMobil)
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    Rapid diagnosis essential as fuel concerns escalate

    2018-11-23T13:25:00Z

    ExxonMobil has highlighted the importance of timely diagnosis of cylinder condition problems as the industry prepares for a brace of new fuel quality challenges.

  • Ulstein and Color Line CEOs Gunvor Ulstein and Trond Kleivdal Photo: Nanseth Media
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    Ulstein kicks off Color Hybrid construction

    2018-11-23T11:21:00Z

    Norwegian ship designers, Ulstein Verft, has been commissioned to build a new plug-in hybrid ship for fellow Norwegian cruise company, Color Line.

  • Cutaway of Bowman’s ETC 1000 electric turbo compounding solution (credit: Bowman Power).
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    UK partners develop waste heat recovery

    2018-11-23T11:16:00Z

    A UK research consortium led by Bowman Power Group has developed an energy saving and emission reduction system based on electric turbo compounding (ETC), writes David Tinsley.

  • A reduction of eight cylinders and 88 tonnes of NOx annually are the result of Gardar's retrofit installation of a Wärtsilä 31 engine (credit: Wärtsilä)
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    First Wärtsilä 31 retrofit for Norwegian trawler

    2018-11-23T11:05:00Z

    Fishing company Norwegian Gardar is to conduct the first ever retrofit installation of the Wärtsilä 31 engine, shedding eight cylinders and 200,000 litres of fuel a year on the trawler ‘Gardar’.

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    Green light for LNG at Marseille Fos

    2018-11-22T16:01:00Z

    An LNG working group at the Port of Marseille Fos has confirmed the feasibility of an onsite operational LNG bunkering solution including truck and vessel refuelling options to help all calling vessels cut emissions.

  • Andritz is to supply scrubber technology to the French ferry operator La Méridionale Photo: Andritz
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    Andritz scrubber orders in Belgium and France

    2018-11-22T12:08:00Z

    International technology group, Andritz, has received two orders to supply SeaSOx scrubber systems for exhaust gas cleaning.

  • Containerised carbon extraction could enable shipping to meet ambitious IMO goals for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (credit: Air Products)
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    Return to sender: Investigating carbon capture

    2018-11-22T05:40:00Z

    Thanks to a relatively small branch of its business in Kristiansand, Norway, Air Products & Chemicals may be about to become a forerunner in carbon capture, writes Charlie Bartlett