Motorship News – Page 73
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NewsElectrification takes shipping further along its decarbonisation path
Shipowners are shifting towards hybridised and electrified vessels as they slow down and adopt clean technologies. This takes them further towards full electrification, with many options along the way.
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NewsRetrofit challenges could hamper timely reduction of emissions
Class societies are actively collaborating with yards and manufacturers to ensure successful and timely engine retrofit projects, but there are challenges.
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NewsJapanmax Design Boosts Coastal Feeder Traffic
Assuming the mantle as Japan’s largest container ship in domestic trade, the 1,096TEU Kiso has entered service on the coastal route network maintained by Imoto Lines.
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NewsDebut For Revised Korean LNG Tank System
An upgraded version of South Korea’s home-grown LNG cargo containment solution has had its first application in a newly-delivered bunker tanker.
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NewsKongsberg expands US waterjet support
Expansion at Kongsberg’s New Orleans premises will enhance local support and service for waterjet customers in the US
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NewsABS Inks Research Deal To Support Marine and Offshore Sector
ABS has signed a research agreement with a research and development agency affiliated to Texas A&M University. As part of the research agreement, ABS and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) have initiated a number of new, funded research projects.
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NewsShore power: confusion and piecemeal adoption slow the current
A recent media controversy in the UK press surrounding P&O Ferries’ two latest Chinese-built ferries, Pioneer and Liberté, is indicative of the confusion relating to battery-hybrid ferries’ charging solutions. Reports that there would not be sufficient grid capability in Dover to charge up their batteries using shore power revealed generalist journalists’ unfamiliarity with shaft power generation solutions.
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NewsBuilding shipping industry pressure requires building engine pressure
This week will see the latest attempt by a group of world leaders to push industries to accelerate their journey to net zero emissions while finding new ways to finance the energy transition in the process, writes Daniel Bischofberger, CEO of Accelleron.
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NewsLooking ahead at MEPC80
The 80th meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) at the IMO in London will consider a wide range of important topics.
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NewsExxonMobil and Evergreen in biofuel bunkering success
ExxonMobil and Evergreen demonstrate their commitment to decarbonisation with a successful biofuel bunkering
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NewsFirst MAN 48/60 MeOH retrofit will use low-pressure port fuel injection
MAN Energy Solutions has confirmed that it will upgrade a 48/60 engine to a 51/60 using a low-pressure injection strategy as its first retrofit of a 4-stroke diesel to dual-fuel MeOH.
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NewsTrials for new Lake Constance ferry
The 82.5-metre long Richmond, the first inland ferry in Europe to be powered by pure gas engines, is now conducting test runs on Lake Constance.
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NewsMaersk to retrofit 11 container vessels to dual-fuel methanol operation
A.P. Moller – Maersk, the Danish logistics company, has awarded MAN PrimeServ a contract to retrofit the main engines aboard 11 container vessels equipped with MAN B&W 8G95ME-C9.5 prime movers. These will be retrofitted to dual-fuel MAN B&W 8G95ME-LGIM10.5 types capable of operation on fuel-oil/methanol.
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NewsMalaysian Group Looks To Ammonia
Leading names in the Malaysian maritime sector have forged new global alliances to help drive the development and operation of ammonia-fuelled engines. Through the group’s shipowning and academic entities, MISC Berhad has inked respective and inter-rated collaboration agreements with Swiss-based two-stroke power specialist Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD) and Norwegian classification society DNV.
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NewsDNV acquires cyber security firm Nixu
DNV’s takeover of Nixu will create a 500-strong team of cyber security experts
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NewsNew partnership to produce fleet of 10 WTIVs and WFIVs
Manufacturing giants Cadeler and Eneti have announced they are merging to form a ‘business combination agreement’ that aims to build the next generation of wind turbine installation and foundation vessels.
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NewsEuropean ports join forces to create hydrogen corridors
The Port of Bilbao and Port of Amsterdam have joined forces to develop a renewable hydrogen corridor in order to develop the hydrogen market and ramp up its associated infrastructure.
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NewsBARTech WindWings wind-assist propulsion solution
BAR Technologies’ wind propulsion technology WindWings has been awarded a Type Approval Design Certificate (TADC) from classification society DNV.
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NewsBiofuel supplier for Wallenius Wilhelmsen
Energy major ExxonMobil has signed a contract with Wallenius Wilhelmsen to supply renewable biofuel to Wilhelmsen’s vessels calling in Europe. The contract specifies deliveries at Zeebrugge, with an option for Rotterdam.
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NewsA Sea Change In Regional Box Trade
Two newbuild boxships under construction in China for intra-European trade under charter to North Sea Container Line (NCL) will combine Berg Propulsion’s direct-drive solution with the use of methanol fuel. Besides the efficiency gains promised by the particular blend of engineering arrangements, the MAN two-stroke, dual-fuel main engine installation offers a pathway to carbon-neutrality through operation on ‘green’ methanol.
