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Veripos has established a new Inmarsat-based Differential GPS service for West Africa, Veripos-I, which, it says, will complement an existing HF area network and provide two independent reference facilities for continuous positioning…

ZoHakuWeb.com and Tribon.com are in talks to see how information can be accessed from each other?s websites. ZoHakuWeb?s business-to-business site is mainly focused on the technical information exchange between shipyards and marine…

Thrane & Thrane has launched the Capsat Fleet77 satellite communication terminal which uses the new Inmarsat Fleet service. The company says it is smaller and lighter than conventional terminals measuring 85cm high…

The first ship with a Mitsubishi UE LSE engine has been delivered to its owner. Pacific International Lines of Singapore took delivery of the 6UEC52LSE-powered 1,098 TEU feeder container ship Kota Hakim…

MAN B&W is testing an upgraded version of its 480mm bore medium-speed engine. A spokesman for the company confirmed that the prototype model is undergoing long-cycle endurance tests in Augsburg, Germany. He…

All four of the diesel engines on Cunard Line?s Queen Mary 2 will have smokeless common-rail fuel injection technology fitted. With the remainder of the ship?s power coming from two gas turbines,…

John Deere is planning to launch a new commercial marine engine. It hopes to have the 220kW seawater-aftercooled engine, labelled as the 6068 FFM, in commercial production next year.

A 30,000 dwt chemical tanker under construction at the Japanese shipyard of Shin Kurushima will be installed with a ?tunnel fin? when it is delivered to local shipping company Iino Kaiun Kaisha…

Wärtsilä?s first environmental report was ranked the joint best separate environmental report in 2001 in a competition held in Finland annually to judge the environmental and social responsibility of Finnish companies reporting.…

Rodriquez has secured a contract for an 83m Aquastrada-design monohull fast ferry. The Sicilian-based shipbuilder confirms it is "well underway on construction" of the aluminium- hulled ship at its Pietra Ligure shipyard…