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MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has successfully retrofitted its Hyundai Intelligent Navigation Assistant System (HiNAS) navigation tool to a 250,000 dwt bulker operated by SK Shipping. HHI claims this is the first time…

20th April 2020

Hyundai retrofits new AI navigation tool to bulker

20th April 2020

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kvaerner has awarded Incus-owned Scana Offshore a contract for the supply of mooring equipment to Hywind Tampen, Equinors new floating wind farm in the Norwegian North Sea.

20th April 2020

Scana wins first offshore wind farm contract

20th April 2020

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Council has urged that shipping continues despite the coronavirus pandemic during its thirty-first extraordinary session, the first not to be held live in organisation’s history.

20th April 2020

COVID-19: Shipping must continue, says IMO

20th April 2020

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Vard, the Norwegian shipbuilder and designer, is to design and build the first Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for operation in Taiwan. The order will be built at Vards yard in Vietnam, Vard…

17th April 2020

Vard to design and build first SOV for Taiwanese market

17th April 2020

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Despite the earlier suspension of operations due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft has handed over its latest high-capacity ro-ro freight vessel, writes David Tinsley.

17th April 2020

ANOTHER RO-RO WORKHORSE FROM FLENSBURG STABLE

17th April 2020

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Bavarian ship management company MINSHIP and its subsidiary MINMARINE have announced that a bulk carrier in their fleet of managed vessels has successfully bunkered biofuel at the Port of Rotterdam.

17th April 2020

MINSHIP bulk carrier biofuel trial

17th April 2020

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

Wärtsilä has announced the launch of its global Smart Support Centre service, aimed at improving asset uptime via remote access for customers of Wärtsilä’s Voyage business, reducing the need for physical service…

17th April 2020

Wärtsilä delivers fast remote service

17th April 2020

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

Stefan Goranov, Program Manager - Hybridisation at engine designer WinGD discusses efficiency gains and the next steps in the engine designer’s hybridisation programme.

17th April 2020

Into the blue: WinGD hybridisation programme takes flight

17th April 2020

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

MAN Energy Solutions has won the order to supply Tier II-compliant main engines for three RoRo vessels intended for operation in the Baltic Sea.

16th April 2020

MAN powers new Baltic RoRos

16th April 2020

THRUSTERS & PROPULSORS

THRUSTERS & PROPULSORS

Jan De Nul has ordered a heavy lift crane vessel capable of lifting 5,000 tonnes from the CMHI Haimen shipyard in China.

16th April 2020

Schottel propels heavy lift crane vessel

16th April 2020