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ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Japanese shipbuilder and engineering conglomerate Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has begun construction of the world’s first liquefied hydrogen (LH2) carrier.

7th October 2019

FIRST LIQUEFIED HYDROGEN CARRIER UNDER CONSTRUCTION

7th October 2019

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Proman Shipping and Stena Bulk have joined forces to operate two long term time-chartered ships under the name Proman Stena Bulk Limited.

7th October 2019

Proman and Stena Bulk join forces

7th October 2019

LNG

LNG

Nauticor has successfully completed the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering operation in a German port.

7th October 2019

First German ship-to-ship LNG bunkering

7th October 2019

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has received approval in principle (AiP) from DNV GL for its Aframax (A-max) crude oil tankers (COT) using fuel cells with improved efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

4th October 2019

DNV GL approves fuel cells for SHI tankers

4th October 2019

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

The first pilot of BunkerTrace, the system that combines synthetic DNA tracers and blockchain to manage risk for marine fuels by creating a transparent chain of custody, has successfully completed.

3rd October 2019

DNA-based fuel tracing passes first test

3rd October 2019

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

ENERGY SAVING DEVICES

Classification society ClassNK has granted approval in principle (AIP) for the basic design of a hard sail system which converts wind energy to propulsive force with a telescopic hard sail.

3rd October 2019

ClassNK approves hard sail system design

3rd October 2019

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

Per Hansson SVP, Head of Group Digital, Group Strategy and M&A MAN Energy Solutions SE discusses the opportunities offered by digitalisation.

3rd October 2019

Digitalisations endless opportunities

3rd October 2019

OPINION

OPINION

Robin Townsend of Bureau Veritas’s ship recycling consultancy partner, Marprof Environmental, warned that ship owners need to pay careful attention to ship recycling regulations.

3rd October 2019

Looming ship recycling deadlines

3rd October 2019

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Corvus Energy agreed a licensing agreement Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) for a lithium-ion capacitor (LiC) technology.

2nd October 2019

Corvus Energy to market LiC technology

2nd October 2019

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Supplementing the ME-GI range of high-pressure dual-fuel, two-stroke engines, MAN Energy Solutions plans to launch its ME-GA low-pressure generation with five- and six-cylinder models in the 700mm-bore size, writes David Tinsley.

2nd October 2019

MAN TO DEBUT LOW-PRESSURE DUAL-FUEL MODELS

2nd October 2019