Equipment

Maersk Tankers has selected Wärtsiläs Aquarius electro-chlorination (EC) ballast water management system (BWMS) for three new 50,000dwt medium range tankers being built at the Samsung Heavy Industries (Ningbo) yard in China.

Wilhelmsen Ships Service has signed a partnership with Turner Designs USA to market its Ballast-Check 2 PAM Fluorometer to shipowners and operators.

ABB’s new torque monitoring system Torductor Marine has made its commercial debut on Stena Line freight ferry Stena Scotia after a successful trial on the vessel.

Kistler has designed new rugged piezoelectric cylinder pressure sensors which meet on-line combustion monitoring in marine and stationary engine installations.

API Marine has launched a new radar tank gauging device, expanding the functionality of its API SMART cargo control and automation systems for tankers.

A new containerized ballast water management system (BWMS), the Damen Balcon EC 1500, has been developed by Damen Green Solutions and Evoqua Water Technologies.

A new range of fibre rope cranes from Rolls-Royce is said to offer major advantages over steel wire cranes in deepwater operations.

Alfa Laval has extended its PureBallast ballast water management range with a compact ‘plug and play’ solution and a range of service packages.

Alfa Laval is introducing its DuroShell plate-and-shell heat exchanger, already used in the offshore oil and gas sector, to the marine market for duties including LPG or ethylene cargo reliquefaction.

The next stage of the long-running Hercules engine research project has set its sights on integrating selective catalytic reduction (SCR) NOx abatement technology into the existing structure of two-stroke engines.

Tier III NOx limits, enforced for newbuild vessels plying the US and Caribbean emission control areas since 1 January, present ship operators with some difficult choices, according to a paper presented on…

Parker Bestobell Marine, the cryogenic valve expert, has received a major new order from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea to supply cryogenic valves for three new Arctic LNG…

Calnetix Technologies has signed an exclusive manufacturing agreement with Tokyo Boeki Machinery Ltd for the Hydrocurrent Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) 125 EJW shipboard heat recovery system.

Damen Green Solutions’ InvaSave technology has completed shipboard testing onboard the Henrike Schepers.

MPR has developed a mobile ultrasonic propeller defect detection system which does away with the need to carry out testing manually.

RWO, a leading supplier of water treatment systems on ships and offshore platforms, has made advancements to a number of its products.