General News

Wärtsilä has announced a contract for design and power for a new platform supply vessel for operating in arctic conditions.

Caterpillar Marine has shipped its first Cat 3500 series marine gas engines, destined for and LNG hybrid barge – the world’s first LNG-powered barge in the Port of Hamburg.

Dubai’s Drydocks World is to have global power expert’s ABB first ever Middle Eastern turbocharging service point.

Netherlands-based Eekels Technology BV has been awarded the TBI Innovation Prize 2013 for its slow steaming entry, which helps vessels reduce fuel by 50% at a 25% lower speed.

Russia’s Okskaya shipyard has obtained an order to build five 5,589dwt tankers. The vessels are intended for both sea and river traffic, writes Jaroslaw Adamowski.

The Ulstein Group has entered a new market and achieved its highest value contract yet by securing design and equipment packages for four ocean going tugs with Japan’s Niigata Shipbuilding & Repair.

Wärtsilä says that following new contracts it now has orders for exhaust gas cleaning systems for 10 ships to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea.

UK-based James Fisher Mimic (JFM) is to supply its condition monitoring system for another Petroleum Gas Services (PGS) vessel of its unique Ramform design.

Wärtsilä has announced a further order for its low-pressure two-stroke, dual-fuel engine, for an LNG carrier ship being built in China for a Chinese owner.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Astomos Energy Corporation for a very large liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier to be built at MHIs Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works.

Rolls-Royce is to provide an integrated design and equipment package for two offshore supply vessels to be built at COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard for Singapore-based Chellsea Group.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) says it has made a loss in its cruise ship business, according to its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2014.

Wärtsilä has added another dual fuel four-stroke engine, the 46DF, to its marine portfolio, a move which the company claims has “once again raised the technology bar in the dual-fuel engine market.”

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) wants IMO to give greater priority to developing a global system for monitoring and reporting of carbon emissions from ships.

In response to customer demand and in view of the new upcoming IMO standard, Denmark-based Danelec Marine is launching its third generation Voyage Data Recorder (VDR), built around an entirely new ‘concept’…

Canadian company Corvus Energy says that it is to supply three more energy storage systems to Scandlines for its next hybrid ferry refits.