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GE Marine and Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) have jointly announced that they have received approval in principle (AiP) for a jointly developed gas turbine-powered LNG carrier design.

10th September 2014

Approval in principle for gas turbine-powered LNG carrier design

10th September 2014

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ExxonMobil has joined at least two other major oil suppliers in launching, at SMM in Hamburg this week, a cylinder oil intended for use in two-stroke engines operating on fuels with very…

10th September 2014

Oil for low sulphur fuels from ExxonMobil

10th September 2014

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Classification society Bureau Veritas says that it has been chosen to class a large LNG bunkering vessel which will be built at Hanjin Heavy Industries, Korea, under an agreement between Japan’s NYK…

10th September 2014

LNG bunker vessel to be Bureau Veritas Classed

10th September 2014

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Rolls-Royce brand MTU and Fairplay will test an SCR exhaust system on an MTU diesel genset on board a harbour tug in order to verify compliance with IMO Tier III emission requirements…

9th September 2014

SCR test for Fairplay tug

9th September 2014

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Rolls-Royce has unveiled the first of a new family of medium-speed engines for the marine market that will include versions powered by both diesel and gas.

9th September 2014

Rolls-Royce launches new medium speed engine range

9th September 2014

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Wärtsilä has announced that two new large, 180,000m3 LNG carriers being built by the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in Korea are to be powered by six-cylinder X62DF two-stroke dual-fuel engines.

9th September 2014

Dual fuel X-series two-stroke engine order for Wärtsilä

9th September 2014

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Caterpillar Marine has announced the launch of its Mak M 25 E engine platform, aimed in particular at offshore supply ships, with up to US$250,000 claimed fuel savings.

9th September 2014

Caterpillar launches new MaK engine platform

9th September 2014

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Classification society Lloyd’s Register is now offering what it describes as a faster and easier type approval service for its clients’ products.

9th September 2014

Lloyd’s Register streamlines its Type Approval process

9th September 2014

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US classification society ABS is to class a series of very large ethane carriers (VLECs), which it says is the world’s first contracted series of such vessels.

9th September 2014

ABS gets ethane carrier class contract

9th September 2014

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Marine lubricant supplier Total Lubmarine has announced the launch of its Talusia LS 25 low alkaline cylinder lubricant specifically designed for slow speed two stroke engines running distillate fuels with 0.1% sulphur…

9th September 2014

Cylinder oil for 2015 ECA 0.1% sulphur distillate fuels

9th September 2014

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Calnetix Technologies of the US says it is introducing a new system that produces up to 125kW of power for the ship’s electric load from heat recovered out of the engine’s jacket…

9th September 2014

Engine jacket heat harnessed to produce power

9th September 2014

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Shell Marine Products (SMP) claims to have become first to the market with a two-stroke cylinder lubricant formulated specifically for the needs of ships operating in ECAs.

9th September 2014

Two-stroke cylinder oil intended for ECA operation

9th September 2014

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Wärtsilä’s gas-fuelled two-stroke engine has picked up another order, this time for a series of four container ships for German shipowner GNS Shipping which will be built in China.

9th September 2014

Container ship order for low pressure dual fuel two-stroke engines

9th September 2014

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Copenhagen City Council are apparently considering a proposal that the 400 cruise ships that dock its port each year should be offered shore side power in the future.

8th September 2014

Copenhagen shore power proposal

8th September 2014

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ExxonMobil says that its Mobilgard 5100 BN100 cylinder lubricant has received an interim No Objection Letter (NOL) from Wärtsilä for use in engines in the RTA, RT-Flex and X-series engines running on…

5th September 2014

Engine designer gives OK to BN100 cylinder oil

5th September 2014

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Severn Trent De Nora is to supply its Balpure ballast water management system (BWMS) for crude oil tankers being built by STX Offshore and Shipbuilding in Korea.

4th September 2014

Balpure BWMS for STX newbuilds

4th September 2014

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SSI of Canada has announced the latest release of its ShipConstructor CAD/CAM software package, ShipConstructor 2015, for the ship design and shipbuilding industry.

4th September 2014

New 2015 release for ShipConstructor software

4th September 2014

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ABS, the Houston, US-based classification society, reports that it has become the first foreign class society to include a Japanese-flagged ship in its fleet.

4th September 2014

ABS bags its first Japanese-flagged ship

4th September 2014

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Optimarin is to supply its ballast water treatment (BWT) system for the Institute of Marine Research’s (IMR) new NOK 450m (US$72.3m) flagship, ‘Dr Fridtjof Nansen’.

3rd September 2014

Optimarin BWT system for IMR vessel

3rd September 2014

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A UK company, SulNOx Fuel Fusions, says that application of nanotechnology to emulsified fuel could cut emissions of NOx by 50% to 60% and particulates by up to 90%, as well as…

3rd September 2014

Nanotechnology applied to fuel emulsion to cut NOx and PM

3rd September 2014