General News

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.

ABB has announced a three-year maintenance agreement with dredging specialist Van Oord, covering global maintenance of turbochargers for 2014-2016.

A different approach to the ballast water controversy has been proposed by Praveen Kumar Mishra, vice president of the Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass), the most recently-appointed member of IACS.

DNV GL has launched a new service called Build2Design to help shipyards and shipowners improve the fuel economy of their ships by reducing variations in the shipbuilding process.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, is to design and deliver key components for ro-ro access equipment for two Damen ice-class ro-Pax ferries.

Marine and offshore classification society ABS has released a report on LNG bunkering in North America.

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s first deputy prime-minister, has said that Russia is considering the establishment of large commercial shipbuilding along the Crimean coastline, writes Eugene Gerden.

The European Union is funding a €1.2m grant contract, signed between the IMO and the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), to support training and capacity-building activities in Africa.

Wärtsilä Ship Design (WSD) Singapore has unveiled a Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) design package aimed at ship owners and shipyards in the Asia-Pacific region.

Wärtsilä is to retrofit two Condor ro-ro ferries with its new Aquarius Ready ballast water management system (BWMS).

Leading power group, ABB has won an order from a Spanish ferry operator to supply energy management systems for one of its largest vessels.