General News

The 36th Motorship Propulsion & Emissions Conference, organised by Mercator Media, will take place in Hamburg, Germany from 21 to 22 May 2014.

Havyard has agreed a contract with Russian shipping company, FEMCO, for design and construction of a new icebreaking offshore vessel.

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw (COP 19), the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is to advise that reducing carbon emissions is an economic no brainer for the global…

ExxonMobil Marine Fuels & Lubricants has launched its own 100BN cylinder oil, Mobilgard 5100, which the company says id designed to mitigate the effects of cold corrosion in new design two-stroke marine…

UK-based trade union for maritime professionals Nautilus International has released details of a vessel detained in port, and which has been described as a ‘Mickey Mouse operation’.

Norway’s Clean Marine is to supply its exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) for a very large gas carrier (CLGC) being built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for Dorian LPG.

Rosneft, Sovcomflot and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new shipbuilding and industrial cluster in Russia’s Far East.

Wärtsilä has been contracted by TT-Line, the German-Swedish ferry operator, to retrofit an exhaust gas cleaning system to its Ro-Pax vessel, the ‘M/S Robin Hood’ as part of TT-Lines Green Ship strategy.

BIO-UV, the French ballast water treatment systems manufacturer, has won a contract for six BIO-SEA100 systems from a Spanish shipyard.

Damen Shipyards Group has delivered the fourth platform supply vessel (PSV) in a series of six to Norway’s World Wide Supply.

China’s New Times Shipbuilding is to build eight 33,000 tonne stainless-steel chemical tankers for JO Tankers – an order estimated to be worth around US$320m.

After a false start when it became a port of refuge for a fire-struck containership in September, DP Worlds London Gateway has today welcomed its first scheduled ship.

‘Mein Schiff 3’, an environmentally friendly cruise ship being built for TUI Cruises, has been floated out at STX Turku Shipyard.

Bibby Ship Management Group has announced the acquisition of Murray Fenton (India) Surveyors Limited.