General News

A rescue search for missing crew from the 148m cargo ship, the Baltic Ace, is underway following its collision with a containership in the North Sea on Wednesday evening.

Lloyd’s Register and the UK P&I Club are jointly launching another pocket checklist, the latest being intended to help prepare for MLC 2006 inspections, and for the first time it will be…

MAN Diesel & Turbo’s PrimeServ division has performed a propulsion upgrade for a 900 m³ dredger in cooperation with owner, Saudi shipowner and constructional engineering company, National Chemical Carriers (NCC).

After months of growing concern over the fate of insolvent German shipbuilder P+S Werften, solutions appear likely which could mean the survival of both of the group’s yards, reports Tom Todd

MAN Diesel & Turbo has confirmed the first order for its low-speed, dual-fuel ME-GI engine – the two 3,100TEU containerships to be built at NASSCO for USshipping company TOTE will be powered…

USA based shipbuilder, General Dynamics NASSCO, has finalised a contract with American group TOTE Inc, to build the world’s first LNG powered containerships.

Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri has announced the signature of a memorandum of agreement with Viking Ocean Cruises for the construction of two more ocean cruise ships with an option for another two.

The UKs The Nautical Institute, has launched a practical security guide in a bid to create a security culture for the maritime industry that works both onboard vessels and ashore.

Singapore based offshore shipbuilder, Jaya Holdings, has delivered a new advanced anchor handling tug supply vessel, the ‘Jaya Supreme’, to Canadian transportation solutions company, Atlantic Towing Limited.

Spanish vessel support companies, Navantia, Reganosa and Gas Natural Comercializadora, have signed a frame agreement to offer a vital regasification repair service to gas carrier vessels.

Napa of Finland says that it is providing its loading computers to 55 OSVs operated by French group Bourbon. Napa’s latest software will help improve safe loading and unloading with maximum cargo…

Finlands Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply an integrated solution comprising ship design services and the power and propulsion system for a newbuild LNG powered Platform Supply Vessel (PSV).

MAN Diesel & Turbo says it has received “a healthy interest” in its ultra-long-stroke G-type engine with several new orders, bringing the current number of G-type orders up to 70 just one…

Norwegian designer Havyard reports that the first AHTS to its 843 CD design has been delivered. The ‘Kan Tan 225’ was built in China by the Yuexin shipyard, and was handed over…

Berthold Brinkmann, administrator of the insolvent German P+S Werften shipyard group, says he is “unperturbed” by news that ferry company Scandlines is cancelling its construction contract for two new ships.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has developed an independent liquefied natural gas storage tank model, the Lobe-Bundle Tank.

Korean engine maker Hyundai has introduced a heavy duty high-speed diesel engine with a 500bhp continuous rating, which is aimed primarily at the smaller commercial vessel markets, writes Dag Pike.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) will be representing global shipowners at the UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Doha on 27 November.

STX Finland Oy’s Rauma Shipyard has recently celebrated the naming of the double ended ferry built for Suomen Lauttaliikenne Oy (FinFerries).

Rolls-Royce has announced a teaming agreement with Italian company Lauro Shipping to design innovative new gas powered ferries based on Rolls-Royce’s Environship concept, the first such application for a passenger vessel.