General News

Korea’s Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) has delivered the oil and chemical tanker, the ‘King Gregory’, to Greek operational service provider, Consolidated Marine Management (CMM).

Castrol Marine has spoken on the latest recommendations to ship-owners from MAN Diesel & Turbo, supporting Castrol’s advice that misapplication of mid-range base number (BN) cylinder oils can cause corrosion.

Despite some indications to the contrary, Germanischer Lloyd believes that compliance with the incoming requirement for a ship energy efficiency management plan (SEEMP) is a high priority for many ship operators.

Danish naval architect, Knud E. Hansen is behind the design of a new double end ferry which has just been delivered to Swedish domestic ferry company, Ven-Trafiken.

Dutch gas shipping company, Anthony Veder, has scheduled the christening of its new LNG carrier to take place on 7 December 2012 at the Cruise Terminal in Rotterdam.

Sweden’s SKF Group, an expert in global marine services and solutions, has launched a marine condition monitoring kit aimed at simplifying and reducing the cost of shipboard maintenance.

According to UK company Cathelco, its cathodic anti-fouling systems have been specified for the box coolers on a new 96m Finnish Border Guard patrol vessel being built at STX Finland’s Rauma yard.

Rolls-Royce has won orders worth over £70m to supply large thrusters for high tech offshore drilling vessels form a variety of customers including Seadrill, Pacific Drilling and Ensco.

Keppel FELS Brasils yard in Angra dos Reis - BrasFELS – says that it has delivered ‘FPSO Cidade de Sao Paulo’, first of two for operator Modec and Toyo Offshore Production Systems…

India’s Navgathi Marine Design and Constructions has signed a contract with SENER, the Spanish engineering and technology group, for the use of its FORAN system.

A survey conducted by ship design software house NAPA Group into preparation levels for the upcoming SEEMP has revealed that a majority of respondents were unaware of the potential fuel savings the…

As ship efficiency measures become compulsory for all vessels, Israel based marine applications provider, Totem Plus, has a new Energy Efficiency Operational Indicator (EEOI) for the shipping industry.

Bureau Veritas (BV) has just classed the worlds largest containership the CGM Marco Polo.

US company W R Systems says it has been awarded a patent for the ‘Outside the Stack’ particulate matter (PM) measurement technology used in its Emsys emissions monitoring.

Class NK, IHI Marine United (IHIMU), Diesel United (DU) and IBM Japan will be developing a ship maintenance management system to help reduce lifecycle cost.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has announced that it successfully carried out the world’s first full scale demonstration test of the ME-GI low speed dual fuel marine engine, in combination with Hi-Gas, at…

Japans Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has developed a new high performance propeller called the MAP Mark-W, especially suitable for retrofitting service vessels.

Wärtsilä has announced that it has, to date, sold more than 2,000 of its gas-fuelled engines, which together have accumulated more than 7 million operational running hours in both land-based and marine…