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German propulsion specialist Schottel has added a rim thruster, designated SRT, to its portfolio. The SRT is targeted mainly at offshore support ships, inland waterway vessels and large yachts.

Energy efficiency and new shipping strategies has been a major focus of the Posidonia 2012 international shipping exhibition taking place in Greece this week.

The Liberian Registry has introduced a sophisticated programme to screen advance notice of ship arrivals as part of a detention prevention plan.

One of Germany’s most successful shipyard groups – P&S Werften – is threatened by cash-flow problems and reportedly needs more than €200 million to carry on, some of it immediately to pay…

Wärtsilä says that it now has its dual-fuel engines in 100 LNG carrier vessels, following delivery of one such ship from a South Korean shipyard. These 100 LNG Carriers represent about 25%…

Wilhelmsen Ships Service is launching a new service, which it calls the Active Solutions portal. This is a new electronic service for its marine chemicals customers, replacing paper product data sheets and…

The new flagship for Carnival Cruise Lines, ‘Carnival Breeze’ was delivered at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard this week.

The Havyard Group is doing good business in India – it has just signed a contract for a PSV vessel with Indian shipping company Global Offshore with an option for a further…

Despite its concentration on specialised vessels, German shipbuilding is still in crisis and struggling against widening Asian competition, lack of finance and low newbuilding prices.

Classification society, ClassNK, has announced that its register has hit the 200 million gross tonne mark after steadily accelerating over the years.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has expressed genuine concerns identified among its members about the availability and expense of ballast water treatment systems, and the robustness of the approval process.

Arnout Damen, chief operations officer of Damen Shipyards Group, accepted Seawork’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award at the Innovation Awards Dinner recently, on behalf of Kommer Damen.

Dutch shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards has recently acquired the shares of Swedish ship repair and maintenance yard Oskarshamnsvarvet; Damen intends to continue the current operations at the yard.

The second day of The Motorship’s 34th Propulsion & Emissions conference in Hamburg began with a session on exhaust gas cleaning, following an introduction from the day’s chairman, Dr Fabian Kock from…

Fathom, a global market intelligence company for the marine, energy and environmental industries, has launched an online analysis tool to compare all eco-efficient technologies available for the shipping industry.

The 34th Propulsion and Emissions Conference is continuing at the Atlantic Kempinski Hotel in Hamburg. Under the chairmanship of Dr Pierre Sames of GL, sessions two, three and four completed the first…

The Marinestar manoeuvring system designed by Fugro in Norway has been approved by the BSH marine test house in Germany as both a speed and distance measuring equipment (SDME) and transmitting heading…

Maritime charity the Sailors’ Society says that well-known Christian song-writer Graham Kendrick is helping to spread awareness of the difficulties seafarers face through a hymn he has written for Sea Sunday, 8…