General News

Two Spanish marine organisations have denounced the Dutch financial leasing system for vessels which it calls ‘selective’ and have presented a paper to the European Commission on the issue.

Norwegian shipbuilder Kleven has announced a further contract with shipowner Rem Offshore to build a 117m multifunctional subsea support and construction vessel.

Atlantic Offshore has ordered a further Havyard 820 standby and field support vessel for its new long-term contract with Shell UK.

Marine diesel engine specialist, Yanmar, has appointed Floris Lettinga as its new marine sales department manager for Europe, Russia and Africa.

Finnish ship designer Foreship has set up a new company, in conjunction with key employees of BlueTech, and has announced a new bulk carrier series.

Japanese class society ClassNK has certified several courses run by the Evergreen Seafarer Training Center (ESTC) in Taiwan.

Germanischer Lloyd says that German shipping company NSC has decided to implement a condition monitoring survey arrangement for the main engine pistons of 49 of its ships.

A new type of multi-purpose, heavy lift ship could become a reality within two years and meet the demands of what its developers say is a significantly changing market, writes Tom Todd.

IHC Merwede has extended its product range with the introduction of a new series of IHC Packhorse offshore support vessels at an official launch event in Singapore, organised by IHC Asia Pacific,…

The European Union is supporting a new study aimed at rectifying potential barriers to the construction and operation of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) fuelled vessels with €1.2 million from the TEN-T Programme.

MAN Diesel and Turbo says that its customer, Chinese shipowner Centrans (Tianjing) Ocean Shipping, has received EEDI compliance certificates for two 180,000dwt bulkcarrier newbuildings, each powered by a single 6S70MC-C8.2 main engine.

The International Shipping Federation (ISF) has relaunched its onboard training record book for engine cadets, in line with the latest STCW 2010 requirements.

Ulstein of Norway, and joint owners Subsea 7 and Eidesvik Offshore, unveiled and named the inspection maintenance and repair (IMR) ship ‘Seven Viking’ on 30 January.

Global power and automation technology group, ABB, has won a long term service contract from Hong Kong based cruise company, Star Cruises, to supply preventive maintenance of all ABB equipment onboard the…

Global power solutions company, Wärtsilä, has reported a stable end to 2012 in its recently published ‘financial statements bulletin for December 2012’.

Italian shipbuilder, Fincantieri, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fincantieri Oil & Gas, reports that it has completed its acquisition of a 50.75% stake in offshore support vessel specialist STX OSV.