General News

Norways Ulstein Verft, ship design and build specialists, has delivered a state of the art Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) vessel of SX148 design to Norways Eidesvik Offshore this week.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) have jointly developed technology which they say will allow a ballast water treatment system (BWTS) to be contained in a standard-size freight container,…

Typhon, a marine security company set up by a group of British businessmen, has launched its new marine escort convoy service in a bid to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden,…

Russia’s largest shipping company, the Sovcomflot Group, has seen the launch of two newbuilds so far this year – one a state of the art LNG carrier and the other a new…

Bureau Veritas has issued the first of its new voluntary SEEMP notations to the 1,500-passenger ro-pax ferry ‘Cap Finistère’, operated by Brittany Ferries.

Wärtsilä will supply the main engines and auxiliary generating sets for a new ro-pax vessel for Scottish operator Caledonian MacBrayne, being built at FSG in Germany.

The insolvency administrator at German yard group P+S Werften, Berthold Brinkmann, says that production at Volkswerft in Stralsund will begin again on 21 January.

Norway-based exhaust gas abatement company Green Tech Marine has announced a contract to deliver four scrubbers to Norwegian Cruise Line’s ‘Pride of America’.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has updated its ‘Shipping Industry Flag State Performance Table’, to include some new flag states.

Ecospec of Singapore says that its CSNOx exhaust gas abatement system has been installed onboard a Great Lakes cargo vessel operated by Canada Steamship Lines (CSL).

Mercator Medias 2013 Motorship Propulsion & Emissions Conference is beginning to take shape with the announcement of Japan’s director for International Regulations, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MILT), as keynote…

International classification society, the RINA Group, has been chosen to support the development of a new classification society for the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

US marine support company, Tidewater Inc has acquired contracts for three Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) under construction at STX OSV Holdings’ shipyard in Norway.