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Wärtsilä is to form a new automation and electronics joint venture with China State Shipbuilding Corp and has signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI).

Rolls-Royce has revealed a futuristic vision for shore-based operation of unmanned ships, and plans to build a project demonstrator by the end of the decade.

Classification society DNV GL has introduced a new form of reporting that is said to revolutionise survey reporting for fleet managers.

Shell, Rolls-Royce and MAN Diesel & Turbo are among the first users of a new tool launched by class society DNV GL to track LNG fuel availability.

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking partners for a new project which it hopes will delivery fuel savings of at least 10% for large shipping vessels.

International classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has significantly reduced structural computational and verification times through the use of a 3D model which can link directly to BV’s VeriSTAR suite of calculation tools.

AkzoNobel has added cruise ship vessels to the new version of its ‘big data’ tool for calculating return on investment for coatings, Intertrac Vision.