General News

Wärtsilä reports that it is extending its offering in the low-speed X-generation engine series with a new X92 electronically-controlled common-rail engine, intended for large container ships above 8,000TEU capacity.

Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is conducting a feasibility study for the Flemish Government relating to the provision of LNG bunkering facilities in three Belgian ports.

Mercator Media’s 34th Motorship Propulsion and Emissions Conference, being held in Hamburg, Germany on the 23-24 May 2012, is getting full backing from the industry.

Rolls-Royce says that it has received an order from Island Offshore for design, power and equipment relating to an advanced subsea construction vessel to be built at STX Offshore’s Brevik yard in…

Becker Marine Systems has delivered what it says is the largest Mewis Duct yet made, with a diameter of 8.10m, for a VLCC construction project for Samco Shipholding, Singapore, at Hyundai Samho…

Swedish company Chris-Marine and the recently incorporated IOP Marine have jointly launched a portable valve spindle grinder and a portable surface lathe machine, both aimed at engine repairers.

Norwegian yard Kleven Maritime has won a 500million NOK contract from Rem Offshore for the building of an advanced multifunctional subsea support and construction vessel for June 2013 delivery.

Wärtsillä Hamworthy has announced an agreement with ro-ro cargo operator Wilh Wilhelmsen to retrofit the vessel ‘Tamesis’ with a Krystallon exhaust gas cleaning system on its main and auxiliary engines.

Although there is no overall conflict between CO2 reductions and financial results as efficiency issues become business critical, Leonardo Sonzio of Wärtsilä says that for some, regulations “will be a matter of…

The completion of Scandlines’ newest Baltic ferries, ‘Berlin’ and ‘Copenhagen’, has been postponed again: they will not now go into service until 1 July and 1 September - some four months late.

At a recent ceremony in China, CMD (CSSC-MES Diesel) held the official signing of the contract to construct the first Chinese-built MAN B&W design Green Series 7G80ME-C9.2 engine.

A new type of 86m, 1,800dwt inland tanker especially designed for low-water operation on German canals and the Elbe has been ordered by Bremen tankship operator Dettmer Reederei in Bremen.

Swiber Group company, Newcruz Offshore Marine Services, has become the first Asian customer for Royston’s enginei fuel management system, which has been installed onboard one of Swiber’s OSVs.