General News

UK Shipping Minister, Mike Penning MP, met with the All-Party Parliamentary Maritime and Ports Group this week, to give the industry an update in terms of the government’s maritime strategy going forward.

Maritime decision support software company Eniram – which claims to be Finland’s fastest-growing company - has opened a new office in Singapore, to improve service to its clients in the Asian region.

Thomas Gunn Navigation Services and Transas Marine have announced a new partnership in ECDIS supply and paper chart management which is said to bring benefits to customers of both organisations.

Marine fuel supplier and trader OW Bunker has announced the launch of a new global marine lubricants division, in cooperation with leading brands in marine lubricants, to provide a full range of…

Raytheon Anschütz has recently completed the supply of its latest generation of integrated bridge system (IBS) to the ‘SA Agulhas II’, a new polar research ship owned by the Republic of South…

Norway’s Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), the global shipping and logistics company, has announced that it’s on track to reduce its green house gas emissions by 30% before 2025.

ABB has announced orders valued at more than $60 million to provide complete power and Azipod propulsion systems for two new cruise ships to be built by Meyer Werft for Royal Caribbean…

Scana Industrier ASA subsidiary, Scana Propulsion AS, has signed two new contracts with STX OSV Trading and MAN Diesel AS for the delivery of new propulsion equipment worth NOK30m.

Japanese manufacturer Furuno is to launch a new ECDIS, said to deliver a significant enhancement over its predecessor in terms of user interface and functionality, in readiness for forthcoming carriage requirements.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has set up a joint industry project to investigate the feasibility of LNG bunkering in Singapore in collaboration with Det Norske Veritas (DNV).

Germany’s P+S Shipyard in Stralsund has rolled out Copenhagen the second of two 169.5m newbuildings for Danish-German Baltic ferry operator Scandlines.

International classification society RINA, has been approved by Sweden’s Clean Shipping Project, to perform verification checks to ships as per the Clean Shipping Index requirement.

Russia’s largest shipowner, Sovcomflot, has chosen dual-fuel MAN 51/60DF engines for an LNG carrier newbuilding programme comprising two firm newbuilding orders with an option for two further vessels.

Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) has charged the owner of the cargo vessel Rena, following its grounding on the astrolabe off Tauranga on 5 October.

Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has reported strong growth in the number of Japanese and North East Asian companies signing up for its Ships Agency Re-Defined (SARD) service.

The cargo ship, MS Carrier, which ran aground off the coast of north Wales on Tuesday night, is not expected to present a huge pollution disaster, according to the UK Environment Agency…