General News

Remi Eriksen, formerly chief operating officer of DNV GL, has been promoted to group CEO following the planned retirement of Henrik O. Madsen.

Charterers moving one fifth of global shipped tonnage now effectively exclude inefficient vessels, says the Carbon War Room.

MAN PrimeServ Turbocharger has signed a Premium Turbocharger Maintenance Contract with Anglo-Eastern Ship Management that covers around 300 turbochargers installed on its fleet.

Launched at the end of 2012, GAC’s automated hull cleaning unit EnvironHull – a remotely operated machine that can perform rapid underwater hull wiping – will soon be launched in several more…

Dr Philip Stenson, Technology Leader at International, AkzoNobel’s marine coatings business, discusses what the company says is the first major re-evaluation of average hull roughness (AHR) prediction methodology in almost 30 years.

The shipping industry has expressed its disappointment over the vote taken in the European Parliament to adopt a regional EU Regulation on the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of individual ship CO2…

Maritime software house NAPA and ClassNK are to install a jointly-designed new performance monitoring system onboard an Asian LNG carrier’s fleet.