General News

Diesel engine maintenance company Chris-Marine of Sweden and its recently-acquired subsidiary IOP Marine of Denmark have introduced a new method of reconditioning valve seats in large marine diesel engines.

Balancing environmental aspirations with economic realities, but also with political realities is not easy, International Chamber of Shipping chairman Spyros M Polemis is to announce in a speech today.

Alfa Laval’s new PureBilge oily water treatment system is claimed to be the first that is certified to meet the DNV ‘Clean Design’ standard, cleaning to 5ppm rather than the IMO minimum…

Dubai Ship Building and Engineering has signed a 25 year land lease agreement for a ship repair plot within the maritime industrial precinct of Dubai Maritime City – a Maritime World subsidiary.

Three major European ports, Hamburg, Antwerp and Rotterdam, have said they are satisfied with the European Parliament’s ‘sulphur emissions’ resolution, which goes beyond the IMO regulations.

Rolls-Royce says that it has concluded a £45million contract with Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard to supply a design and equipment package for four deepwater PSVs, with an option for two more.

Wärtsilä says that it has signed a five-year service agreement covering 27 Wärtsilä engines onboard six ships operated by US-based Prestige Cruise Holdings, the parent company of Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven…

Tognum Group, the MTU parent company which is jointly owned by Rolls-Royce and Daimler, plans to erect a new €90million plant in Poland to expand its European production and development capacity.

Det Norske Veritas, in conjunction with its partners in the FellowShip project Eidesvik Offshore and Wärtsilä, has announced the next phase of the project, in which the Eidesvik OSV ‘Viking Lady’ will…

A Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) box ship has achieved a Maritime Labour Statement of Compliance from Germanischer Lloyd (GL) confirming it meets requirements for the forthcoming ILO Maritime Labour Convention (MLC).

The second of four tough and unusually versatile patrol ships for the Swedish Coast Guard has been named in Germany and will be handed over soon along with the first ship in…

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has announced the launch of its hybrid car carrier ‘Emerald Ace’ at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe shipyard. The ship has been designed to generate zero emissions while…

China’s Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group has signed a new joint agreement with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to work on design optimisation for the new Crown MHI bulk carrier concept.

An interim report on the Rena cargo ship grounding has revealed that the crew may have been taking a short cut which caused the incident.

Finnish company Eniram claims that its latest software product, Optimum Speed Assistant (OSA), will radically change the way the shipping industry manages speed, engine use and fuel consumption.

ABB has released details of a $60million contract to provide complete power and propulsion systems for the two cruise ships ordered by German operator AIDA from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Nagasaki shipyard.

MAN Diesel & Turbo’s PrimeServ division has concluded a four-year service contract with US-based cruise operator Norwegian Cruise Line covering the maintenance of the engines on nine of the fleet’s cruise liners.