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ExxonMobil reports that its lubricant experts have been working together with engineers from Athens-based Danaos Shipping to extended a piston overhaul interval from 16,000 hours to 42,575 hours.

Reintjes says that class society RINA has completed extensive tests and inspections and granted type approval to the Fortjes drive, making it the only podded drive in this power range with class…

‘Berlin’, the first of two new 169m ferries for Scandlines, will be named March 9th in Stralsund, cementing the German-Danish operator’s commitment to traditional Baltic ferry services.

Bremen-based water and wastewater treatment company RWO says that it can now offer its maritime customers an additional service for retrofittings of its sea-tested CleanBallast treatment system.

After nearly 18 months of travelling, experimental vessel ‘Planet Solar’ is nearing the end of the first round-the-world voyage to be completed using only solar power.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has met in London to discuss progress being made at IMO on further measures to reduce CO2 emissions from international shipping, among other issues.

Jowa Technology of Sweden says that Norwegian ship owner Jo Tankers has achieved positive results in respect of meeting CARB and ECA requirements as a consequence of installing Jowa’s Diesel Switch DS…

Alfa Laval reports that it has signed a contract with Dutch shipowning group Spliethoff to fit a multiple inlet PureSOx exhaust gas cleaning system onboard a ship operating mainly in the North…

Drydocks World has delivered two AHTS vessels, ‘Greatship Vidya’ and ‘Greatship Vimla’, from its Singapore yard. The two ‘V’ class vessels were ordered by the Greatship Group of India.

Low and medium speed engine manufacturers Wärtsilä and MAN Diesel & Turbo have jointly announced the kick off of the next phase of the, long-term European-funded Hercules research programme.

A new strategic alliance between Marorka, Icelandic energy consultants and FutureShip, a GL company specialising in maritime consultancy services, has been formed with the aim of reducing emissions for shipowners around the…

Dutch company TurboNed has recently set up a new service centre in Algeciras, Spain, known as TurboNed Crosscomar, to serve shipping passing through the Strait of Gibraltar.

Damen Shipyards has announced that Norwegian company World Wide Supply (WWS) has ordered another two PSV 3300 CD PSVs, as an addition to the contract for four vessels announced in December 2011.