General News

Damaged vessels at risk of sinking could soon benefit from a system being developed by a consortium led by BMT Group, the international design, engineering and risk management consultancy.

Kittiwake Developments has announced that it has acquired UK company Procal, a manufacturer of in-situ, multi component continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS).

Pilgrim International of Oldham, UK, has won a contract to supply its hydraulically installed radial fit bolts for 20 new 8,000 TEU containers ships for Evergreen Marine in Taiwan.

Continuing rising demand for sustainable wind-based energy plants in the North Sea has led Nostag GmbH to contract Berg Propulsion to upgrade its cable layer, Nostag 10, by equipping the vessel with…

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the propulsion equipment for a new research vessel under construction at the C.N.P. Freire shipyard in Spain for the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council…

Rolls-Royce has won a $32 million order to provide the design, propulsion systems and deck machinery for four deep water platform supply vessels ordered by Tidewater.

Wärtsilä Ship Design Norway has, in cooperation with Sartor Offshore, developed the design for a new multipurpose standby vessel that will service Statoil’s offshore installations in the North Sea, for a contractual…

Austal recently unveiled its largest ever catamaran to date. The 113m long vessel, named ‘Leonora Christina’, was towed out of the shed at its shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia.

Havyard Group has established a new subsidiary, Havyard South America, in Brazil and appointed Kjell-Peder Overvåg as general manager.

Delta Marine, Omega Marine and Mesh have jointly developed and designed a sophisticated oil product/chemical tanker built under Bureau Veritas classification for worldwide trade.

Hamburg shipyard J.J.Sietas, on its knees and near collapse just two years ago, has become the first German yard to design and build an offshore wind energy transport and installation jack-up vessel.

Hamworthy has received its first order for its wider demand Membrane BioReactor (MBR) technology from DFDS A/S. the Danish ferry operator.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), speaking at the UN climate change conference in Cancun, has expressed concern about the merchant shipping energy database published by the Carbon War Room’.

Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard is on track to deliver the ‘Atwood Osprey’, a first of its class ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig to Atwood Oceanics.