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Shell Marine Products (SMP) claims to have become first to the market with a two-stroke cylinder lubricant formulated specifically for the needs of ships operating in ECAs.

Wärtsilä’s gas-fuelled two-stroke engine has picked up another order, this time for a series of four container ships for German shipowner GNS Shipping which will be built in China.

ExxonMobil says that its Mobilgard 5100 BN100 cylinder lubricant has received an interim No Objection Letter (NOL) from Wärtsilä for use in engines in the RTA, RT-Flex and X-series engines running on…

SSI of Canada has announced the latest release of its ShipConstructor CAD/CAM software package, ShipConstructor 2015, for the ship design and shipbuilding industry.

Optimarin is to supply its ballast water treatment (BWT) system for the Institute of Marine Research’s (IMR) new NOK 450m (US$72.3m) flagship, ‘Dr Fridtjof Nansen’.

A UK company, SulNOx Fuel Fusions, says that application of nanotechnology to emulsified fuel could cut emissions of NOx by 50% to 60% and particulates by up to 90%, as well as…