General News

Wärtsilä has announced an order for engines and FP propellers from Van Oord for installation in the second of two large self-propelled cutter suction dredgers, as well as orders from China for…

The UK-based Graig Group has ordered a series of up to 26 fuel-efficient new generation container feeders, to a Wärtsilä design, which will be built at the Jin Hai shipyard complex in…

Drydocks World of Dubai has announced the delivery an anchor handling offshore support vessel built at the company’s yard in Nanindah, Indonesia, for Singapore-based Pacific Crest.

Sener of Spain has set up a new office in Busan to provide improved sales and technical support to its Foran customer base in South Korea and neighbouring countries.

ClassNK has released version 5.0 of its structural assessment software programs PrimeShip-HULL(Rules) and PrimeShip-HULL(DSA), which are in use by shipyards globally.

Retiring IACS chairman Noboru Ueda of ClassNK says the association must play an expanded role in the future, to better meet the changing needs of the industry, and bring classification into the…

Italian classification society RINA says that it has been authorised by the US Coast Guard to conduct plan review and approval and initial and subsequent surveys for US-flagged cargo and passenger vessels.

Supplier of marine products and services Consilium Marine Group has signed a global cooperation agreement with communications solutions integrator Orange Business Services.

Production has begun at STX Europe’s Vyborg shipyard of two multi-purpose icebreaking service vessels, ordered from Arctech Helsinki Shipyard by Sovcomflot in December 2010. Both are scheduled for April 2013 delivery.

Dutch company Alewijnse Marine Systems says it is playing a significant role in the conversion of the jack-up drill rig Atlantic Labrador to offshore hotel accommodation.

Maersk Drilling has declared its option to build two ultra deepwater drillships at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, at a cost of about $1.3 billion, for delivery in the second and…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) says it has completed the modernisation of its Enoura shipbuilding facility at the Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Zodiac reports that Swedish ferry operator Stirsöbolage has become the first Scandinavian company to benefit from its new MES ESS automatic escape slide, with three 3.4m slides installed onboard the Älvsnabben 4.

German company Becker Marine Systems has introduced BIMS (Becker intelligent monitoring system) which it says overcomes delays and improves dynamic positioning (DP) and autopilot (AP) systems.