General News

Wärtsilä has announced a further order for its low-pressure two-stroke, dual-fuel engine, for an LNG carrier ship being built in China for a Chinese owner.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Astomos Energy Corporation for a very large liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier to be built at MHIs Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works.

Rolls-Royce is to provide an integrated design and equipment package for two offshore supply vessels to be built at COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard for Singapore-based Chellsea Group.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) says it has made a loss in its cruise ship business, according to its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2014.

Wärtsilä has added another dual fuel four-stroke engine, the 46DF, to its marine portfolio, a move which the company claims has “once again raised the technology bar in the dual-fuel engine market.”

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) wants IMO to give greater priority to developing a global system for monitoring and reporting of carbon emissions from ships.

In response to customer demand and in view of the new upcoming IMO standard, Denmark-based Danelec Marine is launching its third generation Voyage Data Recorder (VDR), built around an entirely new ‘concept’…

ABB has announced a three-year maintenance agreement with dredging specialist Van Oord, covering global maintenance of turbochargers for 2014-2016.

Canadian company Corvus Energy says that it is to supply three more energy storage systems to Scandlines for its next hybrid ferry refits.