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Furuno of Japan is joining with SpeedCast and Eutelsat Communications to launch a new VSAT antenna, the VSAT KU-100.

21st September 2010

New maritime broadband offering from Furuno

21st September 2010

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Singapore-based Thome Ship Management has become the first third party ship manager to receive full accreditation by DNV SeaSkill for its competency management system.

21st September 2010

DNV skills certification for ship manager

21st September 2010

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Vale announces recently that it has entered into agreements with The Export-Import Bank of China and the Bank of China Limited for the financing to build 12 very large ore carriers (VLOC)…

20th September 2010

Vale finally confirms VLOC order

20th September 2010

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Incat Crowther has signed a contract to design two 30m aluminium monohull crewboats for service in Nigeria.

17th September 2010

Incat Crowther to design Nigerian crew boats

17th September 2010

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ThyssenKrupp, Abu Dhabi MAR and the Greek government have reached agreement ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), Abu Dhabi MAR and the Greek government have reached agreement on the wording for the contracts regarding…

17th September 2010

Hellenic yard’s future looking brighter

17th September 2010

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Frontline, the Bermuda-based tanker company, has reached an agreement with Zhoushan Jinhaiwan Shipyard in China to re-structure its VLCC newbuilding program at the yard

17th September 2010

Frontline restructuring VLCC newbuilding contracts

17th September 2010

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MAN Diesel & Turbo has developed a system known as Diesel Switch to handle changeover between high and low sulphur fuel in a controlled way to avoid rapid temperature deviations and fuel-pump…

17th September 2010

Diesel Switch solves fuel changeover problem

17th September 2010

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The director of the South African Company, SFG, Duncan MacNab, announced that his company would set up a ship-repair yard in Pointe-Noire, the economic and industrial capital of Congo Brazzaville.

16th September 2010

South Africa to establish ship-repair yard in Congo

16th September 2010

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GENERAL NEWS

Voith Turbo Marine in Germany is supplying four slightly modified Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP) to Wyker Dampfschiff-Reederei (WDR) to power the first double-ended ferry in its fleet.

16th September 2010

First double-ended ferry fitted with VSPs

16th September 2010

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Rolls-Royce is to provide gas engines and main azimuth thrusters for a double ended passenger/vehicle ferry to be built for the Norwegian operator Fjord1. The vessel will be the world’s largest gas…

16th September 2010

R-R powers world’s largest gas ferry

16th September 2010

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Effect Ships International AS in Sandefjord, Norway, has just launched its first air supported vessel (ASV) monohull with pod propulsion. The ASV technology is the result of more than 8 years of…

16th September 2010

First ever ASV monohull with pod propulsion

16th September 2010

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OSX Brasil SA, which is building a shipyard in Brazil with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industry, said that it plans to bid for oil drilling rig and tanker contracts worth $2 billion…

16th September 2010

OSX to build Petrobras rigs and tankers

16th September 2010

GENERAL NEWS

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Together with Voith Turbo Schneider Propulsion, the Canadian naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd recently unveiled a completely new tug design.

16th September 2010

Longitudinally arranged VSPs offer higher steering forces

16th September 2010

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Voith Turbo Advanced Propeller Technologies of Germany has announced an order for Contur F propellers for 10 patrol boats for Dutch Water Management.

15th September 2010

10-vessel order for Voith ‘intelligent’ propellers

15th September 2010

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GENERAL NEWS

Drydocks World– Dubai has delivered the third 3-D seismic vessel ‘Polarcus Asima’ to its client Polarcus, a marine geophysical company based in Dubai.

15th September 2010

Dubai delivers another Polarcus seismic vessel

15th September 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The growth in the effective supply of containerships has reached 19% so far this year as deliveries of new vessels have added 1.15 Mteu of new capacity and a further 1.28 Mteu…

15th September 2010

Excess boxship supply could return in 2011

15th September 2010

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GENERAL NEWS

ABS and the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute have entered into a two-year joint research and development project to study the potential of an energy-saving device to enhance propulsion efficiency.

13th September 2010

ABS examines energy-saving technology

13th September 2010

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Hyundai Heavy Industries has won a contract with Hong Kong-based Brightoil Petroleum to build five VLCCs at a total cost of $537.5 million.

13th September 2010

Hyundai secures VLCC quintet order

13th September 2010

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GENERAL NEWS

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has won $630 million worth of orders to build five oil tankers and an offshore platform.

13th September 2010

Samsung wins contracts for tankers and platform

13th September 2010

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GENERAL NEWS

The 25,000 dwt product tanker ‘Bit Viking’ will be converted to run on LNG and will be the first ship with Germanischer Lloyd (GL) class using gas as fuel.

10th September 2010

First LNG powered vessel with GL class

10th September 2010