General News

Wärtsilä has been awarded a five-year technical management contract based on Dynamic Maintenance Planning (DMP) covering three LNG carriers operated by Gazocean, the fleet management subsidiary of the Paris-based energy company GDF…

Aker Solutions’ new deepwater intervention vessel, ‘Skandi Aker’, was recently announced winner of the international ‘Ship of the Year 2010’ award.

STX Norway Offshore has entered into a new contract with Olympic Shipping for the building of a 5,000 dwt LNG-powered platform supply vessel (PSV) for delivery in the first quarter of 2012.

Wärtsilä reports that it has been selected to supply a gas propulsion solution, involving four dual-fuel engines per ship, for a series of new LNG carriers to be built at the Samsung…

Wärtsilä has signed an exclusive agreement with Turboden of Italy to jointly develop, market, and distribute a new product to be known as the Wärtsilä Marine Engine Combined Cycle (ECC).

MAN Diesel told The Motorship at SMM that it has been looking at its entire MAN B&W low speed engine programme in respect of the IMO Tier 2 limits.

At SMM 2010, Tognum company MTU Friedrichshafen launched a new, standardised genset for diesel-electric propulsion and onboard power generation, targeted at the offshore supply ship market.

Wärtsilä has launched a new ballast water treatment system, the BWT 500i, which has been developed together with the companys technology partner Trojan Marinex, the marine water solution division of Trojan Technologies.

Wärtsilä launched its communication and control centre (known as Wärtsilä 3C) solution, intended to integrate the entire vessels control into one solution, at the SMM exhibition in Hamburg, Germany.

A research team led by the UK’s Greenwich University has carried out a ground-breaking experiment in ship evacuation and safety procedures which it says could set the benchmark for future maritime law.

Wärtsilä has announced the launch of its propulsion condition monitoring service (PCMS), designed to provide real-time data and advanced analytics on the condition of a vessels propulsion equipment.

The dry bulk carrier ‘Pasila’, owned by ESL Shipping, part of the Aspo Group, has been fitted with the first ballast water treatment system in Finland.

Rolls-Royce continues the expansion of its global marine services network with the ground-breaking for a new facility in Hamburg, Germany.