General News

InterManager, the international trade association for in-house and third party ship managers, has spoken of its concern at the discriminatory attitude displayed towards seafarers during cases of criminalisation.

EnSolve Biosystems of the USA has successfully completed the MEPC 107(49) certification tests for its compact PetroLiminator 200M (PL 200M) oil water separator (OWS) system.

A cooperation framework agreement has been signed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Germanischer Lloyd (GL).

Keppel Shipyard has secured two contracts totalling $160 million to convert a FPSO vessel for single Buoy Moorings Inc (SBM), and a livestock carrier for an affiliated company of Hijazi & Ghosheh.

Subsea 7, UK, and IHC Merwede, the Netherlands, recently named and launched the ‘Seven Pacific’ at Krimpen aan den IJssel, the Netherlands.

The Liberian Registry has developed a pilot scheme to extend compulsory drydocking intervals to seven-and-a-half-year intervals to help provide the flexibility urgently required by shipowners and operators in the current difficult economic…

Keppel Verolme (Keppel Verolme) and consortium partner AREVA Energietechnik, German subsidiary of French energy company AREVA, have secured a Euro 62 million contract from Wetfeet Offshore Windenergy to build a mobile offshore…

FloaTEC Singapore, an equal joint venture between Keppel FELS and J Ray McDermott, signed a contract worth about $1 billion with the Papa-Terra joint venture, consisting of Petrobras and Chevron, to build…

After successful results with four existing ro-ro vessels, Cobelfret has ordered the coating of the thruster tunnels of five newbuild vessels, four of which have been coated recently.

An optimised propeller from MAN Diesel has helped the Scandlines 21,154 grt ro-pax ferry Sassnitz achieve increased efficiency of 12% on its daily sail between Trelleborg, Sweden and Sassnitz, Germany.

Hyundai Heavy Industries has produced an aggregate of 20 million horsepower in 4-stroke engines in the record time of 19 years and 7 months.

Still in the grip of an economic downturn, the shipping industry is struggling to manage the gap between shrinking budgets and the costs of maintaining quality safety and environmental performance through competence.…