General News

Rolls-Royce has announced the delivery of the first vessel in its Environship series, which has been handed over to Norwegian company Eidsvaag from the Vard (formerly STX) Aukra yard.

Inland shipping companies, VEKA Group and DEEN Shipping, have joined forces and combined experiences in a bid to develop the small scale LNG market under the name VEKA DEEN LNG.

After being fitted with a MAN B&W 6S70ME-C type prime mover and three MAN 7L23/30H auxiliary engines, Suezmax tanker, ‘Zumbi dos Palmares’, has been delivered to Brazilian hydrocarbon transportation company, Transpetro.

International advanced motor, drive and control technologies supplier, GE Power Conversion, has been chosen by China’s Dalian Shipyard to supply the complete drive and automation system for its Goliath crane.

Global power expert, Cummins Marine, has supplied three Cummins KTA38-M3 HD engines to power the first of two crewboats newly built by Cheoy Lee Shipyard in China.

Global power and automation group, ABB, has won a US$12m contract to power a new deepwater pipe laying vessel being built in Singapore.

Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven (LWB) has bagged a contract to build a 33,000gt construction and pipe-laying vessel for delivery to London-based CEONA, reports Tom Todd.

A fire broke out onboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the Grandeur of the Seas, yesterday, which put paid to over 2,000 holidaymakers’ holidays.

The joint venture owned by Wärtsilä and Yuchai Marine Power Co Ltd, Wärtsilä Yuchai Engine Co Ltd, has begun construction of its new production facilities in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province of China.

A joint three-year research and development project has been inaugurated between Hamburg University of Technology, Mareval AG Hamburg and HeavyLift@Sea.