General News

ClassNK has released what it claims to be the world’s first software package for use with the new IACS Harmonised Common Structural Rules (CSR) for bulk carriers and oil tankers.

IHC Merwede has launched and named Van Oords new self-propelled cutter suction dredger Artemis at its shipyard in Sliedrecht, The Netherlands.

A new Arctic offshore vessel NB-506 has been launched at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard and hull assembly of its sister vessel is also scheduled to start at the yard imminently.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to begin development of dual fuel versions of its own low-speed marine diesel engines, to be known as the UEC-LSGi series, which will be capable of using…

Norwegian shipbuilder Kleven Maritime has signed a contract with a new customer, Atlantic Offshore, for the delivery of two platform supply vessels to be built at Kleven’s Myklebust Verft yard.

US company Hyde Marine reports that it has supplied the first ballast water treatment system on a dedicated Great Lakes Vessel, with a HG60 system installed on ‘Ranger III’, a 128 passenger…

Deltamarin has received its first order for the smallest, 28,000dwt, variant of its eco-friendly B.Delta bulk carrier designs, with a contract awarded by CSSC and Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard of China for the…

Wärtsilä integrated power and positioning systems have been selected for six offshore pipe laying vessels (PLVs) for use by Petrobras of Brazil, to be built in yards in The Netherlands, Brazil and…