General News

Marine safety equipment company Viking Life-Saving Equipment is launching a 153-person liferaft and mini slide system, packed in a single aluminum stowage box and launched by a single push-button actuator.

Cargotec has announced two new contracts worth around €15 million for complete MacGregor ro-ro access and transfer systems for deepsea container/ro-ro (con-ro) vessels.

Container ship operators Danaos Corporation reports that it has recently taken delivery of the 8,350 newbuilding ‘CMA CGM Bianca’, from Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Heavy Industry in China.

DNV Petroleum Services wants to remind ship operators that as from 1 January 2012, the MARPOL Annex VI global fuel sulphur limit for fuel oil will be reduced from 4.50% to 3.50%.

Norwegian company Ulmatec has agreed to acquire the Stavanger-based Cetix Group, an oil and gas technology group with subsidiaries in Stavanger, UK and Lithuania.

Canadian company Mad Rock Marine Solutions has announced the completion of its new RocLoc MkII technology, which its says is the next evolution of the company’s on-load lifeboat hook product range.