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Wärtsilä reports that its dual-fuel engines have now exceeded 3 million running hours in both land-based and marine applications, a record that the company claims cannot be matched by any other engine…

Houlder and BMT Nigel Gee have announced a contract from the Carbon Trust as a participant in the offshore wind accelerator access (OWA-A) competition, following success in the Seawork 2011 innovation awards.

ExxonMobil Marine Lubricants and shipowning partnership the Greek Group have celebrated a 50-year business partnership, representing the oil company’s longest supply agreement with a marine customer organisation.

Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding will shortly launch the first vessel of the ‘Super Green 8500’ type for Carisbrooke Shipping. This is the first Chinese-built ship with a Groot Cross-Bow.

DuPont subsidiary Belco Technologies, based in the US, says that it has reached an agreement with A.P. Moller–Maersk of Denmark to carry out shipboard trials on one of its Belco marine scrubbing…

API Marine of Aalborg, Denmark, reports new contracts with two Russian shipyards - JSC Zavod Krasnoe Sormovo and JSC Okskaya Sudoverf - for cargo control, alarm and automation systems for 31 newbuildings.

Japanese company Eco Marine Power has started detailed design of its wind and solar sail panel. The company and its partners intend these to be used in arrays for auxiliary propulsion of…