General News

The Norwegian Havyard Group has received a contract from Supply Service, Faroe Islands, for a Havyard 832 L platform supply ship, the 10th in a row of this design.

Athens-based shipowner Danaos Corporation recently took delivery of two new containerships, the CMA CGM Racine and the YM Maturity, expanding its operational fleet to a total of 49 containerships aggregating 216,529 TEU.

Cargotec has developed a simulator to provide valuable, realistic training for operators of offshore load handling equipment employing advanced active heave-compensated (AHC) technology, such as AHC offshore and subsea cranes.

Following successful initial manoeuvring and propulsion trials, QinetiQ’s PACSCAT Innovative Solution Demonstrator Craft (ISDC) was recently accepted as a trials vessel by the UK Ministry of Defence.

Research by the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has highlighted an environmentally friendly genetic method for prevention of fouling by barnacles on ship hulls.