General News

Colombo Dockyard has been awarded ISO 9001 certification for ?Design and construction of small and medium crafts, including high speed aluminium crafts, drydocking of ships up to 130,000dwt, and major repair of…

Israeli shipowner Ray Shipping has ordered a second 6,260 unit, 20,600 gt pure car carrier at Poland?s Gdynia shipyard. Scheduled for delivery in 2001, the newbuilding will be equipped with a Sulzer…

Astromaritima Navegacao, the largest Brazilian offshore vessel owner, is investing $4.5 million in upgrading three of its 55m OSVs. A third engine and second bow thruster unit will be installed on two…

Rolls-Royce has reached a $1 billion agreement to supply 25 marine Trent gas turbines to FastShip for propulsion of the operator?s high speed container ships. Rated at 47.5MW (64,580 bhp), the turbines…

Keppel Hitachi Zosen (KHZ) has agreed to purchase the shiprepair, shipbuilding and marine related activities of Keppel Marine Industries for S$166.9 million ($98.9 million). The deal covers KMI?s interests in shipbuilder and…

Mandatory regulations are on their way to combat the problem of the transportation of marine organisms in ships’ ballast water. For the past ten years the IMO, via its Marine Environment Protection…

Research by Vickers Ulstein has indicated that its combi-thrusters could be used in cruise ships. In addition to its bow thruster role, the unit, available in ratings up to 2,000kW (2,680 bhp),…

Major repairs to container vessel Aconcagua, now CSAV Shanghai, have been completed at Daewoo Heavy Industries Okpo yard. The 195m loa, 2,171 TEU container vessel Aconcagua sustained extensive damage to the midbody…

Royal Caribbean’s engine problems created a major headache for MAN B&W’s medium-speed operation. For the first two or three years all went well. The MAN B&W 12V48/60 engines aboard Grandeur and Enchantment…

MacGregor`s roro ship division is supplying stern quarter ramp/doors to a new pair of Grimaldi deep sea roros, having already installed the same access outfits on an earlier three sister ships. Two…

A dredger recently delivered to the Belgian DEME group has some surprising features. The 13,7003 capacity trailing suction hopper dredger, Lange Wapper, which was delivered to its owner, the Belgian DEME group,…

The Cathelco antifouling and corrosion suppression system has been installed on West Navion II and its sister ship, both 96,000 dwt drill ships built for Statoil Norge by the Puerto Real shipyard…

Shipping organisations in the UK have responded enthusiastically to proposals outlined in August by UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in his White Paper Charting a New Course to introduce a tonnage…

By December 2002 the decommissioning of halon fire suppression systems must start for all but essential use. So L&G Marine has launched a halon replacement system for engine compartments on workboats. Called…

As this issue of The Motor Ship was due to go to press, it became clear that creditors of Daewoo, the debt-laden South Korean chaebol, had agreed a plan for the break-up…

The rubber insert sleeves expanding (Rise) system for the sealing of multiple pipe and cable bulkhead transits has been used for the fire safe and smoke-tight ducting of cables through all the…

Hard on the heels of Kvaerner’s announcement that it will sell its Kvaerner Govan shipyard in the UK to Marconi Electronic Systems, there has been more good news for Kvaerner yards in…

Solar Solve Marine has won two orders for its anti-glare screens and roller blinds together worth over £20,000 ($31,572). Five Solasafe screens were installed on the bridge windows of Ben-My-Chree, a 12,600gt…

A P Moller Group and CSX Corporation have announced that they have reached a much anticipated agreement for A P Moller-Maersk Line to acquire Sea-Land Service Inc’s international liner business, a deal…

A general guide to current safety and pollution prevention requirements for ships, and the thinking behind their development, has been published by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). The 28-page guide,…

Key organisations within the shipping and shipbuilding industries in Canada have banded together to produce what they have called a Joint Strategy Paper the aim of which is the revitalisation of the…

Globe Wireless has introduced the Globe Communications Centre, which it says provides a one-stop program for onboard communication needs. The system features a single interface that handles all messaging and data transfer…

Initial findings by the team investigating the engine room fire on board the Norwegian passenger ferry Prinsesse Ragnhild have prompted The Swedish Club to issue new recommendations to its members. The recommendations…