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Corvus Energy has announced a multi-year agreement with LG Chem for the supply of lithium-ion pouch cells for Corvus’ next generation maritime energy storage systems (ESS).

29th March 2016

Corvus and LG Chem partner up

29th March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

GE Marine, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Lloyd’s Register are to develop a design for a 14,000 teu gas turbine-powered container ship.

24th March 2016

Turbine-powered container ship design project

24th March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä is to form a new automation and electronics joint venture with China State Shipbuilding Corp and has signed a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI).

22nd March 2016

Wärtsilä extends relationship with CSSC

22nd March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

Rolls-Royce has revealed a futuristic vision for shore-based operation of unmanned ships, and plans to build a project demonstrator by the end of the decade.

22nd March 2016

Rolls-Royce reveals vision for shore operations

22nd March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

Classification society DNV GL has introduced a new form of reporting that is said to revolutionise survey reporting for fleet managers.

22nd March 2016

Enhanced safety with DNV GL’s new survey reports

22nd March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

Insurer Allianz Global has warned against a ‘put it off until later’ approach to safety standards in the face of economic pressures, saying that some ship operators are already stretching maintenance intervals…

21st March 2016

Cost pressures, new fuels impact vessel safety

21st March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

Shell, Rolls-Royce and MAN Diesel & Turbo are among the first users of a new tool launched by class society DNV GL to track LNG fuel availability.

21st March 2016

DNV GL launches LNG fuel availability tool

21st March 2016

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking partners for a new project which it hopes will delivery fuel savings of at least 10% for large shipping vessels.

21st March 2016

ETI launches flettner rotor project

21st March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

International classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has significantly reduced structural computational and verification times through the use of a 3D model which can link directly to BV’s VeriSTAR suite of calculation tools.

16th March 2016

BV slashes design review times

16th March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

AkzoNobel has added cruise ship vessels to the new version of its ‘big data’ tool for calculating return on investment for coatings, Intertrac Vision.

11th March 2016

AkzoNobel adds cruise ships to coating ROI tool

11th March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

Trade association Interferry has produced operational best practice guidance for fire safety on ro-ro vehicle decks in response to a string of at least seven serious fires on ro-pax vessels in Europe…

11th March 2016

Interferry issues ro-ro fire safety guidance

11th March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co, with support from Lloyd’s Register, has created tanker designs offering reduced ballast water requirements to minimise the difficulties of operating in silt-laden China’s silt-laden ports.

11th March 2016

Dalian Shipbuilding designs reduced ballast tankers

11th March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

The economics driving the ultra-large container ship ‘arms race’ may be approaching a stalling point unless ports and shipping companies collaborate more closely, consultancy Drewry has warned.

11th March 2016

Container ship size ‘arms race’ questioned

11th March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

The IMO has held two international workshops to raise awareness of its regulations on energy efficiency and the control of greenhouse gas emissions from ships.

10th March 2016

IMO workshops to promote energy efficiency

10th March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

Maersk Tankers will extend its trial use of drones to deliver small parcels including spare parts to vessels, and to conduct inspections, after a successful first test run.

8th March 2016

Maersk Tankers trials drone deliveries, inspections

8th March 2016

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

A new notation showing that vessels have been built for future scrubber installation has been released by DNV GL, to be joined later this year by another showing vessels’ readiness for installation…

4th March 2016

DNV GL rolls out future-proofing notations

4th March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

Classification society Bureau Veritas has entered into a partnership with Dassault Systèmes to use the companys 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

3rd March 2016

Bureau Veritas enters into partnership with Dassault Systemes

3rd March 2016

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä Services has updated its marine agreements, replacing its maintenance and technical management contracts with an optimised maintenance concept and introducing a new guaranteed asset performance solution.

3rd March 2016

Wärtsilä introduces asset performance guarantee

3rd March 2016

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GENERAL NEWS

The Motorship will present live blog coverage today from Immediaseas latest roundtable discussion, Disruptuve sustainability: The new leadership framework, taking place at the Baltic Exchange, London at 1500-1700 UK time.

29th February 2016

Live Blog: Immediasea Disruptive Sustainability roundtable

29th February 2016

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Dutch chemical company, AkzoNobel, has issued more than 126,000 carbon credits worth over $500,000 – the first to be awarded under the company’s landmark scheme for the shipping industry.

24th February 2016

First carbon credits award for cleaner hulls

24th February 2016