General News

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

More than half of all hull and machinery insurance claim costs are caused by navigational incidents, The Swedish Club has reported.

12th February 2015

Navigation incidents most costly, insurer claims

12th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Attitudes to green ship technologies will be the focus of an online survey and roundtable discussion organised by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEst) and the UK Science &…

12th February 2015

IMarEST studies green shipping agenda

12th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

MAN Diesel & Turbo has renewed its contract with Chinese two-stroke licensee, China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC) for a further ten years.

11th February 2015

MAN renews contract with Chinese shipbuilder

11th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The 37th Propulsion & Emissions Conference, to take place in Hamburg on 4-5 March, will welcome several leading companies from the shipping world.

11th February 2015

Ship owners and operators at P&E 2015

11th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Finnish tanker operator Lundqvist Rederierna has adopted maintenance management software from BASS.

11th February 2015

Lundqvist Rederierna adopts BASS maintenance software

11th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Rolls-Royce is supporting regional MTU sales and services in the Middle East with a new head office in Dubai.

11th February 2015

Rolls-Royce expands to Middle East

11th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Alfa Laval has secured the first class approvals from Lloyds Register for its PureSOx scrubber system installed onboard the DFDS Petunia and Primula Seaways.

10th February 2015

Class approval for PureSOx scrubbers

10th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Korean Register (KR) has been authorised to perform statutory services – including conducting surveys and audits as well as issuing certificates – on behalf of the Canadian government.

10th February 2015

Korean Register authorised in Canada

10th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

ClassNK has updates its ship design support software PrimeShip-Hull (HCSR), making it the first computer programme to reflect IACS’ Common Structural Rules (CSR) adopted in December 2014.

9th February 2015

ClassNK software integrates common structural rules

9th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Cunard’s cruise ship, ‘Queen Mary 2’, is being fitted with a Wärtsilä advanced wastewater treatment system that will enable it to fully comply with the IMO’s pollution prevention requirements.

6th February 2015

Wärtsilä pollution prevention for ‘QM2’

6th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Denmark-based DESMI Ocean Guard’s ballast water treatment system (BWTS) using ultraviolet light, RayClean, has been granted AMS acceptance by the US Coast Guard (USCG).

5th February 2015

DESMI BWTS accepted by US Coast Guard

5th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

ClassNK has issued approval for Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation’s newly developed corrosion resistant steel (NSGP-2) for use on the upper deck and/or inner bottom of crude oil tanker cargo oil…

5th February 2015

Corrosion resistant steel approval

5th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Icelandic energy management firm Marorka has won a contract to deliver ship performance monitoring systems to United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), with a view to optimizing fleet performance and reducing fuel consumption…

4th February 2015

UASC chooses Marorka for energy management

4th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

US based CR Ocean Engineering (CROE) has secured a scrubber order from Finnish operator, Bore Ltd (Finland) to retrofit its ‘MV Seaguard’ ro-ro container vessel.

4th February 2015

CROE ro-ro scrubber order

4th February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Dutch marine technology expert Alewijnse Marine Systems has completed a full electrical installation on board the ‘Nexus’, the innovative new cable layer built by Damen Shipyards Group for offshore contractor Van Oord.

3rd February 2015

Cable layer electrical system installation

3rd February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Ultraviolet and electrochlorination treatments - the two mainstream BWT options - confront shipowners with some difficult choices, writes Stevie Knight, in the February issue of The Motorship.

3rd February 2015

BWT basics: Evaluating the options

3rd February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Classification society, ClassNK, has granted full type approval for the new 28AHX-DF dual-fuel engine built by Niigata Power Systems Co Ltd.

2nd February 2015

Japan’s first LNG gas fuelled tugs

2nd February 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The Liberian Registry is to offer tonnage tax discounts to ships participating in its recently launched environmental initiative, which includes retrofitting green technology paid for from fuel savings.

30th January 2015

Liberian Registry offers green retrofit incentive

30th January 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

ClassNK registered 833 new vessels, a combined 21,466,272gt, in 2014 as it beat a global downturn in newbuild deliveries and secured record numbers of transfers from other class societies.

30th January 2015

Record registrations for ClassNK

30th January 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The Ukrainian shipbuilding industry is bearing huge losses due to an economic crisis in the country and the ongoing military conflict in the Eastern part of the country, writes Eugene Gerden.

30th January 2015

Ukrainian shipbuilding on verge of crisis

30th January 2015