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A new voyage data recorder (VDR) Performance Standard (MSC.333 (90) entered into force on 1 July 2014: ECDIS supplier PC Maritime of the UK says it has upgraded its ECDIS to ensure…

Meyer Werft has booked in two more 164,600 gt cruise ships worth €1.6 billion from Norwegian Cruise Lines bringing to four the number the German yard is now building for NCL, reports…

The two ro-pax ferries for Scandlines, started by the former P&S in Germany, rejected by the customer and moved to Blohm & Voss, will be completed by Fayard.

Veritas Petrolem Services is the name of the new Singapore-based entity that has grown out of the former DNV Petroleum Services.

ABB subsidiary Amarcon says that Korean based company Pan Ocean has ordered its Octopus-Onboard ship monitoring and advisory system.

Vard Holdings has secured a contract for the design and construction of a 4,000dwt PSV for German company E.R. Offshore, the offshore arm of the Rickmers group, with delivery scheduled for mid-2016.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, is to supply equipment for three 80m ice-class vessels and a 96m shallow water pipe laying barge, for Malaysia’s Bumi Armada Berhad.

UK-based Simplex-Turbulo has added another dry dock to its portfolio, Fujian Huadong in China, which it says ‘ticks all the boxes’ in terms of location, facilities, efficiency and quality.

Sovcomflot (SCF Group) and Sakhalin Energy have signed an agreement for the construction and long-term operation of three multifunctional icebreaking standby vessels to serve the Sakhalin-2 offshore energy platforms.

Germany’s L-3 Marine Systems International (L-3 MSI) will provide advanced automation, navigation, communications and electrical propulsion facilities for Samsø Færgen, a new LNG powered double-ended passenger car ferry.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) says that it has reached the milestone of 10,000 unit sales for its 16-cylinder diesel and gas engine, since the original product launch in 1989.

Vard Holdings, the former STX Offshore company which is now part of the Fincantieri group, has announced its expansion in North America with the acquisition of another STX subsidiary, STX Canada Marine.

Atlantic Towing (ATL) has chosen newly-designed, ice-strengthened PSV 5000 vessels from Damen Shipyards to meet a demanding 10-year offshore support contract.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) believes it could have a solution to the current dilemma associated with what it describes as the “serious implementation problems” associated with the IMO ballast water…

Eco Marine Power of Japan and MINs Control Systems of Singapore have signed a sales and support agreement, under which MINs will handle EMPs renewable energy systems for shipping in Singapore and…

Maritime training specialist Videotel, based in the UK, has been sold to US communications company KVH Industries, in a £28.7 million deal.

German ship equipment and component suppliers expect a fall-off in demand amid market consolidation this year after strong growth in orders in 2013, particularly from China and Korea, reports Tom Todd.

New chairman of IACS, Bureau Veritas’ Philippe Donache-Gay, has outlined the priorities he hopes to set during his year in office.