Repair & Conversion

Engine and turbine management solution specialist Heinzmann retrofitted a common-rail (CR) retrofit conversion to a 40 year old vessel from the Swedish icebreaker fleet. The retrofit successfully increased the vessels engine efficiency,…

AIDA Cruises’ ten year old cruise ship AIDAluna has been given a clean bill of health for a further five years during its latest stay at Carnival contract yard Blohm + Voss…

The world’s first Electronic Bus Link (EBL) from Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch has been successfully commissioned on ‘North Sea Giant’.

A BC Ferries RoRo vessel has departed Remontowa Shiprepair Yard following the successful completion of a mid-life upgrade (MLU).

Babcock International, the aerospace and defence company, has completed the refit of two NorthLink passenger ferries that run between mainland Scotland and the Orkney and Shetland islands.

Maersk Tankers is to retrofit one LR2 vessel in the Maersk Product Tanker fleet with a scrubber system, and has ordered a further three scrubber systems for LR2 newbuilds to comply with…

German industrial services provider, Bilfinger, has won contracts worth more than €100m to fit its scrubber technology on 70 vessels.

Scrubber manufacturer, CR Ocean Engineering (CROE) has been awarded a contract with a USA-based shipping company for the fitting of 35 exhaust gas scrubber cleaning systems.

Wärtsilä has signed an agreement with international shipping company Hagland Shipping AS for a hybrid retrofit installation.

UK-based, Cleanship Solutions, has been selected as the dedicated scrubber engineering partner for a large container vessel operator’s 2019 scrubber retrofit programme.

Polish Baltic Marine Services has won a contract to oversee turnkey scrubber retrofits of 18 Ultra Large Container Ships.

Singapore-based Keppel Offshore & Marine has won contracts worth S$300m to construct an ice-class LNG bunker vessel and refurbish a Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) together with 65 scrubber retrofit…

Deltamarin has assisted Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers (KNOT) by providing engineering services for its tanker-to-FSO conversion project.

Global company, ABB Turbocharging, has announced the establishment of a branch office of ABB Jiangjin Turbo Systems in Zhoushan, China.

Fishing company Norwegian Gardar is to conduct the first ever retrofit installation of the Wärtsilä 31 engine, shedding eight cylinders and 200,000 litres of fuel a year on the trawler ‘Gardar’.

Damen Shiprepair Curaçao’s (DSCu) new large floating C dock is now operational.

Wärtsilä has acquired Spain-based Burriel Navarro, S.L to supports the growth of its underwater services and expands its local presence in the European market.

Albwardy Damen has expanded its services to Sohar Port in the Sultanate of Oman in what it calls a historic milestone as the joint venture company celebrates its 40th anniversary.

MAN has opened a new PrimeServ service station and workshop in Zhoushan China in order to provide quicker service to ship owners calling at Xinya Shipyard.

Damen Shiprepair Brest has completed a maintenance programme for a Norwegian cruise ship with a particular focus on the refurbishment of the ship’s two ABB azipods.