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REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Holland Shipyards Group will retrofit a zero-emissions hydrogen propulsion system on to the inland container ship Maas after months of energy profiling onboard the vessel undertaken by Future Proof Shipping.

5th March 2021

HOLLAND SHIPYARDS GROUP TO RETROFIT HYDROGEN SYSTEM ON INLAND CONTAINER SHIP

5th March 2021

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

BW Group and Miros are launching a joint venture to provide the shipping industry with a new standard in vessel performance optimisation, allowing operators to make 10% fuel savings on a single…

4th March 2021

BW Group and Miros launch fuel-saving venture

4th March 2021

LNG

LNG

Shell will add further flexibility to customers on key trade routes when it takes receipt of a new LNG bunkering supply vessel being constructed in Spain.

4th March 2021

Shell expands LNG offering with new vessel

4th March 2021

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Icebreakers are big, expensive beasts but they can be lazy, “sometimes only working three or four months of the year”, says Jyrki Lehtonen of ILS Ship Design & Engineering. It’s left people…

3rd March 2021

Cinderella ‘shoe’ that turns a tug into an icebreaker

3rd March 2021

NEWS PFF

NEWS PFF

Mercator Media Ltd announces the postponement of Propulsion & Future Fuels, due to take place from the 18-20 May. The conference will now be taking place from 2-4 November 2021 at the…

3rd March 2021

NEW DATES ANNOUNCED

3rd March 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

With builders starved of merchant vessel orders, the industry in the USA is addressing new areas of opportunity while sustaining US Navy programmes, writes David Tinsley.

2nd March 2021

CHANGING FORTUNES, NEW DIRECTIONS FOR US YARDS

2nd March 2021

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

BIMCO is calling on states and the industry to consider establishing a global set of rules for market-based measures to support the use of low carbon fuels amid concerns that regionally fragmented…

2nd March 2021

BIMCO CALLS FOR INDUSTRY TO GET BEHIND MARKET BASED MEASURES

2nd March 2021

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

GE Power Conversion has streamlined its existing digital solutions and expert services into a customisable platform of tools.

2nd March 2021

GE Power Conversion launches simplified digital solutions portfolio

2nd March 2021

BATTERY HYBRIDS & FULL-ELECTRIC VESSELS

BATTERY HYBRIDS & FULL-ELECTRIC VESSELS

The innovative hybrid wellboat Ro Vision was the world’s first vessel of its type to feature a battery hybrid power and propulsion solution when it was delivered in March 2020.

2nd March 2021

Norwegian hybrid live fish carrier

2nd March 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Kongsberg Maritime (KM) has signed a NOK70m contract with Norwegian shipyard Myklebust Verft to design and equip a new Live Fish Carrier (LFC) for live fish transportation company Sølvtrans.

2nd March 2021

Kongsberg designs Sølvtrans live fish carrier

2nd March 2021

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Regulateurs Europa (RE), a subsidiary of engine and turbine management solution specialist Heinzmann, has announced the launch of a new electro-hydraulic engine governor. The new DG 2800.14 engine governor is suitable for…

1st March 2021

New Regulateurs Europa electro-hydraulic engine governor

1st March 2021

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Ship Data Center (ShipDC) are sharing the data of around 180 ships targeted for MOL’s ‘FOCUS Project’ through the use of IoS Open Platform (IoS-OP), the data…

1st March 2021

MOL and ShipDC to share more ship data

1st March 2021

EXHAUST GAS CLEANING SYSTEMS

EXHAUST GAS CLEANING SYSTEMS

ANDRITZ has extended its scrubber portfolio with a barge solution for vessels in port that reduces the level of SOx, NOx and ultrafine particulates in the exhaust gas regardless of the size…

1st March 2021

ANDRITZ barge scrubber suits any vessel

1st March 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Putting trade in US imports of fresh fruit and other perishable produce from Latin America on a new economic and environmental footing, Dole Food Company has taken delivery of the first of…

1st March 2021

BOXSHIP TONNAGE FOR US FRUIT TRADE

1st March 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Genting-owned Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven (LWB) is to close at the end of the year and local German shipbuilding group Rönner is among those interested in buying it, writes Tom Todd.

1st March 2021

Germany’s Lloyd Werft faces closure or sale

1st March 2021

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ABS has released a white paper offering guidance on issues surrounding the use of methanol as Marine Fuel, evaluating the challenges in the design and operation of methanol-fuelled vessels.

26th February 2021

ABS PRODUCES METHANOL AS A MARINE FUEL GUIDANCE

26th February 2021

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Bakker Sliedrecht is carrying out tests to determine whether biodegradable oil can be used in the submersible motors that the company supplies for Van Oord.

26th February 2021

Biodegradable oil for submersible motors test

26th February 2021

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

A third United Wind Logistics module deck carrier will use ABB’s marine advisory system to support real-time decision making as it transports windfarm components such as turbines, foundations and blades to offshore…

26th February 2021

ABB advisory system for United Wind

26th February 2021

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Signalling yet another stage in the unerring renewal and development of the Grimaldi fleet, the Italian company has ordered six ro-ro multipurpose vessels for the West African trade in South Korea, writes…

26th February 2021

GRIMALDI BOOSTS DEEPSEA RO-RO INVESTMENT

26th February 2021

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Belgian shipping and technology company CMB and Japan’s ITOCHU and Nippon Coke & Engineering have announced a collaboration to produce hydrogen for local consumption by land and maritime industries, initially on the…

26th February 2021

NEW JV FURTHERS ADOPTION OF HYDROGEN DUAL-FUEL ENGINES IN JAPAN

26th February 2021