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BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Cruise ship operator, Royal Caribbean International, has chosen Norwegian-based Optimarin to provide its Optimarin Ballast System (OBS) for three flagship vessels.

9th January 2019

Optimarin provides BWT for cruise ships

9th January 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Major ship operator Navios has recently ordered a 311,000 dwt newbuild very large crude carrier (VLCC) from Imabari Shipyard in Japan. The vessel is scheduled for completion in autumn 2020.

9th January 2019

Navios orders new VLCC from Imabari

9th January 2019

NEWS PFF

NEWS PFF

Speaking at Propulsion & Future Fuels is a unique opportunity to promote your company’s innovations and successes to an audience of over 150 senior managers in the commercial shipping sector.

9th January 2019

Don’t miss the chance to speak at Propulsion and Future Fuels 2019

9th January 2019

REGULATION

REGULATION

Chinese regulators have updated part of its domestic emission control area (DECA) regulations with effect from 1 January 2019 but have not yet placed a full ban on open-loop scrubbers as reported…

8th January 2019

China has not yet banned open-loop scrubbers: BIMCO

8th January 2019

LNG

LNG

GEFO has signed a contract for up to four 7000 DWT LNG-enabled chemical tankers with Avic Dingheng Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.

8th January 2019

GEFO orders LNG-enabled tankers

8th January 2019

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Turkey-based product tanker operator Advantage Tankers & Advantage Products is to install Alfa Laval’s PureBallast 3 ballast water management system (BWMS) on 16 vessels between March 2019 and March 2021.

8th January 2019

Advantage Fleet Agreement for Alfa Laval BWMS

8th January 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Swedish ship operator Rederiaktiebolaget Gotland has taken delivery of MS Visborg, the first of two LNG fuelled ROPAX vessels.

8th January 2019

LNG RO PAX delivered to Baltic operator

8th January 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Chinese shipbuilder Wuhu Shipyard, located in Anhui province, has signed a contract with Swedish ship owner Donsotank to build two 167.7m long, 26.5m beam chemical tankers, to be delivered in 2021.

7th January 2019

Donsotank orders two ice-class LNG tankers

7th January 2019

REGULATION

REGULATION

China has prohibited the use of open-loop exhaust gas cleaning (EGC) systems from 1 January 2019 in coastal emission control areas.

7th January 2019

China bans use of open-loop scrubber systems

7th January 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Signalling a further advance in cruiseship efficiency, and distinguished by design elements that depart from the norm, the Celebrity Edge cut her teeth on a winter season deployment in December out of…

7th January 2019

CELEBRITY BUILDS TO GAIN COMPETITIVE EDGE

7th January 2019

REGULATION

REGULATION

ClassNK announced in late December it conducted a demonstration test of a ship class survey using drone technology.

4th January 2019

Drone vessel survey for ClassNK and MOL

4th January 2019

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to develop new regulations governing vessel incidental discharges following President Trump’s approval of the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) on 4 December 2018.

4th January 2019

EPA to develop VGP replacement post-VIDA

4th January 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Spanish shipbuilder Gondan has signed a contract with Norwegian ship owner Engenes fiskeriselskap AS to build a 69.9m long, 16m beam stern trawler, to be delivered in Q1 2021.

4th January 2019

Gondan to build Engenes ice-class trawler

4th January 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Korean shipbuilder, Daehan Shipbuilding (DHSC), has been given approval in principle from DNV GL for a new LNG-fuelled 115k dwt Aframax tanker.

4th January 2019

DNV GL gives AIP to Daehan LNG tanker

4th January 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Hamburg-based container liner Hapag-Lloyd will install scrubbers onboard ten vessels over the next two years ahead of the entry into force of the IMO’s 2020 sulphur cap.

4th January 2019

Hapag Lloyd to retrofit ten scrubbers to containerships

4th January 2019

OTHER EQUIPMENT

OTHER EQUIPMENT

BIMCO has called for newbuilds to be fitted with a Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) to lower costs and improve efficiency.

4th January 2019

BIMCO calls for newbuilds CMMS

4th January 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has ordered a 49,000 dwt methanol-fuelled chemical tanker with an expected delivery date of 2019.NYK announced in December that the project was being partly financed by a…

3rd January 2019

NYK orders methanol-fuelled carrier

3rd January 2019

LNG

LNG

Russian shipping company, Sovcomflot, part of the SCF Group, has placed an order at the Zvezda shipyard in eastern Russia for the construction of three new generation product carriers that use LNG…

3rd January 2019

Sovcomflot orders new LNG carriers

3rd January 2019

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

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…

3rd January 2019

Keppel wins scrubber and LNG contracts

3rd January 2019

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

In cash-constrained times, few regions can compete with the sheer volume of shipyard investments currently emerging in the Arabian Gulf. We highlight some of the latest projects.

21st December 2018

Diverse projects broaden Gulf maritime market

21st December 2018