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50 YEARS AGO

50 YEARS AGO

Reading the December 1968 issue of The Motor Ship, so much seems to belong to a later period that I had to look twice to see that I had the right date,…

29th November 2018

Glimpses of the future

29th November 2018

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Norwegian ballast water technology provider Oceansaver has been given a new lease of life following its bankruptcy and rescue by new owner TeamTec last year, writes Charlie Bartlett.

29th November 2018

Back from the brink: Gently does it for Oceansaver

29th November 2018

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Ship owners must take care if they are to avoid buying and installing ballast water management systems with high flaw rates. Stevie Knight explores recently exposed reliability challenges.

29th November 2018

Ballast breakdowns: Don’t go with the flow

29th November 2018

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

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

28th November 2018

ABB extends China service capability

28th November 2018

NEWS PFF

NEWS PFF

Propulsion & Future Fuels 2018 kicked off with a keynote session featuring leading voices in the commercial shipping sector; the IMO, MAN Energy Solutions and Wartsila.

28th November 2018

Did you miss the PFF 2018 keynote session? Videos online now.

28th November 2018

NEWS PFF

NEWS PFF

Propulsion & Future Fuels 2018 culminated with a trip to a battery hybrid ferry operated by Scandlines.

28th November 2018

Conference closes with a look to the future of hybrid propulsion

28th November 2018

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Groupe Renault has announced a three year partnership with Nantes start-up, Neoline, to develop a wind-powered maritime transport system.

28th November 2018

Renault and Neoline’s sustainable team-up

28th November 2018

NEWS PFF

NEWS PFF

Benefit from the fantastic line up of Propulsion & Future Fuels speakers after the event. More than 80 profiles, papers and presentations from this year’s conference are now available to download from…

28th November 2018

Did you miss PFF 2018? Download available now!

28th November 2018

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

An international project to combat the negative environmental impacts of the transfer of aquatic species through ships has been launched.

27th November 2018

Global project to protect marine biodiversity

27th November 2018

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Signalling the impending debut of a major US-owned hotel group in the ultra-luxury segment of the cruise business, a 24,000gt newbuild has been launched for Ritz-Carlton from the Vigo premises of Hijos…

27th November 2018

First cruiseship for US hotel group

27th November 2018

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Italy’s coastwise and shortsea traffic is set to gain two ro-ro freight vessels that will rank among the largest in the Mediterranean, writes David Tinsley.

27th November 2018

Flensburger trailer ships for Italian trade

27th November 2018

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

Canadian energy storage specialist, Corvus Energy, has announced that contracts for a new maritime batteries factory in Norway have been finalised.

26th November 2018

New Corvus battery factory in Norway

26th November 2018

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

German diesel engine and turbomachinery company, MAN Energy Solutions, has won an order to supply the engine for a new dredger in southern China.

26th November 2018

MAN provides engine for Chinese dredger

26th November 2018

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Additional icebreaker capacity is planned by Russia in support of traffic growth on the Northern Sea Route (NSR), the country’s Arctic seaway. David Tinsley reports.

26th November 2018

Russia advances icebreaker strategy

26th November 2018

NEWS PFF

NEWS PFF

2018s welcome reception drinks was sponsored by WINGD and held in the Grand Elysse. Delegates enjoyed a selection of beverages and a relaxed networking opportunity that immediately followed the conference. See a…

23rd November 2018

2018 Welcome Reception

23rd November 2018

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Sofia Fürstenberg Stott has been an architect of Nor-Shipping’s evolution to embrace and enable new ocean business opportunities for its core maritime audience. Here she explains how adopting a broader ‘blue’ perspective…

23rd November 2018

Oceans of opportunity

23rd November 2018

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ExxonMobil has highlighted the importance of timely diagnosis of cylinder condition problems as the industry prepares for a brace of new fuel quality challenges.

23rd November 2018

Rapid diagnosis essential as fuel concerns escalate

23rd November 2018

WHITE PAPERS

WHITE PAPERS

The marine industry faces a variety of substantial challenges. Capacity oversupply continues to supress freight rates, squeezing margins and damaging bottom line performance, while the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) imminent change to…

23rd November 2018

The need for speed in scrape down oil analysis

23rd November 2018

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Norwegian ship designers, Ulstein Verft, has been commissioned to build a new plug-in hybrid ship for fellow Norwegian cruise company, Color Line.

23rd November 2018

Ulstein kicks off Color Hybrid construction

23rd November 2018

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

A UK research consortium led by Bowman Power Group has developed an energy saving and emission reduction system based on electric turbo compounding (ETC), writes David Tinsley.

23rd November 2018

UK partners develop waste heat recovery

23rd November 2018