News

NEWS PFF

NEWS PFF

First look at the speaker line-up for Propulsion & Future Fuels featuring over 40 speakers from the world’s leading ship operators, engine manufacturers, fuel companies, naval architects and service providers.

22nd August 2018

Provisional Programme out now!

22nd August 2018

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä is making a significant investment in Finland with its new Smart Technology Hub, what it calls its next-generation innovation and production centre.

21st August 2018

Wärtsilä invests in Smart Technology Hub

21st August 2018

THRUSTERS & PROPULSORS

THRUSTERS & PROPULSORS

Brunvoll has won two large equipment packages for a live fish carrier vessel and another plug-in hybrid system for a whale watching and sightseeing vessel.

21st August 2018

Brunvoll equipment orders focus on hybrid

21st August 2018

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

PowerCell Sweden AB has signed a memorandum of understanding with the German industrial group Siemens AG to jointly develop fuel cell-based drive and power generating systems for marine applications.

20th August 2018

Marine fuel cell-based drive partnership

20th August 2018

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Meyer is expanding use of Cadmatic design and information management software at its shipyards to improve its cruise vessel design and shorten design and construction lead-times.

17th August 2018

Cadmatic software to improve Meyer design

17th August 2018

TURBOCHARGER

TURBOCHARGER

Scientists at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy have developed a computational model which determines the maintenance intervals for exhaust gas turbochargers.

16th August 2018

Turbocharger service interval predictions

16th August 2018

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The world’s first autonomous and electric container vessel has moved one step closer to launch with the signing of a NOK 250 million vessel build deal with Vard.

16th August 2018

Yara autonomous vessel will be built by Vard

16th August 2018

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

German shipyard Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven (LWB) has revealed it will, after all, be directly involved in the production of Germany’s biggest-ever cruise ships now being built at east German sister group MV…

16th August 2018

Lloyd Werft gets Genting cruise work after all

16th August 2018

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

Yara Environmental Technologies has become the first selective catalytic reduction (SCR) supplier to complete EIAPP certification of a client’s engine and SCR system, marking the first time a non-engine maker has led…

16th August 2018

Yara completes first Scheme B certification

16th August 2018

LNG

LNG

Canadian operator Société des traversiers du Québec (STQ) has completed final commissioning of its latest gas-fuelled ferry, the first such vessel to be built in the region

16th August 2018

First LNG ferry built in North America

16th August 2018

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Rolls-Royce is to produce marine batteries for the first time with the launch of a lithium-ion based energy storage system.

16th August 2018

Rolls-Royce to build marine batteries

16th August 2018

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Silverstream Technologies has retrofitted its Silverstream System air lubrication technology onto the Diamond Princess owned by Princess Cruises.

15th August 2018

Air lubrication refit for Carnival cruise ship

15th August 2018

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ExxonMobil is to supply marine fuel via an independently accredited mass flow metering system (MFMS) in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp region to provide more bunkering transparency for its customers.

15th August 2018

Independently accredited mass flow metering

15th August 2018

WHITE PAPERS

WHITE PAPERS

A damaged main engine cylinder casing has now been returned to service in Bulgaria, after a repair operation lasting just seven days, saving almost eight months of off-hire time. The shipowners, faced…

15th August 2018

The benefits of the Metalock process

15th August 2018

WHITE PAPERS

WHITE PAPERS

The maintenance, inspection, and overhaul scheduling of a vessel’s tail shaft equipment continues to be largely preset based on the number of operating sea hours. This is in accordance with the manufacturer’s…

14th August 2018

Wärtsilä Sea-Master system

14th August 2018

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Liquid hydrogen could get a leg up from the industry’s experience with LNG propulsion, writes Stevie Knight

14th August 2018

From LNG to hydrogen? Pitfalls and possibilities

14th August 2018

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Independent benchmark testing on behalf of the Chinese government has identified the Single Turnover One Pulse (STOP) method as an accurate methodology for portable ballast water sampling.

13th August 2018

Portable ballast monitoring verification

13th August 2018

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

New generation smart engine and IAMCS integrated marine console technologies will be the focus of control and power management specialist, CMR Group’s stand at this year’s SMM exhibition.

13th August 2018

CMR’s smart engine solution at SMM

13th August 2018

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Newport Shipping has signed cooperation agreements with several marine equipment suppliers and service companies to help fulfil its aim of providing shipowners with turnkey ship repair and retrofit solutions across its partner…

10th August 2018

Newport Shipping targets turnkey solutions

10th August 2018

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Newly designed Rolls-Royce stabilisation systems will allow ice class ships to benefit from greater stability with higher levels of roll reduction.

9th August 2018

Rolls-Royce improves ice class ship stability

9th August 2018