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LNG

LNG

The first LNG ferry to be built in Italy by Fincantieri has left the company’s Naples shipyard for Canadian transport company, Société des traversiers du Québec (STQ), following successful sea trials.

7th April 2015

LNG ferry heads to Canada

7th April 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Incat will deliver an 85m high speed wave piercing catamaran ferry to Japan’s Sado Kisen early this month - the operator’s first high speed passenger and car carrier.

7th April 2015

Japan fast ferry delivery for Incat

7th April 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

UK-based computerised control system manufacturer, Unison, has commissioned what is thought to be the largest all-electric tube bending machine ever produced at Newport News Shipbuilding.

2nd April 2015

Unison commissions tube bending machine

2nd April 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The naming ceremony has taken place for Damen’s latest newbuild, a 26m multipurpose windfarm vessel built for UK-based Severn Offshore Services.

1st April 2015

Damen completes windfarm vessel

1st April 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

During the recent CMA Shipping 2015 conference, ABS Chairman and CEO Christopher Wiernicki provided the conferences keynote address focusing on the executive technology leadership helping transform the future of shipping.

1st April 2015

Transforming the future of shipping

1st April 2015

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven (LWB) Tuesday revealed orders for the repair and modernisation of the two small cruise ships Voyager and National Geographic Explorer – work which will keep it busy throughout April,…

1st April 2015

Lloyd Werft bags new cruise repair

1st April 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Hapag Lloyd will be equipping its 13,200 teu Hamburg Express class and other vessels with the Colfax CM-1000® pump control system.

31st March 2015

Hapag Lloyd chooses Colfax

31st March 2015

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery and Engine Co., Ltd. (MHI-MME) has released UE Engine Technical Data on its website.

31st March 2015

MHI-MME releases engine data

31st March 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Condor Ferries has launched the 102m trimaran ferry Condor Liberation, built by Austal, on its service between Poole and the Channel Islands.

30th March 2015

Condor launches high-speed Austal trimaran

30th March 2015

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

DNV GL addressed the increasing problem of cyber threats and cybersecurity in the maritime and offshore industry at this year’s Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) Shipping event.

30th March 2015

DNV GL addresses cybersecurity

30th March 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

DBB Jack-Up Services new wind turbine service jack-up vessel has just been launched, with a full complement of Kongsberg Maritime control and automation technology on board.

30th March 2015

Kongsberg equips DBB jack-up vessel

30th March 2015

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

MAN Diesel & Turbo demonstrated its methanol-burning ME-LGI engine in front of customers and partners in March.

30th March 2015

MAN demonstrates two-stroke methanol engine

30th March 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Sembcorp subsidiary Jurong Shipyard will build a semi-submersible crane vessel for Heerema Offshore Services that it claims will be the biggest crane vessel in the world.

30th March 2015

Sembcorp Marine to build biggest crane vessel

30th March 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Carnival Corp has split responsibility for nine next-generation ships between German shipbuilder Meyer Werft and Italian counterpart Fincanteri.

30th March 2015

Carnival carves up nine newbuild orders

30th March 2015

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The Korean Register (KR) has become the first Asian class society to gain authorisation as an “independent laboratory” for testing ballast water management systems (BWMS).

27th March 2015

USCG certifies Korean Register for BWM testing

27th March 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The 60,000dwt ‘DACC Tirreno’ was delivered at the Oshima shipyard in Japan yesterday, the first of four Supramax bulk carriers for the joint venture between Coeclerici and d’Amico formed in 2013.

27th March 2015

First bulk carrier for Italian venture

27th March 2015

LNG

LNG

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has released the second edition of its guidance on LNG bunkering in North America.

27th March 2015

ABS updates LNG guidance

27th March 2015

LNG

LNG

Wärtsilä is expanding its offering with a new series of LNG carrier ship designs, part of the companys strategic programme of ‘Taking Merchant Shipping into the Gas Age’.

27th March 2015

Wärtsilä unveils latest LNG carrier designs

27th March 2015

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Trinidad Dry Dock Company (TDDC) has taken an important step in its long-planned ship repair yard on Sullivan Island, part of what the company hopes will be one of the biggest dry…

27th March 2015

Trinidad dry dock project progresses

27th March 2015

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Rolls-Royce has secured a landmark agreement to supply six B33:45 medium-speed diesel generator sets to China’s Fuijan Mawei shipyard for the world’s first ever seabed mining vessel.

26th March 2015

Rolls-Royce power for first seabed mining ship

26th March 2015