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ClassNK has reached a preliminary agreement with two major shipping lines over the use of its As-built Drawings Storage Service (ADSS).

Two Stena Line ferries are now fitted with Variable Speed Drivers (VSDs) for seawater pumps to help cut fuel costs and carbon emissions.

By redesigning the bulbous bow of slow steaming container ships, operators can make fuel savings of 5% and above.

Mercator Media has made another significant investment in its online offering and redesigned all 14 of its magazine and event websites. All of the sites have been re-engineered to incorporate ‘responsive design’…

Finnish shipping company Bore has made a second order for ClassNK-NAPA’s Green ship efficiency software for installation on its 13,625dwt ro-ro vessel ‘Bore Song’ after successful sea trials aboard sister vessel ‘Bore…

Norwegian ship designer Marin Teknikk has announced a contract for design and engineering of an MT6024 diving and construction vessel for Kreuz Subsea Marine of Singapore.

MAN PrimeServ, the service division of MAN Diesel & Turbo, says that its has recently retrofitted its 20,000th slide fuel valve.

Wärtsilä’s X40 two-stroke engine has successfully passed its type approval test (TAT) programme, which was carried out at Chinese licensee Yuchai Marine Power.

Wärtsilä has been contracted by Italy’s Carbofin SPA, part of the Carboflotta group, to retrofit its Aquarius UV ballast water management system (BWMS) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vessel, ‘Marola’.

Rolls-Royce has won a contract to supply Germany’s Aida Cruises with its Promas Lite propulsion system as part of a technical upgrade to the company’s Sphinx series cruise ships.

Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide the design for a large heavy construction vessel (HCV) to be built for Subsea 7 by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea.

Canadian grease and oil-free bearing solutions provider, Thordon Bearings Inc, has launched a new water lubricated mechanical face seal, TG100.

Wärtsilä has announced a higher-output version of its dual fuel four-stroke 34DF engine, for which lower fuel consumption and improved environmental performance are also claimed.

At Nor-Shipping, Rolls-Royce announced a contract to convert 95m tanker ship Bergen Viking to run on engines powered by LNG, replacing the current liquid fuelled diesel-electric power plant.

At Nor-Shipping 2013, classification society Germanischer Lloyd launched a manual aimed at shipowners wishing to explore retrofitting solutions to ensure that existing vessels remain economic, and announced that, in the society’s opinion,…

The 2013 Nor-Shipping Awards for energy efficiency and innovative ship design were presented at the Nor-Shipping Opening Conference.

Rolls-Royce announced at Nor-Shipping 2013 that it will partner Spanish shipping company Baleária in a new LNG conversion project for its high speed ferries - the propulsion expert’s first LNG project in…

Inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) vessel, ‘Seven Viking’, designed and built by Norway’s Ulstein, has been announced as the winner of ‘Ship of the Year 2013’ at this years Nor Shipping.

The merger between DNV and GL, announced in December 2012, is proceeding smoothly, albeit slowly, with the integration-planning in process in both companies, and the competition filing being undertaken on a global…

Rolls-Royce reports the delivery of ‘Island Crown’, the latest of several ships to the company’s UT 776 CD design of platform supply vessel for Island Offshore.