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OPINION

OPINION

Will people remember 2014 as the year the game changed? If they are in the oil and gas support sector, then that’s quite likely... writes Stevie Knight

31st December 2014

2014 Support Sector Review: A changing game

31st December 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

David Tinsley describes the first of a new class of double ended vessels for Washington State Ferries, strongly conventional and traditional in concept, but designed with conversion to gas fuel in mind.

31st December 2014

Revitalisation of Pacific Northwest ferry fleet

31st December 2014

OPINION

OPINION

“Nothing stays the same,” Geoff Dean of OSD IMT tells Stevie Knight: “Change is what drives the industry, so there’s no point in wishing it otherwise, you just have to stay ahead.”

31st December 2014

Geoff Dean: A life in design

31st December 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Danish company GreenOil reports on a collaboration with ship operator Torm involving using filtration rather than centrifuges to clean lubricating oil in the auxiliary engines of two ships, by Joel Goodstein.

31st December 2014

Wool lube oil filters claimed to perform better than centrifuges

31st December 2014

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

An LNG tanker has had its engine converted to LNG without modifying the ship structure, while MaK and larger Cat engines continue to rack up orders from the offshore market sector.

31st December 2014

Caterpillar undertakes first in-hull LNG retrofit and reports new orders

31st December 2014

OPINION

OPINION

By the time this issue appears in print, ships in ECAs will be mandated to cut sulphur emissions to 0.1% fuel content, or take equivalent appropriate measures, while the global 0.5% limit…

31st December 2014

Shipping still undecided on emissions legislation

31st December 2014

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Transas is supplying a full-mission classroom and cloud based Transas technical simulation (TechSim) package to the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College.

31st December 2014

Cloud-based simulation in US

31st December 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The Motorship sends its best wishes for the New Year and we welcome Gavin Lipsith who takes over as editor on 5 January. All the best for 2015 to all our readers,…

31st December 2014

Happy New Year – and changes for 2015

31st December 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

United Shipbuilding Corporation, the Russian state-controlled shipbuilder, has completed its purchase of the remaining half of Arctech Helsinki Shipyard’s shares from former joint owner STX Finland.

31st December 2014

Arctech Helsinki passes to Russian ownership

31st December 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Construction has started on a new type of wind farm vessel at a Danish shipyard, based on air supported vessel (ASV) technology and claimed to offer much reduced fuel consumption combined with…

30th December 2014

Air support technology to be tried on wind farm vessel

30th December 2014

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Hamburg-based SAM Electronics, an L-3 company, has recently picked up significant orders in the container ship and offshore sectors for complete electrical installations as well as navigation, automation and communications equipment.

30th December 2014

Container ship and offshore orders for SAM Electronics

30th December 2014

REGULATION

REGULATION

With LNG well on the way to wide adoption, class societies are securing their place and looking ahead to more new fuels, reports Wendy Laursen.

30th December 2014

Class societies look to the LNG market and beyond

30th December 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Alok Sharma, head of marine, Inatech, looks at how shipowners can demonstrate that they are in compliance with the new sulphur regulations

30th December 2014

Preparing for ECA 2015: how to prove compliance

30th December 2014

OPINION

OPINION

2014 was a year in which our industry largely stood still, awaiting the uncertain outcome of new fuel regulations and the still-unresolved ballast water question, while oversupply of tonnage and economic woes…

30th December 2014

An industry driven by uncertainty

30th December 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

New requirements for musters of newly embarked passengers prior to or immediately upon departure come into force on 1 January 2015.

30th December 2014

Cruise ship drill requirements

30th December 2014

OPINION

OPINION

Safety of passenger ships in the Mediterranean is likely to once again come under the spotlight following a fire onboard Italian-flagged ferry ‘Norman Atlantic’ during the early hours of 28 December.

30th December 2014

Italian ferry fire prompts safety concerns

30th December 2014

OPINION

OPINION

The Russian government is planning to tighten its fight against corruption in its national shipbuilding and marine equipment industries, writes Eugene Gerden.

30th December 2014

Russia fights corruption in national shipbuilding

30th December 2014

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

The IDESS Maritime Training Centre in the Philippines has purchased a simulator classroom from Dutch company VStepfor training in compliance with international maritime standards and regulations.

29th December 2014

Simulators raise Philippines standards

29th December 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Singaporean shipowner Petredec Services Pte Ltd has ordered HJ Lubtronic SIP cylinder lubrication equipment from Hans Jensen Lubricators for a series of 12 newbuild vessels.

29th December 2014

Cylinder lube equipment order

29th December 2014

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Cobham Satcom recently announced the sale of its 40,000th Sailor FleetBroadband system, to Chinese partner CTTIC (China Transport Telecommunication Information Centre).

28th December 2014

FleetBroadband continues alongside new services

28th December 2014