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GENERAL NEWS

German company Avat Automation has launched a marine version of its combustion signal processor for gas-fuelled engines.

10th April 2014

Cylinder pressure processing for marine gas engines

10th April 2014

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

A new waste heat recovery system from French company Enertime is said to promise flexibility for lower temperature heat sources, writes Wendy Laursen

10th April 2014

Organic Rankine Cycle heat recovery technology ready for ships

10th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

DNV GL has announced a new position paper, dealing with what it describes as a new approach to ship energy efficiency methodology, based on ‘exergy’ rather than just energy management.

9th April 2014

Next-generation energy efficiency methodology from DNV GL

9th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The global shipping industry is concerned about “serious” implementation problems associated with the IMO Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention, which governments chose to gloss over at the recent MEPC meeting.

9th April 2014

BWM Convention problems go unsolved

9th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Kawasaki Heavy Industries says that its L30KG engine has become the first Japanese-designed gas engine to obtain type approval from DNV.

8th April 2014

Japanese engine joins the marine LNG market

8th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The Global Shippers Forum (GSF) has issued a statement welcoming the recent MEPC 66 agreement to start analysing appropriate data collection methods for measures to enhance the energy efficiency of ships.

8th April 2014

Forum welcomes IMO progress on MRV

8th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Ålesund-based offshore operator Golden Energy Offshore has ordered two Ulstein PX121H PSVs to be built at Nantong Rainbow Offshore & Engineering Equipments (ROC) in China.

8th April 2014

Two Ulstein PSVs to be built in China for Golden Energy

8th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Rolls-Royce says it has been contracted to deliver an engine and deck machinery package worth over £17 million for an Arctic AHTS vessel to be built by Vard for Bourbon Offshore Norway.

8th April 2014

Rolls-Royce engines and anchor handling for Bourbon newbuild

8th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

South Korea-based satcoms company Intellian has announced a contract to supply Hanjin Shipping, also of South Korea, with FleetBroadband FB500 terminals for its fleet of 38 container ships.

8th April 2014

Broadband comms for Korean boxships

8th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Norwegian group Yara International is expanding its emissions control business by acquiring a majority 63% stake in marine exhaust gas scrubber supplier Green Tech Marine (GTM).

8th April 2014

Yara acquires Green Tech Marine

8th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä’s Propulsion Condition Monitoring Service (PCMS) has received service level recognition by DNV-GL, making it the first company to attain this type of recognition from three major classification societies.

8th April 2014

Wärtsilä PCMS gains recognition

8th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Alfa Laval has agreed the acquisition of submerged pumping system manufacturer Frank Mohn, which is based in Bergen, Norway, for a cash consideration of about NOK 13 billion.

7th April 2014

Alfa Laval acquires pumping system manufacturer

7th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Germany’s newest and most advanced ocean research ship, the €124 million Sonne has been floated out at Meyer Werft in Papenburg for fitting and transfer in May to Emden for North Sea…

7th April 2014

Sonne floats out

7th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik has signed a deal to build two 49,500dwt tankers for local shipping company Trogir Maritime, writes Jaroslaw Adamowski.

7th April 2014

Croatia’s Uljanik shipbuilder receives two-tanker contract

7th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Lloyd’s Register has published an analysis of ports, looking into the current LNG bunkering infrastructure situation.

7th April 2014

LNG bunkering on its way, says Lloyd’s Register survey

7th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Rolls-Royce is to supply another wave piercing offshore vessel to Norway’s Simon Møkster Shipping as part of a £11m contract with Spanish shipyard, Gondon.

4th April 2014

Rolls-Royce secures wave piercing contract

4th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Classification society Korean Register (KR) has announced the availability of what it claims to be the first mobile app containing all up-to-date IMO conventions.

4th April 2014

IMO Conventions mobile app from KR

4th April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä has announced a contract for design and power for a new platform supply vessel for operating in arctic conditions.

3rd April 2014

Wärtsilä power and ship design for harsh conditions

3rd April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Caterpillar Marine has shipped its first Cat 3500 series marine gas engines, destined for and LNG hybrid barge – the world’s first LNG-powered barge in the Port of Hamburg.

3rd April 2014

Caterpillar ships first of 3500 series

3rd April 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Dubai’s Drydocks World is to have global power expert’s ABB first ever Middle Eastern turbocharging service point.

2nd April 2014

Drydocks World gets ABB turbocharged

2nd April 2014