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GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order from Astomos Energy Corporation for a very large liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier to be built at MHIs Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works.

25th March 2014

Newbuild LPG carrier order

25th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Rolls-Royce is to provide an integrated design and equipment package for two offshore supply vessels to be built at COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard for Singapore-based Chellsea Group.

25th March 2014

Rolls-Royce package for COSCO vessels

25th March 2014

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Rolls-Royce Power Systems – the brand which includes MTU among others – is launching a new marine genset, based on the six-cylinder series 1600 inline diesel engine.

25th March 2014

MTU launches new marine genset engine

25th March 2014

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Schottel of Germany says that its propulsion systems are proving a popular choice for the new generation of post-Panamax era tugs, as well as a local ferry.

25th March 2014

Schottel scores in Panama

25th March 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

The idea of using emulsified fuel has been around for decades, and a recent trial has again demonstrated that efficiency gains are possible alongside the known emission reductions, writes Wendy Laursen

25th March 2014

Emulsion trial could spark new interest

25th March 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Quantifying true ship performance is a very complex, if not impossible task, says Dr Henry Chen, Boeing Associate Technology Fellow, currently Chief Naval Architect at Jeppesen Marine.

25th March 2014

Improving ship operating efficiency

25th March 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Dr Steve Dye, business development and marketing manager, Parker Kittiwake explains why frequent condition monitoring is the most effective measure in combatting the recent cold corrosion phenomenon.

25th March 2014

Beating cold corrosion, the downside of fuel-efficient engines

25th March 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

With tighter SOx regulations in ECAs coming into effect in 2015, shipowners and operators must decide within the next few months on how to reduce SOx emissions; Leonardo Sonzio, director retrofit, Wärtsilä…

25th March 2014

Exhaust gas cleaning – solutions for sulphur oxide emission reduction

25th March 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

There will be a pressure on Ice-class OSVs in the future that won’t just come from the ice itself. Stevie Knight investigates.

24th March 2014

Evolution in cold water

24th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) says it has made a loss in its cruise ship business, according to its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2014.

24th March 2014

MHI newbuild cruise ship loss

24th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä has added another dual fuel four-stroke engine, the 46DF, to its marine portfolio, a move which the company claims has “once again raised the technology bar in the dual-fuel engine market.”

24th March 2014

Dual fuel engine developed for fuel flexibility

24th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Damen Shipyards Group has added a new yard, one of the largest in the group, to its portfolio, following the formal opening of the Damen Song Cam shipyard, a joint venture between…

24th March 2014

Damen opens new yard in Vietnam

24th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) wants IMO to give greater priority to developing a global system for monitoring and reporting of carbon emissions from ships.

24th March 2014

ICS wants IMO to speed up carbon monitoring and reporting

24th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

In response to customer demand and in view of the new upcoming IMO standard, Denmark-based Danelec Marine is launching its third generation Voyage Data Recorder (VDR), built around an entirely new ‘concept’…

24th March 2014

Danelec unveils new VDR

24th March 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

The two UT 771 WP support vessels now being built by Sinopacific are edging into MPSV territory, explains Ronny Pål Kvalsvik of Rolls-Royce.

23rd March 2014

Tying it up

23rd March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Canadian company Corvus Energy says that it is to supply three more energy storage systems to Scandlines for its next hybrid ferry refits.

21st March 2014

More hybrid power systems for Scandlines ferries

21st March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

ABB has announced a three-year maintenance agreement with dredging specialist Van Oord, covering global maintenance of turbochargers for 2014-2016.

21st March 2014

Turbo maintenance agreement cuts dredging costs

21st March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

A different approach to the ballast water controversy has been proposed by Praveen Kumar Mishra, vice president of the Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass), the most recently-appointed member of IACS.

21st March 2014

IRClass proposes alternative to BWTS

21st March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Classification society Korean Register (KR) has released new software, SeaTrust-HullScan, to analyse and appraise a ship hull structure in accordance with IACS harmonised common structural rules (CSR-H).

21st March 2014

Korean Register launches CSR-H software

21st March 2014

LNG

LNG

Rolls-Royce is to power Asia’s first LNG-powered tug, marking a “new era” for tug boat propulsion.

21st March 2014

First LNG tug for Asia

21st March 2014