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VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Both physical and legislative challenges have come together to give rise the first LNG icebreaker, writes Stevie Knight

20th March 2014

Following a tough act

20th March 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Some reported incidents of ‘DP technology failure’ are actually down to human error.

20th March 2014

To err is… all too human

20th March 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Bringing different capabilities together isn’t a question of just piling everything you can onto one ship, even if that ship is as big as the 215.9m Petrofac JSD 6000.

20th March 2014

Big ship, but a delicate balance

20th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

DNV GL has launched a new service called Build2Design to help shipyards and shipowners improve the fuel economy of their ships by reducing variations in the shipbuilding process.

20th March 2014

DNV GL launches new Build2Design service

20th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, is to design and deliver key components for ro-ro access equipment for two Damen ice-class ro-Pax ferries.

20th March 2014

Cargotec secures ro-ro equipment contract

20th March 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

There are divergent forces at the heart of the DP certification: on one side is the need for capable and experienced operators, while on the other side there is a surge of…

19th March 2014

DP training can’t stand still

19th March 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

A very sophisticated offshore support training facility has been built, housed not in a high end OEM R&D installation, but in a not-for-profit facility in Mumbai, India. By Stevie Knight

19th March 2014

India looks for answers at home

19th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Marine and offshore classification society ABS has released a report on LNG bunkering in North America.

19th March 2014

LNG bunkering regulation report

19th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s first deputy prime-minister, has said that Russia is considering the establishment of large commercial shipbuilding along the Crimean coastline, writes Eugene Gerden.

19th March 2014

Shipbuilding features strongly in Russia’s plans for Crimea

19th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The European Union is funding a €1.2m grant contract, signed between the IMO and the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), to support training and capacity-building activities in Africa.

19th March 2014

€1.2m pledged to support African administrations

19th March 2014

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

A new lightweight passenger-vehicle ferry to an established Australian design has been built in the Philippines for service in French Polynesia is described by David Tinsley.

18th March 2014

Production shift for Australian aluminium ferry technology

18th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä Ship Design (WSD) Singapore has unveiled a Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) design package aimed at ship owners and shipyards in the Asia-Pacific region.

18th March 2014

PSV designs aimed at Asia-Pacific owners

18th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä is to retrofit two Condor ro-ro ferries with its new Aquarius Ready ballast water management system (BWMS).

18th March 2014

Wärtsilä wins retrofit contract

18th March 2014

OPINION

OPINION

“People don’t want to interact with virtual world: providing a service is a ‘people business’ Pierpaolo Barbone of Wärtsilä tells Stevie Knight. “Professionalism can’t even begin to play a part unless it’s…

18th March 2014

Going the extra 9,000 miles

18th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Leading power group, ABB has won an order from a Spanish ferry operator to supply energy management systems for one of its largest vessels.

18th March 2014

ABB order for Baleária ferry

18th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Among a number of new products from Swedens SKF Group is a new cryogenic bearing solution for LNG pumps, which the company says helps to increase flexibility and reliability in the handling…

18th March 2014

SKF to launch cryogenic bearing

18th March 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

As OEMs place increasing emphasis on the role of cylinder lubricants in combating the costly issue of cold corrosion, lubricants are steadily being viewed as more than simply a commodity product, argues…

18th March 2014

Marine lubricants’ transition from commodity to speciality

18th March 2014

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

AEC Maritime, based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, says that its closed-loop scrubber installation on the Scandlines ferry ‘Schleswig-Holstein’ has been commissioned and is now fully operational.

18th March 2014

Ferry re-enters operation with exhaust scrubber

18th March 2014

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

With success or failure increasingly dependent upon it, key players in the maritime industry are working together to develop operational efficiency software with enhanced precision measuring capability: Esa Henttinen, vice president at…

18th March 2014

Fuel payers save more with advanced monitoring and optimisation solutions

18th March 2014

OPINION

OPINION

Stevie Knight talks to naval architect Sigmund Borgundvaag of Rolls-Royce, whose 40-year career in the design of OSVs have earned him the title the grandfather of offshore support ships.

18th March 2014

Sigmund Borgundvaag: four decades of designing the future

18th March 2014