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ABB has expanded its marine and crane services team to help UK-based cruise ships, ferries, offshore support, semi-sub, jack-up, FPSO, specials and merchant vessels to upgrade, retrofit and replace equipment.

14th June 2011

ABB extends UK marine services team

14th June 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

GE Marine reports that it will provide Austal USA with two LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines to power the United States Navy’s fourth LCS-Class-Independence variant.

13th June 2011

Gas turbines ordered for fourth LCS

13th June 2011

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IHC Merwerde says that the naming and launch ceremony took place recently for the 11,650m³ trailing suction hopper dredger Breughel, which the company is building at its Krimpen aan den Ijssel shipyard…

13th June 2011

Dutch-built dredger launched

13th June 2011

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Keppel FELS has been awarded a contract worth about $260 million by returning customer, Floatel International, to build a new generation accommodation semisubmersible for delivery in the first quarter of 2014.

13th June 2011

Keppel’s orderbook continues to grow

13th June 2011

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GENERAL NEWS

Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group says that its Dayang Shipyard has started replacing acetylene with natural gas in cutting and fire engineering correction work.

13th June 2011

Chinese shipyard ditches acetylene for natural gas

13th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in Japan has created a new unit to deal specifically with installations of ballast water treatment systems, as well as necessary ship modifications, in vessels already in service.

12th June 2011

Dedicated unit to retrofit BWT systems

12th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries’ ship repair and conversion order book saw eight vessel dockings between December 2010 and early March 2011.

12th June 2011

H&W kicks off 2011 with bulging order book

12th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Commenting on the shiprepair market as a whole, Joe Corvelli, CEO of Gibdock in Gibraltar, states that it has been fickle over the last year and the situation will remain the same…

11th June 2011

Fickle future for shiprepair industry says Gibdock CEO

11th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Norway’s Solstad Offshore has returned to Gibdock for the conversion and drydocking of the 84m long, 4,500dwt PSV ‘Normand Vester’.

10th June 2011

More conversion work at Gibdock

10th June 2011

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Italian classification society RINA has published a new notation for Gas Fuelled Ships which establishes requirements for the use of liquefied or compressed natural gas (LNG or CNG) as an alternative to…

10th June 2011

RINA publishes gas fuel notation

10th June 2011

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MAN Diesel & Turbo recently presented its new efficiency technologies for large two-stroke engines, the WHR (waste heat recovery) systems, that include the TCS-PTG turbines, and are offered as an integrated system.

10th June 2011

Increasing efficiency of large engines

10th June 2011

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GC Rieber Shipping of Bergen, Norway recently took delivery of a new offshore ROV survey vessel – the ‘Polar King’ – constructed by CNP Freire shipyard in Spain.

10th June 2011

MAN power for new OSV

10th June 2011

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GENERAL NEWS

Rolls-Royce has opened a new marine service centre, in the Port of Gdynia, Poland. It says this marks the latest stage in the development of the group’s global marine service centre network,…

10th June 2011

Additional Polish service centre for Rolls-Royce

10th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Jurong Shipyard in Singapore has secured a contract worth about $16 million from Golar LNG Energy to convert the LNG Khannur to a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) to be renamed…

9th June 2011

Jurong to convert LNG carrier into FSRU

9th June 2011

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Solar Solve Marine, the UK manufacturer of anti-glare, heat rejecting roller screens for bridge windows, says it has received its 12th order from Swire Pacific Offshore for its fleet of AHTS vessels.

9th June 2011

Further sunscreen order for AHTS fleet

9th June 2011

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DNV Petroleum Services (DNVPS) has announced that Eirik Andreassen has taken over the position of managing director from Tore Morten Wetterhus, who is returning to DNV HQ in Oslo, Norway, as director…

9th June 2011

DNVPS changes managing director

9th June 2011

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APPOINTMENTS

At the BIMCO General Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, members elected Yudhishthir Khatau as the international shipping organisation’s 41st president.

9th June 2011

New president elected at BIMCO

9th June 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

FPSO PSVM, one of the world’s largest floating production storage and offloading vessels successfully converted by Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard for contractor MODEC, was recently delivered to BP Exploration (Angola) Limited…

9th June 2011

Jurong delivers its largest FPSO conversion

9th June 2011

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GENERAL NEWS

Navigation specialist Kelvin Hughes says that an agreement has been signed with training provider Seagull to develop a product-specific computer-based training module for its MantaDigital ECDIS range.

8th June 2011

Companies join forces on ECDIS training

8th June 2011

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GENERAL NEWS

Marine safety signage specialist Maritime Progress of the UK says its has recently attracted considerable interest in its products and technical developments in Singapore and the Far East.

8th June 2011

Singapore safety signs users express quality concerns

8th June 2011

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German company DB Prüftechnik says that its Vibrotip data collector for machine vibration, rolling element bearing condition and pump cavitation measurement, is now available certified to new ATEX guidelines.

8th June 2011

Vibration measurement for hazardous environments

8th June 2011

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GENERAL NEWS

Scorpio Tankers has announced that it has signed contracts with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard of South Korea to construct five 52,000dwt product tankers at a price of about $37.4 million each.

8th June 2011

Five tankers ordered from Hyundai

8th June 2011

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GENERAL NEWS

Hatenboer-Water of The Netherlands says that it has received an order for its GloEn-Patrol ballast water treatment system from Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding for a new Dutch Royal Navy Joint Support Ship…

8th June 2011

Dutch Navy orders ballast water system

8th June 2011