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GENERAL NEWS

Typhon, a marine security company set up by a group of British businessmen, has launched its new marine escort convoy service in a bid to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden,…

23rd January 2013

Typhon launches marine security service

23rd January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Russia’s largest shipping company, the Sovcomflot Group, has seen the launch of two newbuilds so far this year – one a state of the art LNG carrier and the other a new…

22nd January 2013

New year launches for Sovcomflot

22nd January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Global classification society, ABS, has been authorised by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, to serve as a recognised organisation of the State of Japan.

21st January 2013

Japan authorises ABS certification

21st January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Bureau Veritas has issued the first of its new voluntary SEEMP notations to the 1,500-passenger ro-pax ferry ‘Cap Finistère’, operated by Brittany Ferries.

21st January 2013

First with BV’s energy-saving notation

21st January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

DNV and Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), Korea’s national gas company, are to cooperate on a feasibility study on the establishment of an LNG bunkering infrastructure in Korea.

21st January 2013

DNV and KOGAS study Korean LNG bunkering

21st January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä will supply the main engines and auxiliary generating sets for a new ro-pax vessel for Scottish operator Caledonian MacBrayne, being built at FSG in Germany.

21st January 2013

Wärtsilä power for MacBrayne ferry

21st January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The insolvency administrator at German yard group P+S Werften, Berthold Brinkmann, says that production at Volkswerft in Stralsund will begin again on 21 January.

18th January 2013

P+S to resume work at Stralsund

18th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Canada’s Seaspan Corporation has awarded a contract for the construction of five 14,000 teu class newbuild containerships to Koreas Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd (HHI).

17th January 2013

Seaspan chooses Hyundai newbuilds

17th January 2013

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) has appointed Mustafa Muhtaroglu as a new board member. From 1 April 2013, he will replace IBIA chariman, Bob Lintott.

17th January 2013

IBIA appoints new board member

17th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Norway-based exhaust gas abatement company Green Tech Marine has announced a contract to deliver four scrubbers to Norwegian Cruise Line’s ‘Pride of America’.

17th January 2013

Four-scrubber retrofit for cruise ship

17th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has updated its ‘Shipping Industry Flag State Performance Table’, to include some new flag states.

16th January 2013

ICS updates Flag State Performance table

16th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Ecospec of Singapore says that its CSNOx exhaust gas abatement system has been installed onboard a Great Lakes cargo vessel operated by Canada Steamship Lines (CSL).

16th January 2013

New marine reference for scrubber system

16th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Mercator Medias 2013 Motorship Propulsion & Emissions Conference is beginning to take shape with the announcement of Japan’s director for International Regulations, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MILT), as keynote…

16th January 2013

P&E Conference taking shape

16th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

International classification society, the RINA Group, has been chosen to support the development of a new classification society for the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

15th January 2013

RINA support for new UAE class society

15th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

According to media reports, concerned supporters are signing up to a new petition calling on the government to help save Finland’s shipbuilding industry.

14th January 2013

Finnish petition to save shipbuilders

14th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

US marine support company, Tidewater Inc has acquired contracts for three Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) under construction at STX OSV Holdings’ shipyard in Norway.

14th January 2013

Tidewater acquires STX OSV contracts

14th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The insolvency administrator of German yard group P+S Werften has announced that he expects the Volkswerft yard to resume work on the two DFDS ro-ro vessels, the order which had previously been…

12th January 2013

DFDS newbuilds to go ahead at Stralsund

12th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

German ship repair companies MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven and nearby Rickmers Lloyd Dockbetrieb have amalgamated their dock and ship repair activities, writes Tom Todd.

12th January 2013

Germans create new ship repair alliance

12th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Danish marine fuel and lubricant supplier, OW Bunker, has secured a contract with Shell Brazil to supply marine lubricants to its domestic customers.

11th January 2013

OW Bunker secures contract with Shell Brazil

11th January 2013

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Global engineering group, Cavotec, has won a substantial order from Swiss power and automation specialist, ABB, for twenty Marine Propulsion Slip ring (MPS) units that will be fitted to advanced Azipod marine…

10th January 2013

Cavotec secures new ABB contract

10th January 2013