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GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Rolls-Royce recently received an order from Singapore-based offshore company PaxOcean to provide the ship design, propulsion systems and deck machinery for two platform supply vessels.

24th January 2011

Paxocean orders PSV pair

24th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Olympic Shipping in Norway has entered into a contract for delivery of one multi-purpose offshore support vessel at Myklebust Verft, a yard in the Kleven Maritime group in Norway, for delivery in…

24th January 2011

Kleven gets Olympic MPSV order

24th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The launch ceremony for the 30,000m3 trailing suction hopper dredger ‘Congo River’ took place recently at the IHC Merwede shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands.

24th January 2011

Dutch launch Belgian dredger

24th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Anglo-Dutch naval architect company Offshore Ship Designers has launched a new offshore wind farm maintenance (WFM) vessel concept.

21st January 2011

Wind-farm mother ship concept launched

21st January 2011

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT

Norwegian ballast water management (BWM) system provider Oceansaver has recently been acquired by investment company BW Ventures and Norwegian government-backed fund Investinor.

20th January 2011

New owners for ballast water company

20th January 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

German company RWO says that it has held a pioneering position in non-corrosive ballast water treatment, and recent tests have underlined this stance.

20th January 2011

System shown not to impact on corrosion or coatings

20th January 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

US water treatment company Hyde Marine has recently become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Calgon Carbon Corporation’s UVT (ultraviolet technologies) division.

20th January 2011

More approvals for Hyde

20th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

‘K’ Line Offshore AS (KOAS), a subsidiary of Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (K Line), recently took delivery of two new offshore support vessels.

20th January 2011

KOAS takes delivery of offshore vessels

20th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Noble Corporation recently announced that a subsidiary has signed a contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the construction of two ultra-deepwater drillships.

20th January 2011

HHI inks drillship pair

20th January 2011

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

Fuel testing agency Lintec Testing Services has appointed Geoff Jones as global fuels director following the most successful twelve months in the company’s history.

19th January 2011

Lintec management changes for further expansion

19th January 2011

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

Wilhelmsen Ships Service has appointed Vidar Hole to the position of business director responsible for the maritime logistics services portfolio.

19th January 2011

Wilhelmsen Ships Service appoints new business director

19th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

InterManager, the international trade association for the ship management industry, is pleased to welcome Docmap as a new associate member.

19th January 2011

Quality management company joins InterManager

19th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Totem Plus, an Israeli marine electronics developer and supplier, has launched a new type approved bridge navigation watch alarm system (BNWAS).

19th January 2011

New BNWAS from Israel

19th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Preliminary results from the Paris MoU concentrated inspection campaign on tanker damage stability, carried out between 1 September 2010 and 30 November 2010 show that 16% of ships inspected were potentially dangerous.

19th January 2011

‘Unstable tankers’ give PSC cause for concern

19th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Aker Solutions in Norway has finalised the vessel specifications of ‘AMC Connector’, a future new-build subsea installation and construction vessel based on the Aker OSCV 06L design.

19th January 2011

Aker finalises subsea installation vessel design

19th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Harris Pye Group has failed in its attempt to renew the necessary licence to develop and expand the Swansea Dry Docks for use for refurbishment and repair of vessels has disappointed the…

19th January 2011

Shiprepairer fails to get Swansea Dry Docks licence

19th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has issued rules for the classification of offshore floating gas units.

19th January 2011

BV issues rules for floating LNG units

19th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Wärtsilä has announced the signing of a turnkey contract with Finnish shortsea operator Containerships Oy, for the retrofit of a fresh water scrubber system to ship Containerships VII.

19th January 2011

First commercial marine scrubber order

19th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Fathom, a provider of market intelligence products and services for the marine and energy industries, is developing a comprehensive guide to ship efficiency and technology measures, in conjunction with BIMCO and Lloyd’s…

19th January 2011

Guide launched for ship efficiency technologies and measures

19th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Cellular containership capacity is expected to grow by an average annual rate of 8.7% over the next two years, with 1.26 Mteu due to be added in 2011 and 1.33 Mteu in…

18th January 2011

Container capacity growth to reach 8.8% in 2011

18th January 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

DNV Petroleum Services (DNVPS) recently celebrated a milestone in its marine residual fuel testing service. Following its launch on Jan 1, 1981, DNV says that ship operators could, for the first time,…

18th January 2011

30 years of progress in bunker testing

18th January 2011

50 YEARS AGO

50 YEARS AGO

In its February 1961 issue, The Motor Ship was given over mostly to talk of large-bore, powerful engines.

18th January 2011

The larger engine becomes reality

18th January 2011

50 YEARS AGO

50 YEARS AGO

As ‘The Motorship’ enters the decade leading up to its 100th anniversary, something that few other technical maritime publications can emulate, our first 90 years have given us plenty of food for…

17th January 2011

A few words as we get closer to our centenary

17th January 2011