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Leading international classification society Bureau Veritas has put in place a completely new IT based certification and ship status system aimed at reducing the workload of shipowners and operators.

Wärtsilä has been awarded a long-term service agreement by global cruise operator Princess Cruise Lines Ltd.

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Hyundai Heavy Industries has announced that it is to supply 18 selective catalytic reduction systems for three drillships ordered by Rowan in June 2011. HHI claims its SCR can reduce NOx by…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has announced the completion of its full-scale test facility for low-speed, two-stroke marine diesel engines, known as 4UE-X3, at the companys Kobe Shipyard and Machinery Works in Japan.

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard has reported that the keel has been laid for a multipurpose emergency and rescue vessel for Russian Ministry of Transport, at United Shipyards’ Yantar yard in Kaliningrad, Russia.

ClassNK has released what it claims to be the world’s first software package for use with the new IACS Harmonised Common Structural Rules (CSR) for bulk carriers and oil tankers.

IHC Merwede has launched and named Van Oords new self-propelled cutter suction dredger Artemis at its shipyard in Sliedrecht, The Netherlands.

A new Arctic offshore vessel NB-506 has been launched at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard and hull assembly of its sister vessel is also scheduled to start at the yard imminently.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to begin development of dual fuel versions of its own low-speed marine diesel engines, to be known as the UEC-LSGi series, which will be capable of using…

Norwegian shipbuilder Kleven Maritime has signed a contract with a new customer, Atlantic Offshore, for the delivery of two platform supply vessels to be built at Kleven’s Myklebust Verft yard.

US company Hyde Marine reports that it has supplied the first ballast water treatment system on a dedicated Great Lakes Vessel, with a HG60 system installed on ‘Ranger III’, a 128 passenger…

Deltamarin has received its first order for the smallest, 28,000dwt, variant of its eco-friendly B.Delta bulk carrier designs, with a contract awarded by CSSC and Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard of China for the…