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Wilhelmsen Ships Service is launching a new service, which it calls the Active Solutions portal. This is a new electronic service for its marine chemicals customers, replacing paper product data sheets and…

The new flagship for Carnival Cruise Lines, ‘Carnival Breeze’ was delivered at Fincantieri’s Monfalcone shipyard this week.

The Havyard Group is doing good business in India – it has just signed a contract for a PSV vessel with Indian shipping company Global Offshore with an option for a further…

Despite its concentration on specialised vessels, German shipbuilding is still in crisis and struggling against widening Asian competition, lack of finance and low newbuilding prices.

Classification society, ClassNK, has announced that its register has hit the 200 million gross tonne mark after steadily accelerating over the years.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has expressed genuine concerns identified among its members about the availability and expense of ballast water treatment systems, and the robustness of the approval process.

Arnout Damen, chief operations officer of Damen Shipyards Group, accepted Seawork’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award at the Innovation Awards Dinner recently, on behalf of Kommer Damen.

Dutch shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards has recently acquired the shares of Swedish ship repair and maintenance yard Oskarshamnsvarvet; Damen intends to continue the current operations at the yard.

The second day of The Motorship’s 34th Propulsion & Emissions conference in Hamburg began with a session on exhaust gas cleaning, following an introduction from the day’s chairman, Dr Fabian Kock from…

Fathom, a global market intelligence company for the marine, energy and environmental industries, has launched an online analysis tool to compare all eco-efficient technologies available for the shipping industry.

The 34th Propulsion and Emissions Conference is continuing at the Atlantic Kempinski Hotel in Hamburg. Under the chairmanship of Dr Pierre Sames of GL, sessions two, three and four completed the first…

The Marinestar manoeuvring system designed by Fugro in Norway has been approved by the BSH marine test house in Germany as both a speed and distance measuring equipment (SDME) and transmitting heading…

Maritime charity the Sailors’ Society says that well-known Christian song-writer Graham Kendrick is helping to spread awareness of the difficulties seafarers face through a hymn he has written for Sea Sunday, 8…

SKF has announced a new range of air-driven hydraulic pumps and oil injectors (THAP series) to mount and dismount a variety of shrink fit mechanical components, including propellers, using SKF’s oil injection…

According to Germanischer Lloyd, the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as ship fuel has recently gained more attention not only in Europe, but also in Asia and the USA.