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Norwegian yard Kleven Maritime has won a 500million NOK contract from Rem Offshore for the building of an advanced multifunctional subsea support and construction vessel for June 2013 delivery.

Wärtsillä Hamworthy has announced an agreement with ro-ro cargo operator Wilh Wilhelmsen to retrofit the vessel ‘Tamesis’ with a Krystallon exhaust gas cleaning system on its main and auxiliary engines.

Although there is no overall conflict between CO2 reductions and financial results as efficiency issues become business critical, Leonardo Sonzio of Wärtsilä says that for some, regulations “will be a matter of…

The completion of Scandlines’ newest Baltic ferries, ‘Berlin’ and ‘Copenhagen’, has been postponed again: they will not now go into service until 1 July and 1 September - some four months late.

At a recent ceremony in China, CMD (CSSC-MES Diesel) held the official signing of the contract to construct the first Chinese-built MAN B&W design Green Series 7G80ME-C9.2 engine.

A new type of 86m, 1,800dwt inland tanker especially designed for low-water operation on German canals and the Elbe has been ordered by Bremen tankship operator Dettmer Reederei in Bremen.

Swiber Group company, Newcruz Offshore Marine Services, has become the first Asian customer for Royston’s enginei fuel management system, which has been installed onboard one of Swiber’s OSVs.

UK Shipping Minister, Mike Penning MP, met with the All-Party Parliamentary Maritime and Ports Group this week, to give the industry an update in terms of the government’s maritime strategy going forward.

Maritime decision support software company Eniram – which claims to be Finland’s fastest-growing company - has opened a new office in Singapore, to improve service to its clients in the Asian region.

Thomas Gunn Navigation Services and Transas Marine have announced a new partnership in ECDIS supply and paper chart management which is said to bring benefits to customers of both organisations.

Marine fuel supplier and trader OW Bunker has announced the launch of a new global marine lubricants division, in cooperation with leading brands in marine lubricants, to provide a full range of…

Raytheon Anschütz has recently completed the supply of its latest generation of integrated bridge system (IBS) to the ‘SA Agulhas II’, a new polar research ship owned by the Republic of South…

Norway’s Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), the global shipping and logistics company, has announced that it’s on track to reduce its green house gas emissions by 30% before 2025.