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The director of the South African Company, SFG, Duncan MacNab, announced that his company would set up a ship-repair yard in Pointe-Noire, the economic and industrial capital of Congo Brazzaville.

16th September 2010

South Africa to establish ship-repair yard in Congo

16th September 2010

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Voith Turbo Marine in Germany is supplying four slightly modified Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP) to Wyker Dampfschiff-Reederei (WDR) to power the first double-ended ferry in its fleet.

16th September 2010

First double-ended ferry fitted with VSPs

16th September 2010

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Rolls-Royce is to provide gas engines and main azimuth thrusters for a double ended passenger/vehicle ferry to be built for the Norwegian operator Fjord1. The vessel will be the world’s largest gas…

16th September 2010

R-R powers world’s largest gas ferry

16th September 2010

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Effect Ships International AS in Sandefjord, Norway, has just launched its first air supported vessel (ASV) monohull with pod propulsion. The ASV technology is the result of more than 8 years of…

16th September 2010

First ever ASV monohull with pod propulsion

16th September 2010

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OSX Brasil SA, which is building a shipyard in Brazil with South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industry, said that it plans to bid for oil drilling rig and tanker contracts worth $2 billion…

16th September 2010

OSX to build Petrobras rigs and tankers

16th September 2010

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Together with Voith Turbo Schneider Propulsion, the Canadian naval architecture firm Robert Allan Ltd recently unveiled a completely new tug design.

16th September 2010

Longitudinally arranged VSPs offer higher steering forces

16th September 2010

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Voith Turbo Advanced Propeller Technologies of Germany has announced an order for Contur F propellers for 10 patrol boats for Dutch Water Management.

15th September 2010

10-vessel order for Voith ‘intelligent’ propellers

15th September 2010

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Drydocks World– Dubai has delivered the third 3-D seismic vessel ‘Polarcus Asima’ to its client Polarcus, a marine geophysical company based in Dubai.

15th September 2010

Dubai delivers another Polarcus seismic vessel

15th September 2010

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The growth in the effective supply of containerships has reached 19% so far this year as deliveries of new vessels have added 1.15 Mteu of new capacity and a further 1.28 Mteu…

15th September 2010

Excess boxship supply could return in 2011

15th September 2010

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ABS and the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute have entered into a two-year joint research and development project to study the potential of an energy-saving device to enhance propulsion efficiency.

13th September 2010

ABS examines energy-saving technology

13th September 2010

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Hyundai Heavy Industries has won a contract with Hong Kong-based Brightoil Petroleum to build five VLCCs at a total cost of $537.5 million.

13th September 2010

Hyundai secures VLCC quintet order

13th September 2010

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South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has won $630 million worth of orders to build five oil tankers and an offshore platform.

13th September 2010

Samsung wins contracts for tankers and platform

13th September 2010

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The 25,000 dwt product tanker ‘Bit Viking’ will be converted to run on LNG and will be the first ship with Germanischer Lloyd (GL) class using gas as fuel.

10th September 2010

First LNG powered vessel with GL class

10th September 2010

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Wärtsilä has been awarded a five-year technical management contract based on Dynamic Maintenance Planning (DMP) covering three LNG carriers operated by Gazocean, the fleet management subsidiary of the Paris-based energy company GDF…

10th September 2010

Wärtsilä providing maintenance planning for LNG carriers

10th September 2010

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Aker Solutions’ new deepwater intervention vessel, ‘Skandi Aker’, was recently announced winner of the international ‘Ship of the Year 2010’ award.

10th September 2010

‘Skandi Aker’ named ship of the year 2010

10th September 2010

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Total Lubmarine says its latest cylinder oil, Talusia Universal, provides the optimum lube solution to problems encountered by owners and operators in meeting regulatory and environmental requirements relating to sulphur limits.

10th September 2010

Lubmarine’s cylinder oil meets sulphur limits

10th September 2010

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STX Norway Offshore has entered into a new contract with Olympic Shipping for the building of a 5,000 dwt LNG-powered platform supply vessel (PSV) for delivery in the first quarter of 2012.

10th September 2010

Olympic orders LNG PSV from STX

10th September 2010

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According to a Germanisher Lloyd study, fuel cells could be used to provide about 160 GW of auxiliary power on board ships.

9th September 2010

Fuel cells onboard – GL confirms feasibility

9th September 2010

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Wärtsilä reports that it has been selected to supply a gas propulsion solution, involving four dual-fuel engines per ship, for a series of new LNG carriers to be built at the Samsung…

9th September 2010

Tier-III compliant gas engines chosen for LNG carriers

9th September 2010

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Wärtsilä has signed an exclusive agreement with Turboden of Italy to jointly develop, market, and distribute a new product to be known as the Wärtsilä Marine Engine Combined Cycle (ECC).

9th September 2010

Marine applications targeted with new combined cycle technology

9th September 2010

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MAN Diesel told The Motorship at SMM that it has been looking at its entire MAN B&W low speed engine programme in respect of the IMO Tier 2 limits.

8th September 2010

MAN optimises engines for low SFOC at Tier II limits

8th September 2010

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At SMM 2010, Tognum company MTU Friedrichshafen launched a new, standardised genset for diesel-electric propulsion and onboard power generation, targeted at the offshore supply ship market.

8th September 2010

Genset focuses on offshore d-e propulsion needs

8th September 2010

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Wärtsilä has launched a new ballast water treatment system, the BWT 500i, which has been developed together with the companys technology partner Trojan Marinex, the marine water solution division of Trojan Technologies.

8th September 2010

Integrated ballast water treatment system meets environmental regulations

8th September 2010