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GENERAL NEWS

Norwegian company Ulmatec has agreed to acquire the Stavanger-based Cetix Group, an oil and gas technology group with subsidiaries in Stavanger, UK and Lithuania.

1st November 2011

Ulmatec acquires Cetix group

1st November 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Canadian company Mad Rock Marine Solutions has announced the completion of its new RocLoc MkII technology, which its says is the next evolution of the company’s on-load lifeboat hook product range.

1st November 2011

Development concludes for lifeboat release technology

1st November 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

MAN Diesel & Turbo reports that Kawasaki Heavy Industry (KHI) has celebrated the 100th anniversary of its engine-manufacturing license with MAN Diesel & Turbo.

1st November 2011

MANs oldest licensee marks centenary

1st November 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Alfa Laval has appointed Dutch company Leemberg Piping and Machine Construction as a PureBallast installation partner for the Benelux region. The agreement covers a three-year period

1st November 2011

Partner agreement for BWTS installation

1st November 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Several German shipyards have revealed they are turning to repair to help fill gaps left by a shortage of newbuilding orders, but that the competition for repair is also growing.

1st November 2011

Yards seek repair as newbuilding dries up

1st November 2011

50 YEARS AGO

50 YEARS AGO

The Motor Ship’s November 1961 issue carried the rather alarming news that British ships were being ordered from abroad, rather than owners patronising their domestic shipyards.

1st November 2011

British owners order ships overseas

1st November 2011

OPINION

OPINION

The Motorship has recently returned from a week-long trip to Norway’s west coast, on a press trip with colleagues from other maritime and energy publications.

1st November 2011

Norway gets it right

1st November 2011

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Times remain hard but German newbuilders are not giving up, writes Tom Todd. Specialist production changes underway almost everywhere to meet changing demand are being reflected in impressive newbuildings and in some…

31st October 2011

German newbuilding: time for the specialists

31st October 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Complementing its production of low-speed machinery under licence from Wärtsilä, with whom it has a history of collaboration, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ sustained in-house development of the UE range ensures that European designs…

31st October 2011

Japanese marque puts more resources into R&D

31st October 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

An emergent fleet of ore carriers of record-breaking capacity provides references for electronically-controlled ‘cathedral’ engine designs originating from the two main fountainheads of two-stroke diesel technology in Europe, writes David Tinsley.

31st October 2011

Mix of marques for bulker record-breakers

31st October 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Efficiency optimisation trends in the containership sector, prompting a shift to lower vessel speeds, have fostered new solutions to powering arrangements and hull design based on the use of larger propellers and…

31st October 2011

Changes of course in boxship power

31st October 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Regarded as the most significant development in the MAN low-speed portfolio since the introduction of the ME electronically-controlled generation of engines, the release of the ultra long stroke G-type has proved timely…

31st October 2011

New generation quickly extends market reach

31st October 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Through a major initiative to swell its range of low-speed, two-stroke marine diesels, Wärtsilä is set to provide owners, shipyards and designers with greater choice in the mid-size engine category, writes David…

31st October 2011

Wärtsilä move widens choice in mid-size engine market

31st October 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Anders Andreasen, senior research engineer at MAN Diesel & Turbo in Denmark, describes how emulsifier development enables water-emulsified light distillate fuel for reducing nitrous oxide emissions in large marine engines.

31st October 2011

Emulsified light distillate fuel for low-NOx large engines

31st October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Japanese class society ClassNK says that a new vessel is the first to receive approval from the Panama Maritime Authority in accordance with IMBSC Code part 7.3.2.2, governing carriage of cargoes which…

31st October 2011

First NK-classed ship with special construction for liquefiable cargoes

31st October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

British merchant ships sailing off the coast of Somalia will be allowed to carry armed guards to deter pirates in future.

31st October 2011

UK arms up against piracy

31st October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Osaka Gas has entered into an agreement with Mitsui OSK Lines for joint ownership of two new LNG carriers and a placement of ship-building orders to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

31st October 2011

Two new LNG carriers for Osaka Gas and Mitsui OSK Lines

31st October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Japanese operator ‘K’ Line (Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha) has announced the launch of an 82,000dwt bulk carrier, the ‘Zen-Noh Grain Magnolia’, at the Fukuyama Tsuneishi yard.

31st October 2011

New Kamsarmax bulk carrier launched for K Line

31st October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

An order for supply of engines and propulsion equipment for six new ro-ro container vessels being built in Korea for NSCSA, the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia, has been placed with…

31st October 2011

Contract for boxship propulsion packages

31st October 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Irish Sea ro-ro freight operator Seatruck has launched and named the second in its series of four new vessels building at FSG Flensburg in Germany. The ship has been named ‘Seatruck Power’.

31st October 2011

Second Irish Sea ro-ro launched at FSG

31st October 2011