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GENERAL NEWS

ExxonMobil Marine Lubricants and shipowning partnership the Greek Group have celebrated a 50-year business partnership, representing the oil company’s longest supply agreement with a marine customer organisation.

20th September 2011

Oil company and shipowners mark 50 years

20th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding will shortly launch the first vessel of the ‘Super Green 8500’ type for Carisbrooke Shipping. This is the first Chinese-built ship with a Groot Cross-Bow.

20th September 2011

Chinese-built ships have novel Dutch bow

20th September 2011

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

DK Group, the maritime technology company, has announced the appointment of Noah Silberschmidt as joint managing director, alongside Katia Kardash.

20th September 2011

DK Group expands senior team

20th September 2011

APPOINTMENTS

APPOINTMENTS

MTU parent group Tognum says that it is to reduce the size of its executive board as of 1 October 2011 from five to four members, following the sales reorganisation of of…

20th September 2011

Tognum to reduce executive board

20th September 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Despite the continued shipping recession Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard (ASRY) showed a strong first half year performance in 2011, demonstrating the yard’s resilience.

20th September 2011

ASRY shows strong first half performance

20th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

DuPont subsidiary Belco Technologies, based in the US, says that it has reached an agreement with A.P. Moller–Maersk of Denmark to carry out shipboard trials on one of its Belco marine scrubbing…

19th September 2011

Maersk trials US scrubber technology

19th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

API Marine of Aalborg, Denmark, reports new contracts with two Russian shipyards - JSC Zavod Krasnoe Sormovo and JSC Okskaya Sudoverf - for cargo control, alarm and automation systems for 31 newbuildings.

19th September 2011

Cargo systems for 31 Russian tankers

19th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Cargotec has confirmed two major orders, worth some €45 million, for cargo equipment for container ships and bulk carriers being built at South Korean shipyards.

19th September 2011

Hatch cover and crane orders from Korea

19th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Lloyds Register says that its is offering training courses in the properties of materials, welding techniques and non destructive examination to engineers responsible for ship construction, repair and maintenance.

19th September 2011

Class focus on materials technology training for marine engineers

19th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Japanese company Eco Marine Power has started detailed design of its wind and solar sail panel. The company and its partners intend these to be used in arrays for auxiliary propulsion of…

19th September 2011

Design starts on wind-solar ship

19th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Dutch technical services provider Imtech has announced the acquisition of the Canadian marine company Groupe Techsol Marine, an acquisition which gives Imtech a marine production site in Canada.

16th September 2011

Imtech acquires Techsol of Canada

16th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Norwegian shipbuilder Havyard Group says that it has developed its own navigation and communications packages for ships, with the first system being fitted to the close-to-completion Saeborg.

16th September 2011

Full package from Havyard

16th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

ClassNK has officially opened its first exclusive surveyor office in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ceremony was hosted by ClassNK chairman and president and current IACS vice-chairman Noboru Ueda.

16th September 2011

ClassNK opens first Russian office

16th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Singapore company Otto Marine, which specialises in building offshore support vessels, ship chartering and offers specialised offshore services, has handed over one AHTS and secured orders for two more.

16th September 2011

Offshore success for Singapore shipbuilder

16th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

UK-based security consultant NYA International has launched MarTrack, which it describes as a “unique and proprietary maritime risk management and vessel tracking system”, which tracks vessels in areas where they are known…

16th September 2011

Vessel tracking for piracy alerts and warnings

16th September 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Earlier this year, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) received an order from the Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) for conversion and installation work of a ballast water treatment system on NYK’s…

16th September 2011

MHI retrofits ballast water treatment system

16th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Norwegian specialist in lifeboats, rescue craft and davits Noreq says that increasing demand has led to the formation of a new subsidiary, based in Dubai, to serve the UAE and Middle East…

15th September 2011

Noreq establishes company in Dubai

15th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Belgian company Hydrex reports that it recently mobilised a diver/technician team to a 300m container ship in Hong Kong to reinstall a bow thruster which exhibited problems after being overhauled.

15th September 2011

On site bow thruster re-installation keeps ship out of drydock

15th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Ecospeed vinylester glassflake coatings are said to have successfully ended a rudder cavitation damage problem on a class of five ro-ro vessels operated in Finland and managed by Hamburg-based Ernst Russ.

15th September 2011

Paint product ends cavitation damage

15th September 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

A new marine service company, MacGregor BLRT Baltic UAB, has been set up by Cargotec in Klaipeda, Lithuania. The company is a joint venture by Cargotec (51%) and Klapedia’ Western Shipyard (49%).

14th September 2011

Cargotec opens service office in Lithuania

14th September 2011