News

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

China’s Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group, which includes the Zhejiang Shipbuilding and Yangzhou Dayang Shipbuilding yards, says that it values business ethics such as lawful operation, product safety, environmental protection, employee benefits, integrity and…

23rd February 2011

Sinopacific embraces ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’

23rd February 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Maritime satellite communications provider Stratos Global has just launched its FBBPlus managed global broadband service, based on the FleetBroadband and VSAT platforms.

23rd February 2011

Enhanced broadband gets first customer

23rd February 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Castrol Academy, Castrol Marine’s technical training and assessment tool, has been recognised by the Royal Institution Of Naval Architects (RINA).

22nd February 2011

RINA endorses technical training tool

22nd February 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

17 February saw the naming of two more 13,100 TEU container vessels for Rickmers Group. ‘Leo Rickmers’ and ‘Scorpio Rickmers’ will be chartered to Maersk Line as ‘Maersk Edmonton’ and ‘Maersk Elba’.

22nd February 2011

Two more Rickmers container giants named

22nd February 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

UK company SE Hydraulics has partnered with Parker Hannifin to develop a passive damping system for use on the rescue craft davits of BP’s regional support vessels (RSVs).

22nd February 2011

New safety system for OSV rescue craft

22nd February 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Kelvin Hughes reports that its SharpEye radar was recently fitted to a Korean LNG carrier; the company says this is the first order it has received from Korea for this product.

22nd February 2011

Korean LNG order for radar

22nd February 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Maersk Line has announced that it has signed a contract with Daewoo in Korea to build 10 container ships of 18,000 TEU capacity to a new environmentally-friendly design.

21st February 2011

Maersk orders 10 green mega-boxships

21st February 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

MAN Diesel & Turbo reports that it has received an order for four medium speed engines from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of Korea, for a new large ro-pax ferry.

21st February 2011

Large four-stroke engines for ro-pax, LNG and rescue ships

21st February 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Northrop Grumman Corporation’ Sperry Marine subsidiary has received orders to supply advanced electronic navigation systems for two new 37,000 dwt bulk carriers to be built in Korea

20th February 2011

Order for Korean bulker IBS

20th February 2011

OPINION

OPINION

I am putting this issue together following our return from Copenhagen, where we were at the very successful 33rd Motorship Propulsion and Emissions conference.

20th February 2011

Forward with technology

20th February 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Navantia Shiprepair in Spain undertook a total of 30 LNG projects in 2010, with 28 LNG at the Fene-Ferrol yard and two further LNG projects at the Cadiz yard.

20th February 2011

LNGs are Navantia

20th February 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Dales Marine Services’ expansion of its dry docking capability on Scotland’s east coast last year is delivering results with the value of contracts generated and dry dock usage both at record levels.

20th February 2011

Positive outlook for Scottish shiprepairer

20th February 2011

EQUIPMENT

EQUIPMENT

Lifeboat manufacturer and service provider Schat-Harding says IMO and some parts of the shipping industry need to move more quickly to a consensus on vital lifeboat safety issues which have important consequences…

20th February 2011

Consensus needed on lifeboat hooks

20th February 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

Getting maintenance timing wrong and incurring the associated costs is just one of the risks of operating a fleet of ships - or is it?

20th February 2011

Live long and prosper!

20th February 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

The first week of the New Year saw Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Co (ASRY) break all records for the number of vessels docked simultaneously in its No.1 Dock.

20th February 2011

Flexibility and expansion are key to ASRY’s success

20th February 2011

REPAIR & CONVERSION

REPAIR & CONVERSION

RFA ‘Cardigan Bay’ returned to A&P’s Falmouth shipyard for maintenance in January after three years in the Gulf supporting coalition operations and the Iraqi Navy.

20th February 2011

RFA vessel returns

20th February 2011

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Wärtsilä has recently introduced a more powerful marine version of its popular 32cm bore engine.

20th February 2011

Popular engine upgraded

20th February 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

The launch of the second ro-pax ferry, ‘Spirit of France’, which STX Rauma is building for P&O Ferries, took place on 17 February 2011. She is a sister ship to ‘Spirit of…

17th February 2011

Second ferry newbuild launched at Rauma

17th February 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

STX Finland Oy and Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of the Republic of Namibia recently signed a contract for the construction of a fisheries research vessel at a cost of approximately…

16th February 2011

Namibia orders fisheries research vessel

16th February 2011

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

In late 2010 Wärtsilä initiated a major project to further develop its low-speed engine portfolio to include gas engines, alongside its medium-speed dual fuel engines, as part of the companys strategy.

16th February 2011

Major project to further develop low-speed gas engines

16th February 2011