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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.

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.

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.

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…

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

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.

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…

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).

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.

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.

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.

Wärtsilä launched its communication and control centre (known as Wärtsilä 3C) solution, intended to integrate the entire vessels control into one solution, at the SMM exhibition in Hamburg, Germany.