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PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Wärtsilä has signed a contract to deliver a ship power system for a 38,000 tonne semi-submersible heavy-lift vessel for privately owned Chinese customer Zhejiang Share.

31st July 2010

Wärtsilä powers Chinese semisub heavy-lift vessel

31st July 2010

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Aalborg Industries in Denmark has successfully finalised the land-based tests towards obtaining IMO type approval for its AquaTriComb ballast water treatment system with what the company says are very satisfactory test results.

31st July 2010

Satisfactory tests results for Aalborg’s BWT solution

31st July 2010

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PROPULSION

Alfa Laval has received two orders of claimed record size for its PureBallast systems from two shipyards in Korea to be installed on board 14 container vessels under construction for A.P Møller-Maersk.

31st July 2010

Korean shipbuilders order PureBallast

31st July 2010

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PROPULSION

Wärtsilä has signed a letter of intent with the Canadian ship design company Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) to develop a strategic cooperation agreement.

31st July 2010

Wärtsilä and Robert Allan sign cooperation agreement

31st July 2010

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PROPULSION

Under the designation Valve Control Management (VCM), ABB Turbocharging and engine component specialist INA Schaeffler KG in Germany are developing an advanced variable valve train system. We first announced this joint venture…

31st July 2010

ABB Turbocharging introduces VCM

31st July 2010

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PROPULSION

Hyundai Heavy Industries has recently completed the test run of the newly developed high output eco-friendly HiMSEN gas engine H35G in Korea.

31st July 2010

Hyundai Heavy develops eco-friendly gas engine

31st July 2010

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PROPULSION

Following a recent announcement centering on diesel engines, gas engine specialist GE has now reported the results of its joint development program with ABB Turbocharging for the application of two stage turbocharging…

31st July 2010

New gas engine signals ABB turbocharging 2-stage success

31st July 2010

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Dieter Kühne, managing director of the Lindenau Schiffswerft & Maschinenfabrik in Kiel, Germany, describes how the yard has applied large-ship ecological principles to a small coastal tanker, featuring double hull, redundant propulsion,…

31st July 2010

‘Seychelles Paradise’ – a coastal oil/LNG tanker designed with ‘green’ credentials

31st July 2010

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

According to UK company Marine Sealing Services, during the 1980s and 1990s, system oil contamination was a problem on the majority of two-stroke diesel engines.

31st July 2010

Piston seals for cleaner engines

31st July 2010

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Volvo Penta, together with Swedish emission control specialist STT Emtec, is introducing an effective solution to greatly reduce NOx emissions from high speed marine diesel engines.

31st July 2010

Engine company launches SCR for inland waters

31st July 2010

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Germany’s small Hitzler Schiffswerft has completed Kietz, the first of three special inland icebreakers worth a total of €15.3 million for service with local waterways authorities in east and west Germany, writes…

31st July 2010

Hitzler completes first of three river icebreakers

31st July 2010

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

One of Germany’s oldest private shipyards, J.J.Sietas, has completed its first ro-pax newbuilding, the small, 75.1m, state-of-the-art, double-end ferry Uthlande, and with it entered a specialist sector still competitive for some European…

31st July 2010

Innovative ferry ro-ro helps Sietas on new course

31st July 2010

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

VESSELS & SHIPYARDS

Dutch yard Damen is best-known for its policy of standardising designs and using common parts as much as possible throughout the range, but recently the Damen group has embarked on what it…

31st July 2010

Composite water taxi fleet enters service

31st July 2010

REGULATION

REGULATION

As shipping rules and regulations tighten, an independent class society believes that it has found a neat way to solve the problems of smaller flag states whose vessels are often targeted and…

31st July 2010

IRS surveyors target smaller flags

31st July 2010

REGULATION

REGULATION

International classification society Bureau Veritas says natural gas-powered propulsion will be one of the major contributors to greener shipping.

31st July 2010

Gas is the green solution, says BV

31st July 2010

REGULATION

REGULATION

In common with other major classification societies, Germanischer Lloyd has issued guidelines for gas as ship fuel on the application of the IMO regulations.

31st July 2010

German class prepared for gas-fuelled shipping

31st July 2010

REGULATION

REGULATION

Lloyd’s Register has launched a new scheme aimed at helping training providers deliver courses to recognised standards that meet its clients’ needs

31st July 2010

Benchmark scheme for marine industry training

31st July 2010

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Nautical Control Solutions (NCS) of Houston has announced that Honeywell Marine has become an official distributor of its FuelTrax marine fuel management system.

31st July 2010

Distribution deal for US fuel management system

31st July 2010

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

OW Bunker, a supplier and trader of marine fuel, says that it is implementing a new corporate strategy to support significant growth, and to create a foundation for expansion over the coming…

31st July 2010

Bunker supplier revises strategy

31st July 2010

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

FUELS & LUBRICANTS

Ecospec of Singapore has announced two significant ventures in the development of its CSNOx exhaust emissions abatement technology.

31st July 2010

Two important alliances for abatement technology

31st July 2010