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Like the shipping industry, the offshore industry can be a very conservative business. New concepts and new ideas are not always taken up as quickly as they might be in an industry…

Six 2,478 TEU feeder boxships ordered by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) will be equipped with MacGregor hatch covers with a partial box design offering improved construction, maintenance, and operational…

Cruise operators are using stress wave analysis to monitor the condition of azimuthing pod drives and minimise the risk of unscheduled downtime due to bearing degradation. Most installations to date have taken…

The world?s largest composite propeller, measuring 2.9m in diameter, has recently completed sea trials. QinetiQ, which undertook the trials on the Royal Naval vessel Triton, describes the outcome of the tests as…

Class societies must become much more involved with coatings within the next 10 years because of their impact on corrosion protection and fatigue according to Wilhelm Magelssen, vice president of DNV Maritime…

Oscar Spieler, technical director at Frontline, says that it is not commercially viable for an independent tanker operator to retrofit a VOC vapour recovery system to his ships since the cost is…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is to build two high-speed ropax ferries, featuring CRP Azipod propulsion, for Osaka-based Shin-Nihonkai Ferries. It is the first application of the innovative contra-rotating pod propulsion solution devised…

Cruise operators are using stress wave analysis to monitor the condition of azimuthing pod drives and minimise the risk of unscheduled downtime due to bearing degradation. Most installations to date have taken…

Mitsui O.S.K. lines (MOL) plans to build car carriers on which the fuel tanks are protected by the double hull. It is incorporating the design feature in 12 new ships, planned for…

Goltens has launched a new range of crankshaft repair tools that it says can slash repair time by 50 per cent. The tools, which can be used for insitu crankshaft repairs on…

There are countless arguments against the EUs unilateral action to bring forward the internationally agreed phase-out dates of single hull tankers. Intertanko, the representative body for independent tanker owners, has heard them…

Three major incidents in three years have woken the industry up to the fact that post-Marpol, buckling is a far more critical design strength factor than pre-Marpol. Erika, Prestige and to a…

The second tripartite meeting of Intertanko, Intercargo and the International Chamber of Shipping will have the robustness of machinery on the agenda. The meeting, scheduled for Seoul on September 29-30, will address…

Norway has undertaken to reduce its VOC emissions to a maximum of 195,000t by 2010. This corresponds to a reduction of 37 per cent from 1990 levels. It has done so under…

St Petersburg bunker company ECO Phoenix Holding is boosting its ability to deliver marine fuel to customers throughout the year with the introduction into service in March of an ice class double-hull…

Two sister ships, ordered by Belgium dredger operator Jan de Nul, were launched earlier this year at Izar's Sestao shipyard. Named Filippo Brunelleschi and Francis Beaufort, the vessels are trailing suction hopper…

Earlier this year the German shipyard of Flensburg laid the keel for the first unit in a new five-ship series of roro ferries ordered by the Danish ferry operator DFDS. The lead…

This year marks a remarkable double event in the Norwegian offshore industry with the delivery of the world's first two gas-driven cargo carrying ships. These platform supply vessels, ordered by the shipping…

Six 2,478 TEU feeder boxships ordered by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) will be equipped with MacGregor hatch covers with a partial box design offering improved construction, maintenance, and operational…

Report says computers are a "recipe for disaster" when used in restricted watersIt is the IT age and computers are supposed to solve our every need. Yet the grounding of a vessel…

A fire on a roro passenger ferry has caused the Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the UK government?s Department of Transport to suggest designing economiser systems with separate drain valves so that…

The collision of an oil-rig support vessel equipped with azimuthing propulsion units with an oil-rig has highlighted the problems that can occur when an Officer-on-Watch is unfamiliar with different types of propulsion…