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Skimoil has introduced two new waste minimisation systems. The RM97 Wiseash/Eatstrash marine batch incinerator is designed to handle the solid wastes produced on workboats and offshore rigs. The cart-mounted unit will burn…

The MAX from Sonatest is an electronic stress meter designed to measure the actual clamp load produced by tightening a bolt or thread fastener. It uses ultrasonic energy and is designed for…

Dutch boat builder Mulder & Rijke has launched a 150 seater partially enclosed lifeboat for use onboard cruise liners and ferries. Called the PELB 95/150, it is 9.5m long and has a…

Trelleborg Industrial AVS has launched an anti-vibration mounting for small- and medium-sized engines. The Novibra SIM design features a strong corrosion-protected steel baseplate and a dome-shaped casing designed to shield the captive…

Mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat has launched a new service. Called mini-C it is a low-powered and compact communications unit for small vessels. Inmarsat says mini-C is an evolution of its -C…

Leica Geosystems has received an order from Princess Cruises to install an automatic identification system (AIS) on the 109,000g luxury cruise ship Grand Princess. The vessel, which carries over 2,600 passengers and…

Saab TransponderTech has won an order to cover the Hong Kong area with its automatic identification system (AIS). The company has delivered six fully redundant R30 AIS base stations to the Marine…

Kelvin Hughes is to supply Shell International Trading and Shipping Company with six ship sets of its new Nucleus 3 radar. Each set consists of two Nucleus 3 6000 radars, a Nucleus…

The Maritime eCommerce Association has released version 1.5 of the Marine Trading Mark-Up Language (MTML), the electronic data exchange standard for the marine procurement sector. The company says that this release addresses…

Poseidon Simulation AS has received Det Norske Veritas Product Certificate for GMDSS simulation, Class A. The certificate guarantees that the simulator system gives the capability to simulate a realistic environment. The system…

The Royal Danish Navy has signed an agreement with Primar ENC covering the delivery of official ENCs. It involves a navy supplier model, designed to allow the download of all charts and…

Transas Marine Pacific has won an order for a networked GMDSS simulator for the Pertamina Marine Education and Training Centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. In co-operation with its local agent, Panorama Timur Jaya,…

Veripos has established a new Inmarsat-based Differential GPS service for West Africa, Veripos-I, which, it says, will complement an existing HF area network and provide two independent reference facilities for continuous positioning…

ZoHakuWeb.com and Tribon.com are in talks to see how information can be accessed from each other?s websites. ZoHakuWeb?s business-to-business site is mainly focused on the technical information exchange between shipyards and marine…

Thrane & Thrane has launched the Capsat Fleet77 satellite communication terminal which uses the new Inmarsat Fleet service. The company says it is smaller and lighter than conventional terminals measuring 85cm high…

The first ship with a Mitsubishi UE LSE engine has been delivered to its owner. Pacific International Lines of Singapore took delivery of the 6UEC52LSE-powered 1,098 TEU feeder container ship Kota Hakim…

MAN B&W is testing an upgraded version of its 480mm bore medium-speed engine. A spokesman for the company confirmed that the prototype model is undergoing long-cycle endurance tests in Augsburg, Germany. He…

All four of the diesel engines on Cunard Line?s Queen Mary 2 will have smokeless common-rail fuel injection technology fitted. With the remainder of the ship?s power coming from two gas turbines,…

John Deere is planning to launch a new commercial marine engine. It hopes to have the 220kW seawater-aftercooled engine, labelled as the 6068 FFM, in commercial production next year.

A 30,000 dwt chemical tanker under construction at the Japanese shipyard of Shin Kurushima will be installed with a ?tunnel fin? when it is delivered to local shipping company Iino Kaiun Kaisha…

Wärtsilä?s first environmental report was ranked the joint best separate environmental report in 2001 in a competition held in Finland annually to judge the environmental and social responsibility of Finnish companies reporting.…

Rodriquez has secured a contract for an 83m Aquastrada-design monohull fast ferry. The Sicilian-based shipbuilder confirms it is "well underway on construction" of the aluminium- hulled ship at its Pietra Ligure shipyard…

Lloyd?s Register has alerted ship owners to the problem of neglecting plugs on fuel delivery systems. In the worst cases, the neglect can result in machinery space fires. The classification society says…