Wärtsilä Fuel Efficiency Boosts four KOTC VLCCs

Wärtsilä Fuel Efficiency Boosts four KOTC VLCCs

The technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to upgrade the performance of four vessels owned by Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC), a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC), by retrofitting Wärtsilä Fuel Efficiency Boost solution to the ships’ main engines....
Full steam ahead at Namdock

Full steam ahead at Namdock

Established ship repair and wholly Namibian-owned company Namdock, strategically located on the west coast of Africa in Walvis Bay, resumed full operations with effect from Tuesday 5 May 2020. This is in accordance with the inception of stage 2 of Namibia’s national...
Emergency ship repair in a pandemic

Emergency ship repair in a pandemic

It is difficult currently difficult enough to continue operations in ship repair where you have some control over the environment, but imagine having to get personnel and equipment across the world in time to carry out an emergency ship repair. The problems are too...