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Tanker fleet boiler control retrofit
Elcome International has signed a milestone agreement to retrofit boiler control systems to a mix of ten crude tankers and product carriers
BIO-UV sign agreement for new ballast projects
BIO-UV Group, the pioneer in UV-based water treatment technologies, and Norwegian marine engineering and technical services provider TECO Tech have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at providing shipowners with a complete turnkey solution for the BIO-SEA advanced...
New PureSOx water cleaning system provides future-proof and cost-saving flexibility for scrubbing in closed loop
Alfa Laval PureSOx gives customers the option of scrubbing in closed loop, either by choosing a fully equipped hybrid system or by installing a hybrid-ready system that can be upgraded for closed-loop operation later. With the launch of a modular new PureSOx water...
ABB opens Marine Service Center in Russia in support of growing Arctic maritime industries
ABB's newly inaugurated center will support ABB’s ship power, propulsion and automation technologies and expand service capabilities for ice-going vessels The new Marine Service Center builds on a decade of local ABB services in support of ice-going vessels and relies...
Seawater pumps to Golar’s Gimi FLNG unit
Keppel Shipyard in Singapore has awarded Norwegian liquid handling and pump specialist PG Flow Solutions a contract to supply high flow seawater pumps to the Gimi FLNG that is being converted at the yard. PG Flow Solutions will deliver four large seawater pumps, each...
Less is more with Wilhelmsen’s new best in test heavy duty cargo hold cleaner
Tested extensively both in the lab and in the hold, Wilhelmsen’s Unitor CargoClean HD further improves on the market-leading performance of its predecessor but requires just half the volume of chemicals previously needed. Refined several times before the Wilhelmsen...
Metalock Brasil carries out repairs on vessel’s vibration damper seals and springs
Metalock Brasil has replaced the seals and springs in the shaft vibration damper of a vessel's main engine in the port of Santos, on the Brazilian São Paulo State coast, the largest port complex in Latin America. The outer cover had to be removed, in view of access to...
BWT exec moves to exhaust gas cleaning
Anders Lindmark, formerly Head of Alfa Laval PureBallast, has transitioned from ballast water treatment into another compliance application. As Business Unit President, Gas Systems, he now oversees the Alfa Laval PureSOx offering in exhaust gas cleaning. On 1st May,...
Underwater repairs on rudder completed in Dubai
Underwater company Hydrex was contacted by the owner of a 193-meter roro ship to secure both rudders of the vessel while the OEM performed repairs on the rudders from inside the engine room. A team of the company’s divers mobilized to Jebel Ali, Dubai to perform the...
Damen Shiprepair Brest completes rapid repairs to LNG Carrier Methane Princess
Over four days in January, Damen Shiprepair Brest successfully carried out repairs to the hull of the 266-metre, 138,000m³, LNG Carrier LNG Methane Princess. In order to achieve this in the minimum time it was done while the vessel was both afloat and with the cargo...
Metalock Brasil rebuilds internal chamber of inert gas generator for Greek vessel
A major Greek ship owner client of Metalock Brasil since the 1980s experienced a fault in the inert gas generator cooling system of one of his vessels, which has triggered problems in the inner chamber. The fault caused the chamber's 316L grade stainless steel...
New Shanghai training facility prepares engineers for Alfa Laval PureSOx commissioning
Recently, Alfa Laval inaugurated the Alfa Laval PureSOx Training Centre in Shanghai, China. Focused on the training of commissioning engineers, the new facility will be instrumental in ramping up the skilled workforce prior to the global sulphur cap. But with its...
Innovation in marine monitoring system
MARINE MONITORING SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT POWERED BY INNOVATION Innovation is driving advanced monitoring and control technologies for environmental and safety compliance in the marine sector, says Gérard Baldellou, marine business unit manager at CMR Group. The marine...
Opinion: The Parts dilemma – OEM or Pirates?
An interview with Paul Kohle, Director, Sales and Sales Support, Asset Management Services at Wärtsilä Keeping up with latest part designs a challenge for non-OEM suppliers For vessel equipment repairs, there is usually a choice to be made between Original Equipment...
New Dellner Bubenzer Group set to take leading position in global braking market
Sweden’s Dellner Brakes, Germany’s Pintsch Bubenzer GmbH and Italy’s Rima Srl have come together to form the Dellner Bubenzer Group, securing a leading position as a customer oriented, global supplier of braking products across the material handling, marine,...
Felixstowe gets a lift
AAL has successfully delivered a cargo of four rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs) to the Port of Felixstowe, as part of a development project that will see the UK’s busiest container port add an additional 18,000 teu of container storage capacity to meet growing...